Ewelina Prażmo
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ewelina Prażmo is involved.
2022 In dialogue with non-humans or how women are silenced in incels’ discourse Language and Dialogue 12:3, pp. 383–406 | Article
Dialogue plays a most important role in interpersonal relations creating and strengthening social cohesion. Conversely, the lack of dialogue – and more tellingly a deliberate resistance to it – leads to social friction and animosity. In this paper I focus on a strategy used to intentionally… read more
2019 “Leftie snowflakes” and other metaphtonymies in the British political discourse Journal of Language and Politics 18:3, pp. 371–392 | Article
The present paper deals with the use of deliberate metaphors in the political discourse. The potential of dehumanising metaphors to create derogatory descriptions used to disparage one’s political opponents is analysed. Also, metaphorical descriptions prove to be very productive in creating… read more
2017 Deliberately misleading or unintentionally ambiguous? A cognitive linguistic view on defective codes of memory Pragmatics & Cognition 24:3, pp. 346–372 | Article
The present paper focuses on the use of deliberately misleading or unintentionally misinformative phrases related to the so called “Polish concentration camp” issue. This problem has been gaining increasing attention in the Polish media and political sphere. In the article I present the… read more
Semantic classifiers in Polish Sign Language (PJM) and integrated schematic events Sign Language & Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
The aim of this article is to propose a model of classifier predicates in Polish Sign Language (PJM). The model is couched within Cognitive Grammar, a theoretical framework created primarily by Ronald Langacker. We propose that classifiers are best described as expressions of integrated… read more