Annalisa Baicchi

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List of John Benjamins publications for which Annalisa Baicchi plays a role.

Journals

Review of Cognitive Linguistics (RCL)

Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

ISSN 1877-9751 | E-ISSN 1877-976X

Online Resource

Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy (eMetBib)

Edited by Antonio Barcelona and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

E-ISSN 1877-9638

Titles

Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language

Edited by Annalisa Baicchi

[Figurative Thought and Language, 9] 2020. vii, 311 pp.

Subjects Cognition and language | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Revisiting Shakespeare's Language

Edited by Annalisa Baicchi, Roberta Facchinetti, Silvia Cacchiani and Antonio Bertacca

Special issue of English Text Construction 11:1 (2018) v, 168 pp.

Subjects Applied linguistics | English linguistics | English literature & literary studies | Theoretical literature & literary studies

Articles (14) | Order by:

Baicchi, Annalisa 2022 Kinaesthetic embodied schemas in emotion language: A contrastive comparison between manner-framed and path-framed languages Figurativity and Human Ecology, Bagasheva, Alexandra, Bozhil Hristov and Nelly Tincheva (eds.), pp. 151–180 | Chapter

This chapter explores how culture and cognition intertwine in the conceptualisation of emotive meaning through the analysis of emotive factive constructions (e.g. afraid of spiders; furious at the angry words; delighted over his behaviour). It aims to identify the embodied schemas that motivate… read more

Baicchi, Annalisa 2020 Figurativeness all the way down: By way of introduction Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language, Baicchi, Annalisa (ed.), pp. 1–10 | Chapter

Baicchi, Annalisa and Paolo Della Putta 2019 Constructions at work in foreign language learners’ mind: A comparison between two sentence-sorting experiments with English and Italian learners Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication, Lu, Wei-lun, Naděžda Kudrnáčová and Laura A. Janda (eds.), pp. 219–242 | Article

This article reports empirical evidence of constructional priming effects in L2 learners of English and Italian. The well-known pioneering experiment carried out by Bencini and Goldberg (2000) with L1 speakers of English paved the way for our investigation. We employed the same protocol to… read more

Baicchi, Annalisa and Aneider Iza Erviti 2018 Genre as cognitive construction: An analysis of discourse connectors in academic lectures Cognitive Perspectives on Genre, Vergaro, Carla (ed.), pp. 576–601 | Article

The present article investigates a set of discourse connectors in the academic lecture genre from the viewpoint of the inseparable pair of pragmatics and cognition. Making use of the MICASE corpus for data retrieval, a selection of discourse constructions encoding comparative contrastive… read more

Baicchi, Annalisa, Roberta Facchinetti, Silvia Cacchiani and Antonio Bertacca 2018 Shakespeare’s language revisited in the 21st century: An introduction Revisiting Shakespeare's Language, Baicchi, Annalisa, Roberta Facchinetti, Silvia Cacchiani and Antonio Bertacca (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Introduction

Baicchi, Annalisa 2017 Emotions travelling across cultures: Embodied grounding of English vis-à-vis Italian prepositional phrases Emotions across Languages and Cultures, Athanasiadou, Angeliki and Ad Foolen (eds.), pp. 24–46 | Article

This article examines the ‘Adj em +PP’ construction in the English-Italian language pair (e.g., angry at my audacity/arrabbiato per la mia audacia) with the aim of identifying the kinaesthetic embodied schemas that motivate the language of emotions. The analysis of corpus data highlights the… read more

Baicchi, Annalisa 2017 Chapter 3. How to do things with metonymy in discourse Studies in Figurative Thought and Language, Athanasiadou, Angeliki (ed.), pp. 75–104 | Chapter

This chapter addresses the role of figurative thought at the level of discourse and investigates the metonymic grounding of interpersonal communication. With the focus placed upon illocutionary constructions realized through the interrogative sentence type, it aims to delineate the… read more

Baicchi, Annalisa 2015 Conceptual metaphor in the complex dynamics of illocutionary meaning Review of Cognitive Linguistics 13:1, pp. 106–139 | Article

This article aims to illustrate the role that conceptual metaphor plays in the complex dynamics of interpersonal communication, with the focus being placed upon the synergistic relationship that metaphor holds with other Idealized Cognitive Models (Lakoff, 1987) in the construction of illocutionary… read more

Baicchi, Annalisa 2015 Review of Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez & Galera Masegosa (2014): Cognitive modeling: A linguistic perspective Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 28:1, pp. 341–347 | Review

Baicchi, Annalisa 2011 Metaphoric motivation in grammatical structure: The caused-motion construction from the perspective of the Lexical-Constructional Model Motivation in Grammar and the Lexicon, Panther, Klaus-Uwe and Günter Radden (eds.), pp. 149–170 | Article

This chapter is concerned with the use of non-motion verbs in the caused-motion construction. Their literal or figurative motional interpretation is claimed to be motivated by high-level conceptual metaphors. Typically, these non-motion verbs are lexically intransitive and coerced into transitive… read more