MLA Commons | Thomas C. Messerli | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/thomasmesserli/activity/ Activity feed for Thomas C. Messerli. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:08:13 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 7c2caf0b86628bcc27bc0f64fa01c502 Thomas C. Messerli deposited Metaphors we read by: Finding metaphorical conceptualizations of reading in web 2.0 book reviews in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1697974/ Wed, 15 Jul 2020 19:13:51 -0400 While interdisciplinary research on metaphor is abundant (Eggs, 2000; Semino & Demjén, 2017; Veale et al., 2016), it is still scarce in Digital Humanities. At the intersection of literary studies, corpus stylistics, and digital humanities, we present an exploratory quantitative metaphor analysis of a corpus of German language lay book reviews.…[Read more]

]]> 0 1b8d34009110dec68161f1ae212642c5 Thomas C. Messerli deposited Metaphors we read by: Finding metaphorical conceptualizations of reading in web 2.0 book reviews https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1697485/ Tue, 14 Jul 2020 14:55:25 -0400 While interdisciplinary research on metaphor is abundant (Eggs, 2000; Semino & Demjén, 2017; Veale et al., 2016), it is still scarce in Digital Humanities. At the intersection of literary studies, corpus stylistics, and digital humanities, we present an exploratory quantitative metaphor analysis of a corpus of German language lay book reviews.…[Read more]

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