Mirjana Tonković
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mirjana Tonković plays a role.
Articles
2020 Is a difficult task literally heavy? Weight biases difficulty judgements Metaphor and the Social World 10:1, pp. 100–120 | Article
The conceptualization of abstract concepts is very often metaphorical, meaning that we think and talk about abstract concepts in terms of other, usually more concrete experiences. Recent research suggests that many abstract concepts are linked to bodily sensations. In two experiments, we tested a… read more
2019 Chapter 5. MetaNet.HR: Croatian metaphor repository Metaphor and Metonymy in the Digital Age: Theory and methods for building repositories of figurative language, Bolognesi, Marianna, Mario Brdar and Kristina Š. Despot (eds.), pp. 123–146 | Chapter
This paper describes the theoretical background, methodology, tasks, results, and challenges of the MetaNet.HR (Croatian Metaphor Repository) project. It combines a theory-driven introspective top-down approach that analyzes the system of conceptual metaphors in the Croatian language (following the… read more