Replication Data for: What the MIPVU protocol doesn’t tell you (even though it really does)

The two datasets provided here were used to provide inter-rater reliability statistics for the application of a metaphor identification procedure to texts written in English. Three experienced metaphor researchers applied the Metaphor Identification Procedure Vrije Universiteit (MIPVU) to approximately 1500 words of text from two English-language newspaper articles. The dataset Eng1 contains each researcher’s independent analysis of the lexical demarcation and metaphorical status of each word in the sample. The dataset Eng2 contains a second analysis of the same texts by the same three researchers, carried out after a comparison of our responses in Eng 1 and a troubleshooting session where we discussed our differences. The accompanying R-code was used to produce the three-way and pairwise inter-rater reliability data reported in Section 3.2 of the chapter: How do I determine what comprises a lexical unit? The headings in both datasets are identical, although the order of the columns differs in the two files. In both datasets, each line corresponds to one orthographic word from the newspaper texts.