Universidad de Extremadura

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Universidad de Extremadura*

Bringing Figurative Language into Real L2 Classrooms: The challenges of empirical testing. Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 22:2 (2024)

EditorAna M. Piquer-Píriz & Reyes Llopis-García

Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics

[Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association, 22:2] 2024. vi, 316 pp. | special issue

Applying Cognitive Linguistics: Figurative language in use, constructions and typology

Edited by Ana M. Piquer-Píriz & Rafael Alejo-González

Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

[Benjamins Current Topics, 99] 2018. vi, 230 pp. |

Applying Cognitive Linguistics: Figurative language in use, constructions and typology. Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 14:1 (2016)

Edited by Ana M. Piquer-Píriz & Rafael Alejo-González

Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics

[Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association, 14:1] 2016. | special issue

Pragmatic Markers in Irish English

Edited by Carolina P. Amador-Moreno, Kevin McCafferty & Elaine Vaughan

Subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 258] 2015. vi, 443 pp. |

Metaphor in Use: Context, culture, and communication

Edited by Fiona MacArthur, José Luis Oncins-Martínez, Manuel Sánchez-García & Ana M. Piquer-Píriz

Subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 38] 2012. x, 379 pp. | edited volume

Sotoca Fernández, David 2025 “If this be Irish gratitude, I could wish myself a Frenchman”: Exploring (im)politeness in intimate discourse in the context of historical letter writing through an analysis of reproaches in CORIECOR

Keywords: corpus linguistics | historical pragmatics | (im)politeness | reproaches | speech acts

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 26:3 pp. 354–379 | article

Castañares, Esmeralda Vicente 2025 Propuesta de traducción de «Un couteau dans la poche»

Keywords: interculturality | translation strategies | adaptation | literary translation | French literature

In: Aproximación a la traducción de referentes culturales en el ámbito audiovisual y literario [Approach to the translation of cultural references in the audiovisual and literary fields], Mogorrón Huerta, Pedro, Lucía Navarro-Brotons & Iván Martínez-Blasco (eds.) [IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 45] pp. 178–197

Piquer-Píriz, Ana M. & Marta Martín-Gilete 2024 Applying Cognitive Linguistics to elucidate the meanings of the particles IN/OUT and UP/DOWN in L2 classrooms: Pedagogical experience vs. research findings

Keywords: Applied Cognitive Linguistics (ACL) | polysemy | classroom-based research | L2 vocabulary

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 22:2 pp. 450–475 | article

Llopis-García, Reyes & Ana M. Piquer-Píriz 2024 Introduction: Lessons learned at the intersection of applied cognitive linguistics and L2 classrooms

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 22:2 pp. 301–308 | introduction | open access

Alejo-González, Rafael 2023 Conventional metaphors in English as a lingua franca: An analysis of speech metaphors in three academic seminars

Keywords: Metaphor | English as a lingua franca | speech activity | English medium instruction

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 23:1 pp. 286–312 | article

Pettersson-Traba, Daniela 2022 Distributional changes in synonym sets: The case of fragrant, scented, and perfumed in 19th- and 20th-century American English

Keywords: near-synonymy | semantic change | diachrony | distributional semantics | attraction | differentiation | conditional inference trees | collocational networks | American English | sweet-smelling

In: English Historical Linguistics: Historical English in contact. Papers from the XXth ICEHL, Los, Bettelou, Chris Cummins, Lisa Gotthard, Alpo Honkapohja & Benjamin Molineaux (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 359] pp. 119–142

Díaz-Sierra, Sara 2022 Produced and perceived authenticity in the Northern Irish TV show Derry Girls

Keywords: authenticity | salience | Derry Girls | Northern Irish English | performed language | representation | perception

English World-Wide 43:2 pp. 167–191 | article

Delgado, Ramiro González 2022 Las tragedias de Sófocles traducidas por Pedro Montengón

