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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Metáfora y discurso
(Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I, 2007)
Texto completo del vol. 5 (2007) de la revista Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación / Culture, Language and Representation.
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 ...
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 ...
Culturas cara a cara. Relatos y actividades para la comunicación intercultural
(Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I, 2007)