Mirjana Tonković

List of John Benjamins publications in which Mirjana Tonković is involved.

Articles

Tonković, Mirjana, Mario Brdar and Kristina Š. Despot 2020 Is a difficult task literally heavy? Weight biases difficulty judgements Metaphor and the Social World 10:1, pp. 100–120 | Article

The conceptualization of abstract concepts is very often metaphorical, meaning that we think and talk about abstract concepts in terms of other, usually more concrete experiences. Recent research suggests that many abstract concepts are linked to bodily sensations. In two experiments, we tested… read more

Despot, Kristina Š., Mirjana Tonković, Mario Essert, Mario Brdar, Benedikt Perak, Ana Ostroški Anić, Bruno Nahod and Ivan Pandžić 2019 Chapter 5. MetaNet.HR: Croatian metaphor repository Metaphor and Metonymy in the Digital Age: Theory and methods for building repositories of figurative language, Bolognesi, Marianna, Mario Brdar and Kristina Š. Despot (eds.), pp. 123–146 | Chapter

This paper describes the theoretical background, methodology, tasks, results, and challenges of the MetaNet.HR (Croatian Metaphor Repository) project. It combines a theory-driven introspective top-down approach that analyzes the system of conceptual metaphors in the Croatian language (following the… read more