Most research on metaphors that construe time as motion (motion metaphors of time) has focused on the question of whether it is the times or the person experiencing them (ego) that moves...
Keywords: space, time, semantics, frames, polysemy, typology, metaphor, metonymy, deixis, perspective, psychology, Wolof, Japanese
07/2006 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de GruyterWith an emphasis on the linguistic experiences of rape victims in the legal system, this paper is a consideration of recent innovations in semantic analysis that offer important methodological tools for the analysis of legal encounters...
Keywords: metaphor, frames, smuggling information, power, gender, rape, trial
05/2007 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de GruyterPoliteness research to date has generally adopted one of two views: the “traditional” view based on the dual premises of Grice’s Co-operative Principle and speech act theory (Lakoff 1973, Brown and Levinson 1987 [1978], Leech 1983), or the “post-modern” view, which rejects these premises and substitutes them by an emphasis on participants’ own perceptions of politeness (politeness1) and on the discursive struggle over politeness (Eelen 2001, Mills 2003, Watts 2003)...
Keywords: norms, quantitative analysis, frames, generalized implicatures, societal rationality
07/2005 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de Gruyter