Embodied, Social, and Creative Dimensions of Metonymy
Edited by Marlene Johansson Falck and Thomas Wiben Jensen
Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 15:2 (2025) vi, 151 pp.
Marlene Johansson Falck
List of John Benjamins publications in which Marlene Johansson Falck is involved.
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2025 From spatial to abstract and back again: The challenging case of hidden metonymies for metaphor identification scholars Embodied, Social, and Creative Dimensions of Metonymy, Johansson Falck, Marlene and Thomas Wiben Jensen (eds.), pp. 218–241 | Article
Cognitive linguists have long argued that our comprehension of abstract concepts is primarily based on metaphorical or metonymic mappings from more concrete or familiar experiences (Lakoff & Johnson 1980/2008, 1999). Accordingly, metaphor identification commonly involves contrasting concrete… read more
2025 Embodied, social, and creative dimensions of metonymy Embodied, Social, and Creative Dimensions of Metonymy, Johansson Falck, Marlene and Thomas Wiben Jensen (eds.), pp. 185–195 | Introduction
Metonymy has traditionally been studied as a cognitive and linguistic phenomenon closely linked to metaphor. Nevertheless, the connection between metaphor and metonymy requires further exploration. This special issue examines the embodied, social, and creative dimensions of metonymy, emphasizing… read more
2025 The effect of the Embodied Scenes approach to preposition learning with PrepApp Cognitive Linguistic Studies 12:1, pp. 70–106 | Article
This paper presents a digital tool for teaching and learning the usage patterns of English prepositions using an Embodied Scenes approach. Building on corpus linguistic investigations and insights from Cognitive Linguistics, we present the usage patterns of prepositional constructions in line… read more
2024 Metaphorical and non-metaphorical meaning from spatial relations Review of Cognitive Linguistics 24:1, pp. 134–172 | Article
Speakers regularly use their experiences of spatial relations to construe linguistic meaning in metaphorical and non-metaphorical ways. Still, we have yet to identify the meaning-bearing functions that different spatial relations commonly serve. This paper focuses on into relations. Using data… read more
2019 Chapter 7. Linguistic metaphor identification in Scandinavian Metaphor Identification in Multiple Languages: MIPVU around the world, Nacey, Susan, Aletta G. Dorst, Tina Krennmayr and W. Gudrun Reijnierse (eds.), pp. 137–158 | Chapter
2017 Chapter 2. Embodied motivations for abstract in and on constructions Constructing Families of Constructions: Analytical perspectives and theoretical challenges, Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José, Alba Luzondo Oyón and Paula Pérez-Sobrino (eds.), pp. 53–76 | Chapter
This chapter investigates the relationship between abstract in and on constructions (i.e. grammatical form and meaning pairings (Langacker 1987: 409; Goldberg 2006: 3) and body-world knowledge. Abstract in and on instances retrieved from the British National Corpus (BNC) are analyzed to identify… read more
2016 What trajectors reveal about TIME metaphors: Analysis of English and Swedish International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 21:1, pp. 28–47 | Article
This paper is an analysis of trajectors (i.e. located entities) in language about fixed durations of TIME. More specifically, trajectors in instances including the English prepositions in or on, or their Swedish equivalents i or på, are analyzed. On the structure of the inverse Moving… read more
2014 Temporal prepositions explained: Cross-linguistic analysis of English and Swedish unit of time landmarks Cognitive Linguistic Studies 1:2, pp. 271–288 | Article
To what extent can factors such as the size of a unit of time landmark and zoomed in effects explain the patterns of temporal prepositions in English (Lindstromberg, 1998/2010)? How important are these factors cross-linguistically? This paper is a corpus linguistic analysis of unit of time… read more
2012 Chapter 5. Metaphor variation across L1 and L2 speakers of English: Do differences at the level of linguistic metaphor matter? Metaphor in Use: Context, culture, and communication, MacArthur, Fiona, José Luis Oncins-Martínez, Manuel Sánchez-García and Ana M. Piquer-Píriz (eds.), pp. 109–134 | Chapter
English and Swedish, which are both Germanic languages spoken in similar cultures in the Western World, display many similarities with regard to the conceptual metaphors reflected in them. However, the way that the same conceptual metaphor is linguistically instantiated in both languages may be… read more
2012 15. From perception of spatial artefacts to metaphorical meaning Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Language, culture, and cognition, Filipović, Luna and Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt (eds.), pp. 329–349 | Article
This chapter compares spatial constructs in mental imagery to spatial constructs in non-metaphorical and metaphorical language. The study is based on a psycholinguistic survey of people’s mental imagery for paths and roads, and a previous corpus-linguistic investigation of path- and road-instances… read more
2010 Are metaphorical paths and roads ever paved? Corpus analysis of real and imagined journeys Review of Cognitive Linguistics 8:1, pp. 93–122 | Article
This paper provides a corpus linguistic analysis of verbs included in English path-, road- and way-sentences. My claim is that many of the differences between metaphorical and non-metaphorical patterns including these terms are related to a qualitative difference between real and imagined journeys. read more