Umeå University

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

At the Crossroads of Historical and Cognitive Linguistics

EditorAnna Rogos-Hebda & Heli Tissari

Subjects Cognitive linguistics | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

[Figurative Thought and Language, 21] 2026. | edited volume

Literature as Experience-Inviting Discourse

AuthorAnders Pettersson

Subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Narrative Studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies | Writing and literacy

[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 22] 2026. | monograph

National foreign language policies for primary schools: Global perspectives. Special issue of Language Teaching for Young Learners 2:2 (2020)

Edited by Janet Enever

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching | Multilingualism

[Language Teaching for Young Learners, 2:2] 2020. | special issue

Policy and practice in early language learning

Edited by Janet Enever & Patricia Driscoll

Subjects Applied linguistics

[AILA Review, 32] 2020. | yearbook

Tissari, Heli 2026 Using The Oxford English Dictionary to identify metaphors in historical corpus data

Keywords: abstract concepts | Early Modern English | historical corpus data | Late Modern English | metaphorical pattern analysis | metaphor identification | source domain | target domain

In: At the Crossroads of Historical and Cognitive Linguistics, Rogos-Hebda, Anna & Heli Tissari (eds.) [Figurative Thought and Language, 21] pp. 264–285

Levlin, Maria, Maria Rosenberg & Yvonne Knospe 2025 The role of morphology in early word reading and spelling: Evidence from Swedish children in Grade 2

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Written Language & Literacy 28:1 pp. 118–143 | article

Qin, Paiwei, Mai Shirahata & Tarja Nikula 2025 Ideological tensions in identity construction of Chinese medical teachers and students in EMI

Keywords: Chinese teachers and students | critical discursive psychology | English-medium instruction (EMI) | identity construction | ideology | medical education

Journal of English-Medium Instruction 4:2 pp. 189–211 | article | open access

Gaele, Claudia, Lacey Okonski & Adan L. Martinez-Cruz 2025 The climate battle in America: War metaphors alarm Republicans but Democrats more likely to act

Keywords: metaphor | metaphorical framing | climate change | trait aggressiveness | fear

Metaphor and the Social World 15:1 p. 77 | article | open access

Okonski, Lacey & Marlene Johansson Falck 2025 The effect of the Embodied Scenes approach to preposition learning with PrepApp

Keywords: English as a second language (L2) | prepositions | corpus linguistics | usage-based | computer-assisted language learning | spatial relationships

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 12:1 p. 70 | article

Johansson Falck, Marlene & Thomas Wiben Jensen 2025 Embodied, social, and creative dimensions of metonymy

Keywords: metaphor and metonymy interaction | naturalistic data | visualizations | multimodal metonymy | corpus and discourse data

Metaphor and the Social World 15:2 pp. 185–195 | introduction | open access

Johansson Falck, Marlene & Lacey Okonski 2025 From spatial to abstract and back again: The challenging case of hidden metonymies for metaphor identification scholars

Keywords: metonymy | abstract concepts | spatial cognition | preposition into | directionality | ABSTRACT FOR SPATIAL metonymies | intersubjective accessibility | metaphor and metonymy identification | PIMS2

Metaphor and the Social World 15:2 pp. 218–241 | article | open access

Falck, Marlene Johansson & Lacey Okonski 2024 Metaphorical and non-metaphorical meaning from spatial relations

Keywords: spatial relations | Embodied Scenes approach | spatial metaphors | collocations | into

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 24:1 pp. 134–172 | article | open access

Enever, Janet 2023 Editorial

Language Teaching for Young Learners 5:1 pp. 1–6 | editorial

Enever, Janet 2022 Editorial

Language Teaching for Young Learners 4:1 pp. 1–3 | editorial

Gheitasi, Parvin & Janet Enever 2022 Formulaic time buyers for young foreign language learners

Keywords: formulaic sequences | early foreign language learning | time buyers | oral language production

Language Teaching for Young Learners 4:1 pp. 66–91 | article

Boström, Per 2022 

Metaphor and the Social World 12:2 pp. 354–360 | book review

Knospe, Yvonne 2022 

Language Teaching for Young Learners 5:1 pp. 110–113 | book review

Enever, Janet 2020 Editorial

Language Teaching for Young Learners 2:2 pp. 157–161 | editorial

Enever, Janet 2020 Global language policies: Moving English up the educational escalator

Keywords: language policy | primary | global forces | accountability | social justice

Language Teaching for Young Learners 2:2 pp. 162–191 | other | open access

Heith, Anne 2020 Indigenous cool: Performativity and place-making in Sami literature, art and music

In: Exploring NORDIC COOL in Literary History, Hermansson, Gunilla & Jens Lohfert Jørgensen (eds.) [FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 15] pp. 127–142

