Metonymy is more multilingual than metaphor: Analysing tropes using ChainNet and the Open Multilingual Wordnet
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://aclanthology.org/2025.gwc-1.10/" target="_blank" >https://aclanthology.org/2025.gwc-1.10/</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.gwc-1.10" target="_blank" >10.18653/v1/2025.gwc-1.10</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Metonymy is more multilingual than metaphor: Analysing tropes using ChainNet and the Open Multilingual Wordnet
Original language description
The senses of a word are often systematicallyrelated to each other, either by metaphor ormetonymy. Because speakers of different languages share the same basic cognitive commonground, it is possible that the same metaphorsand metonyms will appear across different languages. In this paper, we investigate the extent to which English metaphors, metonyms,and homonyms are evidenced across differentlanguages. To achieve this analysis we useChainNet and the Open Multilingual Wordnet.ChainNet provides detailed annotations of figurative sense relations such as metaphor andmetonymy in English, while the Open Multilingual Wordnet aligns multilingual synsetsacross more than 30 languages. We find thatmetonyms are more universal than metaphors,and that both metaphors and metonyms aremuch more universal than homonyms. Furtherwork is needed to determine which metaphorsor metonyms are more universal than others.
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Article name in the collection
Proceedings of the 13th Global Wordnet Conference
ISBN
979-8-89176-295-4
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Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
"85–94"
Publisher name
Global Wordnet Association
Place of publication
Pavia
Event location
Pavia
Event date
Jan 27, 2025
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
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