Kathleen Ahrens
List of John Benjamins publications in which Kathleen Ahrens is involved.
Journal
ISSN 2210-4070 | E‑ISSN 2210‑4097
Book series
2025 Metaphorical framing of democracy : How Nigerian military dictators and civilian leaders talk to gain legitimacy Journal of Language and Politics: Online-First Articles | Article
Military dictatorships are inherently undemocratic, yet military leaders often frame democracy metaphorically. This raises critical questions: why do they do this, and how do their framings differ from civilian leaders? Existing studies on democratic conception provide limited answers.… read more
2021 Contextual congruency and novel metaphor integration Cognitive Linguistic Studies 8:1, pp. 109–132 | Article
The goal of this paper is to further our understanding of how novel metaphor sentences are processed at a discourse level. Previous studies have focused on contextual issues during the processing of sentences containing conventional metaphors, with the effect of context on sentences with novel… read more
2020 A multifactorial analysis of metaphors in political discourse: Gendered influence in Hong Kong political speeches Metaphor and the Social World 10:1, pp. 141–168 | Article
The rising prominence of women in politics has sparked a growing interest in comparing the language of male and female politicians. Many researchers have explored whether gender in politics has had an impact on their metaphor styles. While these studies have been oriented qualitatively and have… read more
2019 Chapter 1. First Lady, Secretary of State and Presidential Candidate: A comparative study of the role-dependent use of metaphor in politics Variation in Political Metaphor, Perrez, Julien, Min Reuchamps and Paul H. Thibodeau (eds.), pp. 13–34 | Chapter
While many studies have examined to what extent politicians invoked a particular source domain to advance their ideology, no study to date has focused on the metaphor use of an individual politician across different political roles. This paper fills this gap by analyzing the war metaphors used… read more
2019 Assertion, presumption and presupposition: An account of the erstwhile nominalizer YUM in Khalkha Mongolian Studies in Language 43:4, pp. 896–940 | Article
In this paper, we analyze the clitic YUM (< ‘thing’) in Khalkha Mongolian which, in different syntactic contexts, reinforces assertiveness or expresses different shades of presumption or presupposition. The former holds for declaratives where the presence of YUM conveys the speaker’s strong… read more
2018 Andreas Musolff. Political Metaphor Analysis: Discourse and Scenarios Pragmatics and Society 9:2, pp. 329–332 | Review
2011 5. Picturebooks: Where literature appreciation begins Emergent Literacy: Children's books from 0 to 3, Kümmerling-Meibauer, Bettina (ed.), pp. 77–90 | Article
When selecting books for children age zero to two a natural tendency is to choose naming and/or categorizing books. Other default selections for the very young include nursery rhymes, books based on songs, or counting, color, and alphabet books, as it is easy to evaluate the suitability of such… read more
2010 10. Mapping principles for conceptual metaphors Researching and Applying Metaphor in the Real World, Low, Graham, Zazie Todd, Alice Deignan and Lynne Cameron (eds.), pp. 185–208 | Article
Issues surrounding novel metaphor comprehension are not well understood. In order to address this problem, this paper proposes the Conceptual Mapping Model, which puts forward the idea that examining the linguistic mappings found in a particular source-target domain pairing allows hypotheses to be… read more