Heidi Verplaetse
List of John Benjamins publications for which Heidi Verplaetse plays a role.
Articles
2019 Chapter 4. Medical terminology in the Western world: Current situation Handbook of Terminology: Volume 2. Terminology in the Arab world, Alsulaiman, Abied and Ahmed Allaithy (eds.), pp. 83–108 | Chapter
This chapter first describes the fundamentals of medical concept formation, the different types of medical concepts and the specific properties of medical terms. We provide an overview of the most important types of terminologies (controlled vocabularies) and databases and recent medical… read more
2010 You want to be careful: Advice as the only emerging modal use of want to/wanna, or shifting frames? Framing: From grammar to application, Sambre, Paul and Maria-Cornelia Wermuth (eds.), pp. 36–53 | Article
The current contribution considers the use of the emerging modal forms want to / wanna for the speech act of advice with reference to two cognitive frameworks, viz. force dynamics and frame semantics. It is held that a volitional semantic core is projected in terms of wanting as a force dynamic… read more