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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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In-roads of Language. Essays in English Studies
(Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I, 2007)
Reseña del libro: In-roads of Language. Essays in English Studies. By NAVARRO I FERRANDO, I.; N. ALBEROLA CRESPO (eds.) 2006 Castelló de la Plana: Servei de Publicacions UJI, 179 pp. ISBN: 84-8021-545-3.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Presentación: Metáfora y discurso
(Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I, 2007)
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 ...