Olga Blanco-Carrión

List of John Benjamins publications in which Olga Blanco-Carrión is involved.

Titles

The Rhetorical Mind: Current issues

Edited by Maria Clotilde Almeida, Rodrigo Furtado and Olga Blanco-Carrión

This book comprehends a unique collection of articles on the rhetorical tools, with special reference to both discursive and verbo-visual metaphor. It focuses on monomodal and multimodal figurative representations in wine discourse, in political discourse, and in the sports media. Moreover, it… read more

[Figurative Thought and Language, 20] 2025. vi, 198 pp.

Conceptual Metonymy: Methodological, theoretical, and descriptive issues

Edited by Olga Blanco-Carrión, Antonio Barcelona and Rossella Pannain

The volume addresses a number of closely connected methodological, descriptive, and theoretical issues in the study of metonymy, and includes a series of case studies broadening our knowledge of the functioning of metonymy. As regards the methodological and descriptive issues, the book exhibits a… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 60] 2018. ix, 325 pp.

Blanco-Carrión, Olga 2026 Meaning construal in contemporary dance Metonymic Thinking All the Way Down: From discourse to the lexicon, and beyond, Portero-Muñoz, Carmen, Antonio Barcelona and Almudena Soto Nieto (eds.), pp. 245–273 | Article

This paper aims at illustrating the role of conceptual metonymy and conceptual metaphor in the meaning construal of the philosopher Alan Watts’s “The Beauty of Nothingness” by the Portuguese choreographer and dancer Tiago Coelho. As Irene Mittelberg (2019: 10) claims: “Generally speaking, there… read more

Almeida, Maria Clotilde, Rodrigo Furtado and Olga Blanco-Carrión 2025 Introduction The Rhetorical Mind: Current issues, Almeida, Maria Clotilde, Rodrigo Furtado and Olga Blanco-Carrión (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Chapter

Blanco-Carrión, Olga 2025 The match that transcends tennis in the media coverage that transcends language The Rhetorical Mind: Current issues, Almeida, Maria Clotilde, Rodrigo Furtado and Olga Blanco-Carrión (eds.), pp. 53–64 | Chapter

Barcelona, Antonio, Olga Blanco-Carrión and Rossella Pannain 2018 Introduction: The complex task of studying metonymy Conceptual Metonymy: Methodological, theoretical, and descriptive issues, Blanco-Carrión, Olga, Antonio Barcelona and Rossella Pannain (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Chapter

Blanco-Carrión, Olga 2018 Chapter 2. Conventionality and linguistic domain(s) involved in the characterization of metonymies (for the creation of a detailed typology of metonymy) Conceptual Metonymy: Methodological, theoretical, and descriptive issues, Blanco-Carrión, Olga, Antonio Barcelona and Rossella Pannain (eds.), pp. 55–74 | Chapter

This is the second of three chapters devoted to the presentation of a set of criteria included in a database resulting from a project on the characterization of conceptual metonymy. It discusses Fields 5 and 7 of the database entry model, concerning conventionality, either conceptual or conceptual… read more