Federica Ferrari
List of John Benjamins publications in which Federica Ferrari is involved.
2025 Chapter 5. The voice of the virus or the virus’s shadow? A psycho-metaphorical survey COVID-19: Metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures, Wen, Xu, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon and Zoltán Kövecses (eds.), pp. 122–149 | Chapter
Whether ontologized as a menace, an enemy, or a stranger, within the context of a political management whose rhetorical overtones could be collocated within the frames of securitization and fear strategies (Ferrari, 2018), COVID-19 impacted people’s lives in many aspects besides that of… read more
2020 Chapter 7. The ‘transformative’ power of metaphor: Assessing its unexplored potential at the crossroads between static and dynamic instances The Language of Crisis: Metaphors, frames and discourses, Huang, Mimi and Lise-Lotte Holmgreen (eds.), pp. 199–229 | Chapter
Given the centrality of bodily and emotional experience to the notion of conceptual metaphor (Lakoff and Johnson 2003[1980]; Lakoff 1993; Gibbs 2006a and b; Kövecses 2000), this chapter investigates the ‘transformative power’ of metaphor in ‘talking cure’ practices, to face personal crisis and… read more
2020 The ‘transformative’ power of ‘integrated metaphor’ in counselling: Applying and measuring its implemented potential Metaphor in Mental Healthcare, Tay, Dennis (ed.), pp. 292–319 | Article
Given the centrality of metaphor in the (re)structuring of experience (Burns, 2005; Loue, 2008; Roffman, 2008) and of bodily experience to the notion of conceptual metaphor in cognitive theory (Lakoff & Johnson, 2003 [1980]; Lakoff, 1993; Gibbs, 2006), this paper investigates the ‘transformative… read more
2018 Chapter 16. Red lines and rash decisions: Syria, metaphor and narrative Doing Politics: Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse, Kranert, Michael and Geraldine Horan (eds.), pp. 385–406 | Chapter
Obama’s “red lines” metaphor nearly triggered a military intervention in Syria in the summer of 2013. This chapter questions the work that metaphor does in shaping understandings and conduct in international affairs. The term is used by political leaders to express likely behavioural consequences… read more