Todd Oakley
List of John Benjamins publications in which Todd Oakley is involved.
Book series
ISSN 1879-8047
Title
Mental Spaces in Discourse and Interaction
Edited by Todd Oakley and Anders Hougaard
The cognitive theory of mental spaces and conceptual integration (MSCI) is a twenty-year-old, cross-disciplinary enterprise that presently unfolds in academic circles on many levels of reflection and research. One important area of inquiry where MSCI can be of immediate use is in the pragmatics of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 170] 2008. vi, 262 pp.
2025 Dramatized internal dialogue in a comedy by Shakespeare: Solitude speech as a socio-cultural, cognitive, and communicative device Solitude Speech across Languages and Cultures, Izutsu, Mitsuko Narita and Katsunobu Izutsu (eds.), pp. 155–182 | Article
We analyze the theater performance of a dilemma enacted as dialogic solitude speech, involving fictive interaction (Pascual 2002, 2006, 2014). The scene, from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, represents the conflicting thoughts of character Lancelet as clashing advice from two invisible… read more
2020 “Hi, Mr. President!”: Fictive interaction blends as a unifying rhetorical strategy in satire Review of Cognitive Linguistics 18:1, pp. 180–212 | Article
What makes The Daily Show with Jon Stewart so successful as social and political satire? Rhetorical theorists and critics have identified several mechanisms for satisfying the show’s satiric and parodic aim, which include parodic polyglossia, contextual clash, and satirical specificity… read more
2017 When “Goal!” means ‘soccer’: Verbatim fictive speech as communicative strategy by children with autism and two control groups Pragmatics & Cognition 24:3, pp. 315–345 | Article
Autism is characterized by repetitive behavior and difficulties in adopting the viewpoint of others. We examine a communicative phenomenon resulting from these symptoms: non-prototypical direct speech for non-reports involving an actual utterance from previously produced discourse (e.g. quoting… read more
2016 Invocation or apostrophe? Prayer and the conversation frame in public discourse The Conversation Frame: Forms and functions of fictive interaction, Pascual, Esther and Sergeiy Sandler (eds.), pp. 131–150 | Article
We investigate how idioms of prayer operate along a complex set of rhetorical dimensions, all of which take the conversation frame as a starting point. We present results of a search of idioms from the UCLA NewsScape archive. After distinguishing invocationary acts of the divine from the more… read more
2014 Afterword: From Cognitive Grammar to systems rhetoric Cognitive Grammar in Literature, Harrison, Chloe, Louise Nuttall, Peter Stockwell and Wenjuan Yuan (eds.), pp. 231–236 | Article
2011 Conceptual integration Handbook of Pragmatics: 2011 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Article
2009 Mental spaces Handbook of Pragmatics: 2009 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 1–23 | Article
2009 Mental spaces Grammar, Meaning and Pragmatics, Brisard, Frank, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 161–178 | Article
2008 Introduction: Mental Spaces and Discourse Analysis Mental Spaces in Discourse and Interaction, Oakley, Todd and Anders Hougaard (eds.), pp. 1–26 | Miscellaneous
2008 Connecting the dots: Mental spaces and metaphoric language in discourse Mental Spaces in Discourse and Interaction, Oakley, Todd and Anders Hougaard (eds.), pp. 27–50 | Article
2006 3. Purple persuasion: Deliberative rhetoric and conceptual blending Cognitive Linguistics Investigations: Across languages, fields and philosophical boundaries, Luchjenbroers, June (ed.), pp. 47–65 | Chapter
2003 Metonymy and conceptual blending Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferencing, Panther, Klaus-Uwe and Linda L. Thornburg (eds.), pp. 51–79 | Article
1999 Blending and metaphor Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997, Gibbs, Jr., Raymond W. and Gerard J. Steen (eds.), pp. 101–124 | Article