Motti Benari
List of John Benjamins publications in which Motti Benari is involved.
Articles
2004 Review of Pilkington (2000): Poetic Effects: A Relevance Theory Perspective Pragmatics & Cognition 12:1, pp. 181–189 | Review
2004 If it is different then how come it is similar? The impressions of sameness and difference experienced by readers of metaphoric language Pragmatics & Cognition 12:2, pp. 351–373 | Article
In the current study of metaphor it is commonly assumed that during a metaphorical reading both an impression of dissimilarity and an impression of similarity are created in the reader’s mind. These separate impressions exist simultaneously and each of them is considered to have linear relations… read more
2001 ‘Composition of place’, experiential set, and the meditative poem: A cognitive-pragmatic approach Pragmatics & Cognition 9:2, pp. 203–237 | Article
Meditative poetry has the ability to reproduce aspects of the meditative experience. In this paper we explore this ability, trying to clarify the phenomenon by pointing out the cognitive processes involved. We focus on Christian Jesuit meditation and pinpoint one of its most effective elements:… read more