Anna Piata

List of John Benjamins publications for which Anna Piata plays a role.

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Time Representations in the Perspective of Human Creativity

Edited by Anna Piata, Adriana Gordejuela and Daniel Alcaraz Carrión

[Human Cognitive Processing, 75] 2022. viii, 245 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Subjects Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Assimakopoulos, Stavros and Anna Piata 2024 Chapter 5. Liquid racism, metaphor and the visual modalityExploring the Ambivalence of Liquid Racism: In between antiracist and racist discourse, Archakis, Argiris and Villy Tsakona (eds.), pp. 118–142 | Chapter
The extant literature on liquid racism has focused primarily on the rhetorical impact of humor. In this Chapter, we shift the focus to the role of metaphor as a means of conceptualization. Drawing on ideas and tools from the fields of critical discourse studies, conceptual metaphor theory and… read more
Piata, Anna 2022 Chapter 3. What is time? Verbal creativity in copula constructionsTime Representations in the Perspective of Human Creativity, Piata, Anna, Adriana Gordejuela and Daniel Alcaraz Carrión (eds.), pp. 61–80 | Chapter
The focus of this chapter is on poetic metaphors of time that appear in so-called equations, that is, copula constructions of the form ‘NP be NP’. While metaphorical creativity of time has been extensively and thoroughly studied, research on such metaphors is rather limited and mostly associated… read more
Piata, Anna 2022 Stylistic humor across modalitiesThe Pragmatics of Internet Memes, Xie, Chaoqun (ed.), pp. 36–63 | Chapter
This paper is concerned with ‘Classical Art Memes’, a category of internet memes that distinctively derives its visual input from classical and medieval art. I specifically show that humor in Classical Art Memes arises from incongruity among different stylistic varieties, namely a colloquial… read more
When talking about anticipated events, speakers can conceptualize them either as destinations towards which they are moving or as entities moving towards them, which correspond to the Ego- and the Time-moving metaphors, respectively (cf. ‘We are approaching Christmas’ and ‘Christmas is… read more
Piata, Anna, Adriana Gordejuela and Daniel Alcaraz Carrión 2022 IntroductionTime Representations in the Perspective of Human Creativity, Piata, Anna, Adriana Gordejuela and Daniel Alcaraz Carrión (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Chapter
Ifantidou, Elly and Anna Piata 2021 Metaphor and mental shortcuts: The role of non-propositional effectsNew Developments in Relevance Theory, Padilla Cruz, Manuel and Agnieszka Piskorska (eds.), pp. 299–320 | Article
Cognitive-pragmatic approaches to how metaphors are understood view the activation of perceptual or motor effects as inferred (Steinhart 2001; Bergen 2005; Wilson and Carston 2006; Carston 2010; Gibbs and de Macedo 2010; Wilson and Carston 2019). Crucially, inferences elicit conceptual… read more
Piata, Anna 2021 Conceptual mappings and contextual assumptions: The case of poetic metaphorBeyond Meaning, Ifantidou, Elly, Louis de Saussure and Tim Wharton (eds.), pp. 79–98 | Chapter
This chapter is concerned with what has traditionally been considered as ‘beyond meaning’: poetic metaphor. It specifically focuses on poetic metaphors of time, with the aim to address anew the relationship between pragmatic and cognitive linguistic approaches to metaphor (cf. Tendahl and Gibbs… read more
Georgakopoulos, Thanasis, Eliese-Sophia Lincke, Kiki Nikiforidou and Anna Piata 2020 On the polysemy of motion verbs in Ancient Greek and Coptic: Why lexical constructions are importantStudies in Language 44:1, pp. 27–69 | Article
In this paper, we propose a constructional analysis of the meanings of two generic motion verbs in Ancient Greek and Coptic (Sahidic dialect), the verbs baínō and bôk, respectively, both of which are glossed as ‘go’ and are characterized by extensive polysemy. We argue that an adequate analysis… read more
Piata, Anna 2020 Stylistic humor across modalities: The case of Classical Art MemesThe Pragmatics of Internet Memes, Xie, Chaoqun (ed.), pp. 174–201 | Article
This paper is concerned with ‘Classical Art Memes’, a category of internet memes that distinctively derives its visual input from classical and medieval art. I specifically show that humor in Classical Art Memes arises from incongruity among different stylistic varieties, namely a colloquial… read more
The present study focuses on poetic metaphor with the aim to explore the relationship between verbal creativity and deliberateness. It has been suggested that novel metaphors are typically deliberate, although this does not mean that all conventional metaphor is necessarily non-deliberate (Steen,… read more
The recent development of social media platforms has given rise to new forms of digital communication in which humor seems to play a prominent role. This chapter is concerned with humor in such a newly emerged, mediated genre, so-called internet memes (i.e. units of image, text, animation, and/or… read more