Portland State University
List of John Benjamins publications for which someone affiliated with Portland State University plays a role.
Title
Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Other African languages | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
2023 Renewing a social action in US primary care: One sequential context when actions formatted as polar questions do not require polar answers
In: Responding to Polar Questions across Languages and Contexts[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 35] pp. 328–349
Keywords conversation analysis | polar interrogative | provider-patient communication | physician question | type conformity | English
2021 The “thinking meme” meme: Person and organism metaphors in Daniel Dennett’s theory of cultural evolution
Keywords meme | metaphor | Dennett | science communication | evolution theory | cultural evolution
2020 Intertextuality in Japanese
advertising: The semiotics of shared
narrative
In: Bonding through context: Language and interactional alignment in Japanese situated
discourse[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 314] pp. 265–281
Keywords Japanese advertising | semiotics | intertextuality | word play
2020 No sympathy for the bully: A metaphor analysis of two speeches on the topic of immigration
Keywords immigration | polarization | autonomy | victimization | dehumanization | Trump | Harris
2020 Understanding the multi-dimensional nature of informational language in health care interactions
Keywords medical discourse | MD analysis | provider-patient interaction
2019 Cattle, progress, and a victimized nation: Exploring metaphors in current and past immigration discourse
Keywords conceptual metaphor theory | metaphorical framing | immigration | United States immigration debate
2019 Register in English for Academic Purposes and English for Specific Purposes
Keywords language teaching and learning | disciplinary variation | workplace and professional communication | engineering writing | genre
2019 Destabilizing Arabic diglossia?: New media and translingual practice
In: Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXI: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Norman, Oklahoma, 2017[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 8] pp. 103–134
Keywords Arabic | diglossia | new media | translingual practice
2019 Reclaiming a unified American narrative: Lexical, grammatical, and story metaphors in a discussion of polarized identities
Keywords metaphor | narrative | American national identity | cultural polarization | Trumpism
2018 Rhetorical confinement, contrasting metaphors, and cultural polarities: “Yes we can” meets “Carnage in the cities”
Keywords metaphor | rhetorical confinement | race | class | Obama | Trump | political polarization | political communication
2017 A note about meta-metaphors: Considering the theoretical implications of terms used to discuss metaphor
Keywords metaphor | meta-metaphor | terminology
2015 A “bright blue ball”, “brushed with clouds” or “parched, scorched, and washed away”?: Barack Obama’s use of contrasting metaphors and stories in framing climate change
Keywords transportation theory | framing | blending | story-metaphors | climate change
2014 Constraints on violating constraints: How languages reconcile the twin dicta of “Be different” and “Be recognizably language”
Keywords prosody | constraints | ideophones | lexicon | African languages | expressiveness
2014 “Now everyone knows I’m a serial killer”: Spontaneous intentionality in conversational metaphor and story-telling
Keywords conversation | intentionality | humor | metaphor | discourse | story-telling.
