Separating (non-)figurative weeds from wheat
While approaches developed to recognize
figurative expressions in discourse widely differ with respect to
their formalization, most of them aim for the identification of the
figurativeness as directly as possible. There is, however, another
promising starting point – to turn our back to figurative wheat and
attend to non-figurative weeds first, identifying and subsequently
eliminating them from further consideration. On the basis of a
methodological exercise consisting of several small-scale case
studies involving English and Croatian material, we claim that by
approaching metaphors in a negative way we can achieve a high
success rate while using considerably leaner tools. We also show
that the situation with conceptual metonymies seems to be very
different, i.e. searching for literal uses first and then for
metonymic ones, does not lead to the same success.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Some approaches to the recognition, identification and extraction
of figurative expressions
- 3.Turning our back to figurative wheat and attending to
non-figurative weeds first: Why and how?
- 4.A brief note on metonymies
- 5.Concluding remarks and outlook
-
Notes
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