Isabel Negro
List of John Benjamins publications in which Isabel Negro is involved.
Articles
2016 The human being as the target of crisis metaphors in English, Spanish and French Metaphor and the Social World 6:2, pp. 177–204 | Article
In 2008 a financial crisis threatened to make economies collapse worldwide. The world entered an era of bank and businesses failures, private defaults and massive layoffs. The crisis became a major topic in the media. The present article sets out to analyse the conceptualization of the crisis in… read more
2012 The relation between spelling and pronunciation: The case of French and the phonological variation /e/ ~ /ε/ in different French dialects Written Language & Literacy 15:1, pp. 46–64 | Article
This paper presents a study of the impact of pronunciation on the spelling of /E/ verb endings in French. The pronunciation of /E/ endings varies according to which areas the French language is used. In some areas, the /E/ verb endings are pronounced either /e/ or /ε/, according to the verb tense,… read more