Kiki Y. Renardel de Lavalette

List of John Benjamins publications for which Kiki Y. Renardel de Lavalette plays a role.

Articles

Renardel de Lavalette, Kiki Y. 2019 E. Semino & Z. Demjén (Eds.) (2017). The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language  Metaphor and the Social World 9:2, pp. 300–305 | Review

Renardel de Lavalette, Kiki Y., Corina Andone and Gerard J. Steen 2019 Figurative analogies and how they are resisted in British Public Bill Committee debates Metaphor and the Social World 9:1, pp. 107–130 | Article

This paper studies metaphor use in British Public Bill Committee debates. It focuses on the way in which legislators frame their arguments in metaphorical terms under the form of figurative analogies. Because these figurative analogies can be misleading by oversimplifying the issue under… read more

Renardel de Lavalette, Kiki Y., Corina Andone and Gerard J. Steen 2019 I did not say that the government should be plundering anybody’s savings: Resistance to metaphors expressing starting points in parliamentary debates Journal of Language and Politics 18:5, pp. 718–738 | Article

This paper examines how politicians employ metaphors to express starting points in British parliamentary debates. Because these metaphors are conceptual tools that may have presuppositions and entailments that are not in line with the ideas and values of all discussion parties, political… read more