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Colours We Live by?: Red and Green Metaphors in English and Spanish
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2007)This paper aims to deepen into the nature of motivation and into the literal and metaphorical continuum of colour expressions for red and green in English and Spanish. We focus on the analysis of colour metaphors in ... -
Conceptual Metaphor and Text Development: a Narratological Perspective
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2007)This study attempts to analyse the structural role of metaphor in a specific texttype. For this purpose, we chose a specific genre, a popular magazine about scientific topics, the National Geographic (NG), and one of the ... -
Defining semantic and prosodic tools for the analysis of live metaphor uses in Spoken Corpora
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2007)Considering metaphors as hypercoding elements in a genetic outlook, a corpus of twenty six scripted interviews, in British and American English and in French was labelled morphosyntactically and with lsa (latent semantic ... -
Discourse, Semantics and Metonymy
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2007)In current research on discourse analysis and on metonymy there is an idea that is missing: the study of the discourse potential of metonymic activity. The reasons for this are to be found, in all likelihood, on the one ... -
Finding Metaphor in Discourse: Pragglejaz and Beyond
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2007)This is a methodological paper which addresses three distinct ways in which metaphor can be found in discourse. The first approach concerns the Pragglejaz method for finding metaphorically used words, which involves the ... -
Internet metaphors: a cross-linguistic perspective
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2007)The purpose of this article is to discuss whether there is any connection between the understanding of a metaphorical concept which emerged in a foreign language and the linguistic means, e.g. loan-translation, loanword, ... -
Is This a Metaphor? On the Difficult Task of Identifying Metaphors in Scientific Discourse
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2007)This article focuses on the problem of metaphor identification in scientific language. In Conceptual Metaphor Theory, metaphors are often observed on the conceptual level. As in this framework there is no genuine linguistic ... -
Metaphoric extension and invited inferencing in semantic change
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2007)Two models of semantic change, metaphoric extension (Sweetser, 1990) and invited inferencing (Traugott and Dasher, 2002), have been offered as explanations for changes such as “see” > “know/understand”. In this paper, I ... -
Metáfora, sinestesia y otras figuras retóricas en El perfume. Historia de un asesino, de P. Süskind
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2007)This article questions the author’s intention in the so frequent use of metaphors and other rhetorical figures in Perfume. History of a Murderer. This novel is a landmark in the German narrative of the XXth Century, due ... -
Metonymic modelling of discourse, discourse modelling of metonymy: the case of the place-name based metonymies
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2007)This paper deals with the way metonymy contributes to the construction and understanding of social objects and of discourses related to them. The analysis is based on an empirical study of place-name based metonymies on ... -
Metonymy and Anaphoric Reference: Anaphoric Reference to a Metonymic Antecedent in Dude, Where’s My Country, Stupid White Men, The Da Vinci Code and Deception Point
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2007)Departing from the postulates of Ruiz de Mendoza and his collaborators on metonymic anaphora (Ruiz de Mendoza 1997, 1999; Ruiz de Mendoza; Otal 2002; Ruiz de Mendoza; Díez 2004), this paper analyzes some of the most ... -
Mystifying through Metaphors and Lexical Choice
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2007)The main aim of this paper is to look into the Plan for restoring the Islamic wall in Barri del Carme (València, 2002) to show how the authors of the plan use metaphors to mystify the reality and to illustrate the ... -
Presentación: Metáfora y discurso
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The Construction of the Concept Internet through Metaphors
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2007)The expressions by which we refer to the Internet reveal how we conceptualize it. Rather than “a network of networks of computers”, as it is usually defined, we actually perceive and experience the Internet as a PLACE. ... -
The rhetorical dimension of printed advertising: a discourse-analytical approach
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2007)he study of the rhetorical uses of language in advertising can be approached from different disciplines –discourse analysis, media studies, metaphor theory–. Although normally focusing on different aspects according to ... -
Two levels of blending with Homophonic Compounds in Japanese
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2007)This study states that discourse serves as a crucial factor for a precise understanding of Japanese puns i.e. a word play with homophones, and argues that the double meanings of a pun can be processed at the lexical/phonological ... -
What do learners need to know about the figurative extensions of target language words?: a contrastive, corpus-based analysis of Thread, Hilar, Wing and Aletear
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2007)This article provides a detailed analysis based on corpus evidence of the multiple senses of the English verbs thread and wing and the Spanish verbs hilar and aletear. Although these verbs derive from nouns with similar ... -
Who Is to Believe When You Bet: on Non-Referential Indexical Functions of the Pronoun You in English
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2007)Using English-language material this paper presents an account of a number of functions of the pronoun you that are not directly related to reference. The analysis focuses on occurrences of the second-person pronoun in ...