Johan Blomberg

List of John Benjamins publications for which Johan Blomberg plays a role.

Title

Perspectives on Pantomime

Edited by Przemysław Żywiczyński, Johan Blomberg and Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska

[Advances in Interaction Studies, 12] 2024. v, 244 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Evolution of language | Interaction Studies
Żywiczyński, Przemysław, Johan Blomberg and Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska 2024 Introduction. Perspectives on pantomime: Evolution, development, interactionPerspectives on Pantomime, Żywiczyński, Przemysław, Johan Blomberg and Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska (eds.), pp. 1–15 | Chapter
Zlatev, Jordan and Johan Blomberg 2019 Norms of language: What kinds and where from? Insights from phenomenologyNormativity in Language and Linguistics, Mäkilähde, Aleksi, Ville Leppänen and Esa Itkonen (eds.), pp. 69–102 | Chapter
After decades dominated by a focus on the “individual speaker” and the “mind/brain” in both generative and cognitive linguistics, recent years have reinstated an older view on language as primarily social, i.e. as taking place between people more than within them. Within such a social conception of… read more
The present study investigates the use of gestures by 18-, 24- and 30-month-old Swedish children, as well as their practical actions in coordination with verbs. Previous research on connections between children’s verbs and gestures has mainly focused only on iconic gestures and action verbs. We… read more
Blomberg, Johan 2017 Chapter 7. Non-actual motion in language and experienceMotion and Space across Languages: Theory and applications, Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Iraide (ed.), pp. 205–228 | Chapter
Dynamic descriptions of static situations, e.g. The road goes through the forest, have attracted a lot of attention in semantics. In cognitive linguistics, terms such as “fictive motion” and “subjective motion” are often used to describe such sentences. While these terms are taken to be largely… read more
Zlatev, Jordan, Johan Blomberg and Ulf Magnusson 2012 Metaphor and subjective experience: A study of motion-emotion metaphors in English, Swedish, Bulgarian, and ThaiMoving Ourselves, Moving Others: Motion and emotion in intersubjectivity, consciousness and language, Foolen, Ad, Ulrike M. Lüdtke, Timothy P. Racine and Jordan Zlatev (eds.), pp. 423–450 | Article
The concepts (or “domains”) of motion and emotion are closely related in both language and experience. This is shown by the presence of many metaphorical expressions (e.g. ‘my heart dropped’) across languages denoting affective processes on the basis of expressions originally denoting physical… read more