Elmar J. Thalhammer
List of John Benjamins publications in which Elmar J. Thalhammer is involved.
Article
2015 They have to die for the goals: WAR metaphors in English and German football radio commentary Metaphor in Specialist Discourse, Herrmann, J. Berenike and Tony Berber Sardinha (eds.), pp. 101–130 | Article
Many central items in football terminology are conspicuously metaphorical,
for example shoot, attack or German schießen, angreifen. Yet, the role played by
metaphor in football vocabulary has attracted little attention so far. This chapter
presents a corpus-based investigation of metaphor in… read more