Diachronic data analysis supports and refines conceptual metaphor theory
Fig 3
Hierarchical representation of semantic roles in the metaphor network.
The figure is one of the four dendrograms obtained from running a Hierarchical Cluster Analysis algorithm on the set of categories from the metaphor network. Categories were represented by their incoming and outgoing
neighborhoods, the distance between categories c and
was computed by counting the number of non-common connections:
, and Ward’s method was used as a grouping methodology.