Christina Alm-Arvius

List of John Benjamins publications for which Christina Alm-Arvius plays a role.

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Alm-Arvius, Christina 2012 Chapter 14. Trolls Metaphor in Use: Context, culture, and communication, MacArthur, Fiona, José Luis Oncins-Martínez, Manuel Sánchez-García and Ana M. Piquer-Píriz (eds.), pp. 309–328 | Chapter
This chapter explores the use of troll in modern Swedish in order to show how culturally entrenched concepts, and the attitudes that are associated with them, are integrated in the language of a speech community as part of its heritage. The noun has a complex and variable sense potential, and both… read more