Overview

This book describes methods, risks, and challenges involved in the construction of metaphor and metonymy digital repositories.

Part One

The first part of this volume showcases established and new projects around the world in which metaphors and metonymies are harvested and classified.

Part Two

The second part provides a series of cognitive linguistic studies focused on highlighting and discussing theoretical and methodological risks and challenges involved in building these digital resources.

Interdisciplinary Collaboration

The volume is a result of an interdisciplinary collaboration between cognitive linguists, psychologists, and computational scientists supporting an overarching idea that metaphor and metonymy play a central role in human cognition, and that they are deeply entrenched in recurring patterns of bodily experience.

Methods and Approaches

Throughout the volume, a variety of methods are proposed to collect and analyze both conceptual metaphors and metonymies and their linguistic and visual expressions.