Barbara Dancygier
List of John Benjamins publications in which Barbara Dancygier is involved.
Book series
ISSN 1387-6724
Journal
English Text Construction
Edited by Lieselotte Brems, Lobke Ghesquière and Brecht de Groote
ISSN 1874-8767 | E‑ISSN 1874‑8775
Titles
Textual Choices in Discourse: A view from cognitive linguistics
Edited by Barbara Dancygier, José Sanders and Lieven Vandelanotte
In recent years, research in cognitive linguistics has expanded its interests to cover a variety of texts – spoken, written, or multimodal. Analytical tools such as conceptual metaphor, frame semantics, mental spaces and grammatical constructions have been productively applied in various discourse… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 40] 2012. v, 198 pp.
Textual choices and discourse genres: Creating meaning through form
Edited by Barbara Dancygier and José Sanders
Special issue of English Text Construction 3:2 (2010) v, 192 pp.
2025 Chapter 10. Standing together by standing apart: Distance, safety, and fictive deixis in COVID-19 storefront communication COVID-19: Metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures, Wen, Xu, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon and Zoltán Kövecses (eds.), pp. 248–271 | Chapter
This paper considers COVID-19 storefront communication in one specific context — the return to business after mandatory store closures. We gathered 214 storefront photographs in July and August 2020 and compared them with pre-COVID standard signs, to understand the major changes storefront… read more
2022 Experiential viewpoint, simile and dynamicity in discourse Dynamism in Metaphor and Beyond, Colston, Herbert L., Teenie Matlock and Gerard J. Steen (eds.), pp. 205–222 | Chapter
The proposal to consider the use of metaphor from the perspective of discourse dynamicity is becoming increasingly popular. In this chapter, I give the idea further support, but I also suggest two additions: a closer look at how dynamicity works in various discourse types and a clearer focus on… read more
2013 Review of Multilingualism in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Delabastita, Dirk and Ton Hoenselaars (eds.), pp. 209–212 | Review
2012 Alternativity in poetry and drama: Textual intersubjectivity and framing Textual Choices in Discourse: A view from cognitive linguistics, Dancygier, Barbara, José Sanders and Lieven Vandelanotte (eds.), pp. 25–44 | Article
This paper considers the use of alternativity and stance in dramatic and poetic discourse. After a brief look at negation as a phenomenon based on alternative mental spaces, I show how negation can be viewed as ‘intersubjective’. The paper then looks at the intersubjective aspects of negation in a… read more
2012 Textual choices in discourse: Emerging views from cognitive linguistics Textual Choices in Discourse: A view from cognitive linguistics, Dancygier, Barbara, José Sanders and Lieven Vandelanotte (eds.), pp. 185–191 | Article
2012 Introductory remarks Textual Choices in Discourse: A view from cognitive linguistics, Dancygier, Barbara, José Sanders and Lieven Vandelanotte (eds.), pp. 1–3 | Article
2011 Modification and constructional blends in the use of proper names Constructions and Frames 3:2, pp. 208–235 | Article
This paper discusses a range of attested examples of NPs in which proper names are preceded by articles, determiners, and adjectives, arguing that such instances do not constitute a change into a common noun category. On the basis of such examples, it is claimed that the meaning of proper names… read more
2010 Alternativity in poetry and drama: Textual intersubjectivity and framing Textual choices and discourse genres: Creating meaning through form, Dancygier, Barbara and José Sanders (eds.), pp. 165–184 | Article
This paper considers the use of alternativity and stance in dramatic and poetic discourse. After a brief look at negation as a phenomenon based on alternative mental spaces, I show how negation can be viewed as ‘intersubjective’. The paper then looks at the intersubjective aspects of negation in a… read more
2010 Introductory remarks Textual choices and discourse genres: Creating meaning through form, Dancygier, Barbara and José Sanders (eds.), pp. 141–143 | Article
2010 Textual choices and discourse genres: What cognitive linguistics reveals about form and meaning Textual choices and discourse genres: Creating meaning through form, Dancygier, Barbara and José Sanders (eds.), pp. 321–327 | Article
2009 Genitives and proper names in constructional blends New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics, Evans, Vyvyan and Stéphanie Pourcel (eds.), pp. 161–181 | Article
2008 The text and the story: Levels of blending in fictional narratives Mental Spaces in Discourse and Interaction, Oakley, Todd and Anders Hougaard (eds.), pp. 51–78 | Article
2000 How Polish Structures Space: Prepositions, Direction Nouns, Case, and Metaphor Constructions in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the Fifth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997, Foolen, Ad and Frederike van der Leek (eds.), pp. 27–46 | Article
1999 Reflexive Markers in Polish: Participants, Metaphors, and Constructions Lexical and Syntactical Constructions and the Construction of Meaning: Proceedings of the bi-annual ICLA meeting in Albuquerque, July 1995, Verspoor, Marjolijn H., Kee Dong Lee and Eve Sweetser (eds.), pp. 311–328 | Article
1991 Conditionals: Sequence of events and sequence of clauses Further Insights into Contrastive Analysis, Fisiak, Jacek (ed.), pp. 357–374 | Article