Sarah Turner

List of John Benjamins publications for which Sarah Turner plays a role.

Articles

Turner, Sarah and Jeannette Littlemore 2023 Literal or metaphorical? Conventional or creative? Contested metaphoricity in intense emotional experiencesCurrent challenges in metaphor research, Julich-Warpakowski, Nina and Paula Pérez Sobrino (eds.), pp. 37–58 | Article
Metaphor has long been considered a ‘way in’ to people’s experiences, with metaphor analysis being used to gain insights into a range of psychological and physiological phenomena. However, a number of challenges arise when analysing metaphor in such contexts. We reflect on the challenges we have… read more
Littlemore, Jeannette and Sarah Turner 2020 Metaphors in communication about pregnancy lossMetaphor and the Social World 10:1, pp. 45–75 | Article
Pregnancy loss, encompassing miscarriage, stillbirth and termination for foetal abnormality, can be considered a particularly intense and unique form of bereavement, which engenders difficult or painful emotions. When people are talking about such emotions, they have been found to make extensive… read more
Turner, Sarah, Jeannette Littlemore, Danielle Fuller, Karolina Kuberska and Sheelagh McGuinness 2020  The production of time-related metaphors by people who have experienced pregnancy lossProducing Figurative Expression: Theoretical, experimental and practical perspectives, Barnden, John and Andrew Gargett (eds.), pp. 389–418 | Chapter
In this chapter we focus on the ways in which people who have experienced pregnancy loss use metaphor to describe the experience, with a particular focus on time-related metaphor. The data come from an ESRC-funded study that investigates the ways in which people who have experienced bereavement… read more
The article aims to provide a critical review of 23 studies that have used metaphor analysis to provide insight into academic literacy research over the past 30 years. It begins by summarising some of the key issues and trends that have been addressed using metaphor analysis, grouping these into… read more
This article presents a pragmatic analysis of constituent order in clauses containing intransitive verbs of motion and position drawn from a range of early East Slavic sources. The influence of context on constituent order accounts only partially for the diversity of syntactic patterns attested,… read more