Jenny Lederer
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jenny Lederer plays a role.
Articles
2019 Gesturing the source domain: The role of co-speech gesture in the metaphorical models of gender transition Metaphor and the Social World 9:1, pp. 32–58 | Article
Gesture is aptly described as a “backdoor” to cognition (Sweetser, 2007, p. 203). Co-speech gesture has been shown to aid in the representation of abstract concepts (Parrill & Sweetser, 2004) and, specifically, encode metaphorical source domains (Cienki, 1998). This paper examines how co-speech… read more
2016 Finding source domain triggers: How corpus methodologies aid in the analysis of conceptual metaphor International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 21:4, pp. 527–558 | Article
Much recent research on figurative language and conceptual metaphor theory derives from corpus examination, and analysts are increasingly focused on the development of quantificational tools to reveal co-occurrence patterns indicative of source and target domain associations. Some mappings between… read more
2009 Anaphoric distribution in the prepositional phrase: Similarities between Norwegian and English Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax, Alexiadou, Artemis, Jorge Hankamer, Thomas McFadden, Justin Nuger and Florian Schäfer (eds.), pp. 307–324 | Article
The distribution of anaphoric pronouns in prepositional phrases has garnered much attention in the literature on antecedent binding since, contrary to fundamental binding principles, this syntactic environment appears to allow either reflexive or coreferential nonreflexive pronouns (c.f. Safir… read more