Marianna Bolognesi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Marianna Bolognesi is involved.
Book series
ISSN 2210-4836
Titles
Where Words Get their Meaning: Cognitive processing and distributional modelling of word meaning in first and second language
Marianna Bolognesi
Words are not just labels for conceptual categories. Words construct conceptual categories, frame situations and influence behavior. Where do they get their meaning? This book describes how words acquire their meaning. The author argues that mechanisms based on associations, pattern detection, and… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 23] 2020. xi, 208 pp.
Metaphor and Metonymy in the Digital Age: Theory and methods for building repositories of figurative language
Edited by Marianna Bolognesi, Mario Brdar and Kristina Š. Despot
This book describes methods, risks, and challenges involved in the construction of metaphor and metonymy digital repositories. The first part of this volume showcases established and new projects around the world in which metaphors and metonymies are harvested and classified. The second part… read more[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 8] 2019. x, 263 pp.
Perspectives on Abstract Concepts: Cognition, language and communication
Edited by Marianna Bolognesi and Gerard J. Steen
Human language is the most powerful communication system that evolution has produced. Within this system, we can talk about things we can physically see, such as cats and tables, but also about more abstract entities, such as theories and feelings. But how are these abstract concepts grounded in… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 65] 2019. xii, 315 pp.
2022 Uncanny resemblance: Words, pictures, and conceptual representations in the field of metaphor Visual Metaphors, Benczes, Réka and Veronika Szelid (eds.), pp. 33–60 | Chapter
What is the relation between the three following elements: words, pictures, and conceptual representations? And how do these three elements work, in defining and explaining metaphors? These are the questions that we tackle in our interdisciplinary contribution, which moves across cognitive… read more
2020 Uncanny resemblance: Words, pictures, and conceptual representations in the field of metaphor Visual Metaphors, Benczes, Réka and Veronika Szelid (eds.), pp. 31–57 | Article
What is the relation between the three following elements: words, pictures, and conceptual representations? And how do these three elements work, in defining and explaining metaphors? These are the questions that we tackle in our interdisciplinary contribution, which moves across cognitive… read more
2019 Introduction Perspectives on Abstract Concepts: Cognition, language and communication, Bolognesi, Marianna and Gerard J. Steen (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Chapter
2019 Fantastic metaphors and where to find them Metaphor and Metonymy in the Digital Age: Theory and methods for building repositories of figurative language, Bolognesi, Marianna, Mario Brdar and Kristina Š. Despot (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Introduction
2019 Chapter 4. VisMet and the crowd: What social tagging reveals about visual metaphors Metaphor and Metonymy in the Digital Age: Theory and methods for building repositories of figurative language, Bolognesi, Marianna, Mario Brdar and Kristina Š. Despot (eds.), pp. 99–122 | Chapter
This chapter describes the data collection and analysis related to a new digital resource soon to be added to the VisMet 1.0 corpus of visual metaphor (http://www.vismet.org/VisMet/, Bolognesi, van den Heerik, van den Berg, 2018), consisting of crowdsourced tags. Tags are keywords used by online… read more
2018 Chapter 4. VisMet 1.0: An online corpus of visual metaphors Visual Metaphor: Structure and process, Steen, Gerard J. (ed.), pp. 89–114 | Chapter
2016 Metaphors, bilingual mental lexicon and distributional models Metaphor and Communication, Gola, Elisabetta and Francesca Ervas (eds.), pp. 105–122 | Article
While native speakers (NS) might process conventional metaphors mainly on
a linguistic level, this is arguably not true for foreign learners (FL). This paper
analyses the role that linguistic information plays in processing a word meaning
in relation to NS and FL judgments. Since FL generally seem… read more