Dorothea Horst
List of John Benjamins publications in which Dorothea Horst is involved.
Articles
2025 Chapter 2. Re-thinking embodiment in figuration: Lived experience or cognitive mechanism? What makes a Figure: Rethinking figurativity, Colston, Herbert L. (ed.), pp. 40–64 | Chapter
In cognitive linguistics, figuration serves as a paramount case of embodied cognition and thus as counter evidence to the Cartesian dualism between mind and body. Taking a closer look at the notion of experience, this chapter demonstrates that through a systemic and neuralized concept of… read more
2024 Chapter 7. Media as processes of doing and perceiving: How a yoga pose in an online tutorial takes on meaning as felt sensation Media as Procedures of Communication, Luginbühl, Martin and Jan Georg Schneider (eds.), pp. 158–187 | Chapter
The paper puts forward an integrated perspective on how meaning emerges in communicative media contexts. We bring together linguistics and film studies to show how semiotic resources interact with their situated media context. To ground our conceptual argument, we bring into dialogue Jan-Georg… read more
2022 Metaphor meets narrative: Audiovisual meaning-making as embodied artistic production Figurativity and Human Ecology, Bagasheva, Alexandra, Bozhil Hristov and Nelly Tincheva (eds.), pp. 63–84 | Chapter
Prevalent cognitive readings of narrative in film have generally described it as a causal-logical re-organization of audiovisually represented agents, actions and spaces that is achieved through mental processing. Suggesting that such a perspective fundamentally disregards the media mode of… read more