Javier E. Díaz-Vera
List of John Benjamins publications in which Javier E. Díaz-Vera is involved.
2025 Negotiating converso identities in the inquisition courtroom: Impoliteness and self-politeness in the 1568–1569 trial of Catarina de Orta Journal of Historical Pragmatics 26:1, pp. 100–124 | Article
This paper explores the processes of identity construction and negotiation through face work in a Portuguese Inquisition record, corresponding to the trial for Judaism of Catarina de Orta. Concentrating as much on the inquisitor’s questions as on the answers offered by the defendant, I show here… read more
2022 Soft hearts and hard souls: The multiple textures of Old English feelings and emotions Cognitive Linguistic Studies 9:1, pp. 128–151 | Article
One of the most fundamental claims of the Cognitive Theory of Metaphor is the direction of mapping from concrete to abstract. The pervasiveness of this path of semantic change has been widely accepted among researchers interested in the study of the history and development of emotional… read more
2015 Woven emotions: Visual representations of emotions in medieval English textiles Multimodality and Cognitive Linguistics, Pinar Sanz, María Jesús (ed.), pp. 45–60 | Article
Following Forceville (2005, 2011), in this paper I show that the same conceptual models underlie the expression of Old English emotions in both the language and the visual modes. Kövecses (2000, 2005) and Stefanowitsch (2004, 2006) have shown that verbal expressions and idioms used to describe… read more
2014 From Cognitive Linguistics to Historical Sociolinguistics: The evolution of Old English expressions of shame and guilt Cognitive Linguistic Studies 1:1, pp. 55–83 | Article
This paper focuses on the analysis of the different motifs that shape the linguistic expression of shame and guilt in Old English. Through the fine-grained analysis of the whole set of shame and guilt expressions recorded in a corpus of Old English texts, a network of literal and figurative… read more
2013 Woven emotions: Visual representations of emotions in medieval English textiles Multimodality and Cognitive Linguistics, Pinar Sanz, María Jesús (ed.), pp. 269–284 | Article
Following Forceville (2005, 2011), in this paper I show that the same conceptual models underlie the expression of Old English emotions in both the language and the visual modes. Kövecses (2000, 2005) and Stefanowitsch (2004, 2006) have shown that verbal expressions and idioms used to describe… read more
2012 Review of Idström, Piirainen & Falzett (2012): Endangered Metaphors Metaphor and the Social World 2:2, pp. 263–269 | Review
2004 Image schemata and light: A study in diachronic lexical domains in English New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21–26 August 2002, Kay, Christian, Carole Hough and Irené Wotherspoon (eds.), pp. 65–77 | Article