Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos
List of John Benjamins publications for which Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos plays a role.
Journal
Are metaphorical classes essentially abstract? Cognitive Linguistic Studies 10:1, pp. 85–98 | Article
2023 This article compares abstract concepts and metaphorical classes in order to emphasize the abstract nature of metaphorical classes. Sam Glucksberg (2003) used the expression “abstract superordinate categories” to refer to metaphorical classes. Drawing on this proposal and George Lakoff & Mark… read more
A cross-linguistic study of metaphors of death Cognitive Linguistic Studies 5:2, pp. 359–375 | Article
2018 The avoidance of directly addressing human mortality indicates fear of death. This fear elicits psychological, social and religious interdictions in language such that people resort to the use of metaphors to avoid confronting death. Under the premise that metaphor is a conceptual mapping from a… read more
Embodied concept mapping: Blending structure-mapping and embodiment theories Pragmatics & Cognition 24:2, pp. 164–185 | Article
2017 Metaphors are cognitive and linguistic tools that allow reasoning. They enable the understanding of abstract domains via elements borrowed from concrete ones. The underlying mechanism in metaphorical mapping is the manipulation of concepts. This article proposes another view on what concepts are… read more
R. C. Berwick and N. Chomsky: Why Only Us: Language and Evolution Metaphor Variation in Englishes around the World, Callies, Marcus and Alexander Onysko (eds.), pp. 164–169 | Review
2017 Reading between the lines: The activation of background knowledge during text comprehension Pragmatics & Cognition 17:1, pp. 77–107 | Article
2009 This paper presents an overview of the activation of background knowledge during text comprehension. We first review the cognitive processes involved in the activation of inferences during text comprehension, stressing the interaction between text and reader in the construction of situation models. read more