Paraskevi Thomou
List of John Benjamins publications for which Paraskevi Thomou plays a role.
2025 Animal-related proverbs in a cognitive and cultural perspective: The concept of dog in Greek Cognitive Linguistic Studies 12:1, pp. 107–129 | Article
The present study investigates dog-related proverbs found in language data from Modern Greek. Two corpus materials were examined and contrasted: one with the proverbs and one concerning the overall cultural schema for the animal. The analysis takes into consideration universal aspects regarding… read more
2024 Investigating metaphor comprehension strategies of young Second Language students of Greek Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
This study investigates the metaphor comprehension strategies used by elementary school students with Greek as an L2 when they encounter a Greek metaphorical expression. Using open metaphor comprehension tasks, as well as stimulated recall interviews, the present study aims to describe students’… read more
2022 From usage patterns to meaning construction: Evidence from ear and eye figurative constructions Review of Cognitive Linguistics 20:2, pp. 305–329 | Article
The present study investigates the meaning construction emerging from figurative constructions involving ear and eye in Modern Greek. The study concerns authentic language data retrieved from a corpus search. Analysis takes into consideration the embodiment hypothesis, the development of chained… read more
2016 Metaphor and metonymy interaction patterns in Modern Greek Cognitive Linguistic Studies 3:2, pp. 299–315 | Article
Drawing on Cognitive Linguistic theories of metaphor and metonymy, in this paper we deal with the interaction between metaphor and metonymy in non-idiomatic Greek expressions. Data from (self-compiled and electronic) corpora show that metonymy functions together with metaphor as a realization of… read more