Some Spaces in Detecting Metaphors
This paper proposes an inventory of methods for automatic and manual metaphor detection in order to give a better understanding of a social science, namely Geography. At first, we aim at obtaining a synthetic and organized view of the different theories and methodologies (each forming a different possible “detection space”). This view might foster the design of future lines of research to address this difficult issue. Then, we explore each space to get its potentialities, limits and articulations with the other spaces. The multifaceted nature of metaphors leads us to carry out an important synthetic and detailed work. We claim that the combination of those specialized spaces enables the researcher to improve the detection of metaphor for this stylistic figure can be defined in multiple ways. Finally, we reconstruct an integrating framework for thinking simultaneously manual and automatic detection. It turns out that these two viewpoints are often discussed independently, although they deal with a common problem.