Olaf Jäkel
List of John Benjamins publications in which Olaf Jäkel is involved.
2023 Conceptualising presidential elections: Competing metaphorical models, and alternative approaches to their critical analysis Cultural Linguistics and Critical Discourse Studies, Reif, Monika and Frank Polzenhagen (eds.), pp. 36–51 | Chapter
This contribution investigates the metaphorical conceptualisation of US-presidential elections. A solid onomasiological metaphor study (cf. Jäkel 2003) brings out alternative and even competing models. One point of this paper is to decide which approach to the analysis of political metaphor is… read more
2014 Denotational boundary disputes in political discourse: ‘Defining the definition of marriage’ Cognitive Perspectives on Political Discourse, Fischer, Pascal and Christoph Schubert (eds.), pp. 336–363 | Article
The cognitive semantic analysis of denotational incongruencies by means of comparative investigations of structural field patterns (cf. Jäkel 2001, 2003, 2010) can also be put to use in the investigation of certain kinds of contested concepts (Lakoff 1993), namely cases in which the field patterns… read more
2003 Motion metaphorized in the economic domain Motivation in Language: Studies in honor of Günter Radden, Cuyckens, Hubert, Thomas Berg, René Dirven † and Klaus-Uwe Panther (eds.), pp. 297–318 | Article
1999 Kant, Blumenberg, Weinrich: Some forgotten contributions to the cognitive theory of metaphor Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997, Gibbs, Jr., Raymond W. and Gerard J. Steen (eds.), pp. 9–28 | Article
1999 Metonymy in Onomastics Metonymy in Language and Thought, Panther, Klaus-Uwe and Günter Radden (eds.), pp. 211–230 | Article