Anaïs Augé
List of John Benjamins publications in which Anaïs Augé is involved.
Journal
2025 Review of Ädel & Östman (2023): Risk Discourse and Responsibility Pragmatics and Society 16:3, pp. 442–447 | Review
2025 France’s “drôle de guerre”: Sociopolitical polarisation and resistance to metaphor Journal of Language and Politics 24:3, pp. 483–504 | Article
This paper sheds light on the sociopolitical polarisation reflected in the responses to a political metaphor, in French public discourse about covid-19. The aim is to uncover how polarisation may influence metaphorical representation of a political issue. The study focuses on the French… read more
2024 Are religion metaphors anti‑revolutionary? Metaphors of climate scepticism in France Metaphor and the Social World 14:1, pp. 43–63 | Article
This paper investigates the socio-political implications of sceptical metaphors in French discourse about the climate crisis. Existing literature has demonstrated the prevalence of religion metaphors in English sceptical discourse. Yet, in France, religious references in language use are limited… read more
2024 Situationally-triggered metaphor as political argument: Public responses and argumentative exploitation Journal of Argumentation in Context 13:1, pp. 106–130 | Article
This paper proposes to investigate the public responses to situationally-triggered metaphors as these have been observed in political argumentation. Situationally-triggered metaphors occur when a nonmetaphorical connection is made between the metaphor and an aspect of the relevant situational… read more
2024 Chapter 12. “We are in the same storm, not in the same boat”: Proverbial wisdom in environmental debates Proverbs within Cognitive Linguistics: State of the art, Belkhir, Sadia (ed.), pp. 328–348 | Chapter
The chapter proposes to investigate the implications of the proverbial phrase to be in the same boat in international debates about climate change. The study exposes the endorsed or disputed uses of the proverb. I analyse its exploitation by different discourse producers who convey different… read more
2022 Ideological and explanatory uses of the COVID-19 as a war metaphor in science Review of Cognitive Linguistics 20:2, pp. 412–437 | Article
This paper proposes to investigate the varying implications of the war metaphor in scientific publications discussing the COVID-19 pandemic. The corpus under study is composed of articles retrieved from the international scientific journal Nature, the weekly magazine New Scientist, and the… read more
2022 How visual metaphors can contradict verbal occurrences: A cross-linguistic and multimodal analysis of the
imprint
of climate change Metaphor and the Social World 12:1, pp. 1–22 | Article
We investigate the different interpretations related to the metaphorical
imprint
of climate change in English and French media discourses. This cross-linguistic perspective is motivated by the particularities of both languages which have been assumed to promote different… read more







