Tomasz Dyrmo
List of John Benjamins publications in which Tomasz Dyrmo is involved.
2025 Secrets in motion: The role of gestures in a multimodal coming out narrative Narrative Inquiry: Online-First Articles | Article
This study explores the multimodal nature of metaphorical thought in coming out narratives, with a focus on the interplay between speech and gestures in the Polish language. Drawing on the metaphors knowing is seeing and secrets are objects, the paper examines how gestures embody and complement… read more
2025 Valence distribution and valence alignment in the metaphor być na świeczniku in the Polish language Metaphor and the Social World 16:1, pp. 47–70 | Article
This study investigates the valence distribution and alignment of the Polish metaphor być na świeczniku (literally ‘to be on a candlestick’), which represents public visibility and attention. While conventionally considered positive, corpus analysis of the Polish Web Corpus 2019 reveals that the… read more
2024 Figurativeness of the Japanese flag: A multilevel analysis of the Japan 2011 earthquake distress relief posters Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
The analysis offered in this article applies the multilevel approach to conceptual metaphor to relief posters, created and distributed widely after the massive Japan 2011 earthquake. The aim of the analysis is to show in what way the multilevel approach to metaphor can be used to illustrate how… read more
2023 Levels of metaphor in gesture Pragmatics & Cognition 30:2, pp. 330–352 | Article
The present contribution integrates a recent, multilevel approach to metaphor advanced by Kövecses (2017 and later publications), with gestures as a mode of metaphorical expression. In doing so, the paper shows how different elements of conceptual structure, varying from the abstract, recurring… read more
2022 Gestural metaphorical scenarios and coming out narratives Metaphor and the Social World 12:1, pp. 23–45 | Article
This article extends the framework of metaphorical scenarios proposed by Musolff (2006, 2016) by adding a gestural component. Coming out videos, serving as the source of data for the present analysis, help to uncover the conceptual mechanisms that shape the understanding and conceptualisation of… read more