Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos

List of John Benjamins publications in which Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos is involved.

Journal

Cognitive Linguistic Studies

Edited by Xu Wen and Zoltán Kövecses

ISSN 2213-8722 | E‑ISSN 2213‑8730

Articles (5) | Order by:

Khatin-Zadeh, Omid, Zahra Eskandari, Florencia Reali, Hassan Banaruee and Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos 2023 Are metaphorical classes essentially abstract? Cognitive Linguistic Studies 10:1, pp. 85–98 | Article

This article compares abstract concepts and metaphorical classes in order to emphasize the abstract nature of metaphorical classes. Sam Glucksberg (2003) used the expression “abstract superordinate categories” to refer to metaphorical classes. Drawing on this proposal and George Lakoff & Mark… read more

Gatambuki Gathigia, Moses, Ruiming Wang, Manqiong Shen, Carlos Tirado, Oksana Tsaregorodtseva, Omid Khatin-Zadeh, Ricardo Minervino and Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos 2018 A cross-linguistic study of metaphors of death Cognitive Linguistic Studies 5:2, pp. 359–375 | Article

The avoidance of directly addressing human mortality indicates fear of death. This fear elicits psychological, social and religious interdictions in language such that people resort to the use of metaphors to avoid confronting death. Under the premise that metaphor is a conceptual mapping from a… read more

Marmolejo-Ramos, Fernando, Omid Khatin-Zadeh, Babak Yazdani-Fazlabadi, Carlos Tirado and Eyal Sagi 2017 Embodied concept mapping: Blending structure-mapping and embodiment theories Pragmatics & Cognition 24:2, pp. 164–185 | Article

Metaphors are cognitive and linguistic tools that allow reasoning. They enable the understanding of abstract domains via elements borrowed from concrete ones. The underlying mechanism in metaphorical mapping is the manipulation of concepts. This article proposes another view on what concepts are… read more

Tirado, Carlos and Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos 2017 R. C. Berwick and N. Chomsky: Why Only Us: Language and Evolution Metaphor Variation in Englishes around the World, Callies, Marcus and Alexander Onysko (eds.), pp. 164–169 | Review

Marmolejo-Ramos, Fernando, María Rosa Elosúa de Juan, Pascal Gygax, Carol J. Madden and Santiago Mosquera Roa 2009 Reading between the lines: The activation of background knowledge during text comprehension Pragmatics & Cognition 17:1, pp. 77–107 | Article

This paper presents an overview of the activation of background knowledge during text comprehension. We first review the cognitive processes involved in the activation of inferences during text comprehension, stressing the interaction between text and reader in the construction of situation models. read more