Current challenges in metaphor research
Edited by Nina Julich-Warpakowski and Paula Pérez Sobrino
Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 13:1 (2023) vi, 143 pp.
Nina Julich-Warpakowski
List of John Benjamins publications for which Nina Julich-Warpakowski plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies
Motion Metaphors in Music Criticism: An empirical investigation of their conceptual motivation and their metaphoricity
Nina Julich-Warpakowski
[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 10] 2022. xiii, 247 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Corpus linguistics
Articles
2023 Introduction: Current challenges in metaphor research Current challenges in metaphor research, Julich-Warpakowski, Nina and Paula Pérez Sobrino (eds.), pp. 1–15 | Introduction
Metaphor research has witnessed tremendous changes in how metaphor is seen and understood. Traditionally, metaphor has been viewed as a special, creative, and noticeable use of language. Lakoff and Johnson’s Conceptual Metaphor Theory (1980) has marked a cognitive revolution by viewing metaphor… read more
2023 Zooming in on the notion of metaphoricity: Notions, dimensions, and operationalizations Current challenges in metaphor research, Julich-Warpakowski, Nina and Paula Pérez Sobrino (eds.), pp. 16–36 | Article
The present contribution addresses the notion of metaphoricity and discusses different positions in relation to this complex and multi-dimensional phenomenon. Generally, the notion of metaphoricity is used when metaphor is not considered a binary category anymore, or when the status of an… read more
2019 Chapter 9. Why do we understand music as moving? The metaphorical basis of musical motion revisited Perception Metaphors, Speed, Laura J., Carolyn O'Meara, Lila San Roque and Asifa Majid (eds.), pp. 165–184 | Chapter
Although musical structure is commonly perceived as moving, its motivation remains a debated issue. Conceptual Metaphor Theory approaches assume that musical motion is motivated by conceptual metaphors like time is motion and change is motion. The current study aims to investigate whether these… read more