Embodied, Social, and Creative Dimensions of Metonymy
Edited by Marlene Johansson Falck and Thomas Wiben Jensen
Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 15:2 (2025) vi, 151 pp.
Thomas Wiben Jensen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Thomas Wiben Jensen is involved.
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2025 Moral metaphor, metonymic causation: An examination of the intertwined metaphoric/metonymic nature and social use of plet as an expression of social exposure and shame in Danish Embodied, Social, and Creative Dimensions of Metonymy, Johansson Falck, Marlene and Thomas Wiben Jensen (eds.), pp. 242–262 | Article
This article explores the double metaphoric and metonymic use of the Danish word plet (“stain” or “spot”) in discourse about shame and moral judgment. Drawing on Danish corpus data and a close analysis of therapeutic interaction, the study argues that plet operates not only as a metaphor —… read more
2025 Embodied, social, and creative dimensions of metonymy Embodied, Social, and Creative Dimensions of Metonymy, Johansson Falck, Marlene and Thomas Wiben Jensen (eds.), pp. 185–195 | Introduction
Metonymy has traditionally been studied as a cognitive and linguistic phenomenon closely linked to metaphor. Nevertheless, the connection between metaphor and metonymy requires further exploration. This special issue examines the embodied, social, and creative dimensions of metonymy, emphasizing… read more
2023 Zooming in on the notion of metaphoricity: Notions, dimensions, and operationalizations Current challenges in metaphor research, Julich-Warpakowski, Nina and Paula Pérez-Sobrino (eds.), pp. 16–36 | Article
The present contribution addresses the notion of metaphoricity and discusses different positions in relation to this complex and multi-dimensional phenomenon. Generally, the notion of metaphoricity is used when metaphor is not considered a binary category anymore, or when the status of an… read more
2021 Review of Hidalgo-Downing & Mujic Kraljevic (2020): Performing Metaphoric Creativity across Modes and Contexts Polymedia in Interaction, Androutsopoulos, Jannis (ed.), pp. 870–874 | Review
2012 Evaluating by feeling: The rhetorical design of emotions in the practice of mirroring Evaluating Cognitive Competences in Interaction, Rasmussen, Gitte, Catherine E. Brouwer and Dennis Day (eds.), pp. 145–168 | Article
Through the use of a combination of methods from discursive psychology (DP) and conversation analysis (CA), this article investigates how emotions are used interactionally to evaluate social action and how in turn social actions can be evaluated as emotional in nature. The data for the analyses are… read more