Denise Milizia
List of John Benjamins publications for which Denise Milizia plays a role.
2023 “Britain was already cherry-picking from the European tree without bothering to water the soil or tend to its branches”: A metaphorical study of the UK in Europe Journal of Language and Politics 22:6, pp. 802–825 | Article
Starting from the ambivalent discursive constructions of belongings and attachments, this paper is a description of the uneasy and uncomfortable relation between the UK and the ‘continent’. It discusses the historical British insular attitude looking at the metaphorical language used around… read more
2010 Keywords and phrases in political speeches Keyness in Texts, Bondi, Marina and Mike Scott (eds.), pp. 127–146 | Article
This paper analyses n-grams and concgrams in the speeches of Tony Blair and George W. Bush delivered from the beginning of 2005 till June 2007. The focus of the study is first on the single word climate, which is found to figure high in the now former Prime Minister’s keywords, and then on the… read more
2010 The 'terroridiom' principle between spoken and written discourse Patterns, Meaningful Units and Specialized Discourses, Römer-Barron, Ute and Rainer Schulze (eds.), pp. 57–85 | Article
2008 The ‘terroridiom’ principle between spoken and written discourse Patterns, meaningful units and specialized discourses, Römer-Barron, Ute and Rainer Schulze (eds.), pp. 322–350 | Article
This paper focuses on phraseology used within the domain of politics, both in written and spoken discourse. We concentrate on the lemma TERROR and on the recurrent sequences in which it is embedded, reflecting how native speakers, both American and British, tend to use it in preferred environments… read more