Proverbs within Cognitive Linguistics: State of the art
Edited by Sadia Belkhir
[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 16] 2024. xvi, 351 pp.
Sadia Belkhir
List of John Benjamins publications for which Sadia Belkhir plays a role.
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Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
2024 Introduction: Proverbs from a Cognitive Linguistics perspective Proverbs within Cognitive Linguistics: State of the art, Belkhir, Sadia (ed.), pp. 1–24 | Chapter
2022 Metaphoric proverbs in EFL learners’ translation Cognitive Linguistic Studies 9:1, pp. 110–127 | Article
Metaphoric proverbs represent interesting cultural instances of conventional metaphors (Belkhir 2014, 2012). The ubiquity of metaphoric proverbs in language and the problems this phenomenon causes in translation is an issue that requires close attention. Translation aims at providing semantic… read more
2019 Animal-related concepts across languages and cultures from a cognitive linguistic perspective Cognitive Linguistic Studies 6:2, pp. 295–324 | Article
This paper investigates the use of animal-related concepts in the proverbs of English, French, Arabic, and Kabyle. Research in cognitive linguistics has highlighted the important role played by cultural influences in conceptual metaphor variation (Kövecses 2005). Animal-related proverbs… read more
2016 ANGER metaphors in American English and Kabyle: The effect of culture International Journal of Language and Culture 3:2, pp. 216–252 | Article
The position standardly held in cognitive linguistics is that anger is an emotion concept that communicates about human thinking and which is instantiated in language in ways that are often metaphorically, systematically, and conceptually structured. The container metaphor is claimed to be… read more