Professor Elena Semino - Publications
Elena Semino has 60 selected publication records listed on this webpage. Use links to access abstracts and full text where available. For all ePrints records go to http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk
Articles
Semino, Elena (2011) The adaptation of metaphors across genres. Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 9 (1). pp. 130-152.
Semino, Elena (2010) Descriptions of pain, metaphor and embodied simulation. Metaphor and Symbol, 25 (4). pp. 205-226. ISSN 1092-6488
Semino, Elena (2010) Unrealistic scenarios, metaphorical blends and rhetorical strategies across genres. English Text Construction, 3 (2). pp. 250-274. ISSN 1874-8767
Koller, Veronika and Hardie, Andrew and Rayson, Paul and Semino, Elena (2008) Using a semantic annotation tool for the analysis of metaphor in discourse. metaphorik.de, 15. pp. 141-160. ISSN 1618-2006
Pragglejaz, Group and Semino, Elena (2007) MIP : a method for identifying metaphorically used words in discourse. Metaphor and Symbol, 22 (1). pp. 1-39. ISSN 1092-6488
Semino, Elena (2007) Mind style 25 years on. Style, 41 (2). pp. 153-173. ISSN 0039-4238
Semino, Elena (2006) Blending and characters' mental functioning in Virginia Woolf's Lappin and Lapinova. Language and Literature, 15 (1). pp. 55-72. ISSN 0963-9470
Semino, Elena and Heywood, John (2005) Source “scenes” and source “domains” : insights from a corpus-based study of metaphors for communication. Proceeding of the Third Interdisciplinary Workshop on Corpus-Based Approaches to Figurative Language.
Semino, Elena (2005) The metaphorical construction of complex domains: the case of speech activity in English. Metaphor and Symbol, 20 (1). pp. 35-70. ISSN 1092-6488
McIntyre, D. and Bellard-Thomson, C. and Heywood, J. and McEnery, A. M. and Semino, Elena and Short, M. H. (2004) Investigating the presentation of speech, writing and thought in British English : a corpus-based approach. ICAME Journal, 28. pp. 49-76.
Semino, Elena and Heywood, J. and Short, M. H. (2004) Methodological problems in the analysis of a corpus of conversations about cancer. Journal of Pragmatics, 36 (7). pp. 1271-1294. ISSN 0378-2166
Semino, Elena (2004) Representing characters' speech and thought in narrative fiction: A Study of England, England by Julian Barnes. Style, 38 (4). pp. 428-451. ISSN 0039-4238
Semino, