Virginija Masiulionyte
List of John Benjamins publications in which Virginija Masiulionyte is involved.
Articles
2027 Chapter 7. Expressing attitudes through irony in public discourse Thinking Politically: Cognitive linguistic insights into political discourse, Vogiatzis, Anastasios (ed.), pp. 142–172 | Chapter
The paper examines targets, markers, and evaluative function of irony in media texts focusing on the Belarusian crisis in 2021 instigated by an incident of a forced landing of a plane travelling from Athens to Vilnius in Minsk. The data has been collected from the news portals of the USA,… read more
2026 Metaphorical framing of political events through ENTERTAINMENT scenarios: A cross-cultural perspective Review of Cognitive Linguistics 24:1, pp. 286–317 | Article
The article sets out to examine the entertainment source domain and its scenarios as realised in the media discourse surrounding political events in Belarus in 2021. Metaphorical scenarios are investigated considering different viewpoints, such as those presented in Lithuanian, German, and… read more