A01
Metaphor and metonymy as register phenomena
The goal of project A01 is to investigate the interdependency of metaphor and metonymy with register. The topic will be addressed in terms of two questions: (i) How do metaphor and metonymy contribute to establishing, complying with, and signaling specific registers? (ii) How does register influence the choice of metaphor and metonymy and their function in discourse? The investigations will be based on a corpus whose five parts represent registers that are balanced for relevant features of register variation. Those features of metaphor and metonymy that turn out to be relevant for register will be operationalized in a multidimensional analysis of register.
Members
Project leader
Prof. Dr. Markus Egg
Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Members
PD Dr. phil. Valia Kordoni
Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Adler Zhou
Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Student assistant
Patrick Saliger
Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Publications & Presentations
Egg, Markus (2022) Register, genre, style, and all that In: CRC 1412 – Spring Retreat 2022 [ViVo] Egg, Markus (2022) Metaphor annotation for German In: LREC 2022, Marseille [ViVo] Saliger, Patrick; Temme, Anne (2021) Introduction to INCEpTION In: CRC/MGK Methodschool 2021 [ViVo] Egg, Markus (2021) A corpus annotated for metaphor in German In: DGfS-CL, Tübingen 2021 [ViVo] Egg, Markus (2021) Metaphor variation across registers in German In: Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM) Conference [ViVo]
Presentations
2022
2021
Contact
Prof. Dr. Markus Egg
Department of English and American Studies(030) 2093-2295