Ahmed Abdel-Raheem
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ahmed Abdel-Raheem is involved.
2025 “That’s not what he meant”: The debate over religion-related metaphors Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict: Online-First Articles | Article
Taking the notion of the “hearer’s meaning” as distinct from the speaker’s communicative intention, and shifting from the dichotomy speaker/hearer(s) to a system of participant-roles of which speaker and hearer(s) are only two kinds, this article focuses on how religion-related metaphors such as… read more
2025 Russian culture (rather than grammatical gender) influences artistic personifications International Journal of Language and Culture: Online-First Articles | Article
Can Russian grammatical gender influence an artist’s decisions in personification or conceptualization of abstract entities? This article aims to contribute to the scholarly literature on linguistic relativity, and re-examines the relationship between grammatical gender and patterns in thought… read more
2024 Frame exploitation at its worst: The way Egyptian military doctors make sense of illness and cure Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
Although essential to science and health communication, metaphors can backfire. At this point, any attempt on the part of the speaker to clarify his/her intentions would ultimately prove futile because the mental situation models of speakers and their recipients may not be the same. A debate… read more
2021 Language and cultural cognition: The case of grammatical gender in Arabic and personified gender in cartoons Review of Cognitive Linguistics 19:1, pp. 111–141 | Article
In this paper, we analyze a large-scale corpus of Arab cartoons to measure the correspondence between grammatical gender in Arabic and personified gender in images. The results show that the effect is very strong for males (a near-perfect relationship between the two, grammatical and visual… read more
2018 Mental models, (de)compressions, and the actor’s process in body-swap movies Cognitive Linguistic Studies 5:2, pp. 376–409 | Article
The body-swap comedy, where someone finds themselves inhabiting an entirely different body, is a well-established Hollywood tradition. Crucially, American filmmakers have tried every twist and contortion of this genre premise at a point or another over the past few decades. And yet, other… read more
2018 Metaphoric moral framing and image-text relations in the op-ed genre Information Design Journal 24:1, pp. 42–66 | Article
This article examines the role of visual metaphor for moral-political cognition. It makes use of a large corpus of 250 multimodal op-eds about the Euro crisis and lays the foundation for establishing a general system of image-text relations in the op-ed genre. Specifically, the paper addresses… read more
2016 Mostafa Houssien’s Satan’s Family: Conceptual blending in a post-coup Egypt editorial cartoon Metaphor and the Social World 6:2, pp. 304–325 | Article
After the 2013 coup d’état in Egypt, the Egyptian media launched strenuous campaigns against the Muslim Brotherhood and the West. In this paper, I present a cognitive analysis of a multimodal text of a cartoon with labels, with the goal of gauging its social/political impact. Crucially, the… read more
2014 The JOURNEY metaphor and moral political cognition Pragmatics & Cognition 22:3, pp. 373–401 | Article
Although researchers have paid much attention to the journey metaphor (e.g., Forceville, 2006a, 2011a, 2011b; Forceville & Jeulink, 2011), little seems known about its role for moral political cognition. Using data from the US and UK public discourses on the Euro crisis as an example, this paper… read more