Figurative Language Genre and Register 1st Edition by Alice Deignan, Jeannette Littlemore, Elena Semino ISBN 978-1107402034 1107402034

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ISBN 10:  1107402034

ISBN 13:  978-1107402034

Author: Alice Deignan, Jeannette Littlemore, Elena Semino

This book brings together methods from discourse analysis and corpus linguistics in a cutting-edge study of figurative language in spoken and written discourse. Figurative Language, Genre and Register brings together discourse analysis and corpus linguistics in a cutting-edge study of figurative language in spoken and written discourse. The authors explore a diverse range of communities from chronic pain sufferers to nursery staff to present a detailed framework for the analysis of figurative language. The reader is shown how figurative language is used between members of these communities to construct their own ‘world view’, and how this can change with a shift in perspective. Figurative language is shown to be pervasive and inescapable, but it is also suggested that it varies significantly across genres.

Table of contents: 

1 Figurative Language

1.1 The scope of this book

1.2 This book in the context of current research on figurative language

1.3 Our approach to figurative language

1.4 Aims and overview of this book References

2 A framework for analysing variation in figurative language use

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Studies of text-types and metaphor

2.3 Compiling, analysing and comparing corpora of text-types

2.4 Genre

2.5 From genre to register

2.6 Conclusion References

3 Using genre and register to analyse figurative language

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Littlemore’s (2001) study of academic discourse

3.3 Deignan and Semino’s (2010) study of a speech by Tony Blair

3.4 Conclusion References

4 Figurative language use in specialized and popular scientific written texts

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Discourse communities, science and popularization

4.3 Metaphor in science

4.4 Figurative language in two research articles and a New Scientist article

4.5 Conclusion References

5 Figurative language in spoken academic discourse between expert and non-expert interlocutors

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Genre

5.3 Register

5.4 Methodology

5.5 Metaphor and metonymy in the exchanges

5.6 Conclusion References

6 Figurative language in a children’s nursery

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Datasets

6.3 Methodology

6.4 Figurative language in the nursery data

6.5 Conclusion References

Appendix

7 Figurative language in supporting and reporting on children’s football

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Figurative language use in professional football journalism

7.3 Datasets

7.4 Methodology

7.5 Differences in figurative language use between the reports and the supporters’ discourse

7.6 What figurative language is used to talk about

7.7 Players’ understanding of figurative language use

7.8 Figurative language use and understanding within a genre-register framework

7.9 Conclusion References

8 Figurative language in the ‘simplification’ of canonical literary works: Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

8.3 The simplified version of Romeo and Juliet in Shakespeare Made Easy

8.4 The adaptation of figurative language in the Shakespeare Made Easy version of Romeo and Juliet

8.5 Conclusion References

9 Figurative language, creativity, and multimodality in the communication of chronic pain in two different genres

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Pain and communication

9.3 Conventional figurative resources for the expression of pain in English

9.4 The McGill Pain Questionnaire

9.5 The Perceptions of Pain artworks

9.6 Conclusion References

10 Conclusion

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Research methodologies

10.3 Figurative language and genre

10.4 Figurative language and register

10.5 Concluding remarks References

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