Procedure for identifying metaphorical scenes (PIMS): the case of spatial and abstract relations. - Study 2: Testing for Mixed Prepositions in a Brexit Text

This study (Johansson Falck & Okonski, 2023) tackles the tricky problem of identifying metaphors in language that includes prepositions (e.g., Reijnierse, 2019, Herrmann et al., 2019, Nacey et al. 2019a, Marhula and Rosiński, 2019). We demonstrate how the Procedure for Identifying Metaphorical Scenes (PIMS) reflected and evoked by linguistic expressions in discourse (Johansson Falck & Okonski, 2022), can be used to identify metaphorical relations reflected in language. Two studies are presented that test the reliability of the procedure and the sensitivity of the tool for prepositions. Results show that PIMS provides a simple procedure that increases both reliability and sensitivity for prepositional constructions. By focusing on the scenes evoked by linguistic constructions, the procedure highlights the contextual meanings of the constructions and the specific experiences that they code. References: Herrmann, B., et al. (2019). Linguistic metaphor identification in German. In Nacey, S., Dorst, A. G., Krennmayr, T. W., Reijnierse, W. G. (Eds.). Metaphor Identification in Multiple Languages: MIPVU Around the World, Volume 22 (pp 113-136). Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company. Johansson Falck, M., & Okonski, L. (2022). Procedure for Identifying Metaphorical Scenes (PIMS): A Cognitive Linguistics Approach to Bridge Theory and Practice. Cognitive Semantics, 8, 294-322. doi:10.1163/23526416-bja10031 Marhula, J. and M. Rosiński (2019). Linguistic metaphor identification in Polish. In Nacey, S., Dorst, A. G., Krennmayr, T. W., Reijnierse, W. G. (Eds.). Metaphor Identification in Multiple Languages: MIPVU Around the World, Volume 22 (pp 183-202). Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company. Nacey, S., et al. (2019a). Linguistic metaphor identification in Scandinavian. In Nacey, S., Dorst, A. G., Krennmayr, T. W., Reijnierse, W. G. (Eds.). Metaphor Identification in Multiple Languages: MIPVU Around the World, Volume 22 (pp 137-158). Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company. Reijnierse, W. G. (2019). Linguistic metaphor identification in French. In Nacey, S., Dorst, A. G., Krennmayr, T. W., Reijnierse, W. G. (Eds.). Metaphor Identification in Multiple Languages: MIPVU Around the World, Volume 22 (pp 69-90). Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company. We analyzed data previously analyzed in applications of the MIPVU procedure (Steen, G. J. et al., 2019; Nacey et al., 2019b) and focused on words tagged as prepositions in a text on Brexit (Elgot, 2016). For more information, please see Johansson Falck and Okonski (2022). References: Johansson Falck, M., & Okonski, L. (2023). Procedure for Identifying Metaphorical Scenes (PIMS): The Case of Spatial and Abstract Relations. Metaphor and Symbol, 38(1), 1-22. doi:10.1080/10926488.2022.2062243 Nacey, S., et al. (2019b). What the MIPVU protocol doesn't tell you (even though it mostly does). In Nacey, S., Dorst, A. G., Krennmayr, T. W., Reijnierse, W. G. (Eds.). Metaphor Identification in Multiple Languages: MIPVU Around the World, Volume 22 (pp 41-68). Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company. Steen, G. J., et al. (2019). MIPVU: a manaual for identifying metaphore-related words. In Nacey, S., Dorst, A. G., Krennmayr, T. W., Reijnierse, W. G. (Eds.). Metaphor Identification in Multiple Languages: MIPVU Around the World, Volume 22 (pp 23-40). Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company. Elgot, J. (2016, June 24). Brexit, the fallout and the UK's future: what we know so far. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/24/brexit-fallout-what-we-know-so-farOpens in a new tab A description of the MIPVU-method is also accessible on Open Science Framework at the on-line adress: https://osf.io/vw46k/Opens in a new tab