Rosa Illán Castillo
List of John Benjamins publications in which Rosa Illán Castillo is involved.
2025 The influence of motion features in time conceptualization Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
This paper examines the role of manner-of-motion verbs in shaping subjective temporal perception and emotional resonance. Through four complementary studies, we explore how these verbs influence the conceptualization of time, examining their use in literal and metaphorical (temporal) contexts.… read more
2023 Review of Dobrovol’skij & Piirainen (2022): Figurative Language. Cross-Cultural and Cross-Linguistic Perspectives Current challenges in metaphor research, Julich-Warpakowski, Nina and Paula Pérez-Sobrino (eds.), pp. 132–137 | Review
2022 Chapter 2. Time moves more often in poetry: A comparative corpus study Time Representations in the Perspective of Human Creativity, Piata, Anna, Adriana Gordejuela and Daniel Alcaraz Carrión (eds.), pp. 41–60 | Chapter
It is assumed that humans use spatial concepts to think and speak about time. In this chapter we analyze the spatialization of time in five different literary and non-literary corpora by looking at the frequency with which time units (minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, and centuries)… read more
2022 Chapter 1. A corpus-based look at time metaphors Time Representations in the Perspective of Human Creativity, Piata, Anna, Adriana Gordejuela and Daniel Alcaraz Carrión (eds.), pp. 15–40 | Chapter
Motion-based metaphors of time have been thoroughly discussed in the literature, but some aspects still remain underexplored. The present chapter addresses one of these areas, namely, the lexical richness of the motion verbs found in temporal expressions. We present the findings of a corpus… read more