Masaryk University

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Masaryk University*

COVID-19: Metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures

EditorXu Wen, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon & Zoltán Kövecses

Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics

[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 11] 2025. | edited volume

Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication

Edited by Wei-lun Lu, Naděžda Kudrnáčová & Laura A. Janda

Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Corpus linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

[Benjamins Current Topics, 119] 2021. | edited volume

Cognitive Linguistic Aspects of Information Structure and Flow: Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 7:2 (2020)

Edited by Wei-lun Lu & Jirí Lukl

Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Cognitive psychology | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies, 7:2] 2020. | special issue

Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication: Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 17:1 (2019)

Edited by Wei-lun Lu, Naděžda Kudrnáčová & Laura A. Janda

Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics

[Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association, 17:1] 2019. | special issue

Persuasion in Public Discourse: Cognitive and functional perspectives

Edited by Jana Pelclová & Wei-lun Lu

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 79] 2018. | edited volume | open access

The Discourse of Online Sportscasting: Constructing meaning and interaction in live text commentary

Edited by Jan Chovanec

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 297] 2018. | monograph

The dynamics of interactional humor: Creating and negotiating humor in everyday encounters

Edited by Villy Tsakona & Jan Chovanec

Subjects Discourse studies | Humor studies | Pragmatics

[Topics in Humor Research, 7] 2018. | edited volume

Participation in Public and Social Media Interactions

Edited by Marta Dynel & Jan Chovanec

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 256] 2015. vi, 285 pp. |

Pragmatics of Tense and Time in News: From canonical headlines to online news texts

Jan Chovanec

Subjects Pragmatics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 253] 2014. xvi, 294 pp. |

Language and Function: To the memory of Jan Firbas

Edited by Josef Hladký

Subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 49] 2003. x, 336 pp. | edited volume

Goryczka, Pamela & Anne-Li Demonie 2026 Getting rid of zeroes: The morphosyntax of deadjectival ‘A-verbs’ in Italian

Keywords: deadjectival verbs | suffixation | zero derivation | Nanosyntax | phrasal lexicalisation

In: Null or Nothing: Zero elements in Romance syntax and morphology, Herbeck, Peter & Natascha Pomino (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 291] pp. 140–180

Chovanec, Jan 2025 Review of Exploring the Ambivalence of Liquid Racism edited by Argiris Archakis & Villy Tsakona (2024)

Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict | Online First Publication, 8 pp. | book review

Kysová, Šárka Havlíčková 2025 Review of Multilevel Grounding: A Theory Of Musical Meaning by Mihailo Antović (2022)

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 12:1 pp. 209–216 | book review

Pazdírek, Ondřej 2025 Review of Aspects of cognitive terminology studies edited by S. Molina-Plaza & N. Maroto (2024)

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 23:2 pp. 676–683 | book review

Havlíčková Kysová, Šárka & Wei-lun Lu 2025 The Czech Coronasong: A multimodal perspective

Keywords: Cognitive Grammar | dialect | lyric | metaphor | musical grammar | rhyme | National Theatre Brno | opera | theatre

In: COVID-19: Metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures, Wen, Xu, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon & Zoltán Kövecses (eds.) [Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 11] pp. 318–341

Lennon, Joe, Wei-lun Lu, Xu Wen & Zoltan Kövecses 2025 Communicating the pandemic: Cognitive Linguistic approaches to meaning construction across socio-cultural settings, genres, and modalities

In: COVID-19: Metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures, Wen, Xu, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon & Zoltán Kövecses (eds.) [Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 11] pp. 1–8

Nogolová, Michaela, Ján Mačutek & Radek Čech 2025 Distributional properties of linear dependency segments

Keywords: dependency syntax | Menzerath-Altmann law | linear dependency segment | rank-frequency distribution | length distribution

In: Mathematical Modelling in Linguistics and Text Analysis: Theory and applications, Pawłowski, Adam, Sheila Embleton, Jan Mačutek & Aris Xanthos (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 370] pp. 60–69

Chen, Khin Wee & Ali A. Al-Kandari 2025 Leadership in numbers: The pragmatics of We in Singapore’s NDR speeches (2004–2023)

Keywords: political pragmatics | personal pronouns | corpus linguistics | deixis and modality | leadership discourse | Southeast Asian politics

