Irene Leonardis

List of John Benjamins publications in which Irene Leonardis is involved.

Title

Crises We Live By: A transdisciplinary study of crisis and its metaphors in their cultural context

Edited by Irene Leonardis

After an original foreword from Andreas Musolff setting the stage of the book, Crises We Live By offers a series of case studies that highlight different ways of conceptualizing and speaking about crisis, above all metaphorically. Its title echoes Lakoff and Johnson’s famous Metaphors We Live By… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 20] 2026. xi, 267 pp.

Articles

Leonardis, Irene 2026 Collapse metaphor in Roman political discourse and its legacy Crises We Live By: A transdisciplinary study of crisis and its metaphors in their cultural context, Leonardis, Irene (ed.), pp. 220–240 | Chapter

Ancient Roman political discourse shows various competing metaphors in relation to the so-called “crisis of the Roman Republic” of the I century BC. The metaphor of a collapsing building proves itself particularly fit for conveying the concept of crisis, as it appears to be a conceptual… read more

Leonardis, Irene 2026 Crisis in ancient and contemporary uses: A concept at the crossroads of metaphor and metonymy? Crises We Live By: A transdisciplinary study of crisis and its metaphors in their cultural context, Leonardis, Irene (ed.), pp. 1–18 | Chapter

By echoing and altering the title of Lakoff and Johnson’s seminal book (1980), Crises we live by stresses the role of embodied crisis experience(s). This introduction deepens our understanding of how the concept of crisis is conceptualised through a cluster of cognitive metaphors (activated or… read more

Leonardis, Irene 2026 Afterword Crises We Live By: A transdisciplinary study of crisis and its metaphors in their cultural context, Leonardis, Irene (ed.), pp. 261–262 | Chapter