Inés Olza
List of John Benjamins publications for which Inés Olza plays a role.
2021 The #ReframeCovid initiative: From Twitter to society via metaphor Metaphor and the Social World 11:1, pp. 98–120 | Article
From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments, health agencies, public institutions and the media around the world have made use of metaphors to talk about the virus, its effects and the measures needed to reduce its spread. Dominant among these metaphors have been war metaphors (e.g.… read more
2020 Phraseology in teenage language in Spanish, English and Norwegian: Notes on a number of fixed expressions that articulate disagreement Languages in Contrast 20:1, pp. 58–83 | Article
A set of phraseological units that convey disagreement in Spanish, English and Norwegian teenage language are observed from three perspectives in this paper: the phraseological, the pragmatic-discursive and the contrastive perspective. The underlying assumption of the analysis is that the… read more
2020 Gesturing in the wild: Evidence for a flexible mental timeline Review of Cognitive Linguistics 18:2, pp. 289–315 | Article
Psycholinguistic evidence shows that spatial domains are automatically activated when processing temporal expressions. Speakers conceptualize time as a straight line deployed along different axes (mostly sagittal, though also vertical). The use of the lateral axis, which cannot be lexicalized in… read more
2017 Chapter 2. Metalinguistic negation and explicit echo, with reference to English and Spanish The Pragmatics of Negation: Negative meanings, uses and discursive functions, Roitman, Malin (ed.), pp. 45–62 | Chapter