Carita Paradis
List of John Benjamins publications for which Carita Paradis plays a role.
Book series
ISSN 1388-6231
Titles
Representing Wine – Sensory Perceptions, Communication and Cultures
Rosario Caballero, Ernesto Suárez-Toste and Carita Paradis
[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 21] 2019. xii, 234 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Psycholinguistics | Semantics | Semiotics
Sensory Perceptions in Language and Cognition
Edited by Rosario Caballero and Carita Paradis
Special issue of Functions of Language 22:1 (2015) v, 159 pp.
Subjects Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Evidentiality in language and cognition
Edited by Lena Ekberg and Carita Paradis
Special issue of Functions of Language 16:1 (2009) 172 pp.
Subjects Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
2016 Chapter 9. We drink with our eyes first: The web of sensory perceptions, aesthetic experiences and mixed imagery in wine reviews Mixing Metaphor, Gibbs, Jr., Raymond W. (ed.), pp. 179–202 | Article
This chapter analyzes the language resources that writers have at their disposal to describe their experience of the web of sensory perceptions that are evoked in the wine tasting practice. The task of the writer is to provide a mental understanding of the sensations as well as a prehension of the… read more
2015 Making sense of sensory perceptions across languages and cultures Sensory Perceptions in Language and Cognition, Caballero, Rosario and Carita Paradis (eds.), pp. 1–19 | Article
This article has two aims: (i) to give an overview of research on sensory perceptions in different disciplines with different aims, and on the basis of that (ii) to encourage new research based on a balanced socio-sensory-cognitive approach. It emphasizes the need to study sensory meanings in human… read more
2015 The in-group and out-groups of the British National Party and the UK Independence Party: A corpus-based discourse-historical analysis Journal of Language and Politics 14:4, pp. 501–527 | Article
This article investigates the self-presentation and the construction of immigration discourses in articles and policy documents published by the British National Party (BNP) and the UK Independence Party (UKIP). By combining corpus analysis with the Discourse-Historical Approach to Critical… read more
2011 Metonymization: A key mechanism in semantic change Defining Metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics: Towards a consensus view, Benczes, Réka, Antonio Barcelona and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez (eds.), pp. 61–88 | Article
Despite a sizable functional literature on variation and change, very little attention has been given to the diachronic mechanisms of meaning shifts and change covering the whole continuum from contentful to configurational meanings. This chapter is an attempt to begin filling this gap. It proposes… read more
2011 Antonymy: From convention to meaning-making Review of Cognitive Linguistics 9:2, pp. 367–391 | Article
This article offers a Cognitive Semantic approach to antonymy in language and thought. Based on a series of recent empirical investigations using different observational techniques, we analyze (i) the nature of the category of antonymy, and (ii) the status of its members in terms of goodness of… read more
2010 Swedish opposites: A multi-method approach to ‘goodness of antonymy’ Lexical-Semantic Relations: Theoretical and practical perspectives, Storjohann, Petra (ed.), pp. 15–47 | Article
This is an investigation of ‘goodness of antonym pairings’ in Swedish, which seeks answers to why speakers judge antonyms such as bra-dålig ‘good-bad’ and lång-kort ‘long-short’ to be better antonyms than, say, dunkel-tydlig ‘obscure-clear’ and rask-långsam ‘speedy-slow’. The investigation has two… read more
2009 Editorial: Evidentiality in language and cognition Evidentiality in language and cognition, Ekberg, Lena and Carita Paradis (eds.), pp. 5–7 | Article
2009 Good and bad opposites: Using textual and experimental techniques to measure antonym canonicity The Mental Lexicon 4:3, pp. 380–429 | Article
The goal of this paper is to combine corpus methodology with experimental methods to gain insights into the nature of antonymy as a lexico-semantic relation and the degree of antonymic canonicity of word pairs in language and in memory. Two approaches to antonymy in language are contrasted, the… read more
2003 Is the notion of linguistic competence relevant in Cognitive Linguistics? Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 1, Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José (ed.), pp. 207–231 | Article
This study reviews the literature on touch to establish an analytical framework for the study of touch in communication through language. Two questions are at the heart of the study — an ontological and a methodological one: What counts as touch, and how can we investigate the way we talk about… read more
Everything -cleft constructions in spoken British English: A neglected construction Functions of Language: Online-First Articles | Article
Within the framework of Construction Grammar, this study examines constructions with a cleft form containing everything, e.g., that’s everything that’s happened, in spoken British English, using the London-Lund Corpora and the British National Corpora. We trace the development of… read more