William Michael Short

List of John Benjamins publications in which William Michael Short is involved.

Title

Embodiment in Latin Semantics

Edited by William Michael Short

Embodiment in Latin Semantics introduces theories of embodied meaning developed in the cognitive sciences to the study of Latin semantics. Bringing together contributions from an international group of scholars, the volume demonstrates the pervasive role that embodied cognitive structures and… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 174] 2016. v, 271 pp.

Articles

Short, William Michael 2026 Weathering the storm: Storm metaphors of crisis in Latin Crises We Live By: A transdisciplinary study of crisis and its metaphors in their cultural context, Leonardis, Irene (ed.), pp. 109–126 | Chapter

This paper explores Latin’s metaphorical construal of crisis, especially through the image of a storm. It shows that Latin speakers utilise the terms tempestas and procellae (both ‘storm’), along with a cluster of semantically related words, to convey this concept. It then goes on to argue that… read more

Short, William Michael 2016 Introduction Embodiment in Latin Semantics, Short, William Michael (ed.), pp. 1–14 | Article