Table of contents -- Corpus-based approaches to metaphor and metonymy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Extracting metaphors and metonymies from corpora -- 3. Results of the corpus-based approaches -- 4. Metaphor identification and annotation -- 5. Conclusion -- Metaphoricity is gradable* -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Are metaphors secondary meanings of words? -- 3. Which words are used to make metaphors, and how? -- 4. Gradability -- 5. Case study 1: Sea -- 6. Metaphor, phraseology, and idioms -- 7. Case study 2: Oasis -- 8. Conclusion -- A corpus-based study of metaphors for speech activity in British English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The corpus data -- 3. argument is war -- 4. The conduit metaphor -- 5. Conclusions -- Words and their metaphors: A corpus-based approach -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Metaphorical pattern analysis -- 3. Metaphorical pattern analysis and the introspective method -- 4. Are there emotion-specific metaphors? -- 5. The lexeme-orientation of metaphorical pattern analysis: -- 6. Conclusion -- The grammar of linguistic metaphors -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Conceptual Metaphor Theory and linguistic metaphors -- 3. Research into the grammar of linguistic metaphors -- 4. Defining "metaphor" -- 5. Metaphor and part of speech -- 6. Detailed grammatical form -- 7. Implications -- 8. Theory driven and data-driven approaches -- Keeping an eye on the data: Metonymies and their patterns* -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Metonymy -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Metonymic extensions of eye -- Metonymic proper names: A corpus-based account -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Framework -- 3. Annotation scheme for metonymies -- 4. Annotation experiments -- 5. Discussion and related work -- 6. Conclusions and future directions -- On groutnolls and nog-heads: A case study of the interaction between culture and cognition in intelligence metaphors -- 1. Introduction.

2. Density as a source concept -- 3. Specificity -- 4. Cognitive 'cohesion' -- 5. Linguistic 'failures' -- 6. Conclusion -- Sense and sensibility: Rational thought versus emotion in metaphorical language* -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background -- 3. Method and data -- 4. Analysis -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- A corpus-based analysis of context effects on metaphor comprehension -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A minimal rational analysis of context effects on metaphor -- 3. Corpus analysis -- 4. Psycholinguistic results -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusions -- Of critical importance: Using electronic text corpora to study metaphor in business media discourse -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical and methodological considerations -- 3. Example of a corpus-based method: Metaphors in business media -- 4. Conclusion and outlook -- Metaphors, motifs and similes across discourse types: Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS) at work* -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Detective work: uncovering metaphor sets and what they mean -- 3. Return to the past: Simile and the like -- 4. Conclusion -- Author index -- Subject index -- Index of domains and mappings.