Mario Brdar
List of John Benjamins publications in which Mario Brdar is involved.
Yearbook
ISSN 1572-0268 | E‑ISSN 1572‑0276
Book series
Human Cognitive Processing
Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use
Edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther and Linda L. Thornburg
ISSN 1387-6724
Journal
Review of Cognitive Linguistics
Published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association
Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
ISSN 1877-9751 | E‑ISSN 1877‑976X
Thinking and Speaking About Time: A cognitive linguistic approach
Edited by Rita Brdar-Szabó and Mario Brdar
The last two decades have seen a series of publications focused on time. So, why another book? It now appears that a kairos moment has arrived to reconsider from a more holistic point of view the manifold ways in which we think about time and talk about it. The book is divided into four major… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 81] 2026. viii, 477 pp.
Figurative Thought and Language in Action
Edited by Mario Brdar and Rita Brdar-Szabó
The contents of the volume prove the vitality of cognitive linguistic studies of figuration when combined with new research methodologies, in tandem with other disciplines, and also when applied to an ever broader range of topics. Individual chapters are concerned not only with some fundamental… read more[Figurative Thought and Language, 16] 2022. vi, 287 pp.
Living Metaphors and Metonymies
Edited by Mario Brdar and Rita Brdar-Szabó
Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 20:1 (2022) vi, 304 pp.
Metaphor and Metonymy in the Digital Age: Theory and methods for building repositories of figurative language
Edited by Marianna Bolognesi, Mario Brdar and Kristina Š. Despot
This book describes methods, risks, and challenges involved in the construction of metaphor and metonymy digital repositories. The first part of this volume showcases established and new projects around the world in which metaphors and metonymies are harvested and classified. The second part… read more[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 8] 2019. x, 263 pp.
Cognitive Linguistics: Convergence and Expansion
Edited by Mario Brdar, Stefan Th. Gries and Milena Žic Fuchs
Cognitive Linguistics is not a unified theory of language but rather a set of flexible and mutually compatible theoretical frameworks. Whether these frameworks can or should stabilize into a unified theory is open to debate. One set of contributions to the volume focuses on evidence that… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 32] 2011. vii, 362 pp.
2026 Metonymies we sign by: Metonymies as a multilevel phenomenon in sign languages Metonymic Thinking All the Way Down: From discourse to the lexicon, and beyond, Portero-Muñoz, Carmen, Antonio Barcelona and Almudena Soto Nieto (eds.), pp. 205–244 | Article
According to Antonio Barcelona (2012), metonymy is more than just a lexical phenomenon. It is a conceptual mechanism (an inferential schema) operating under the lexicon, in the lexicon, and above the lexicon. In light of the fact that “lexical metonymies are often at the same time grammatical… read more
2026 Thinking and speaking about time: Introduction Thinking and Speaking About Time: A cognitive linguistic approach, Brdar-Szabó, Rita and Mario Brdar (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Chapter
2026 Chapter 9. Approaching the end of the time metaphor game: Some constructions with the Moving-Ego metaphors from a cross-linguistic perspective Thinking and Speaking About Time: A cognitive linguistic approach, Brdar-Szabó, Rita and Mario Brdar (eds.), pp. 252–278 | Chapter
This chapter is concerned with some cross-linguistic asymmetries in the use of the two types of time metaphors, the Moving-Time and the Moving-Ego metaphor, in Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Bahasa Indonesia, Javanese and Turkish. The latter type of metaphor appears to be far less natural in these… read more
2025 Chapter 6. Metonymy typologies revisited: Adding cumulativity to the picture What makes a Figure: Rethinking figurativity, Colston, Herbert L. (ed.), pp. 160–193 | Chapter
This chapter is a plea for the addition of new dimensions along which metonymies may be typologized. Taking Dirven’s (2002) literalness-figurativity continuum, with several types of metonymies on it, we argue for a typology of metonymies in terms of their complexity. In sketching this typology,… read more
2024 Chapter 2. Metonymic layers in proverbs: A cross-linguistic and cross-cultural view Proverbs within Cognitive Linguistics: State of the art, Belkhir, Sadia (ed.), pp. 40–64 | Chapter
Metonymy can be manifest at several levels in proverbs. In this chapter, we identify five such metonymic layers. We first examine whole proverbs as instances of the specific-for-generic metonymy. Secondly, proverbs can be seen as indirect speech acts in which an element of a speech act scenario… read more
