Figurative Language – Intersubjectivity and Usage
Edited by Augusto Soares da Silva
[Figurative Thought and Language, 11] 2021. xii, 442 pp.
Augusto Soares da Silva
List of John Benjamins publications for which Augusto Soares da Silva plays a role.
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Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Articles
2024 Chapter 9. Constructional changes in Brazilian Portuguese in the 20th century: Two cases of linguistic deletion Language Change in the 20th Century: Exploring micro-diachronic evolutions in Romance languages, Pons Bordería, Salvador and Shima Salameh Jiménez (eds.), pp. 261–289 | Chapter
This chapter analyzes two constructional changes by deletion of linguistic elements in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) in the 20th century, namely, the null clitic se constructions (specifically, reflexive, reciprocal, middle, anticausative, passive, and impersonal constructions) and the chopping… read more
2023 Polarising metaphors in the Venezuelan Presidential Crisis Journal of Language and Politics: Online-First Articles | Article
The 23rd of January 2019 marked the beginning of the Venezuelan Presidential Crisis, a unique socio-political conflict that confronted Nicolás Maduro, president of Venezuela, to the self-proclaimed leader Juan Guaidó. This paper explores the divisive power of conceptual metaphors in this context… read more
2021 Introduction. Figurative language: Intersubjectivity and usage Figurative Language – Intersubjectivity and Usage, Soares da Silva, Augusto (ed.), pp. 1–16 | Introduction
2021 Measuring the impact of (non)figurativity in the cultural conceptualization of emotions in the two main national varieties of Portuguese Figurative Language – Intersubjectivity and Usage, Soares da Silva, Augusto (ed.), pp. 387–438 | Chapter
This chapter investigates the impact of conceptual metaphor on the cultural variation of emotions in European and Brazilian Portuguese (EP/BP). Adopting a usage-based, sociocognitive view of language and applying a corpus-based and profile-based methodology, this study combines a multifactorial… read more
2020 Chapter 2. From economic crisis to austerity policies through conceptual metaphor: A corpus-based comparison of metaphors of crisis and austerity in the Portuguese press The Language of Crisis: Metaphors, frames and discourses, Huang, Mimi and Lise-Lotte Holmgreen (eds.), pp. 51–86 | Chapter
This chapter analyses the role of conceptual metaphors in the conceptualization and ideological exploitation of the global financial crisis and the subsequent austerity policies in the Portuguese press. The analysis relies on a corpus of news and opinion articles published between September 2008… read more
2020 Exploring the cultural conceptualization of emotions across national language varieties: A multifactorial profile-based account of pride in European and Brazilian Portuguese Review of Cognitive Linguistics 18:1, pp. 42–74 | Article
Supporting the hypothesis that emotions are culturally constructed, this article compares the cultural conceptualization of pride in European and Brazilian Portuguese (EP/BP). Individualistic/collectivistic as well as other cultural influences that determine the conceptual variation of pride in… read more
2016 The persuasive (and manipulative) power of metaphor in ‘austerity’ discourse: A corpus-based analysis of embodied and moral metaphors of austerity in the Portuguese press Exploring Discourse Strategies in Social and Cognitive Interaction: Multimodal and cross-linguistic perspectives, Romano, Manuela and Maria Dolores Porto (eds.), pp. 79–108 | Article
This chapter analyses the persuasive power of metaphors used in the Portuguese press to justify the implementation of harsh austerity policies. The analysis relies on a corpus of news and opinion articles published in June-July 2011, after the entry of the Troika, and May 2013, when protests… read more
2011 Review of Olivares & Eusebio (2009): Nuevas Perspectivas en Lingüística Cognitiva / New Perspectives in Cognitive Linguistics. Quaderns de Filologia — Estudis Lingüístics Metaphor and metonymy revisited beyond the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: Recent developments and applications, Gonzálvez-García, Francisco, María Sandra Peña-Cervel and Lorena Pérez-Hernández (eds.), pp. 321–328 | Review
2008 12. The Portugese inflected infinitive and its conceptual basis Asymmetric Events, Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara (ed.), pp. 227–243 | Article
This paper offers a conceptual analysis of the Portuguese inflected (or personal) infinitive. The analysis makes use of a few concepts of Cognitive Grammar. The inflected infinitive is described as an objective construal of the main participant of a process type. This conceptual import is… read more