“Shall I (compare) compare thee?”

IF 0.1 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Yearbook of Phraseology Pub Date : 2021-11-25 DOI:10.1515/phras-2021-0005
Gabrijela Buljan, Lea Maras
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Abstract This paper presents the results of a corpus-based analysis of a special type of modification of the English (as) Adj as NP similes. The modification involves filling the property slot with a cognate noun-adjective compound, i.e., a compound adjective consisting of the original adjective and the noun representing the original source of comparison, and inserting a new source of comparison into the construction (red as blood vs blood-red as a raw steak). Our data come from three sources: the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), the iWeb Corpus, and material published on the Google website. Using quantitative methods we first explored whether there is a relationship between various distributional and formal features of the “original” as-similes and their likelihood of exhibiting this type of modification behavior. We then performed a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the semantic and, to a lesser extent, discourse-related features of authentic examples of this type of modification. Our results indicate that while these modifications are not abundant, the as-similes that have been found to modify in this way are significantly different from the as-similes that have been found not to modify in this way, on a number of formal and distributional features. The analysis of the semantic and discourse-related features of the modifications themselves revealed (i) the typical semantic domains of the three nominal entities featured in the modified simile: the original source, the new source, and the target, including the semantic fit among the domains of those entities; (ii) the typical semantic domains of the properties for which the three nominal entities are compared, including the semantic fit among the domains of those properties; and (iii) the typical text varieties accommodating these modifications. The latter results confirm, and to some extent elaborate on, some earlier findings about the semantic and discourse-related profiles of similes at large.
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“我可以(比较)你吗?”
摘要本文介绍了基于语料库的对英语(as)形容词作为NP明喻的一种特殊类型修饰的分析结果。修改包括用同源名词-形容词复合词填充属性槽,即由原始形容词和代表原始比较来源的名词组成的复合形容词,并在结构中插入新的比较来源(红如血与血红如生牛排)。我们的数据来自三个来源:当代美国英语语料库(COCA)、iWeb语料库和谷歌网站上发布的材料。使用定量方法,我们首先探讨了作为明喻的“原始”的各种分布和形式特征与其表现出这种修饰行为的可能性之间是否存在关系。然后,我们对这类修饰的真实例子的语义特征以及在较小程度上与话语相关的特征进行了定量和定性分析。我们的研究结果表明,虽然这些修饰并不丰富,但在许多形式和分布特征上,以这种方式修饰的类喻与不以这种方式修改的类喻有显著不同。对修饰本身的语义和语篇相关特征的分析揭示了修饰明喻中三个名词实体的典型语义域:原始来源、新源和目标,包括这些实体的语义域之间的语义匹配;(ii)对三个名义实体进行比较的属性的典型语义域,包括这些属性的域之间的语义匹配;以及(iii)适应这些修改的典型文本变体。后一个结果证实了,并在一定程度上详细阐述了早期关于一般明喻的语义和话语相关特征的一些发现。
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Yearbook of Phraseology
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期刊介绍: The Yearbook of Phraseology is a fully international, peer-reviewed publication dedicated to research in phraseology, a linguistic subfield concerned with the study of word combinations of varying extent and type, and different degrees of fixedness. Word combinations are ubiquitous in language and constitute a significant resource for communication. Their study is of interest to many other subdisciplines of linguistics and even to other disciplines, throwing light on the make-up of constructions, their processing and learning, the make-up and modes of creation of complex building blocks of language, the methodology and use of corpora and statistical methods, as well as on the way in which language functions.
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