Peter Richardson
List of John Benjamins publications for which Peter Richardson plays a role.
2024 A mental spaces analysis of religious identity discourse Bringing Figurative Language into Real L2 Classrooms: The challenges of empirical testing, Piquer-Píriz, Ana M. and Reyes Llopis-García (eds.), pp. 541–563 | Article
Religious identity is often viewed as a relatively stable construct, reflecting an individual’s personal worldview. However, individuals living within modern multi-cultural societies often must engage in extensive reflection to orient themselves to faith traditions in ways that are coherent and… read more
2022 Talking about oneself: Effects of personalized prompts on L2 learners’ speech Journal of Second Language Studies 5:2, pp. 344–363 | Article
Second language instructors often have students talk about their own experiences rather than abstract impersonal topics. Intuitively, such topics seem more likely to encourage student engagement. Unfortunately, virtually no empirical research has examined the effects of personal prompts on… read more
2022 Contested paths: Analyzing unfolding metaphor usage in a debate between Dawkins and Lennox Metaphor and the Social World 12:1, pp. 138–158 | Article
Recent studies of metaphor usage (e.g., Cameron, 2011; Semino et al., 2013) have shifted focus from relatively static mappings between source and target domains towards an emphasis on how metaphors are appropriated and recontextualized across different genres to convey new meanings and serve new… read more
2022 Divine and human agency in figurative language from John’s Gospel and Jodo‑Shinshu Buddhism Cognitive Linguistic Studies 9:2, pp. 243–265 | Article
This paper seeks to extend the focus of previous analyses of agency and metaphor in Christianity and Buddhism (Charteris-Black 2017; Chilton 2004; Richardson 2012; Richardson & Nagashima 2018) by comparing the results of a previous cognitive linguistic analysis of John 14:6 (Kövecses 2011) with… read more
2018 Perceptions of danger and co-occurring metaphors in Buddhist dhamma talks and Christian sermons Transcategoriality: A crosslinguistic perspective, Hancil, Sylvie, Danh Thành Do-Hurinville and Huy Linh Dao (eds.), pp. 133–154 | Article
This article focuses on an analysis of the perception of danger in a sample of conservative Evangelical Christian sermons and Thai Forest Tradition dhamma talks. Through the analysis of keywords, frames, conceptual metaphors, and patterns of agency in the use of metaphor, it seeks to explore how… read more
2017 Pihlaja, S. (2014). Antagonism on YouTube: Metaphor in Online Discourse Metaphor in Religion and Spirituality, Pihlaja, Stephen (ed.), pp. 152–157 | Review
2017 An investigation of the blocking and development of empathy in discussions between Muslim and Christian believers Metaphor in Religion and Spirituality, Pihlaja, Stephen (ed.), pp. 47–65 | Article
This article investigates examples of the blocking or development of empathy in videoed discussions between three pairs of conservative Muslim and Christian believers. The analysis focusses on the use of figurative language in the discussions with the aim of identifying examples of metaphor… read more
2012 A closer walk: A study of the interaction between metaphors related to movement and proximity and presuppositions about the reality of belief in Christian and Muslim testimonials Metaphor and the Social World 2:2, pp. 233–261 | Article
Committed, conservative Christians and Muslims are often characterised by a perceived sense of the absolute certainty of their beliefs. This certainty and the seemingly rigid nature of what they believe (including notions such as judgement and eternal punishment) often bring them into a degree of… read more