Benedikt Perak
List of John Benjamins publications for which Benedikt Perak plays a role.
2020 Separating (non-)figurative weeds from wheat Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language, Baicchi, Annalisa (ed.), pp. 45–70 | Chapter
While approaches developed to recognize figurative expressions in discourse widely differ with respect to their formalization, most of them aim for the identification of the figurativeness as directly as possible. There is, however, another promising starting point – to turn our back to… read more
2019 Chapter 9. Metaphor repositories and cross-linguistic comparison: Ontological eggs and chickens Metaphor and Metonymy in the Digital Age: Theory and methods for building repositories of figurative language, Bolognesi, Marianna, Mario Brdar and Kristina Š. Despot (eds.), pp. 225–252 | Chapter
This chapter focuses on the relationship between repositories of figurative speech, cross-linguistic research and ontology models. We first demonstrate on two case studies some problems caused by cross-linguistic comparison of some conceptual metaphors and claim that the interaction between… read more
2019 Chapter 5. MetaNet.HR: Croatian metaphor repository Metaphor and Metonymy in the Digital Age: Theory and methods for building repositories of figurative language, Bolognesi, Marianna, Mario Brdar and Kristina Š. Despot (eds.), pp. 123–146 | Chapter
This paper describes the theoretical background, methodology, tasks, results, and challenges of the MetaNet.HR (Croatian Metaphor Repository) project. It combines a theory-driven introspective top-down approach that analyzes the system of conceptual metaphors in the Croatian language (following the… read more
2019 Chapter 9. The role of metonymy and metaphor in the conceptualization of the nation : An emergent ontological analysis of syntactic-semantic constructions Metaphor, Nation and Discourse, Šarić, Ljiljana and Mateusz-Milan Stanojević (eds.), pp. 227–258 | Chapter
This corpus-based study presents an emergent ontological analysis of syntactic-semantic constructions of the concept nation. Using large Croatian corpora, I analysed the ontological congruence of the collocations of the lexeme nacija ‘nation’ in five types of syntactic-semantic constructions. This… read more
2018 Chapter 8. The role of metonymy in the constructionist approach to the conceptualization of emotions Conceptual Metonymy: Methodological, theoretical, and descriptive issues, Blanco-Carrión, Olga, Antonio Barcelona and Rossella Pannain (eds.), pp. 205–236 | Chapter
Based on the corpus analysis of the conceptualization of strah ‘fear’ in Croatian, this chapter demonstrates that the conceptual structure of emotions emerges from syntactic and semantic organization activated by sensory-motor, ontological, spatial, thematic and agentive linguistic constructions.… read more