Marlene Johansson Falck
List of John Benjamins publications for which Marlene Johansson Falck plays a role.
Articles
2019 Chapter 7. Linguistic metaphor identification in Scandinavian Metaphor Identification in Multiple Languages: MIPVU around the world, Nacey, Susan, Aletta G. Dorst, Tina Krennmayr and W. Gudrun Reijnierse (eds.), pp. 137–158 | Chapter
2017 Chapter 2. Embodied motivations for abstract in and on constructions Constructing Families of Constructions: Analytical perspectives and theoretical challenges, Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José, Alba Luzondo Oyón and Paula Pérez Sobrino (eds.), pp. 53–76 | Chapter
This chapter investigates the relationship between abstract in and on constructions (i.e. grammatical form and meaning pairings (Langacker 1987: 409; Goldberg 2006: 3) and body-world knowledge. Abstract in and on instances retrieved from the British National Corpus (BNC) are analyzed to identify… read more
2016 What trajectors reveal about TIME metaphors: Analysis of English and Swedish International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 21:1, pp. 28–47 | Article
This paper is an analysis of trajectors (i.e. located entities) in language about fixed durations of TIME. More specifically, trajectors in instances including the English prepositions in or on, or their Swedish equivalents i or på, are analyzed. On the structure of the inverse Moving… read more
2014 Temporal prepositions explained: Cross-linguistic analysis of English and Swedish unit of time landmarks Cognitive Linguistic Studies 1:2, pp. 271–288 | Article
To what extent can factors such as the size of a unit of time landmark and zoomed in effects explain the patterns of temporal prepositions in English (Lindstromberg, 1998/2010)? How important are these factors cross-linguistically? This paper is a corpus linguistic analysis of unit of time… read more
2012 Chapter 5. Metaphor variation across L1 and L2 speakers of English: Do differences at the level of linguistic metaphor matter? Metaphor in Use: Context, culture, and communication, MacArthur, Fiona, José Luis Oncins-Martínez, Manuel Sánchez-García and Ana M. Piquer-Píriz (eds.), pp. 109–134 | Chapter
English and Swedish, which are both Germanic languages spoken in similar cultures in the Western World, display many similarities with regard to the conceptual metaphors reflected in them. However, the way that the same conceptual metaphor is linguistically instantiated in both languages may be… read more
2012 15. From perception of spatial artefacts to metaphorical meaning Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Language, culture, and cognition, Filipović, Luna and Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt (eds.), pp. 329–349 | Article
This chapter compares spatial constructs in mental imagery to spatial constructs in non-metaphorical and metaphorical language. The study is based on a psycholinguistic survey of people’s mental imagery for paths and roads, and a previous corpus-linguistic investigation of path- and road-instances… read more
2010 Are metaphorical paths and roads ever paved? Corpus analysis of real and imagined journeys Review of Cognitive Linguistics 8:1, pp. 93–122 | Article
This paper provides a corpus linguistic analysis of verbs included in English path-, road- and way-sentences. My claim is that many of the differences between metaphorical and non-metaphorical patterns including these terms are related to a qualitative difference between real and imagined journeys. read more