Jurga Cibulskienė
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jurga Cibulskienė is involved.
2027 Chapter 7. Expressing attitudes through irony in public discourse Thinking Politically: Cognitive linguistic insights into political discourse, Vogiatzis, Anastasios (ed.), pp. 142–172 | Chapter
The paper examines targets, markers, and evaluative function of irony in media texts focusing on the Belarusian crisis in 2021 instigated by an incident of a forced landing of a plane travelling from Athens to Vilnius in Minsk. The data has been collected from the news portals of the USA,… read more
2026 Metaphorical framing of political events through ENTERTAINMENT scenarios: A cross-cultural perspective Review of Cognitive Linguistics 24:1, pp. 286–317 | Article
The article sets out to examine the entertainment source domain and its scenarios as realised in the media discourse surrounding political events in Belarus in 2021. Metaphorical scenarios are investigated considering different viewpoints, such as those presented in Lithuanian, German, and… read more
2023 Scepticism voiced through extended metaphors: Assessment of higher education reform in the media Metaphor and the Social World 13:2, pp. 197–220 | Article
When metaphors appear in a text in clusters within the same source domain, they are usually referred to as an extended metaphor (Gibbs, 2015; Naciscione, 2016; Semino, 2008; Shutova, 2015; Thibodeau, 2016; Werth, 1994). This creates a coherent narrative or a scenario (Musolff, 2016) encoding the… read more
2019 Communicating attitudes through metaphor: A case study of euro adoption Cognitive Linguistic Studies 6:1, pp. 130–157 | Article
Metaphor analysis in real-world discourse is increasingly becoming the focus of many cognitive studies. Accordingly, this paper seeks to investigate how euro adoption in Lithuania in 2015 was metaphorically communicated by the media. The study is carried out within the framework of Critical… read more
2019 Chapter 8. Linguistic metaphor identification in Lithuanian Metaphor Identification in Multiple Languages: MIPVU around the world, Nacey, Susan, Aletta G. Dorst, Tina Krennmayr and W. Gudrun Reijnierse (eds.), pp. 159–181 | Chapter
2018 The processes of animation and de-animation in conceptualizing socio-political events From Culture to Language and Back: The Animacy Hierarchy in language and discourse, Gardelle, Laure and Sandrine Sorlin (eds.), pp. 302–322 | Article
The philosophical idea of anthropocentrism viewing human beings as the most significant entities has been put forward in various metaphor studies within cognitive linguistics. As Talmy (2002) claims, people choose to animate a very large part of their reality and this happens due to embodiment,… read more
2012 The development of the journey metaphor in political discourse: Time-specific changes Metaphor and the Social World 2:2, pp. 131–153 | Article
The present paper focuses on the variation and dynamics of cross-cultural conceptual metaphor national DEVELOPMENT is a journey in Lithuanian political discourse. The paper aims to answer the question: To what extent do we share the same or different understanding of politics as a journey?… read more