Line Brandt

Line Brandt

List of John Benjamins publications for which Line Brandt plays a role.

Articles

This chapter deals with strategically motivated discourse to show the fundamental role of the conversation frame in language for specific purposes. We focus on imagined speech acts in which advertised products and/or the “problems” they tackle are fictively addressed through non-genuine yes-no… read more | Article
Article
Brandt, Line and Per Aage Brandt. 2005. Making sense of a blend: A cognitive-semiotic approach to metaphor. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 3, Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José (ed.), pp. 216–249
In this paper we propose an analysis of the metaphor “This surgeon is a butcher!” discussed in Grady, Oakley & Coulson (1999), introducing it into a mental space framework derived from conceptual metaphor theory (CMT), blending theory (BT) and cognitive semiotics. The method of analysis is to work… read more | Article