Kay Wikberg

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

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Wikberg, Kay 2014 Review of Aijmer & Altenberg (2013): Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics Languages in Contrast 14:2, pp. 306–311 | Review

Wikberg, Kay 2008 8. Phrasal similes in the BNC Phraseology: 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 2005 Review of Halliday, Teubert, Yallop & Čermáková (2004): Lexicology and Corpus Linguistics. An Introduction Languages in Contrast 5:2, pp. 301–304 | Review

Wikberg, Kay 2004 English Metaphors and Their Translation: the Importance of Context Discourse 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 corpus Meaning Through Language Contrast: Volume 2, Jaszczolt, Katarzyna M. and Ken Turner (eds.), pp. 109–123 | Article