Journal of Language and Politics | Online First Publication, 28 pp. | article

Dianová, Simona & Monika Brusenbauch Meislová 2025 Navigating Brexit through fear: An appraisal analysis of 2016–2024 British Prime Ministerial discourse

Keywords: fear-based appeals | discourse | appraisal theory | Brexit | United Kingdom

Journal of Language and Politics 25:3 pp. 295–330 | article | open access

Agapova, Anna & Stanislava Špačková 2025 The use of machine translation as a multilingual communication strategy: The case of Ukrainian war refugees in Czechia

Keywords: migration | Ukrainian refugees | multilingual communication strategy | machine translation

Translation Spaces 14:2 pp. 331–354 | article

Baunaz, Lena & Anne-Li Demonie 2025 Capturing expletive negation with complex left branches: A cross-linguistic perspective

Keywords: Expletive negation | fear-clauses | syncretism | Nanosyntax | complex left branches | epistemic modality

Linguistic Variation | Online First Publication, 42 pp. | article

Mildorf, Jarmila & Zuzana Fonioková 2025 Life storytelling across media and contexts

Narrative Inquiry 35:2 pp. 207–215 | introduction

Goldberger, Marie-Antoinette & Miroslav Janík 2025 The discursive representation of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Austrian news coverage: 2010–2015–2020

Keywords: corpus linguistics | critical discourse analysis | refugees | migrants | asylum seekers | representation | media | newspapers | collocates

Journal of Language and Politics 25:1 pp. 119–140 | article

Rankin, Tom & Thomas Wagner 2024 Effects of input frequency and microvariation on knowledge of negative inversion in L2 English

Keywords: negative inversion | verb second (V2) | cross-linguistic influence | input frequency | microvariation

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 15:5 pp. 718–744 | article

Chovanec, Jan 2024 Performing branded affect in micro‑celebrity YouTube reaction videos

Keywords: affect | stance | YouTube | emotion economy | micro-celebrity | self-branding | social media | identity | pragmatics of social media

In: Influencer Discourse, Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Pilar & Alexandra Georgakopoulou (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 349] pp. 200–226

Beneš Kováčová, Dominika 2024 Social media influencers and #DigitalDetoxDay: A multimodal discourse analysis of an Instagram anti-stigma mental health campaign

Keywords: Instagram | self-presentation | multimodal discourse analysis | mental health | digital detox | influencers | authenticity | relatability | intimacy

In: Influencer Discourse, Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Pilar & Alexandra Georgakopoulou (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 349] pp. 227–249

Crosthwaite, Peter & Vít Baisa 2024 A user-friendly corpus tool for disciplinary data-driven learning: Introducing CorpusMate

Keywords: data-driven learning | CorpusMate | concordancing | disciplinary variation | young learners

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 29:4 pp. 595–610 | article

Brusenbauch Meislová, Monika 2024 Discourse of self-legitimation: Self- and other-presentation in the European Parliament’s soft law on Brexit

Keywords: Self-legitimation | discourse | European Parliament | soft law | Brexit

Journal of Language and Politics 24:4 pp. 545–569 | article | open access

Pelclová, Jana 2023 Review of Unpacking creativity. The power of figurative communication in advertising by P. Peréz Sobrino & J. Littlemore Ford (2021)

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 21:2 pp. 596–601 | book review

Chovanec, Jan & Villy Tsakona 2023 “The girl is on fire!”: Interactional humour in YouTube comments on the Notre Dame disaster

Keywords: interactional humour | disaster humour | religious humour | YouTube | jokes | joking thread | online discourse

In: The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts, Linares Bernabéu, Esther (ed.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 335] p. 87

Žákovská, Iveta 2023 Debate or dialogue?: A case of a Czech TV discussion program where dialogue fails

Keywords: dialogue | media discourse | broadcast talk | “confrontalk” | televised debate | conversation analysis | discourse analysis

Language and Dialogue 13:2 pp. 254–276 | article

Čech, Radek, Pavel Kosek, Olga Navrátilová & Ján Mačutek 2023 Development of the word order of the reflexive enclitic sě/se dependent on a finite verb in Czech translations of the Gospel of Matthew from the 14th to the 21st century

Keywords: clitic | enclitic | reflexive sě/se | diachrony | Czech language | Bible translation | word order

