Northumbria University

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

Titles

The Language of Crisis: Metaphors, frames and discourses

Editors:Mimi Huang & Lise-Lotte Holmgreen

Subjects Cognitive linguistics | Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 87] 2020. | edited volume

Critical Discourse Studies in Context and Cognition

Edited by Christopher Hart

Subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 43] 2011. vii, 231 pp. | edited volume

Clark, Billy 2026 Ghost worlds: Irony and indeterminacy

Keywords: film | graphic novels | implicature | inference | irony

In: Practising Stylistics: Essays in Honour of Paul Simpson, Neary, Clara, Simon Statham & Peter Stockwell (eds.) [Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 45] pp. 138–147

Lin, Sarah Hui-Ching 2024 Exploring crosslinguistic influence on learning particles in phrasal verbs through a cognitive linguistic approach

Keywords: phrasal verbs | particles | metaphor | categorization | crosslinguistic influence

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 11:2 pp. 402–439 | article

Richardson, Andrew & Duncan Hay 2022 A dynamic topography for visualizing time and space in fictional literary texts

Keywords: data visualization | text | digital humanities | literature | prototyping | three-dimensional | temporal | spatial | literary | experimental

Information Design Journal 27:1 p. 5 | article | open access

Buchstaller, Isabelle, Carolin Schneider & Seraphim Alvanides 2022 Towards a taxonomy of arguments for and against street renaming: Exploring the discursive embedding of street name changes in the Leipzig cityscape

Keywords: collective memory | commemoration | street names | critical toponymy | media discourse | East Germany

Linguistic Landscape 9:1 p. 5 | article

Kotzur, Gerrit 2020 Metaphors for protest: The persuasive power of cross-domain mappings on demonstration posters against Stuttgart 21

Keywords: Stuttgart 21 | protest discourse | conceptual metaphor | Critical Discourse Studies | Critical Metaphor Theory | emotion | persuasion

In: The Language of Crisis: Metaphors, frames and discourses, Huang, Mimi & Lise-Lotte Holmgreen (eds.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 87] pp. 169–196

Huang, Mimi 2020 Narrative modulation in the storytelling of breast cancer survivors’ transitional experiences

Keywords: narrative modulation | storytelling | transitional experience | metaphor | social cognition

In: The Language of Crisis: Metaphors, frames and discourses, Huang, Mimi & Lise-Lotte Holmgreen (eds.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 87] pp. 255–280

Huang, Mimi 2020 Introduction: Constructing and communicating crisis discourse from cognitive, discursive and sociocultural perspectives

In: The Language of Crisis: Metaphors, frames and discourses, Huang, Mimi & Lise-Lotte Holmgreen (eds.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 87] pp. 1–20

Leung, Alex Ho-Cheong & Wim van der Wurff 2018 Introduction to the noun phrase in English: New clues to the past and the present

In: The noun phrase in English: Past and present, Leung, Alex Ho-Cheong & Wim van der Wurff (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 246] pp. 1–10

Leung, Alex Ho-Cheong & Wim van der Wurff 2018 Anaphoric reference in Early Modern English: The case of said and same

Keywords: anaphoric NPs | referential distance | the decline of constructions | form-meaning misfit | Early Modern English

In: The noun phrase in English: Past and present, Leung, Alex Ho-Cheong & Wim van der Wurff (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 246] pp. 143–186

Sayers, Dave, Jamie Harding, Jena Barchas-Lichtenstein, Michael Coffey & Frances Rock 2017 Speeding up or reaching out?: Efficiency and unmet need as policy priorities in Wales

Keywords: Discourse-historical approach | social exclusion | social policy | social services | Wales | Welsh Government

Journal of Language and Politics 16:3 pp. 388–411 | article | open access

Childs, Claire 2016  Canny good, or quite canny?: The semantic-syntactic distribution of canny in the North East of England

Keywords: perception | grammaticalisation | judgement data | language change | intensification | Tyneside | frequency | function

English World-Wide 37:3 pp. 238–266 | article

Patten, Amanda L. 2014 The historical development of the it-cleft: A comparison of two different approaches

In: Theory and Data in Cognitive Linguistics, Gisborne, Nikolas & Willem B. Hollmann (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 67] p. 87

Dąbrowska, Ewa 2015 Words that go together: Measuring individual differences in native speakers’ knowledge of collocations

Keywords: language testing | formulaic language | collocation | frequency | age | individual differences | psychological reality

The Mental Lexicon 9:3 pp. 401–418 | article

Hart, Christopher 2013 An interview with Vyvyan Evans

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 11:1 pp. 185–205 | article

Dąbrowska, Ewa 2012  Different speakers, different grammars: Individual differences in native language attainment

Keywords: individual differences | ultimate attainment | first language acquisition | second language acquisition | academic achievement | passive | quantifier | subordination | inflectional morphology

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 2:3 pp. 219–253 | keynote epistemological article

Dąbrowska, Ewa 2012  Explaining individual differences in linguistic proficiency

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 2:3 pp. 324–335 | response to the commentaries

Weinert, Regina 2012 Postmodifying verb-second clauses in spoken German

Functions of Language 19:2 pp. 235–264 | article

Patten, Amanda L. 2012 The historical development of the it-cleft: A comparison of two different approaches

Studies in Language 36:3 pp. 548–575 | article

Hart, Christopher 2011 Introduction

In: Critical Discourse Studies in Context and Cognition, Hart, Christopher (ed.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 43] pp. 1–6

Hart, Christopher 2011 Moving beyond metaphor in the cognitive linguistic approach to CDA: Construal operations in immigration discourse

In: Critical Discourse Studies in Context and Cognition, Hart, Christopher (ed.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 43] pp. 171–192

McKenzie, Robert M. & Dietmar Osthus 2011 That which We Call a Rose by any Other Name Would Sound as Sweet: Folk perceptions, status and language variation

AILA Review 24:1 pp. 100–115 | article

Smith, Kenny 2010 Is a holistic protolanguage a plausible precursor to language? A test case for a modern evolutionary linguistics

In: The Emergence of Protolanguage: Holophrasis vs compositionality, Arbib, Michael A. & Derek Bickerton (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 24] pp. 1–17

Dąbrowska, Ewa 2009 Constructing a Second Language: Some final thoughts

Keywords: usage-based models | individual differences | explicit learning | first language acquisition | second language acquisition | metalinguistic awareness | entrenchment | transfer

Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics 7:1 pp. 277–290 | article

Smith, Kenny 2008 Is a holistic protolanguage a plausible precursor to language?: A test case for a modern evolutionary linguistics

Keywords: segmentation | protolanguage | evidence | analysis

Interaction Studies 9:1 pp. 1–17 | article

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