El Mustapha Lemghari
List of John Benjamins publications in which El Mustapha Lemghari is involved.
Articles
2024 Chapter 3. Contradiction in proverbs: The role of stereotypical metaphors Proverbs within Cognitive Linguistics: State of the art, Belkhir, Sadia (ed.), pp. 65–85 | Chapter
Contradiction in proverbs has been noted over centuries. As a culture-specific phenomenon, contradiction is an important research topic for Conceptual Metaphor Theory. It must be asked why given proverbs contradict. The likely answer is that they express opposite meanings. Granted the… read more
2021 Metaphorical blending in complex proverbs: A case study Metaphor and the Social World 11:1, pp. 71–97 | Article
Metaphor-based accounts of expressions involving a set of metaphors do not indicate how complex meaning is generated. For instance, meaning of the expression ‘this surgeon is a butcher’ is taken to arise from one metaphor: a person who performs actions with certain characteristics is a member of… read more
2019 A metaphor-based account of semantic relations among proverbs Cognitive Linguistic Studies 6:1, pp. 158–184 | Article
The paper deals with semantic relations in the field of proverbs from the standpoint of Conceptual Metaphor Theory. Our main claim is that proverb understanding is conceptually complex, involving many construal operations, namely metaphor. Metaphor is assumed to play a crucial role in framing and… read more