Universidade Católica Portuguesa

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Universidade Católica Portuguesa*

Title

Figurative Language - Intersubjectivity and Usage

Edited by Augusto Soares da Silva

Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Figurative Thought and Language, 11] 2021. | edited volume

da Silva, Augusto Soares 2026 Prototypes, (inter)subjectification, figurativity and semantic change: Evidence from Portuguese

Keywords: prototypicality | subjectification | intersubjectification | conceptual metaphor | conceptual metonymy | semantic change | causation | diminutive/augmentative suffixes | discourse marker | Portuguese

In: At the Crossroads of Historical and Cognitive Linguistics, Rogos-Hebda, Anna & Heli Tissari (eds.) [Figurative Thought and Language, 21] pp. 122–146

Torres, Eduardo Cintra 2025 Trompe l’oeil: The ultimate illusion of the image in advertising

In: The Rhetorical Mind: Current issues, Almeida, Maria Clotilde, Rodrigo Furtado & Olga Blanco-Carrión (eds.) [Figurative Thought and Language, 20] pp. 141–170

Mineiro, Ana & Mara Moita 2024 The pantomime roots of Sao Tome and Principe Sign Language

Keywords: pantomime | sign language | newborn language | language evolution

In: Perspectives on Pantomime, Żywiczyński, Przemysław, Johan Blomberg & Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska (eds.) [Advances in Interaction Studies, 12] pp. 159–187

Soares da Silva, Augusto 2024 Constructional changes in Brazilian Portuguese in the 20th century: Two cases of linguistic deletion

Keywords: constructional change | standardization | Cognitive Grammar | construal | grammaticalization | ellipsis | se constructions | relative constructions | TV Globo | Portuguese

In: Language Change in the 20th Century: Exploring micro-diachronic evolutions in Romance languages, Pons Bordería, Salvador & Shima Salameh Jiménez (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 340] pp. 261–289

Oliveira, João Pedro 2024 Speaking with attitude: Language attitudes in comic literature in Macanese Creole

Keywords: Macanese Creole | Patuá | Leopoldo Danilo Barreiros | José dos Santos Ferreira | Chacha

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages | Online First Publication, 29 pp. | article

Maia, Rita Bueno & Alexandra Lopes 2025 A place of their own: Intellectuals, exiles, and the production of knowledge through translation

Keywords: exile | networks | (dis)placement | scholarly translations | Paris | Visconde de Santarém | Caetano Lopes de Moura | estrangeirados | foreignised intellectuals

Target 36:4 pp. 574–592 | article

Oliveira, João 2023 Review of Dicionário do Crioulo de Macau: Escrita de Adé em Patuá by Raul Leal Gaião (2019)

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 38:1 pp. 188–192 | book review

Peterssen, Silvia & Augusto Soares da Silva 2023 Polarising metaphors in the Venezuelan Presidential Crisis

Keywords: polarising metaphor | Venezuela | polarisation | political discourse

Journal of Language and Politics 23:4 pp. 588–616 | article

Silva, Augusto Soares da 2021 Measuring the impact of (non)figurativity in the cultural conceptualization of emotions in the two main national varieties of Portuguese

Keywords: emotions | conceptual metaphor | intralinguistic cultural variation | collectivism vs. individualism | behavioral profile approach | multivariate statistic modeling | anger | pride | Portuguese

In: Figurative Language - Intersubjectivity and Usage, Soares da Silva, Augusto (ed.) [Figurative Thought and Language, 11] pp. 387–438

Soares da Silva, Augusto 2021 Figurative language: Intersubjectivity and usage

In: Figurative Language - Intersubjectivity and Usage, Soares da Silva, Augusto (ed.) [Figurative Thought and Language, 11] pp. 1–16

Soares da Silva, Augusto 2020 Exploring the cultural conceptualization of emotions across national language varieties: A multifactorial profile-based account of pride in European and Brazilian Portuguese

Keywords: cultural conceptualization | emotions | behavioral profile | individualism vs. collectivism | multivariate quantitative methods | pride | Portuguese

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 18:1 pp. 42–74 | article

Soares da Silva, Augusto 2020 From economic crisis to austerity policies through conceptual metaphor: A corpus-based comparison of metaphors of crisis and austerity in the Portuguese press

Keywords: conceptual metaphor | Cognitive Linguistics | Critical Discourse Analysis | financial crisis | austerity policies | embodiment | persuasion | ideology

In: The Language of Crisis: Metaphors, frames and discourses, Huang, Mimi & Lise-Lotte Holmgreen (eds.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 87] pp. 51–86

Fagard, Benjamin, José Pinto de Lima & Dejan Stosic 2019 Les prépositions complexes dans les langues romanes

Revue Romane 54:1 pp. 1–7 | introduction

Mineiro, Ana, Patrícia Carmo, Cristina Caroça, Mara Moita, Sara Carvalho, João Paço & Ahmed Zaky 2017 Emerging linguistic features of Sao Tome and Principe Sign Language

Keywords: sign language emergence | vocabulary development | iconicity | word order | language policy | home signs

Sign Language & Linguistics 20:1 pp. 109–128 | in brief

Soares da Silva, Augusto 2016 The persuasive (and manipulative) power of metaphor in ‘austerity’ discourse: A corpus-based analysis of embodied and moral metaphors of austerity in the Portuguese press

Keywords: Cognitive Linguistics | conceptual metaphor | corpus-based analysis | Critical Discourse Analysis | embodiment | ideology | morality | persuasion | political and economic discourse | situatedness

In: Exploring Discourse Strategies in Social and Cognitive Interaction: Multimodal and cross-linguistic perspectives, Romano, Manuela & Maria Dolores Porto (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 262] p. 79

Seruya, Teresa, Lieven D’hulst, Alexandra Assis Rosa & Maria Lin Moniz 2013 Introduction: Translation anthologies and collections: An overview and some prospects

In: Translation in Anthologies and Collections (19th and 20th Centuries), Seruya, Teresa, Lieven D’hulst, Alexandra Assis Rosa & Maria Lin Moniz (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 107] pp. 1–14

Abrantes, Ana Margarida 2008 3. Euphemism and cooperation in discourse

In: Power Without Domination: Dialogism and the empowering property of communication, Grillo, Eric (ed.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 12] p. 85

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