Marisa Diez-Arroyo
List of John Benjamins publications in which Marisa Diez-Arroyo is involved.
Articles
2016 Vagueness: A loanword’s good friend. The case of ‘print’ in Spanish fashion Pragmatics 26:4, pp. 609–629 | Article
The language of fashion is often set as the example of a field where the use of loanwords is common practice, but has seldom been worthy of scholarly analytical attention. At the same time, vagueness is usually regarded as an inherent characteristic in natural language, but, until recently,… read more
2015 From the atelier to e-commerce: A cognitive approach to neologisms in Spanish fashion Terminology 21:1, pp. 51–75 | Article
Although fashion is a topic of chief relevance in our society, its linguistic characteristics have attracted little attention among researchers. Facing the challenge of combining two different, but arguably complementary, perspectives — the Frame-Based Terminology model and Relevance Theory —, this… read more

