Publications
Chen, Yi-chen and Huei-ling Lai. 2014. The influence of cultural universality and specificity on EFL learners' comprehension of metaphor and metonymy. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 24 (3) : 312–336. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Upchurch, Martin and David Weltman. 2010. The ideal of non-coherence in the World Bank’s social capital reforms. A textual analysis of “gratuitous complexity”. Journal of Language and Politics 9 (1) : 50–73. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Langacker, Ronald W. 2009. A dynamic view of usage and language acquisition. Cognitive Linguistics 20 (3) : 627–640. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Wood, Tahir. 2009. Abstraction and adherence in discourse processes. Journal of Pragmatics 41 (3) : 484–496. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Clark, Anna E. and G.R. Semin. 2008. Receivers' Expectations for Abstract Versus Concrete Construal: Conversational Relevance as a Determinant of Construal Level. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 27 (2) : 155–167. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Jong, Elisabeth M. de and Camiel J. Beukeboom. 2008. When Feelings Speak: How Affective and Proprioceptive Cues Change Language Abstraction. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 27 (2) : 110–122. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Menegatti, Michela and Monica Rubini. 2008. Linguistic Bias in Personnel Selection. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 27 (2) : 168–181. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Mucchi-Faina, Angelica, Harold Sigall and Cristina O. Mosso. 2006. Minority Influence is Facilitated When the Communication Employs Linguistic Abstractness. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations 9 (3) : 443–451. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Alvarez Torres, María José and Susan M. Gass. 2005. ATTENTION WHEN?: An Investigation of the Ordering Effect of Input and Interaction. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 27 (1) : 1–31. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Sorsby, Angela J. and Margaret Martlew. 1991. Representational demands in mothers' talk to preschool children in two contexts: Picture book reading and a modelling task. Journal of Child Language 18 (2) : 373–395. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Garman, Michael. 1990. Psycholinguistics. (Cambridge textbooks in linguistics). Cambridge University Press. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Julià, Pere. 1989. Linguistic theory and international communication. Language Problems and Language Planning 13 (1) : 9–23. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Qvortrup, Lars. 1979. Zum ideologischen und wissenschaftlichen Begriff der Abstraktion. In Mey, Jacob L., ed. Pragmalinguistics, theory and practice. Mouton. pp. 61–102. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)