Simon Devylder
List of John Benjamins publications for which Simon Devylder plays a role.
Articles
2020 Cutting and breaking metaphors of the self and the Motivation & Sedimentation Model Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language, Baicchi, Annalisa (ed.), pp. 253–282 | Chapter
Why are expressions of irreversible separation (e.g. I feel torn apart) used to speak about the self? Are they to be treated as metaphorical? We address these questions by using concepts and methods from cognitive semiotics, and especially the conceptual-empirical loop. We develop identification… read more
2019 Chapter 8. Mereology in the flesh Metaphor and Metonymy in the Digital Age: Theory and methods for building repositories of figurative language, Bolognesi, Marianna, Mario Brdar and Kristina Š. Despot (eds.), pp. 199–224 | Chapter
Figurative language repositories typically encompass expressions that are coded manually in formal content analyses. This chapter proposes to discuss a number of theoretical and methodological issues related to mereology – the study of parts, wholes, and their relation – that are crucial for coding… read more
2019 Dancygier, Barbara (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics English Text Construction 12:1, pp. 143–153 | Review