Paula Pérez-Sobrino

List of John Benjamins publications for which Paula Pérez-Sobrino plays a role.

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Current challenges in metaphor research

Edited by Nina Julich-Warpakowski and Paula Pérez-Sobrino

Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 13:1 (2023) vi, 146 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies

Constructing Families of Constructions: Analytical perspectives and theoretical challenges

Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Alba Luzondo Oyón and Paula Pérez-Sobrino

[Human Cognitive Processing, 58] 2017. vii, 342 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Subjects Cognitive linguistics | Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Articles

Julich-Warpakowski, Nina and Paula Pérez-Sobrino. 2023. Introduction: Current challenges in metaphor research. Current challenges in metaphor research, Julich-Warpakowski, Nina and Paula Pérez-Sobrino (eds.), pp. 1–15
Metaphor research has witnessed tremendous changes in how metaphor is seen and understood. Traditionally, metaphor has been viewed as a special, creative, and noticeable use of language. Lakoff and Johnson’s Conceptual Metaphor Theory (1980) has marked a cognitive revolution by viewing metaphor as… read more | Introduction
Olza, Inés, Veronika Koller, Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Paula Pérez-Sobrino and Elena Semino. 2021. The #ReframeCovid initiative: From Twitter to society via metaphor. Metaphor and the Social World 11:1, pp. 98–120
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 | Article
Pérez-Sobrino, Paula and Jeannette Littlemore. 2020. Chapter 6. What makes an advert go viral? The role of figurative operations in the success of Internet videos. Performing Metaphoric Creativity across Modes and Contexts, Hidalgo-Downing, Laura and Blanca Kraljevic Mujic (eds.), pp. 119–152
This chapter investigates the potential role played by the creative use of figurative operations, such as metaphor, metonymy, irony, hyperbole, and understatement, in the success of Internet videos. Irony and figurative language based on creative contrasts between contrasting scenarios were found… read more | Chapter
Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José, Alba Luzondo Oyón and Paula Pérez-Sobrino. 2017. Introduction: Investigating the constructicon. Constructing Families of Constructions: Analytical perspectives and theoretical challenges, Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José, Alba Luzondo Oyón and Paula Pérez-Sobrino (eds.), pp. 1–13
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