Maria Theodoropoulou
List of John Benjamins publications for which Maria Theodoropoulou plays a role.
Articles
2024 Chapter 7. Emotion in Greek proverbs: The case of (romantic) love Proverbs within Cognitive Linguistics: State of the art, Belkhir, Sadia (ed.), pp. 174–201 | Chapter
This is a study ‘inside the proverb’. It draws its data from proverb collections and examines Greek proverbs both on romantic love and on love, both figurative and nonfigurative. The study aims at comparing the conceptualisation of these emotions in proverbs with the one in conventionalised… read more
2012 Metaphor-metonymies of joy and happiness in Greek: Towards an interdisciplinary perspective Review of Cognitive Linguistics 10:1, pp. 156–183 | Article
In this paper I examine the idiomatic metonymic expressions denoting joy and happiness in Greek, focusing on their experiential grounding. I first argue for an interdisciplinary approach to the relationship between body, emotion and language, which allows for a holistic perspective to the meaning… read more