Melike Baş
List of John Benjamins publications for which Melike Baş plays a role.
Articles
A comparative critical metaphor analysis on the concept of democracy in Turkish and American English Review of Cognitive Linguistics 18:2, pp. 535–566 | Article
2020 This corpus-based study concentrates on the metaphorical conceptualizations of the concept of ‘democracy’ in Turkish and American English to find out how this socio-political term is conceptually represented in the minds of Turkish and American speakers. The database consists of 4000 concordance… read more
The metonymic folk model of language in Turkish Body Part Terms in Conceptualization and Language Usage, Kraska-Szlenk, Iwona (ed.), pp. 195–214 | Chapter
2020 Situated within the framework of linguistic embodiment, this chapter examines the speech-related terms ‘voice’, ‘mouth’, ‘tongue’, ‘lips’ and ‘chin’ in Turkish to reveal how speech and language are conceptualized in regards to these terms based on the metonymic chain model (Radden, 2001). The data… read more
Figurative uses of the head-denoting words baş and kafa in Turkish idioms Pragmatics & Cognition 24:2, pp. 138–163 | Article
2017 This study analyzes the metaphoric and metonymic nature of baş/kafa ‘head’ in Turkish idiomatic expressions from a cognitive linguistic perspective. The database for the study is composed of idioms containing the two head-denoting words baş and kafa. Idioms and their definitions are analyzed in… read more