Manuela Romano
List of John Benjamins publications for which Manuela Romano plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 1877-9751 | E-ISSN 1877-976X
Title
Exploring Discourse Strategies in Social and Cognitive Interaction: Multimodal and cross-linguistic perspectives
Edited by Manuela Romano and M. Dolores Porto
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 262] 2016. vi, 299 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
2024 Conceptualizing the Covid-19 pandemic through similes Cognitive Approaches to Mind, Language, and Society: Theory and description, Serrano-Losada, Mario and Daniela Pettersson-Traba (eds.), pp. 99–129 | Article
The new and shocking situation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic stimulated the analysis of its impact in discourse. Discourse analysts have concentrated on the use of metaphor to create specific conceptualizations of the disease aimed at communicating the events and developments while influencing… read more
2017 Are similes and metaphors interchangeable? A case study in opinion discourse Review of Cognitive Linguistics 15:1, pp. 1–33 | Article
Since Aristotle, scholars have regarded similes and metaphors as equivalent figures of speech sharing very similar comprehension, interpretation and usage patterns. By analysing the use of similes in real discourse, the aim of this study is to show that these two analogical figures reflect… read more
2016 Discourse, cognition and society Exploring Discourse Strategies in Social and Cognitive Interaction: Multimodal and cross-linguistic perspectives, Romano, Manuela and M. Dolores Porto (eds.), pp. 1–17 | Article
2014 Evaluation in emotion narratives Evaluation in Context, Thompson, Geoff † and Laura Alba-Juez (eds.), pp. 367–386 | Article
Narratives are cognitive means of organizing and constructing our experience in a particular way. In emotion narratives, narrators do more than report propositional information; they need to attract the listener’s empathy and understanding. By applying sociocognitive and functional models of… read more
2013 Situated-‘instant’ metaphors: Creativity in Spanish 15M slogans Metaphorical creativity across modes, Hidalgo-Downing, Laura and Blanca Kraljevic Mujic (eds.), pp. 240–259 | Article
This paper studies the metaphorical expressions created as slogans by the Spanish protesters who gathered spontaneously in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol Square on May 15th 2011 to demand economic equality and democracy. The metaphors analysed are situated and context-induced, as well as ‘instant’, as… read more
2013 Discourse markers, structure, and emotionality in oral narratives Narrative Inquiry 23:2, pp. 344–370 | Article
This paper presents a comparative analysis structure and frequency of discourse markers in two kinds of oral narratives: objective, emotionally neutral ones on the one side, and highly emotional, spontaneous ones on the other. The results prove that emotionality plays a crucial role in the… read more