Kay Wikberg

List of John Benjamins publications for which Kay Wikberg plays a role.

Articles

Wikberg, Kay 2008 8. Phrasal similes in the BNCPhraseology: An interdisciplinary perspective, Granger, Sylviane and Fanny Meunier (eds.), pp. 127–142 | Article
This study focuses on similes, a category of phraseological units that has been amply studied in the phraseology literature but suffers froma lack of corpus-based description. The concept of simile is defined and the differences between similes and comparisons, on the one hand, and similes and… read more
Wikberg, Kay 2004 English Metaphors and Their Translation: the Importance of ContextDiscourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora, Aijmer, Karin and Anna-Brita Stenström (eds.), pp. 245–265 | Article
Wikberg, Kay 2003 Studying metaphors using a multilingual corpusMeaning Through Language Contrast: Volume 2, Jaszczolt, Katarzyna M. and Ken Turner (eds.), pp. 109–123 | Article