Okonski, Lacey, Raymond W. Gibbs & Elaine Chen 2020 Metaphor in multimodal creativity

Keywords: artistic expression | conceptual metaphor | creativity | dance | embodied metaphor | source domains

In: Performing metaphoric creativity across modes and contexts, Hidalgo-Downing, Laura & Blanca Kraljevic Mujic (eds.) [Figurative Thought and Language, 7] pp. 19–42

Nacey, Susan, Linda Greve & Marlene Johansson Falck 2019 Linguistic metaphor identification in Scandinavian

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. 137–158

Enever, Janet & Patricia Driscoll 2020 Introduction

AILA Review 32:1 pp. 1–9 | introduction | open access

Enever, Janet 2020 Looking beyond the local: Equity as a global concern in Early Language Learning

Keywords: Early Language Learning | global | equity | political

AILA Review 32:1 pp. 10–35 | article | open access

Kjellander, Daniel 2019 Cognitive constraints in English lexical blending: A data collection methodology and an explanatory model

Keywords: lexical blending | word formation processes | cognitive constraints | corpus | investigation | language in use

Pragmatics & Cognition 25:1 pp. 142–173 | article

Johansson Falck, Marlene 2016 What trajectors reveal about TIME metaphors: Analysis of English and Swedish

Keywords: Conceptual Metaphor Theory | SPACE | TIME | MOTION | trajectors

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 21:1 pp. 28–47 | article

Ljungberg, Jessica K., Patrik Hansson, Rolf Adolfsson & Lars-Göran Nilsson 2016 The effect of language skills on dementia in a Swedish longitudinal cohort

Keywords: Bilingualism | Dementia | Longitudinal design | Aging | Cognitive reserve

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 6:1/2 pp. 190–204 | Article

Derlén, Mattias 2014 1. Multilingualism and legal integration in Europe

In: Dynamics and Terminology: An interdisciplinary perspective on monolingual and multilingual culture-bound communication, Temmerman, Rita & Marc Van Campenhoudt (eds.) [Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 16] pp. 17–42

Johansson Falck, Marlene 2012 Chapter 5. Metaphor variation across L1 and L2 speakers of English: Do differences at the level of linguistic metaphor matter?

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. 109–134

Steinvall, Anders 2011 The power of colour term precision: The use of non-basic colour terms 
in nineteenth-century English travelogues 
about northern Scandinavia

In: New Directions in Colour Studies, Biggam, Carole P., Carole Hough, Christian Kay & David R. Simmons (eds.)  pp. 219–232

Lindgren, Eva, Mariëlle Leijten & Luuk Van Waes 2011 Adapting to the reader during writing

Written Language & Literacy 14:2 pp. 188–223 | article

Lischinsky, Alon 2010 Review of Power without Domination. Dialogism and the Empowering Property of Communication by Eric Grillo (2005)

Journal of Language and Politics 9:1 pp. 165–169 | book review

Johansson Falck, Marlene 2010 Are metaphorical paths and roads ever paved?: Corpus analysis of real and imagined journeys

Keywords: metaphor | embodiment | lexical patterns | simulation | affordances

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 8:1 p. 93 | article

Egan-Sjölander, Annika 2009 Review of Feminist Critical discourse analysis: Gender, power and ideology in discourse by Michelle M. Lazar (2005)

Journal of Language and Politics 8:1 pp. 159–162 | book review

Svensson, Maria 2008 5. A very complex criterion of fixedness: Non-compositionality

In: Phraseology: An interdisciplinary perspective, Granger, Sylviane & Fanny Meunier (eds.)  pp. 81–93

Jernudd, Björn H. 2000 Review of Education and the Politics of Language: Hegemony and Pragmatism in Cambodia, 1979–1989 by Thomas Clayton (2000)

Language Problems and Language Planning 24:2 pp. 207–212 | book review

Forsgren, Kjell-Åke 2000  Die Grammatik von Johann Christian Heyse: Kontinuität und Wandel im Verhältnis von Allgemeiner Grammatik und Schulgrammatik (1814–1914) Von Anne-Françoise Ehrhard

Historiographia Linguistica 27:1 pp. 147–156 | book review

Nilsson, Torbjörn K. 1993 Review of Sprachbund im Baltikum? Estnisch und Lettisch im Zentrum einer sprachlichen Konvergenzlandschaft by Thomas Stolz (1991)

Studies in Language 17:2 pp. 492–499 | book review

Elert, Claes-Christian 1978 Andreas Kempe (1622–89) and the Languages Spoken in Paradise

Historiographia Linguistica 5:3 pp. 221–226 | article

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