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July 3, 2026Metaphor and Symbol

Two Context Effects on Metaphor Usage. A Computational, Corpus-Based Approach

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BBBarend BeekhuizenCRClaudia Raihert

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Computational approach examines how metaphor variations depend on linguistic and extralinguistic contexts.

Key Points

  • This research aims to explore how metaphor usage varies with linguistic and extralinguistic contexts, specifically genre.
  • Developed a computational method using token-level distributional semantic models and cluster analysis.
  • Analyzed a corpus of approximately 100 million words from American English fiction and newspaper texts.
  • Conducted regression analysis to model genre influence based on sense concreteness, fixedness, and valence.
  • Newspaper-biased metaphor senses are more abstract than fiction-biased senses.
  • Identified distinct metaphorical senses for 45 lexical items related to landscape and weather.
  • Findings illuminate the relationship between linguistic contexts and metaphor usage across genres.

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Beekhuizen et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a47520e5c29257aa2578eeehttps://doi.org/10.1080/10926488.2026.2627594
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