Marta Degani
List of John Benjamins publications in which Marta Degani is involved.
Articles
2018 From the light of truth to the dark alleys of tyranny : The evocative power of metaphor in American political speeches Metaphor and the Social World 8:2, pp. 157–183 | Article
The present study aims at exploring the evocative power of metaphor in a number of remarkable American political speeches. The investigation concentrates on the metaphorical framing of political issues in terms of light and darkness. The analysis is carried out on a corpus consisting of the top… read more
2014 Finding a wooden jandal in the jandal wood: The role of bilingualism for the interpretation of headedness in novel English compounds Multilingual Cognition and Language Use: Processing and typological perspectives, Filipović, Luna and Martin Pütz (eds.), pp. 309–332 | Article
Set in the context of bilingualism in Māori and English, this chapter discusses the interpretation of novel English compounds as right or left-headed. The aim is to report evidence of structural transfer in bilinguals on the level of word formation. In accordance with Grosjean (2012), this study… read more
2009 ‘I wouldn’t think you might agree’: (Inter)subjective uses of English modalised syntactic patterns English Text Construction 2:1, pp. 18–47 | Article
This study concerns objectivity, subjectivity and intersubjectivity in relation to the English central modal verbs. In order to refine the (inter)subjective status of modals from a synchronic perspective, it focuses on their possible uses within a specific communicative context where the SP/W needs… read more