TY - GEN
T1 - Using a corpus of English and Chinese political speeches for metaphor analysis
AU - Ahrens, Kathleen
AU - Zeng, Huiheng
AU - Rebekah Wong, Shun Han
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported in part by the following grants: General Research Fund (#12400014) from the Hong Kong University Grants Council to the first author, HKBU Faculty Research Grants (#FRG2/08/09/027, #FRG2/10/11/049, #FRG2/11/12/021 and #FRG1/16-17/005) to the first author, and the HKBU Digital Scholarship Grant (#DSG/1516/01/LC) to the first author (PI) and the third author (Co-I). All authors would like to thank the research team in HKBU Library and the research assistants involved in the above projects.
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PY - 2018/5
Y1 - 2018/5
N2 - In this article, we present details of our corpus of political speeches and introduce using the corpus for metaphor analysis in political discourse. Although specialized corpora on a variety of topics are now easily available, online political corpora available for public use are scarce. The database our research team has developed contains more than six million English and Chinese political speeches and is currently available free online. Researchers in many fields are able to use the multiple search functions on the website for their specific research purposes. In particular, the corpus is useful for researchers focusing on political speeches and conceptual metaphor analyses. From the perspective of metaphor study, we have taken advantage of several functions to facilitate the corpus-based metaphor analyses. In short, this database enriches the current bilingual resources and contributes to the evaluation of political language by linguists and political scientists.
AB - In this article, we present details of our corpus of political speeches and introduce using the corpus for metaphor analysis in political discourse. Although specialized corpora on a variety of topics are now easily available, online political corpora available for public use are scarce. The database our research team has developed contains more than six million English and Chinese political speeches and is currently available free online. Researchers in many fields are able to use the multiple search functions on the website for their specific research purposes. In particular, the corpus is useful for researchers focusing on political speeches and conceptual metaphor analyses. From the perspective of metaphor study, we have taken advantage of several functions to facilitate the corpus-based metaphor analyses. In short, this database enriches the current bilingual resources and contributes to the evaluation of political language by linguists and political scientists.
KW - Corpus
KW - Metaphor
KW - Political speeches
UR - http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2018/summaries/571.html
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M3 - Conference proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:85059881309
T3 - LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
SP - 994
EP - 999
BT - LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
A2 - Isahara, Hitoshi
A2 - Maegaard, Bente
A2 - Piperidis, Stelios
A2 - Cieri, Christopher
A2 - Declerck, Thierry
A2 - Hasida, Koiti
A2 - Mazo, Helene
A2 - Choukri, Khalid
A2 - Goggi, Sara
A2 - Mariani, Joseph
A2 - Moreno, Asuncion
A2 - Calzolari, Nicoletta
A2 - Odijk, Jan
A2 - Tokunaga, Takenobu
PB - European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
T2 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2018
Y2 - 7 May 2018 through 12 May 2018
ER -