Olaf Jäkel

List of John Benjamins publications for which Olaf Jäkel plays a role.

Articles

This contribution investigates the metaphorical conceptualisation of US-presidential elections. A solid onomasiological metaphor study (cf. Jäkel 2003) brings out alternative and even competing models. One point of this paper is to decide which approach to the analysis of political metaphor is… read more
Jäkel, Olaf 2014 Denotational boundary disputes in political discourse: ‘Defining the definition of marriage’Cognitive Perspectives on Political Discourse, Fischer, Pascal and Christoph Schubert (eds.), pp. 336–363 | Article
The cognitive semantic analysis of denotational incongruencies by means of comparative investigations of structural field patterns (cf. Jäkel 2001, 2003, 2010) can also be put to use in the investigation of certain kinds of contested concepts (Lakoff 1993), namely cases in which the field patterns… read more
Jäkel, Olaf 2003 Motion metaphorized in the economic domainMotivation in Language: Studies in honor of Günter Radden, Cuyckens, Hubert, Thomas Berg, René Dirven † and Klaus-Uwe Panther (eds.), pp. 297–318 | Article
Jäkel, Olaf 1999 Metonymy in OnomasticsMetonymy in Language and Thought, Panther, Klaus-Uwe and Günter Radden (eds.), pp. 211 ff. | Article