In 2016, John Benjamins informed me of their wish to republish my 2011 monograph
Cultural Conceptualisations and Language, both in paperback and hardcover, due to …

This ground-breaking book marks a milestone in the history of the newly developed field of
Cultural Linguistics, a multidisciplinary area of research that explores the relationship …

To what extent and in what ways is metaphorical thought relevant to an understanding of
culture and society? More specifically: can the cognitive linguistic view of metaphor …

How can a gesture be metaphoric? We will begin to answer the question by considering a
gesture that was famously set in stone. The image in Figure 27.1 is that of a statue of …

This paper discusses the role that culture plays in the configuration of one of the most crucial
meaning mechanisms in cognitive linguistics, namely conceptual metaphors, which are …

The aim of the series is to publish theoretical and empirical interdisciplinary research on the
effective use of metaphor in language and other modalities (including, for instance, visuals) …

Image schemas have been a fundamental construct in cognitive linguistics, providing
grounds for psychological, philosophical, as well as linguistic research. Given the focus in …

This chapter investigates metaphors and concepts associated with the female reproductive
body in gynecological texts from 2nd and 1st millennium BCE Mesopotamia, focusing on …

This book aims at building a bridge between the social and political aspects of remembering
and the cognitive and discourse processes driving such activities. By analyzing these …

Van Gennep's rites of passage is one of anthropology's enduring models and is still much
used by archaeologists to explain ritual behavior. But despite their ubiquity, there are …