Sara Vilar-Lluch
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sara Vilar-Lluch is involved.
2026 From trauma to reappraising life: Psychological crisis experiences and recovery in first-person accounts of life-changing injuries Crises We Live By: A transdisciplinary study of crisis and its metaphors in their cultural context, Leonardis, Irene (ed.), pp. 68–89 | Chapter
This chapter considers first-person narratives of life-changing injuries, which may lead to depression and identity crises before individuals can accept their condition. The study focuses on the metaphors used to describe the injury, recovery, and attitude towards life in a dataset of 67… read more
2024 The linguistic construal of extreme behaviour: Hyperactivity-impulsivity in family and teaching communities Language, Context and Text 6:2, pp. 390–417 | Article
Teaching and family communities usually have an active role in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity-Impulsivity Disorder (ADHD) diagnosis in childhood. Examining the construal of hyperactivity-impulsivity in teaching guidelines and online parental exchanges can elucidate common lay understandings of… read more
2023 Understanding and appraising ‘hate speech’ Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 11:2, pp. 279–306 | Article
Hate speech has become a matter of international concern, permeating institutional and lay discussions alike. Yet, exactly what it means to refer to a linguistic act as ‘hate speech’ remains unclear. This paper examines the lay understanding of hate speech, focusing on (1) the relationship… read more
2022 Redefining attitude for studying explicit and indirect evaluations of human behaviour Functions of Language 29:2, pp. 199–225 | Article
This article considers the application of the Attitude framework (Martin & White 2005) to study the evaluation of human behaviour. The distinction between inscribed (explicit) and invoked (indirect) attitude is re-examined and systematised to better operationalise the analysis of the evaluation… read more
