Esme Winter-Froemel
List of John Benjamins publications for which Esme Winter-Froemel plays a role.
Articles
2021 Sources of verbal humor in the lexicon: A usage-based perspective on incongruity Figurative Language – Intersubjectivity and Usage, Soares da Silva, Augusto (ed.), pp. 357–386 | Chapter
Lexical items with a ludic potential have not been systematically studied up to now. The aim of this paper is thus to explore sources of humor in the French and Italian lexicon and to investigate to what extent the notion of incongruity can explain the humorous effects and ludic usage of lexical… read more
2012 Chapter 2. Proposing a pragmatic distinction for lexical Anglicisms The Anglicization of European Lexis, Furiassi, Cristiano, Virginia Pulcini and Félix Rodríguez González (eds.), pp. 43–64 | Article
While certain Anglicisms (e.g. Event and Kids in German) typically appear as marked lexical choices, such effects are absent in other Anglicisms (e.g. Film and PC in German). In order to investigate these different pragmatic interpretations, we consider the criterion of whether an Anglicism exists… read more
2008 Towards a comprehensive view of language change: Three recent evolutionary approaches The Paradox of Grammatical Change: Perspectives from Romance, Detges, Ulrich and Richard Waltereit (eds.), pp. 215–250 | Article
This article investigates whether evolutionary accounts can offer new insights into the paradox of language change. Specifically, I will examine three recent influential accounts (Haspelmath 1999, Keller 1994, and Croft 2000). As they contain a broad spectrum of positions on the relations between… read more