Ruti Vardi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ruti Vardi plays a role.
Articles
2017 ‘This silence doesn’t find favor in my eyes’: Cultural conceptualization of xen ‘favor’ in Biblical and Israeli Hebrew Emotions across Languages and Cultures, Athanasiadou, Angeliki and Ad Foolen (eds.), pp. 100–120 | Article
Examination of the figurative construction [X find favor in Y’s eyes] ([X ffi Y]) in Biblical and Israeli Hebrew reveals semantic and pragmatic differences in its use. In Biblical Hebrew, the construction reflects an ancient cultural conceptualization (Sharifian 2011) of xen ‘favor’ in which it… read more
2015 ‘I’m dying on you’: Constructions of intensification in Hebrew expression of love/desire/adoration Review of Cognitive Linguistics 13:1, pp. 28–58 | Article
A specific type of intensification in the domain of love/desire/adoration is conveyed in Hebrew through the use of the idiomatic construction [X PRD al Y] [‘X die/crazy/ill/devastated on Y’] which deviates from the basic patterns of the grammar at both the morphosyntactic and the semantic levels.… read more