2023 Cultural models mediating between visual sensation and semiotic systems, exemplified on visual, alpha-pictorial and verbal-gestural communication Perception, Culture and Language, Baranyiné Kóczy, Judit and Rita Brdar-Szabó (eds.), pp. 367–397 | Article
People often see what they want to see (or hear, or taste, etc.), i.e., our mind imperceptibly edits our actual sensations. Culture may function, metaphorically speaking, as a pair of glasses that filters light, because it may be tinted, or have different lenses. In this article we study how… read more
2022 Living metaphors and metonymies Living Metaphors and Metonymies, Brdar, Mario and Rita Brdar-Szabó (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Introduction
2022 Figurative thought and language research in the 21st century: Back to the future Figurative Thought and Language in Action, Brdar, Mario and Rita Brdar-Szabó (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Chapter
2022 Targetting metonymic targets Figurative Thought and Language in Action, Brdar, Mario and Rita Brdar-Szabó (eds.), pp. 59–86 | Chapter
In this chapter we propose to treat metonymy as a cognitive operation of conceptual elaboration based on the part-whole relationship that is triggered by the use of an expression (or metonymic vehicle) associated with a certain conceptual cluster (or metonymic source) within a conceptual domain.… read more
2022 Rosie the Riveter of the COVID time: A case study on figurative intervisuality Living Metaphors and Metonymies, Brdar, Mario and Rita Brdar-Szabó (eds.), pp. 258–289 | Article
Cyclic repetition can be observed in the use of figurative elements in the conceptualization of the coronavirus crisis, involving visual intertextuality or intervisuality. An example is provided by Rosie the Riveter, an iconic image from WW2, which has become extremely popular in recent times.… read more
2022 Metonymy in multimodal discourse, or: How metonymies get piggybacked across modalities by other metonymies and metaphors Figurativity and Human Ecology, Bagasheva, Alexandra, Bozhil Hristov and Nelly Tincheva (eds.), pp. 209–249 | Chapter
One of the most intriguing open issues in metonymy research is the nature of metonymies that transcend or do not appear in spoken/written language. More specifically, we should clarify the issue of whether there exist genuine multimodal (or polysemiotic) metonymies, parallel to multimodal… read more
2021 Metonymic indeterminacy and metalepsis: Getting two (or more) targets for the price of one vehicle Figurative Language – Intersubjectivity and Usage, Soares da Silva, Augusto (ed.), pp. 175–212 | Chapter
Given appropriate context, indeterminacy may arise when a metonymic vehicle, i.e. the source, can be simultaneously linked to more than one metonymic target. We claim that this situation, akin to the phenomenon of metalepsis or transgression in narratology, is not rare, but quite usual, and even… read more
2020 Separating (non-)figurative weeds from wheat Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language, Baicchi, Annalisa (ed.), pp. 45–70 | Chapter
While approaches developed to recognize figurative expressions in discourse widely differ with respect to their formalization, most of them aim for the identification of the figurativeness as directly as possible. There is, however, another promising starting point – to turn our back to… read more
2020 Is a difficult task literally heavy? Weight biases difficulty judgements Metaphor and the Social World 10:1, pp. 100–120 | Article
The conceptualization of abstract concepts is very often metaphorical, meaning that we think and talk about abstract concepts in terms of other, usually more concrete experiences. Recent research suggests that many abstract concepts are linked to bodily sensations. In two experiments, we tested… read more
2019 Chapter 9. Metaphor repositories and cross-linguistic comparison: Ontological eggs and chickens Metaphor and Metonymy in the Digital Age: Theory and methods for building repositories of figurative language, Bolognesi, Marianna, Mario Brdar and Kristina Š. Despot (eds.), pp. 225–252 | Chapter
This chapter focuses on the relationship between repositories of figurative speech, cross-linguistic research and ontology models. We first demonstrate on two case studies some problems caused by cross-linguistic comparison of some conceptual metaphors and claim that the interaction between… read more
2019 Chapter 5. MetaNet.HR: Croatian metaphor repository Metaphor and Metonymy in the Digital Age: Theory and methods for building repositories of figurative language, Bolognesi, Marianna, Mario Brdar and Kristina Š. Despot (eds.), pp. 123–146 | Chapter
This paper describes the theoretical background, methodology, tasks, results, and challenges of the MetaNet.HR (Croatian Metaphor Repository) project. It combines a theory-driven introspective top-down approach that analyzes the system of conceptual metaphors in the Croatian language (following the… read more
2017 Chapter 5. How metonymy and grammar interact: Some effects and constraints in a cross-linguistic perspective Studies in Figurative Thought and Language, Athanasiadou, Angeliki (ed.), pp. 125–149 | Chapter
