Metaphor Analysis - Research Practice in Applied Linguistics, Social Sciences and the Humanities - Lynne Cameron
10: Working with large amounts of metaphor data
Metaphor Analysis - Research Practice in Applied Linguistics, Social Sciences and the Humanities - Lynne Cameron
Robert Maslen [+]
Open University
Robert Maslen is a Research Associate at the Centre for Language and Communication, The Open University. He gained his PhD in language acquisition from the Department of Psychology, University of Manchester (with funding from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig). His work in applied linguistics has included research on terrorism risk communications and the expression of empathy in discourse.
Description
Maslen discusses techniques for dealing with the specific demands of studies that produce large amounts of metaphor data. The advantages of large amounts of data in providing stronger evidence or allowing comparisons across social groups must not be compromised by reducing research quality.