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Introduction: English as A Lingua Franca
(Gothenburg University, 2006-12)
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VOICE Recording - Methodological Challenges in the Compilation of a Corpus of Spoken ELF
(Gothenburg University, 2006-12)
VOICE, the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English, aims to provide a general basis for analyses of English as a lingua franca (ELF) talk on all linguistic levels. This paper discusses criteria that have to be fulfilled ...
Dwelling upon Metaphors: The Translation of William Gass’s Novellas
(2006-09-15)
This paper presents a contextual analysis of metaphor translation in literary discourse, with reference to William Gass’s Cartesian Sonata & Other Novellas (New York: Knopf, 1998). Due to its deep formal investigation of ...
Live, Moribund, and Dead Metaphors
(2006-09-14)
Prototypical instances of live, moribund and dead metaphors can be distinguished, but the peripheral parts of these categories intersect in an indeterminate way because of contextual modifications or interpretative differences ...
Grammatical Metaphor/Metonymy in the Treaty Establishing A Constitution for Europe: A Comparison between the English and Swedish Versions
(2006-09-15)
In order to investigate the use of grammatical metaphor in comparable English and Swedish texts, the English and Swedish versions of the proposed Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe were analysed. Results show ...
Justified Pride? Metaphors of the Word Pride in English Language Corpora, 1418–1991
(2006-09-14)
This article deals with the words pride, proud and proudly in a cognitive linguistic framework, addressing the questions: (1) What causes pride? (2) Which other concepts are associated with pride? (3) What are people’s ...
“Words are more or less superfluous”: the Case of more or less in Academic Lingua Franca English
(Gothenburg University, 2006-12)
In the past fifty years, English has turned into the leading language of international communication. Despite its well-established status as a global lingua franca, there is a lack of descriptive research on how people ...
English as a Lingua Franca: A New Variety in the New Expanding Circle?
(2006-12)
The traditional tripartite model of English world-wide has so far ignored one of the most important functions of English today, namely that of a lingua franca between non-native speakers. In integrating ELF into models ...
The Creative Use of Idioms in Advertising
(2006-09-14)
This paper is concerned with the cognitive mechanisms involved in the creative exploitation of idiomatic expressions in advertisements. In line with Grady et al. (1999), the analysis is based on the complementing theories ...
Electrifying Performances and Brains that Fuse: Metaphor and the Cognitive Function of Electricity
(2006-09-14)
In this paper, written within the framework of cognitive linguistics, metaphorical expressions involving electricity as a source domain are discussed. The majority of the expressions are from The Oxford English Dictionary, ...