Francesca Strik-Lievers
List of John Benjamins publications in which Francesca Strik-Lievers is involved.
2026 A love story: A culturally informed diachronic account of love metaphors between Latin and Italian At the Crossroads of Historical and Cognitive Linguistics, Rogos-Hebda, Anna and Heli Tissari (eds.), pp. 200–221 | Chapter
Building on the extensive body of cognitive linguistic literature on emotion concepts, this chapter presents a corpus-based investigation of the metaphorical uses of the word amor(e) (‘love’) in the long diachrony from Latin to Italian. The analysis reveals the persistence of metaphorical… read more
2023 Semantic distance predicts metaphoricity and creativity judgments in synesthetic metaphors Current challenges in metaphor research, Julich-Warpakowski, Nina and Paula Pérez-Sobrino (eds.), pp. 59–80 | Article
This paper discusses a way of operationalizing metaphoricity quantitatively using a numerical measure of the semantic distance between two domains. We demonstrate the construct validity of this measure with respect to metaphoricity and creativity judgments in the domain of English synesthetic… read more
2021 Smelling over time: The lexicon of olfaction from Latin to Italian The Linguistics of Olfaction: Typological and Diachronic Approaches to Synchronic Diversity, Jędrzejowski, Łukasz and Przemysław Staniewski (eds.), pp. 369–402 | Chapter
Sensory anthropologists have described societies that, compared to Western ones, attribute to the sense of smell a more prominent cultural role, and linguists are bringing evidence that a higher sociocultural status of smell tends to be reflected in language by a richer and more elaborated… read more
2019 Chapter 5. Metaphors and perception in the lexicon: A diachronic perspective Perception Metaphors, Speed, Laura J., Carolyn O'Meara, Lila San Roque and Asifa Majid (eds.), pp. 85–104 | Chapter
Polysemy patterns in the sensory lexicon have been the subject of many studies, mostly synchronically oriented. This paper investigates whether the regularities observed for the intrafield and transfield polysemy of sensory lexemes can also be noted in the semantic changes that the lexemes… read more
2017 Figures and the senses: Towards a definition of synaesthesia Review of Cognitive Linguistics 15:1, pp. 83–101 | Article
It is usually taken for granted that synaesthesia (e.g., sweet voice) is a metaphor. However, the fact that partly different interpretations have also been proposed suggests that further research is needed. Based on a critical review of the alternative positions on the topic and on a detailed… read more
2015 Synaesthesia: A corpus-based study of cross-modal directionality Sensory Perceptions in Language and Cognition, Caballero, Rosario and Carita Paradis (eds.), pp. 69–95 | Article
In the existing literature on synaesthetic metaphors in poetry it is proposed that transfers tend to go from the ‘lower’ (touch, smell, taste) to the ‘higher’ (sight, hearing) sensory modalities. The purpose of this article is to establish if the same directionality also holds for synaesthetic… read more