Magdalena Zawisławska

List of John Benjamins publications for which Magdalena Zawisławska plays a role.

Articles

This paper examines metaphors in perfume reviews in four languages, namely Polish, English, Russian, and French. Some typical features of the perfumery discourse, similar across the four languages, have been highlighted, such as clustering, extension, and mixing metaphors. The authors also… read more
Zawisławska, Magdalena and Marta Falkowska 2021 Typology of metaphors with the olfactory target domain in the Polish perfumery discourseThe Linguistics of Olfaction: Typological and Diachronic Approaches to Synchronic Diversity, Jędrzejowski, Łukasz and Przemysław Staniewski (eds.), pp. 449–474 | Chapter
The relative scarcity of lexical olfactory field in Polish makes it difficult to describe the complex and subjective sensation of smell. Unsurprisingly, the Polish perfumery discourse is permeated with various types of metaphors. This chapter proposes a typology of metaphors on the basis of… read more
Zawisławska, Magdalena 2019 Narrative metaphors in Polish perfumery discourseCognitive Linguistic Studies 6:2, pp. 221–246 | Article
The Polish perfumery discourse is permeated with various kinds of metaphors, starting with lexicalized metaphorical terms, e.g., nuta “note”, to creative, extended, and elaborated metaphors, e.g., Intensywnie doprawiony przedpokój prowadzi do cytrusowegosalonu, który jak dla mnie mógłby zajmować… read more