Paraskevi Thomou
List of John Benjamins publications for which Paraskevi Thomou plays a role.
Articles
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