Journal of Historical Linguistics 14:3 pp. 385–426 | article

Dudova, Marketa 2022 Review of Cognitive Linguistics and Sociocultural Theory: Applications for Second and Foreign Language Teaching by Kyoko Masuda, Carlee Arnett & Angela Labarca (2015)

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 9:2 pp. 438–444 | book review

Knotková, Magdaléna & Wei-lun Lu 2022 Rendering, generalization and variation* : On the use of multiple parallel texts as a comparative method in cognitive poetics

Keywords: construal | construction | generalization | parallel texts | stylistics

In: Visual Metaphors, Benczes, Réka & Veronika Szelid (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 124] pp. 209–230

Lu, Wei-lun 2022 Viewpoint and metaphor in culture* : A Cognitive Linguistic analysis on a selection of Chinese eulogistic idioms used in Taiwan

Keywords: allusion | cultural metaphor | cultural conceptualization of death | eulogistic idioms | funeral | viewing arrangement

In: Visual Metaphors, Benczes, Réka & Veronika Szelid (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 124] pp. 263–282

Pospechova, Zuzana 2022 Gendering prosody in communication: The case of Standard Chinese

Keywords: Standard Chinese | prosody | gender | prosodic word | rhythm

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 32:1 pp. 133–153 | article

Strachoňová, Hana 2022 On question words in Czech Sign Language

Keywords: question words | Czech Sign Language | content questions | compounds | non-manuals

Sign Language & Linguistics 25:1 pp. 58–91 | article

Mikulová, Jana 2021 Pragmatic uses of ‘I say’ in Latin

Keywords: aio | dico | grammaticalization | inquam | I say | Latin | loquor | pragmatic markers

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 22:1 pp. 34–68 | article

Kováčová, Dominika 2021 Becoming #Instafamous: The analysis of (in)formality in self-presentation on Instagram

Keywords: Instagram | self-presentation | performance | informality | language of immediacy | language of distance | visual semiotics | authenticity

Internet Pragmatics 5:1 pp. 12–37 | article

Kudrnáčová, Naděžda 2021 Contrastive semantics of human locomotion verbs: English walk vs. Czech jít and kráčet

Keywords: contrastive semantics | parallel translation corpus | verbs of human locomotion | quantization of motion

In: Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication, Lu, Wei-lun, Naděžda Kudrnáčová & Laura A. Janda (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 119] pp. 53–77

Janda, Laura A., Naděžda Kudrnáčová & Wei-lun Lu 2021 Deep dives into big data: Best practices for synthesis of quantitative and qualitative analysis in Cognitive Linguistics

In: Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication, Lu, Wei-lun, Naděžda Kudrnáčová & Laura A. Janda (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 119] pp. 1–6

Dosedlová, Aneta & Wei-lun Lu 2021 The near-synonymy of classifiers and construal operation: A corpus-based study of 棵 kē and 株 zhū in Chinese

Keywords: classifier | construal | quantifier | synonymy | Chinese

In: Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication, Lu, Wei-lun, Naděžda Kudrnáčová & Laura A. Janda (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 119] pp. 115–132

Brusenbauch Meislova, Monika & Steve Buckledee 2021 Discursive (re)construction of populist sovereignism by right-wing hard Eurosceptic parties in the 2019 European parliament elections: Insights from the UK, Italy, the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Keywords: populist sovereignism | European parliament elections | Matteo Salvini | Nigel Farage | Ivan David | Milan Uhrik

Journal of Language and Politics 20:6 pp. 825–851 | article

Lu, Wei-lun, Naděžda Kudrnáčová & Laura A. Janda 2021 Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication

In: Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication, Lu, Wei-lun, Naděžda Kudrnáčová & Laura A. Janda (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 119] p. iii ff.

Čech, Radek, Pavel Kosek, Olga Navrátilová & Ján Mačutek 2021 On the impact of the initial phrase length on the position of enclitics in Old Czech

Keywords: enclitics | word order | initial phrase | length | Old Czech

In: Language and Text: Data, models, information and applications, Pawłowski, Adam, Jan Mačutek, Sheila Embleton & George Mikros (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 356] p. 9

Lu, Wei-lun, Svitlana Shurma & Suzanne Kemmer 2020 Delivering the unconventional across languages: A Cognitive Grammar analysis of nonce words in “Jabberwocky” and its Ukrainian renditions