Keywords: Pedro Montengón | Sophocles | Spanish Enlightenment | translation studies | Greek tragedy | Pedro Montengón | Sophocle | Espagne des Lumières | Études de traduction | Tragédie grecque

Babel 68:2 pp. 175–196 | article

Bouso, Tamara & Pablo Ruano San Segundo 2021 Another turn of the screw on the history of the reaction object construction

Functions of Language 28:2 pp. 208–231 | article

Alejo-González, Rafael, Manuel Lucero, Mary Schleppegrell & Ana Sánchez 2021 Student-teacher interaction in CLIL and non-CLIL elementary education: A case study of verbal-pedagogical strategies and participation during read alouds in a Natural Science classroom

Keywords: CLIL | primary science | classroom interaction | scaffolding strategies

Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 11:1 p. 4 | article

Núñez Nogueroles, Eugenia Esperanza 2021 

Spanish in Context 18:3 pp. 479–487 | book review

MacArthur, Fiona 2021 Afterword

Metaphor and the Social World 11:2 pp. 352–359 | afterword

Piquer-Píriz, Ana M. 2021 Foreword: Metaphor in education – a multilingual perspective

Metaphor and the Social World 11:2 pp. 191–195 | foreword

MacArthur, Fiona 2020  Rock bottoms, juggling balls and coalprints : Exploring the metaphors L2 speakers of English produce in face-to-face interaction

Keywords: metaphor | conversation | production | English as a second language | English as lingua franca | VOICE | EuroCoAT | repetition | systematicity

In: Producing Figurative Expression: Theoretical, experimental and practical perspectives, Barnden, John & Andrew Gargett (eds.) [Figurative Thought and Language, 10] pp. 331–362

MacArthur, Fiona 2019 Linguistic metaphor identification in English as a lingua franca

In: Metaphor Identification in Multiple Languages: MIPVU around the world, Nacey, Susan, Aletta G. Dorst, Tina Krennmayr & W. Gudrun Reijnierse (eds.) [Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 22] pp. 289–312

MacArthur, Fiona 2019 Marie-Luise Pitzl (2018). Creativity in English as a Lingua Franca: Idiom and Metaphor

Metaphor and the Social World 9:2 pp. 285–292 | book review

Ormazabal, Javier & Juan Romero 2019 Prolegomena to the study of object relations

Keywords: differential object marker | dative | distinctiveness | scales

Lingvisticæ Investigationes 42:1 pp. 102–131 | article

Amador-Moreno, Carolina P. 2019 ‘Matt & Mrs Connor is with me now. They are only beginning to learn the work of the camp’: Irish emigrants writing from Argentina

Keywords: Irish English | language contact | private correspondence | emigrant letters | Corpus of Irish Engish Correspondence | Irish emigration | Irish Argentines

In: Keeping in Touch: Emigrant letters across the English-speaking world, Hickey, Raymond (ed.) [Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 10] pp. 139–162

Piquer-Píriz, Ana María & Rafael Alejo-González 2018 Applying Cognitive Linguistics: Identifying some current research foci (figurative language in use, constructions and typology)

Keywords: applications | Cognitive Linguistics | constructions | figurative language | typology

In: Applying Cognitive Linguistics: Figurative language in use, constructions and typology, Piquer-Píriz, Ana M. & Rafael Alejo-González (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 99] pp. 1–19

MacArthur, Fiona 2018 Overt and covert uses of metaphor in the academic mentoring in English of Spanish undergraduate students at five European universities

Keywords: academic discourse | cross-cultural communication | metaphor | office hours’ consultations

In: Applying Cognitive Linguistics: Figurative language in use, constructions and typology, Piquer-Píriz, Ana M. & Rafael Alejo-González (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 99] pp. 23–50

Ruano San Segundo, Pablo 2017 Análisis traductológico de los wellerismos en Las aventuras de Pickwick, de Benito Pérez Galdós: Un texto de partida francés y una omisión sistemática de la paremia

