Charles Denroche
List of John Benjamins publications in which Charles Denroche is involved.
2023 Translating figurative language Cognitive Linguistic Studies 10:1, pp. 173–198 | Article
This article brings together the extensive literature on figurative language and translation into a single framework to serve translators in a directly practical way in their practice/training. It encourages a view of figurativeness as the norm rather than the exception and figurative language… read more
2021 The Three Grammars and the sign Review of Cognitive Linguistics 19:1, pp. 206–231 | Article
This article presents an original three-component model of the linguistic sign. It shares with the established triadic models of Peirce (1955 [1897]) and Ogden and Richards (1923/1949) in identifying thought, word and thing as essential components; but differs in being linear, with thought and… read more
2019 Employing cognitive metonymy theory in the analysis of semantic relations between source and target text in translation Metaphor and the Social World 9:2, pp. 177–198 | Article
This article offers a model of translation which frames semantic relations between source- and target-text elements in terms of metonymy, and translation in terms of metonymic processing. Translators/interpreters constantly use approximations rather than exact one-to-one correspondences in their… read more
2018 Text metaphtonymy: The interplay of metonymy and metaphor in discourse Metaphor and the Social World 8:1, pp. 1–24 | Article
This article starts by looking at the various ways metonymic and metaphoric thinking, as independent phenomena, organize text at discourse level. The literature on metaphor in discourse is classified under three broad categories, ‘metaphor clusters’, ‘metaphor chains’ and ‘extended metaphor’,… read more