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60 Orð og tunga
(anger_NN1|rage_NN1) extracted from the British National Corpus4
(BNCweb, CQP-Edition, Version 4.3; hereaft er, BNC). This trial does
not consider collocates if they occur fewer than fi ve times, and the
span is set as four words on either side of the search word. The col-
locates are lemmatized and the symbols V, S, A, and P correspond to
verb, noun, adjective, and preposition, respectively.
No. Lemma Freq. MI No. Lemma Freq. MI
1 vent_V 34 9.89 16 simmering_A 6 7.52
2 suppressed_A 18 9.03 17 well_V 7 7.51
3 sethe_V6 12 8.84 18 searing_A 5 7.29
4 contort_V 10 8.75 19 bristle_V 7 7.27
5 incandescent_A 9 8.74 20 uncontrollable_A 7 7.25
6 righteous_A 15 8.61 21 resentment_S 32 7.13
7 seethe_V 6 8.53 22 abate_V 6 7.04
8 pent-up_A 7 8.46 23 murderous_A 6 6.96
9 bellow_S 5 8.07 24 outburst_S 12 6.85
10 howl_S 12 8.01 25 surge_S 19 6.84
11 suff use_V 6 7.96 26 bubble_V 8 6.79
12 impotent_A 11 7.88 27 subside_V 11 6.79
13 livid_A 6 7.85 28 towering_A 6 6.76
14 speechless_A 9 7.76 29 quiver_V 8 6.74
15 frustration_S 65 7.57 30 hurt_S 5 6.73
Table 1. Top 30 signifi cant collocates of anger/rage (based on Minamisawa 2017).
Table 1 shows that the MI score successfully extracts many meta-
phorical collocates. Here, the verbs vent and seethe 5 and the adjec-
tive suppressed top the list, and they are all classifi ed under the fluid
metaphor. Furthermore, as most signifi cant collocates are subsumed
under this metaphor, we can conclude that the fluid metaphor is the
metaphor most strongly associated with anger (Minamisawa 2017).
3.3 Materials and methods
The present analysis uses data extracted from the Tagged Icelandic
Corpus (Mörkuð íslensk málheild; hereaft er, MÍM). The MÍM con-
4 The BNC is a balanced corpus of British English that contains about 100 million
words.
5 The verbs sethe (No.3) and seethe (No.7) should be counted as a single collocate
seethe.
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