Tetsuta Komatsubara
List of John Benjamins publications in which Tetsuta Komatsubara is involved.
Articles
2025 Chapter 3. Social variation in metaphors: Preferred metaphors by occupation in the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan COVID-19: Metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures, Wen, Xu, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon and Zoltán Kövecses (eds.), pp. 63–82 | Chapter
That metaphor varies depending on the social context is crucial to understanding social variation in metaphors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our analysis of metaphorical utterances in direct quotations from Japanese newspaper articles reveals that the metaphor disease is war was preferred in… read more
2023 Chapter 3. Framing risk metaphorically: Changes in metaphors of COVID-19 over time in Japanese Risk Discourse and Responsibility, Ädel, Annelie and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 65–87 | Chapter
As a case of the metaphorical framing of risk, this chapter aims to explore metaphors of COVID-19 in Japanese, focusing on changes in metaphorical sources over time and their social backgrounds based on an analysis of metaphorical expressions in utterances directly quoted in newspaper articles.… read more
2019 Cognitive principles underlying predicational metonymy: Metonymic preference of aspect of predicates in Japanese intermediary causative constructions Cognitive Linguistic Studies 6:2, pp. 247–270 | Article
Metonymy of a predicate, in which the source event implies the target event, is called predicational metonymy. This paper focused on a Japanese productive predicational metonymy, action for causation, and described its linguistic preference in terms of aspectual construal based on a corpus-driven… read more