Lacey Okonski
List of John Benjamins publications in which Lacey Okonski is involved.
2025 The climate battle in America: War metaphors alarm Republicans but Democrats more likely to act Metaphor and the Social World 15:1, pp. 77–106 | Article
Metaphorical frames are commonly used in public discourse in the United States of America to communicate about climate change and promote climate action. Previous work found climate metaphors to resonate more so with Democrats than with Republicans. Democrats are also more likely to increase… read more
2025 From spatial to abstract and back again: The challenging case of hidden metonymies for metaphor identification scholars Embodied, Social, and Creative Dimensions of Metonymy, Johansson Falck, Marlene and Thomas Wiben Jensen (eds.), pp. 218–241 | Article
Cognitive linguists have long argued that our comprehension of abstract concepts is primarily based on metaphorical or metonymic mappings from more concrete or familiar experiences (Lakoff & Johnson 1980/2008, 1999). Accordingly, metaphor identification commonly involves contrasting concrete… read more
2025 The effect of the Embodied Scenes approach to preposition learning with PrepApp Cognitive Linguistic Studies 12:1, pp. 70–106 | Article
This paper presents a digital tool for teaching and learning the usage patterns of English prepositions using an Embodied Scenes approach. Building on corpus linguistic investigations and insights from Cognitive Linguistics, we present the usage patterns of prepositional constructions in line… read more
2024 Metaphorical and non-metaphorical meaning from spatial relations Review of Cognitive Linguistics 24:1, pp. 134–172 | Article
Speakers regularly use their experiences of spatial relations to construe linguistic meaning in metaphorical and non-metaphorical ways. Still, we have yet to identify the meaning-bearing functions that different spatial relations commonly serve. This paper focuses on into relations. Using data… read more
2020 Chapter 2. Metaphor in multimodal creativity Performing Metaphoric Creativity across Modes and Contexts, Hidalgo-Downing, Laura and Blanca Kraljevic Mujic (eds.), pp. 19–42 | Chapter
This chapter describes the role that metaphor plays in multimodal creativity in several creative endeavors, specifically music, art, dance, and advertising. Many creative instances of metaphor performance rely on entrenched metaphorical concepts that get manifested in very specific, concrete… read more
2013 Crazy creative metaphors: Crazy metaphorical minds? Metaphorical creativity across modes, Hidalgo-Downing, Laura and Blanca Kraljevic Mujic (eds.), pp. 141–159 | Article
This article presents an analysis of public interviews with the American actor Charlie Sheen during a difficult time in his life when he appeared to be speaking and acting crazy. Sheen’s metaphoric descriptions of his life mostly referred to common conventional metaphoric concepts. However, closer… read more