caa a22 4500 388043261 CHVBK 20180307125028.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199805 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S136067430000071X doi S136067430000071X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S136067430000071X Dabrowska Ewa Department of English Language and Linguistics University of Sheffield Sheffield S10 2TN e.dabrowska@sheffield.ac.uk How metaphor affects grammatical coding: the Saxon genitive in computer manuals [Elektronische Daten] [Ewa Dabrowska] The distribution of the Saxon genitive and the of genitive in computer manuals is significantly different from their distribution in other texts. This is because the manuals contain a high proportion of computer nouns (nouns referring to computer hardware and software), which pattern like human nouns rather than like inanimate nouns. An analysis of the conventional metaphors used to talk about computers reveals that they are often construed as people, and the higher proportion of the Saxon genitive is a grammatical repercussion of this construal. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 English Language and Linguistics Cambridge University Press 2/1(1998-05), 121-127 1360-6743 2:1<121 1998 2 ELL https://doi.org/10.1017/S136067430000071X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 other jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S136067430000071X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Dabrowska Ewa Department of English Language and Linguistics University of Sheffield Sheffield S10 2TN e.dabrowska@sheffield.ac.uk NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- English Language and Linguistics Cambridge University Press 2/1(1998-05), 121-127 1360-6743 2:1<121 1998 2 ELL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge