Aspects of Metaphor
Edited by Maria Theodoropoulou
Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 23:1 (2025) vi, 326 pp.
Maria Theodoropoulou
List of John Benjamins publications in which Maria Theodoropoulou is involved.
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2025 football club is family : Metaphor and the reconstruction of collective identity Aspects of Metaphor, Theodoropoulou, Maria (ed.), pp. 90–130 | Article
This is a corpus-based study with data from football fans’ comments on Facebook, which seeks to explore the contribution of metaphor to the construction of collective identity. The main question it addresses is the following: in as much as collectivity is constructed by typical means, e.g., the… read more
2025 Introduction: Aspects of metaphor Aspects of Metaphor, Theodoropoulou, Maria (ed.), pp. 1–9 | Introduction
2024 Chapter 7. Emotion in Greek proverbs: The case of (romantic) love Proverbs within Cognitive Linguistics: State of the art, Belkhir, Sadia (ed.), pp. 174–201 | Chapter
This is a study ‘inside the proverb’. It draws its data from proverb collections and examines Greek proverbs both on romantic love and on love, both figurative and nonfigurative. The study aims at comparing the conceptualisation of these emotions in proverbs with the one in conventionalised… read more
2012 Metaphor-metonymies of joy and happiness in Greek: Towards an interdisciplinary perspective Review of Cognitive Linguistics 10:1, pp. 156–183 | Article
In this paper I examine the idiomatic metonymic expressions denoting joy and happiness in Greek, focusing on their experiential grounding. I first argue for an interdisciplinary approach to the relationship between body, emotion and language, which allows for a holistic perspective to the meaning… read more