Gonna be on my fucking period in boomtown, souuuunndd thanks Mother Nature: Using Twitter to Find Multimodal Creativity and Embodied Instant Metaphors

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https://doi.org/10.17058/signo.v44i79.12851

Keywords:

Multimodal, Instant Metaphors, Twitter, Social Media, Cognitive Linguistics, Embodied Simulations

Abstract

Using social media in linguistic and socio-linguistic research is becoming more prevalent, but how does it compare to other methods? We argue that Twitter has some multimodal advantages including providing cognitive linguistic researchers with multimodal data and also in providing “instant” metaphors that are elicited from very specific contexts and bodily experiences. We first review some cognitive data that summarizes the embodied, online nature of language processing and then we present data from 3 different corpora: a COCA corpus, a laboratory experiment, and a corpus made from Twitter data. These methods are compared and discussed in terms of ease of use and contributions to questions of interest for cognitive linguists. Results show that the twitter data is relatively easy to collect, contains many multimodal data points, and also elicits “instant” metaphors that are difficult to find/elicit using other methods.

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Author Biographies

Lacey Okonski, UFMG/UCSC

Visiting Professor and Post Doctoral Researcher, UFMG

Luciane Corrêa Ferreira, UFMG

She holds a Bachelor's degree in Translation from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (1986), a Master's degree in Linguistics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (2001) , Master's degree in Translation - Universitat Wien (1993), Doctorate in Letters by the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (2007) and PhD-Sandwich in Psychology - University of California Santa Cruz (2005). She is currently a TEACHER AT THE FACULTY OF LETTERS (GERMAN AND PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE AS A LANGUAGE OF HOSTING) AND PROFESSOR OF THE GRADUATION PROGRAM IN LANGUAGE STUDIES (POSLIN), areas of Theoretical and Descriptive Linguistics and Linguistics Aolicada, UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE MINAS GERAIS. She is PROFESSOR OF THE POST GRADUATION PROGRAM IN LANGUAGE OF THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ, where he was a fellow doctor PRODOC-CAPES. He mainly works in the following areas: Theoretical Linguistics (Semantics / Pragmatics), Cognitive Linguistics, Applied Linguistics (teaching of German, PORTUGUESE AS AN ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE). She is coordinator of the German courses for Academic Purposes of the International Relations Board and FALE / UFMG. She is the coordinator of the Language without Frontiers (IsF) - German at UFMG. She was a Visiting Professor (2015) invited by the Center for Inter-American Studies (CIAS) at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. He is a full member of the Postgraduate Program in Linguistic Studies (POSLIN), representative of the Area of ​​APPLIED LINGUISTICS. Member of the editorial board of FALE / UFMG. Cognitive Linguistics, Applied Linguistics (teaching of German, PORTUGUESE AS AN ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE). She is coordinator of the German courses for Academic Purposes of the International Relations Board and FALE / UFMG. She is the coordinator of the Language without Frontiers (IsF) - German at UFMG. She was a Visiting Professor (2015) invited by the Center for Inter-American Studies (CIAS) at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. He is a full member of the Postgraduate Program in Linguistic Studies (POSLIN), representative of the Area of ​​APPLIED LINGUISTICS. Member of the editorial board of FALE / UFMG. Cognitive Linguistics, Applied Linguistics (teaching of German, PORTUGUESE AS AN ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE). She is coordinator of the German courses for Academic Purposes of the International Relations Board and FALE / UFMG. She is the coordinator of the Language without Frontiers (IsF) - German at UFMG. She was a Visiting Professor (2015) invited by the Center for Inter-American Studies (CIAS) at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. He is a full member of the Postgraduate Program in Linguistic Studies (POSLIN), representative of the Area of ​​APPLIED LINGUISTICS. Member of the editorial board of FALE / UFMG. She was a Visiting Professor (2015) invited by the Center for Inter-American Studies (CIAS) at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. He is a full member of the Postgraduate Program in Linguistic Studies (POSLIN), representative of the Area of ​​APPLIED LINGUISTICS. Member of the editorial board of FALE / UFMG. She was a Visiting Professor (2015) invited by the Center for Inter-American Studies (CIAS) at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. He is a full member of the Postgraduate Program in Linguistic Studies (POSLIN), representative of the Area of ​​APPLIED LINGUISTICS. Member of the editorial board of FALE / UFMG.

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2019-01-03

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Okonski, L., & Corrêa Ferreira, L. (2019). Gonna be on my fucking period in boomtown, souuuunndd thanks Mother Nature: Using Twitter to Find Multimodal Creativity and Embodied Instant Metaphors. Signo, 44(79), 122-134. https://doi.org/10.17058/signo.v44i79.12851

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Vol. 44 No. 79 (2019): Metáforas Multimodais

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Metáforas Multimodais

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