Penelope Scott
List of John Benjamins publications for which Penelope Scott plays a role.
Articles
2023 Wellness: A cultural linguistic analysis of the conceptualisation of health Cultural Linguistics and Critical Discourse Studies, Reif, Monika and Frank Polzenhagen (eds.), pp. 146–169 | Chapter
This chapter presents a Cultural Linguistic analysis of the conceptualisation of wellness as found in contemporary internet language. It considers how cultural conceptualisations found in the discourses of health, wellness and detoxification intersect with other conceptualisations including for… read more
2023 Conceptualizing health: A corpus-based Cultural Linguistic study International Journal of Language and Culture 10:1, pp. 1–32 | Article
The word ‘health’ is highly polysemous, and many attempts have been made to define its meaning in terms of actual use and to create a workable and even universal concept of health (Balog 1978; Boruchovitch & Mednick 2002). However, though the meaning of ‘health’ has been debated extensively, as… read more
2020 Chapter 10. Mid hefigum byrþenum: A study of the burden metaphor in Old English Language, Culture and Identity – Signs of Life, Silva Sinha, Vera da, Ana Moreno-Núñez and Zhen Tian (eds.), pp. 203–225 | Chapter
Conceptual Metaphor Theory lays a strong emphasis on embodiment; Lakoff and Johnson (1980: 257) for example maintain that “many primary metaphors are universal because everybody has basically the same kinds of bodies and brains”. It might be expected therefore that metaphors grounded in… read more