Research Design

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  • General corpus (ie, Bank of English)
  • Identify keywords of the target domain, the Web.
    (trickier than expected.)
  • Search for keywords, returning sentences (citations).
    (randomly sample if necessary)
  • Analyze sentences for use: literal, conv. metaphorical, novel metaphorical or homonymous.
  • (Traditionally in linguistics, then determine frequency of keyword as metaphor in language, or conversational context. Skipping that part. Would like relative frequency, but shaky ground.)
  • Repeat with specific corpus (websites?).

Zach Tomaszewski

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