Cristina Maria Soriano Salinas
List of John Benjamins publications in which Cristina Maria Soriano Salinas is involved.
2022 The affect bias in the metaphorical representation of anticipated events: The case of approach Metaphor and the Social World 12:1, pp. 115–137 | Article
When talking about anticipated events, speakers can conceptualize them either as destinations towards which they are moving or as entities moving towards them, which correspond to the Ego- and the Time-moving metaphors, respectively (cf. ‘We are approaching Christmas’ and ‘Christmas is… read more
2022 The size of shame and pride: Testing metonymy in the figurative representation of moral emotions Living Metaphors and Metonymies, Brdar, Mario and Rita Brdar-Szabó (eds.), pp. 210–230 | Article
We investigate the figurative size (big or small) that more naturally fits the conceptual representation of the moral emotion concepts pride and shame. We hypothesize the pairings pride-big and shame-small to be more natural than their counterparts, because of the emotions’ expressive profile:… read more
2018 Methodological triangulation in the study of emotion: The case of 'anger' in three language groups Applying Cognitive Linguistics: Figurative language in use, constructions and typology, Piquer-Píriz, Ana M. and Rafael Alejo-González (eds.), pp. 73–100 | Article
This chapter explores the value of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) in theinterdisciplinary study of emotion. The insights provided by a quantitative,corpus-based analysis of anger metaphors in three languages (English, Spanish, Russian) are compared to those obtained from two other methodologies… read more
2017 Surprise in the GRID Expressing and Describing Surprise, Celle, Agnès and Laure Lansari (eds.), pp. 173–196 | Article
This paper analyses surprise in the framework of the GRID paradigm as part of a research project on the meaning of emotion words across languages and cultures. Based on psychological component theories of emotion, an online instrument was designed to rate the meaning of 24 emotion terms on 142… read more
2016 Methodological triangulation in the study of emotion: The case of ‘anger’ in three language groups Applying Cognitive Linguistics: Figurative language in use, constructions and typology, Piquer-Píriz, Ana M. and Rafael Alejo-González (eds.), pp. 73–101 | Article
This paper explores the value of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) in the interdisciplinary study of emotion. The insights provided by a quantitative, corpus-based analysis of anger metaphors in three languages (English, Spanish, Russian) are compared to those obtained from two other methodologies… read more
2015 Surprise in the GRID Expressing and Describing Surprise, Celle, Agnès and Laure Lansari (eds.), pp. 436–460 | Article
This paper analyses surprise in the framework of the GRID paradigm as part of a research project on the meaning of emotion words across languages and cultures. Based on psychological component theories of emotion, an online instrument was designed to rate the meaning of 24 emotion terms on 142… read more