Paula Pérez-Sobrino
List of John Benjamins publications in which Paula Pérez-Sobrino is involved.
Online Resource
E‑ISSN 1877‑9638
Journal
Review of Cognitive Linguistics
Published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association
Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
ISSN 1877-9751 | E‑ISSN 1877‑976X
Titles
Current challenges in metaphor research
Edited by Nina Julich-Warpakowski and Paula Pérez-Sobrino
Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 13:1 (2023) vi, 143 pp.
Multimodal Metaphor and Metonymy in Advertising
Paula Pérez-Sobrino
Metaphor and metonymy appeal to us because they evoke mental images in unique but still recognisable ways. The potential for figurative thought exists in everyone, and it pervades our everyday social interactions. In particular, advertising offers countless opportunities to explore the way in which… read more[Figurative Thought and Language, 2] 2017. vii, 232 pp.
Constructing Families of Constructions: Analytical perspectives and theoretical challenges
Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Alba Luzondo Oyón and Paula Pérez-Sobrino
Within Construction Grammar, this volume moves away from a compartmentalized view of constructions with the aim of providing a more holistic description of grammar. Thus, the book brings together analyses that look at constructional families within the “constructicon” of such languages as English,… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 58] 2017. vii, 342 pp.
2025 Chapter 4. Multimodal meaning-making in opera: Metaphors at the intersection οf text, music, and images in Wagner’s Lohengrin What makes a Figure: Rethinking figurativity, Colston, Herbert L. (ed.), pp. 98–122 | Chapter
The aim of the present chapter is to explore opera as a multimodal piece of art comprising three modalities: the written libretto (verbal mode), the music score (music mode), and the staging based on the scenical directions provided in the libretto (visual mode). We investigate the extent to… read more
2024 A protocol for the annotation of evaluative stance and metaphor across four discourse genres Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 37:2, pp. 486–517 | Article
The present article contributes to research on evaluation by addressing two complementary objectives: first, we present a protocol for the identification and annotation of evaluation in English discourse and, second, we show the results of the implementation of the protocol in the annotation of… read more
2023 Introduction: Current challenges in metaphor research Current challenges in metaphor research, Julich-Warpakowski, Nina and Paula Pérez-Sobrino (eds.), pp. 1–15 | Introduction
Metaphor research has witnessed tremendous changes in how metaphor is seen and understood. Traditionally, metaphor has been viewed as a special, creative, and noticeable use of language. Lakoff and Johnson’s Conceptual Metaphor Theory (1980) has marked a cognitive revolution by viewing metaphor… read more
2021 The #ReframeCovid initiative: From Twitter to society via metaphor Metaphor and the Social World 11:1, pp. 98–120 | Article
From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments, health agencies, public institutions and the media around the world have made use of metaphors to talk about the virus, its effects and the measures needed to reduce its spread. Dominant among these metaphors have been war metaphors (e.g.… read more
2020 Chapter 6. What makes an advert go viral? The role of figurative operations in the success of Internet videos Performing Metaphoric Creativity across Modes and Contexts, Hidalgo-Downing, Laura and Blanca Kraljevic Mujic (eds.), pp. 119–152 | Chapter
This chapter investigates the potential role played by the creative use of figurative operations, such as metaphor, metonymy, irony, hyperbole, and understatement, in the success of Internet videos. Irony and figurative language based on creative contrasts between contrasting scenarios were… read more
2017 Introduction: Investigating the constructicon Constructing Families of Constructions: Analytical perspectives and theoretical challenges, Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José, Alba Luzondo Oyón and Paula Pérez-Sobrino (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Chapter
