Daler Zayniev
List of John Benjamins publications for which Daler Zayniev plays a role.
Articles
2024 Chapter 2. Metonymic layers in proverbs: A cross-linguistic and cross-cultural view Proverbs within Cognitive Linguistics: State of the art, Belkhir, Sadia (ed.), pp. 40–64 | Chapter
Metonymy can be manifest at several levels in proverbs. In this chapter, we identify five such metonymic layers. We first examine whole proverbs as instances of the specific-for-generic metonymy. Secondly, proverbs can be seen as indirect speech acts in which an element of a speech act scenario… read more
2023 Paths of linguistic synesthesia across cultures: A lexical analysis of conventionalized cross‑sensory meaning extensions in Europe and Central Asia Perception, Culture and Language, Baranyiné Kóczy, Judit and Rita Brdar-Szabó (eds.), pp. 450–479 | Article
The article focuses on the conventionalized cross-sensory uses of basic-level adjectives in a sample of eight languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Hungarian, Tajik, and Uzbek. After a differentiation of cross-sensory language use (also called linguistic synesthesia) from other… read more