Marcin Kuczok
List of John Benjamins publications in which Marcin Kuczok is involved.
Articles
2027 Chapter 10. Metaphorical motivation behind the concept of animal death in English and Polish online pet memorials: A contrastive study from a cognitive-semantic perspective Motivation in Language: A cognitive perspective, Drożdż, Grzegorz and Barbara Taraszka-Drożdż (eds.), pp. 238–254 | Chapter
The aim of this chapter is to compare animal death metaphors found in English and Polish online pet memorials. Pet loss can be a difficult experience for owners who have had a special relationship with the animal and treated it similarly to human relatives or friends (Lyons et al. 2022). To cope… read more
2020 Metaphorical interplay of words and gestures in the Catholic liturgy Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language, Baicchi, Annalisa (ed.), pp. 209–222 | Chapter
This chapter analyzes selected Catholic liturgical rituals as motivated by verbal and gestural metaphors. Lakoff and Johnson (2003/1980) claim that the conceptual systems of religions are of metaphorical nature. The Catholic liturgy contains a number of gestures and movements used in worship,… read more
2016 The interplay of metaphor and metonymy in English noun+noun compounds Studies in Lexicogrammar: Theory and applications, Drożdż, Grzegorz (ed.), pp. 193–210 | Article
The present chapter aims at comparing two different methodologies that can be used to explain the intricacies of the interplay between metaphor and metonymy in noun+noun compounds in English. The meaning of such compounds may be motivated by the mechanisms of conceptual metaphor or metonymy, and… read more