Esme Winter-Froemel
List of John Benjamins publications for which Esme Winter-Froemel plays a role.
2024 Go home (6 Jan 2021): On dog whistles, multiple addressee groups and ambiguity in language use La Référence Floue, Gardelle, Laure and Frédéric Landragin (eds.), pp. 290–323 | Article
The imperative go home represents a prominent part of a video message sent to the armed assaulters on Capitol Hill by the then-President of the United States on 6 January 2021 via Twitter. The paper aims to investigate to what extent this expression can be read as an ambiguous dog-whistle, and… read more
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