Emilia Castaño Castaño
List of John Benjamins publications for which Emilia Castaño Castaño plays a role.
2024 Frame semantics in the lexical database SciE-Lex Terminology 30:2, pp. 190–215 | Article
This paper presents the introduction of frame semantics in SciE-Lex, a lexical database of biomedical English, in order to establish frame-based semantic networks among the lexical units contained in the database and draw attention to the domain-specific meanings and syntactic patterns that they… read more
2018 Metonymies and metaphors of sadness in the Old English vocabulary Cognitive Linguistic Studies 5:2, pp. 282–302 | Article
The aim of this paper is to explore the predominant metonymic and metaphoric conceptualizations of sadness in the Old English period. To this end, the Old English expressions for emotional distress recorded in The Old English Thesaurus and old English dictionaries have been analyzed. Taking as a… read more
2014 Economy is a living organism: Metaphorical expressions in a learner corpus of English Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 27:2, pp. 323–337 | Article
This paper presents results from a qualitative corpus-based study on Spanish EFL learners’ metaphorical production. The analysis of a learner corpus of business English, which included essays written by undergraduates, showed that learners do make use of metaphorical language and that the… read more
2013 The metaphorical basis of discourse structure Biomedical English: A corpus-based approach, Verdaguer, Isabel, Natalia Judith Laso and Danica Salazar (eds.), pp. 165–184 | Article
The present chapter provides an alternative approach to discourse analysis based on the Cognitive Theory of Metaphor (Lakoff & Johnson 1980, 1999; Johnson 1987; Lakoff 1993, inter alia). Unlike other studies on text structure, this paper argues that our metaphorical conceptualization of discourse… read more
2013 Formal and functional variation of lexical bundles in biomedical English Biomedical English: A corpus-based approach, Verdaguer, Isabel, Natalia Judith Laso and Danica Salazar (eds.), pp. 39–54 | Article
This study is an investigation of the morphosyntactic, lexical and functional variation of lexical bundles in scientific writing. In this chapter, we discuss the various methodological issues involved in the analysis of the structural variability and multifunctionality of lexical bundles, and the… read more
2013 SciE-Lex: A lexical database Biomedical English: A corpus-based approach, Verdaguer, Isabel, Natalia Judith Laso and Danica Salazar (eds.), pp. 21–38 | Article
This chapter deals with the main methodological issues underlying the building of the SciE-Lex lexical database and discusses and justifies the information included. SciE-Lex was initially conceived as a response to the lack of reference tools that can help scientists write scientific papers in… read more