Paper ID: 2209.12234

Diachronic Data Analysis Supports and Refines Conceptual Metaphor Theory

Marie Teich, Wilmer Leal, Juergen Jost

As a contribution to metaphor analysis, we introduce a statistical, data-based investigation with empirical analysis of long-standing conjectures and a first-ever empirical exploration of the systematic features of metaphors. Conversely, this also makes metaphor theory available as a basis of meaning emergence that can be quantitatively explored and integrated into the framework of NLP.

Submitted: Sep 25, 2022