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A Corpus Linguistics Analysis of Food Metaphors "Eat Up" and "Consume" through the Lenses of Conceptual Metaphor and Lexical Priming Theories
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Baramee Kheovichai – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
Research has shown that food metaphors play an important role in humans' conceptualization of various domains of experience. However, insufficient attention has been paid to the phraseology of food metaphors. This research aims to investigate food metaphors and their phraseology. Particularly, this paper focuses on the lemmas "consume"…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Computational Linguistics, Phrase Structure, North American English