Keywords: cognitive poetics | Cognitive Grammar | translation | lexical blending

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 18:1 pp. 244–274 | article

Macháček, Jiří & Robert Nedoma 2020 Die Runeninschrift auf dem Rinderknochen von Břeclav, Flur Lány (Südmähren, Tschechische Republik)

NOWELE 73:1 pp. 116–122 | article | open access

Lukl, Jiří 2020 Emphatic italics and the information structure of a prose text

Keywords: emphatic italics | emphasis | covert prosody | written and spoken communication | FSP | Chafe | Firbas

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 7:2 pp. 381–415 | article

Kováčová, Dominika 2020 Michele Zappavigna. 2018. Searchable talk: Hashtags and social media metadiscourse

Internet Pragmatics 3:1 pp. 127–132 | book review

Knotková, Magdaléna & Wei-lun Lu 2020 Rendering, generalization and variation: On the use of multiple parallel texts as a comparative method in cognitive poetics

Keywords: construal | construction | generalization | parallel texts | stylistics

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 7:1 pp. 201–221 | article

Lu, Wei-lun 2020 Viewpoint and metaphor in culture: A Cognitive Linguistic analysis on a selection of Chinese eulogistic idioms used in Taiwan

Keywords: allusion | cultural metaphor | cultural conceptualization of death | eulogistic idioms | funeral | viewing arrangement

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 7:1 pp. 254–274 | article

Lukl, Jiří & Wei-lun Lu 2020 The flow and structure of information in cognitive linguistics: Discourse, functional and cross-linguistic dimensions

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 7:2 pp. 275–283 | introduction

Lu, Wei-lun 2020 Cultural “Signs of life” in politics: A case study of eulogistic idioms for Taiwanese politicians

Keywords: metaphor | metonymy | profile | textile metaphor

In: Language, Culture and Identity: Signs of life, da Silva Sinha, Vera, Ana Moreno-Núñez & Zhen Tian (eds.) [Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 13] pp. 141–156

Lojdová, Kateřina 2020 Drinking stories of emerging adults

Keywords: alcohol consumption | drinking stories | emerging adulthood | identity | narrative analysis

Narrative Inquiry 30:1 pp. 104–121 | article

Lu, Wei-lun 2020 Narrative viewpoint and subjective construal across languages: English inversion, associated strategies and their Chinese renditions in multiple parallel texts

Keywords: constructional schema | iconicity | phonological pole | subjective construal | translation

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 7:2 pp. 334–356 | article

Pelclová, Jana 2020 “Meaning you have been known to act rashly”: How Molly Weasley negotiates her identity as a moral authority in conflicts in the Harry Potter series

Keywords: impoliteness | conventionalised impoliteness | implicational impoliteness | Harry Potter | Molly Weasley | moral authority | manners

In: Manners, Norms and Transgressions in the History of English: Literary and linguistic approaches, Jucker, Andreas H. & Irma Taavitsainen (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 312] pp. 271–293

Kudrnáčová, Naděžda 2019 Contrastive semantics of human locomotion verbs: English walk vs. Czech jít and kráčet

Keywords: contrastive semantics | parallel translation corpus | verbs of human locomotion | quantization of motion

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 17:1 pp. 53–77 | article

Janda, Laura A., Naděžda Kudrnáčová & Wei-lun Lu 2019 Deep dives into big data: Best practices for synthesis of quantitative and qualitative analysis in Cognitive Linguistics

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 17:1 pp. 1–6 | article

Dosedlová, Aneta & Wei-lun Lu 2019 The near-synonymy of classifiers and construal operation: A corpus-based study of 棵 kē and 株 zhū in Chinese

Keywords: classifier | construal | quantifier | synonymy | Chinese

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 17:1 pp. 113–130 | article

Dontcheva-Navratilova, Olga 2018 A contrastive (English, Czech English, Czech) study of rhetorical functions of citations in Linguistics research articles

Keywords: citation | genre | intercultural variation | persuasion | research articles | rhetorical functions

In: Intercultural Perspectives on Research Writing, Mur-Dueñas, Pilar & Jolanta Šinkūnienė (eds.) [AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 18] pp. 15–37

Povolná, Renata 2018 Conference abstracts in English: A challenge for non-Anglophone writers

Keywords: intercultural variation | conference abstracts | rhetorical structure | moves | move analysis | tense | aspect and voice of finite verbs | classes of grammatical subjects

