José Manuel Ureña Gómez-Moreno
List of John Benjamins publications for which José Manuel Ureña Gómez-Moreno plays a role.
2022 Chapter 17. Conceptual metaphors Theoretical Perspectives on Terminology: Explaining terms, concepts and specialized knowledge, Faber, Pamela and Marie-Claude L'Homme (eds.), pp. 377–396 | Chapter
This chapter offers an overview of conceptual metaphor research with particular attention to specialised language. It surveys the growing body of research showing the role of metaphor both as a tool to generate and develop scientific thinking and as a resource for specialised knowledge… read more
2020 Chapter 6. Non-verbal and multimodal metaphors bring biology into the picture How Metaphors Guide, Teach and Popularize Science, Beger, Anke and Thomas H. Smith (eds.), pp. 175–208 | Chapter
The relationship between multimodality and cognitive effects has become an important topic of discussion in Cognitive Linguistics. A growing number of studies explore the multimodal manifestations of figurative thought in a wide range of domains. However, little research has been done on visual and… read more
2016 Refining the understanding of novel metaphor in specialised language discourse Terminology 22:1, pp. 1–29 | Article
Novel metaphorical expressions are understudied in traditional approaches to terminology because they behave as sporadic units incapable of structuring whole discourse events. To show that this assumption is wrong, this paper presents a case study of novel bioeconomics metaphors in an academic… read more
2014 A cognitive sociolinguistic approach to metaphor and denominative variation: A case study of marine biology terms Review of Cognitive Linguistics 12:1, pp. 193–222 | Article
This research applied corpus analysis techniques to a corpus of marine biology texts in Peninsular Spanish (PS) and Latin American Spanish (LAS). The results explain why these varieties of Spanish have different designations for the same sea organism. The focus of our research was thus on types of… read more
2013 Frame blending in specialized language: Harmful algal bloom Terminology 19:2, pp. 175–201 | Article
According to Frame-Based Terminology (Faber et al. 2005, 2006, 2007), a crucial issue in terminology management is how specialized concepts should be represented within the knowledge structure of a scientific domain. This paper proposes a model of specialized concept representation based on… read more
2012 Chapter 11. Conceptual types of terminological metaphors in marine biology: An English-Spanish contrastive analysis from an experientialist perspective Metaphor in Use: Context, culture, and communication, MacArthur, Fiona, José Luis Oncins-Martínez, Manuel Sánchez-García and Ana M. Piquer-Píriz (eds.), pp. 239–260 | Chapter
Metaphor can be analysed from a structural, functional, conceptual, or contrastive point of view. From a conceptual viewpoint, an experientialist account of conceptual metaphor includes: (i) mechanisms of metaphorization, (ii) image metaphors vs. multiple-correspondence metaphors, (iii) motivation… read more
2012 Review of Alexiev (2011): Knowledge-Oriented Terminography Terminology 18:2, pp. 274–281 | Review
2011 Situated metaphor in scientific discourse: An English-Spanish contrastive study Languages in Contrast 11:2, pp. 216–240 | Article
Cognitive linguists have finally agreed that metaphorical thought is the result of neither nature nor nurture, but a combination of both. Despite the acknowledgment of this dual grounding (Sinha, 1999), cross-linguistic studies addressing the significance of cultural factors to form specialised… read more