Keywords: wellerisms | Las Aventuras de Pickwick | Perez Galdós | The Pickwick Papers | French source text | omission | wellérismes | Las Aventuras de Pickwick | Galdós | The Pickwick Papers | texte source français | omission

Babel 63:1 pp. 109–128 | article

MacArthur, Fiona 2016 Chapter 7. When languages and cultures meet: Mixed metaphors in the discourse of Spanish speakers of English

In: Mixing Metaphor, Gibbs, Raymond W. (ed.) [Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 6] pp. 133–154

Curado Fuentes, Alejandro 2015 Exploiting keywords in a DDL approach to the comprehension of news texts by lower-level students

Keywords: business English | DDL | keywords | news reading

In: Multiple Affordances of Language Corpora for Data-driven Learning, Leńko-Szymańska, Agnieszka & Alex Boulton (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 69] pp. 177–198

Amador-Moreno, Carolina P., Kevin McCafferty & Elaine Vaughan 2015 Introduction

In: Pragmatic Markers in Irish English, Amador-Moreno, Carolina P., Kevin McCafferty & Elaine Vaughan (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 258] pp. 1–16

Amador-Moreno, Carolina P. & Kevin McCafferty 2015 ‘[B]ut sure its only a penny after all’: Irish English discourse marker sure

In: Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English, Dossena, Marina (ed.) [Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 4] pp. 179–197

Amador-Moreno, Carolina P. & Kevin McCafferty 2015 “Sure this is a great country for drink and rowing at elections”: Pragmatic markers in the Corpus of Irish English Correspondence, 1750�1940

In: Pragmatic Markers in Irish English, Amador-Moreno, Carolina P., Kevin McCafferty & Elaine Vaughan (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 258] pp. 270–291

MacArthur, Fiona 2015 On using a dictionary to identify the basic senses of words

Keywords: dictionary | metaphor identification | discourse

Metaphor and the Social World 5:1 pp. 124–136 | article

McCafferty, Kevin & Carolina P. Amador-Moreno 2012 A Corpus of Irish English Correspondence (CORIECOR): A tool for studying the history and evolution of Irish English

In: New Perspectives on Irish English, Migge, Bettina & Máire Ní Chiosáin (eds.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G44] pp. 265–288

MacArthur, Fiona & José Luis Oncins-Martínez 2012 Introduction: Metaphor in use

In: Metaphor in Use: Context, culture, and communication, MacArthur, Fiona, José Luis Oncins-Martínez, Manuel Sánchez-García & Ana M. Piquer-Píriz (eds.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 38] pp. 1–18

Amador-Moreno, Carolina P. 2012 The Irish in Argentina: Irish English transported

In: New Perspectives on Irish English, Migge, Bettina & Máire Ní Chiosáin (eds.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G44] pp. 289–310

Piquer-Píriz, Ana María 2012 Motivated word meanings and vocabulary learning: The polysemy of hand in the English for Young Learners classroom

Metaphor and the Social World 1:2 pp. 154–173 | article

Alejo-González, Rafael 2010 Making sense of phrasal verbs: A cognitive linguistic account of L2 learning

AILA Review 23:1 pp. 50–71 | article

MacArthur, Fiona 2010 Metaphorical competence in EFL: Where are we and where should we be going? A view from the language classroom

AILA Review 23:1 pp. 155–173 | article

Álvares Martínez, María Ángeles 1997 Rodolfo lenz: Contribución gramatical y lexicográfica

Historiographia Linguistica 24:1/2 pp. 197–212 | article

Fielden Burns, Laura Victoria & Cristina Manchado Nieto ICTs for language learning anxiety in pre-service teachers: Broadening the horizon for the next generation of early childhood educators

Keywords: pre-service teachers | foreign languages | oral skills | language learning anxiety | ICTs

Language Teaching for Young Learners | Online First Publication, 29 pp. | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.