In: Intercultural Perspectives on Research Writing, Mur-Dueñas, Pilar & Jolanta Šinkūnienė (eds.) [AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 18] pp. 151–171

Lu, Wei-lun 2018 Book review on Yu, Ning. 2009. From body to meaning in culture: Papers on cognitive semantic studies of Chinese

International Journal of Language and Culture 5:1 pp. 130–132 | book review

Shurma, Svitlana & Wei-lun Lu 2018 The cognitive potential of antithesis: ‘To be, or not to be’ in Hamlet’s signature soliloquy

Keywords: antithesis | blend | conceptual oxymoron | mapping | parallel texts

English Text Construction 11:1 pp. 141–168 | article

Chovanec, Jan & Villy Tsakona 2018 Investigating the dynamics of humor: Towards a theory of interactional humor

Keywords: incongruity | interactional humor | framing devices of humor | reactions to humor | sociocultural parameters | social functions of humor | genre | General Theory of Verbal Humor

In: The dynamics of interactional humor: Creating and negotiating humor in everyday encounters, Tsakona, Villy & Jan Chovanec (eds.) [Topics in Humor Research, 7] pp. 1–26

Chovanec, Jan 2018 Laughter and non-humorous situations in TV documentaries

Keywords: laughter | broadcast talk | TV documentary | footing | laughable

In: The dynamics of interactional humor: Creating and negotiating humor in everyday encounters, Tsakona, Villy & Jan Chovanec (eds.) [Topics in Humor Research, 7] pp. 155–180

Chovanec, Jan 2018 Irony as counter positioning: Reader comments on the EU migrant crisis

In: The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter, Jobert, Manuel & Sandrine Sorlin (eds.) [Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 30] pp. 1–30

Chovanec, Jan 2018 The Discourse of Online Sportscasting: Constructing meaning and interaction in live text commentary

In: The Discourse of Online Sportscasting: Constructing meaning and interaction in live text commentary, Chovanec, Jan (ed.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 297]

Tsakona, Villy & Jan Chovanec 2018 The dynamics of interactional humor: Creating and negotiating humor in everyday encounters

In: The dynamics of interactional humor: Creating and negotiating humor in everyday encounters, Tsakona, Villy & Jan Chovanec (eds.) [Topics in Humor Research, 7] p.  ff.

Chovanec, Jan 2017 Gil-Salom & Soler-Monreal, eds. (2014). Dialogicity in Written Specialised Genres

English Text Construction 10:1 pp. 165–170 | book review

Nélis, Noémie 2017 Pandey, 2016. Monolingualism and linguistic exhibitionism in fiction

English Text Construction 10:1 pp. 171–178 | book review

Raková, Zuzana 2018 La notion de fonction en traductologie européenne contemporaine – différentes conceptions

Keywords: fonction | théories fonctionnalistes de la traduction | skopos | polysystème | métathéorie | function | functionalist theories of translation | skopos | polysystem | metatheory

Babel 63:6 pp. 835–845 | article

Lu, Wei-lun 2016 Conceptual autonomy and dependence in Chinese lexical semantic analysis: The role of image-schema, conceptual domains and co-text in [v]–[shang]

Keywords: conceptual autonomy | co-text | conceptual dependence | conceptual domain | image-schema | polysemy | resultative verb construction

Chinese Language and Discourse 6:2 pp. 162–182 | article

Lu, Wei-lun 2014 Review of Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar edited by Hans C. Boas (2010)

Studies in Language 38:2 pp. 413–420 | book review

Lu, Wei-lun 2014 Review of The Language of Metaphors by Andrew Goatly (2011)

Pragmatics and Society 5:2 pp. 329–333 | book review

Chovanec, Jan 2014 “…but there were no broken legs”: The emerging genre of football match reports in The Times in the 1860s

Keywords: genre development | Victorian journalism | football history | sports reporting | historical news analysis | historical pragmatics

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 15:2 pp. 228–254 | article

Verhelst, Machteld, Koen Jaspaert & Kris Van den Branden 2012 The Impact Of Input On Early Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 163:1 pp. 21–42 | article

Urbanova, Ludmila 2008 Phatic communion and small talk in fictional dialogues

In: Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Angela Downing, Butler, Christopher S., Raquel Hidalgo Downing & Julia Lavid-López (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 85] pp. 349–358

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