Julia Landmann
List of John Benjamins publications in which Julia Landmann is involved.
2026 Timeless wisdom or shifting meaning? The adaptation of death-related proverbs across cultures International Journal of Language and Culture: Online-First Articles | Article
This study investigates the cross linguistic transmission and semantic development of death related proverbs in English, focusing on expressions with counterparts in Latin, French, German, Chinese, and Japanese. Drawing on Conceptual Metaphor Theory and cognitive semantic approaches, the… read more
2024 Chapter 5. Proverbs of Latin and French origin in the history of English: A socio-cognitive analysis Proverbs within Cognitive Linguistics: State of the art, Belkhir, Sadia (ed.), pp. 112–131 | Chapter
The present study deals with proverbs of Latin and French origin adopted into English throughout its history. Dictionaries such as the Oxford English Dictionary Online (OED Online) serve as valuable sources to identify the different lexical units. The treatment of proverbs in lexicographical… read more
2024 Investigating the dynamics of the lexicon: A socio-historical perspective of the borrowing of Yiddish words into English Keys to the History of English: Diachronic linguistic change, morpho-syntax and lexicography, Porck, Thijs, Moragh S. Gordon and Luisella Caon (eds.), pp. 212–232 | Chapter
This chapter focuses on the lexical influence of Yiddish on English throughout its history. The findings rely on an analysis of the linguistic evidence in electronic dictionaries and corpora. Specific value will be accorded to the use of Yiddish borrowings in informal language. Yiddish has… read more
2020 Eighteenth-century French cuisine terms and their semantic integration in English Late Modern English: Novel encounters, Kytö, Merja and Erik Smitterberg (eds.), pp. 219–241 | Chapter
A great variety of French culinary vocabulary has been taken over into English down the ages (e.g., Chirol 1973). During the eighteenth century, too, French served English as an important donor of lexical items which reveal the finesse of French cookery. The present analysis sets out to shed… read more