A visual approach to interpreting the career of the network metaphor

• Published in: Poetics (Amsterdam) Vol. 88; p. 101566
• Main Author: Yung, Vincent
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: The Hague Elsevier B.V 01.10.2021; Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: 19th century; 20th century; Argumentation; Careers; Cognitive linguistics; Computational hermeneutics; Formal model; Leverage; Linguistics; Metaphor; Network; Occupations; Rhetorical figures; Sociological theory; Sociology; Text analysis; Time; Computational hermeneutics; Text analysis; Metaphor; Formal model; Network

•I offer a formal model for visualizing and interpreting what metaphors describe and do and how they change and conventionalize.•I characterize the career of the network metaphor over a period of two centuries.•The network metaphor underwent significant changes in use over the first half of the 19th...