Uwe Kjær Nissen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Uwe Kjær Nissen is involved.
Articles
2011 Contrasting body parts: Metaphors and metonymies of mouth in Danish, English, and Spanish Embodiment via Body Parts: Studies from various languages and cultures, Maalej, Zouhair and Ning Yu (eds.), pp. 71–92 | Article
In this chapter, the claim that metaphors and metonymies are grounded in bodily experiences is pursued by means of a cross-linguistic analysis of the semantic field of English mouth compared to its Spanish and Danish equivalent terms, boca and mund, respectively. Pustejovsky’s (1995) ‘qualia roles’… read more
2002 Spanish. Gender in Spanish: Tradition and innovation Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men, Hellinger, Marlis and Hadumod Bußmann (eds.), pp. 251–279 | Article
1.Introduction
2. Grammatical gender in Spanish
2.1 Masculine and feminine gender
2.2 Generic words and conflicts of agreement
2.3 The psycholinguistic reality of generics
3. The asymmetrical representation of women and men in Spanish
3.1 Hombre vs. mujer
3.2 … read more