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Chapter 12. Moving reader or moving text?

Contrasts and analogies between metaphors of time and text organization in Finnish
  • Tuomas Huumo and Krista Teeri-Niknammoghadam
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Analogy and Contrast in Language
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Abstract

This chapter is concerned with metaphors of text organization that are instantiated by metaphorical expressions pertaining to metatextual relations, i.e. relations between different parts of a text or between a text and its reader (e.g. as noted in the foregoing chapters). The purpose of the study is to examine metaphors of text organization denoted by Finnish front and back gram (adposition and adverb) constructions, and to compare the system of metaphors of text organization to the previously attested system for spatial metaphors of time. The study builds upon the system for metaphors of text organization presented by Huumo (2016), and expands on it by analyzing data extracted from online discussion messages posted at the Finnish social networking site Suomi24.

Abstract

This chapter is concerned with metaphors of text organization that are instantiated by metaphorical expressions pertaining to metatextual relations, i.e. relations between different parts of a text or between a text and its reader (e.g. as noted in the foregoing chapters). The purpose of the study is to examine metaphors of text organization denoted by Finnish front and back gram (adposition and adverb) constructions, and to compare the system of metaphors of text organization to the previously attested system for spatial metaphors of time. The study builds upon the system for metaphors of text organization presented by Huumo (2016), and expands on it by analyzing data extracted from online discussion messages posted at the Finnish social networking site Suomi24.

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