Florencia Reali

List of John Benjamins publications for which Florencia Reali plays a role.

Articles

Khatin-Zadeh, Omid, Zahra Eskandari, Florencia Reali, Hassan Banaruee and Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos 2023 Are metaphorical classes essentially abstract?Cognitive Linguistic Studies 10:1, pp. 85–98 | Article
This article compares abstract concepts and metaphorical classes in order to emphasize the abstract nature of metaphorical classes. Sam Glucksberg (2003) used the expression “abstract superordinate categories” to refer to metaphorical classes. Drawing on this proposal and George Lakoff & Mark… read more
Reali, Florencia and Cesar Riaño 2018 Emotion metaphors in Spanish retain aspects of spatial meaningMetaphor and the Social World 8:2, pp. 229–246 | Article
Previous work has shown that the abstract use of the spatial prepositions in and on retains spatial meaning, such as containment and support that includes the control relationship between a located object (the figure) and a reference object (the landmark/ground) (Feist & Gentner, 2003; Talmy,… read more
Over the last two decades, accumulating work in cognitive science and cognitive linguistics has provided evidence that language shapes thought. Conceptual metaphor theory proposes that the conceptual structure of emotions emerges through metaphorization from concrete concepts such as spatial… read more
It is widely assumed that language in some form or other originated by piggybacking on pre-existing learning mechanism not dedicated to language. Using evolutionary connectionist simulations, we explore the implications of such assumptions by determining the effect of constraints derived from an… read more