Systematicity and Evidential Density in a Corpus-Based Conceptual Metaphor Dictionary of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings
Conceptual Metaphor Theory holds that metaphor is systematic: a single cross-domain mapping licenses many linguistic expressions. This claim is routinely invoked in literary metaphor scholarship but rarely tested against the evidence that individual studies actually assemble. The present study reports a corpus-based co...