An investigation of cognitive metaphorization using corpus linguistic methods, and its implications for language teaching

Abstract

In our paper, we examine the metaphorization of place expressions in terms of cognitive linguistics. The study is carried out on a corpus of texts related to rock music as they appear in different social media. The subcorpora are composed of non-inflectional nominative and inessive, illative, and elative inflectional linguistic material: inflections -bAn, -bA, and -bÓl in various types of syntactic constructions. The data are analyzed by using corpus linguistic methods. The pedagogical implications of the results of this study are also addressed as regards the teaching of Hungarian as a mother tongue and as a foreign language.