Melike Baş

List of John Benjamins publications in which Melike Baş is involved.

Articles

Baş, Melike 2020 A comparative critical metaphor analysis on the concept of democracy in Turkish and American English Review of Cognitive Linguistics 18:2, pp. 535–566 | Article

This corpus-based study concentrates on the metaphorical conceptualizations of the concept of ‘democracy’ in Turkish and American English to find out how this socio-political term is conceptually represented in the minds of Turkish and American speakers. The database consists of 4000 concordance… read more

Baş, Melike 2020 The metonymic folk model of language in Turkish Body Part Terms in Conceptualization and Language Usage, Kraska-Szlenk, Iwona (ed.), pp. 195–214 | Chapter

Situated within the framework of linguistic embodiment, this chapter examines the speech-related terms ‘voice’, ‘mouth’, ‘tongue’, ‘lips’ and ‘chin’ in Turkish to reveal how speech and language are conceptualized in regards to these terms based on the metonymic chain model (Radden, 2001). The… read more

Baş, Melike 2017 Figurative uses of the head-denoting words baş and kafa in Turkish idioms Pragmatics & Cognition 24:2, pp. 138–163 | Article

This study analyzes the metaphoric and metonymic nature of baş/kafa ‘head’ in Turkish idiomatic expressions from a cognitive linguistic perspective. The database for the study is composed of idioms containing the two head-denoting words baş and kafa. Idioms and their definitions are analyzed in… read more