Michael White
List of John Benjamins publications in which Michael White is involved.
Yearbook
ISSN 1572-0268 | E‑ISSN 1572‑0276
Articles
2025 The uncommonness of rāħ in Egyptian Arabic: Evidence for rāħ as a foregrounding device Selected Papers from the 37th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Khamis, Reem and Mira Goral (eds.), pp. 264–279 | Article
Egyptian Arabic contains a semantically bleached verb rāħ whose functions have been thoroughly studied and identified; however, the motivation for its use remains unclear. Current theories about its motivations have resulted in a long list of seemingly disparate functions which cannot explain… read more
2014 Metaphor and phraseology from the language of bullfighting in Spanish Review of Cognitive Linguistics 12:1, pp. 99–132 | Article
Mass-audience events provide languages with fertile sources of metaphor. Such events display pronounced spatial parameters, dynamicity and purposive activity, all of which have been shown to enable metaphor processes. Furthermore, the mass following and the experiential recurrence of such events… read more
2013 Pictorial metonymy as creativity source in “Purificación García” advertising campaigns Metaphorical creativity across modes, Hidalgo-Downing, Laura and Blanca Kraljevic Mujic (eds.), pp. 220–239 | Article
This article examines “Purificación García” advertising campaigns from 1999 to 2013, showing them to be consistently driven by pictorial metonymy. The campaigns systematically use pictorial images, dispensing with ad hoc explanatory linguistic material and do not portray end commercial products.… read more