It is often assumed that the relationship between metonymy and grammar is one-way traffic. By applying a cross-linguistic perspective in studying the relationship between grammar and metonymy to the example of so-called embellished clippings and local genitive constructions… read more
2017 On constructional blocking of metonymies: A cross-linguistic view Review of Cognitive Linguistics 15:1, pp. 183–223 | Article
The interaction between metonymy and grammar is commonly understood, in keeping with the classical cognitive linguistic doctrine about cognitive operations motivating linguistic structures, as unilateral – conceptual metaphor and metonymy shaping the grammatical system. However, we argue in this… read more
2017 Chapter 3. Doing Tsukahara and the Epley in a cross-linguistic perspective Constructing Families of Constructions: Analytical perspectives and theoretical challenges, Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José, Alba Luzondo Oyón and Paula Pérez-Sobrino (eds.), pp. 77–107 | Chapter
This chapter studies eponymous verb constructions (EVCs) in medical and sports discourse in English, German, Croatian and Hungarian. These are constructions consisting of a light verb such as to do and an eponymic noun phrase denoting events. A cross-linguistic comparison reveals that, unlike in… read more
2014 In search of motivation in language: An interview with Klaus-Uwe Panther Review of Cognitive Linguistics 12:1, pp. 223–242 | Article
2011 Metonymy, metaphor and the “weekend frame of mind”: Towards motivating the micro-variation in the use of one type of metonymy Motivation in Grammar and the Lexicon, Panther, Klaus-Uwe and Günter Radden (eds.), pp. 233–250 | Article
A series of corpus-based case studies on the availability of metonymically used proper names in the language of media, where the name of a capital is used to refer indirectly to the government, shows that this particular type of metonymy is available in Hungarian and Croatian but underused in… read more
2011 Introduction: Convergence and expansion in cognitive linguistics Cognitive Linguistics: Convergence and Expansion, Brdar, Mario, Stefan Th. Gries and Milena Žic Fuchs (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Article
2011 What do metonymic chains reveal about the nature of metonymy? Defining Metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics: Towards a consensus view, Benczes, Réka, Antonio Barcelona and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez (eds.), pp. 217–248 | Article
The central issue that concerns us in this chapter is whether metonymy should be conceived as a mapping. The way metonymies function in authentic discourse indicates that we have two-way traffic. The initial conceptual substrate is designated by the source concept, but it is plastic and flexible… read more
2010 Review of Evans & Pourcel (2009): New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics Review of Cognitive Linguistics 8:2, pp. 363–375 | Review
2009 Metonymies we live without Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar, Panther, Klaus-Uwe, Linda L. Thornburg and Antonio Barcelona (eds.), pp. 259–274 | Article
2009 Metonymy-induced polysemy and the role of suffixation in its resolution in some Slavic languages Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 7, Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José (ed.), pp. 58–88 | Article
The central concern of the present paper are metonymy avoidance strategies as a limiting case of polysemy resolution. Specifically, I look into the role of suffixation in the resolution of metonymy-induced polysemy in a number of languages (Germanic, Romance, Slavic and Hungarian) in two frames,… read more
2009 The (non-)metonymic use of place names in English, German, Hungarian, and Croatian Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar, Panther, Klaus-Uwe, Linda L. Thornburg and Antonio Barcelona (eds.), pp. 229–257 | Article
2007 When Zidane is not simply Zidane, and Bill Gates is not just Bill Gates: Some thoughts on the construction of metaphtonymic meanings of proper names Aspects of Meaning Construction, Radden, Günter, Klaus-Michael Köpcke, Thomas Berg and Peter Siemund (eds.), pp. 125–142 | Article
The present chapter deals with the problem of the construction of meaning of figuratively used personal names in the basic constructional schema Det + Xpersonal name + of Y. After a brief overview of two currently dominant philosophical approaches to problems of reference that are at odds with… read more
2005 Feyaerts, Kurt, (Ed.). (2003). The Bible through metaphor and translation: A cognitive semantic perspective Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 3, Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José (ed.), pp. 348–354 | Miscellaneous
2003 Metonymic coding of linguistic action in English, Croatian and Hungarian Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferencing, Panther, Klaus-Uwe and Linda L. Thornburg (eds.), pp. 241–266 | Article