Using Figurative Language presents results from a multidisciplinary decades-long study of
figurative language that addresses the question," Why don't people just say what they …

essential reference work to cognitive linguistics. It encompasses a wide range of
perspectives and approaches, covering all the key areas of cognitive linguistics and drawing …

Of all the tasks you perform, perhaps none is more consequential for the performance of
other tasks than paying attention. When you attend, you perceive. When you attend and …

Proverb meaning has been an issue in paremiological research for a long time. In this paper
the cognitive linguistic theory of conceptual blending, or blending theory, is explored as a …

Digital stories are a very recent multimedia practice by which ordinary people construct short
narratives on personal affairs combining voice, images and sometimes music. This paper …

One of the most broadly investigated topics in the conceptual metaphor literature is the
importance of spatial construals for thinking and talking about time. We address the …

A discourse approach was developed to identify explicit perspectivisation afforded by
conceptual and narrative structures in political texts. The hypothesis is that the ground …

This paper deals with a prosecutor's closing argument in a murder trial I did fieldwork on in
California in 2000. This discourse is analyzed through the conceptual blend of the deceased …

This article shows how the specific discourse situation and sociocultural context influence
the development and degree of entrenchment of metaphor in language. Two metaphors are …

This article presents a Mental Space model for analyzing linguistic patterns in news
narratives. The model was applied in a corpus study categorizing various linguistic markers …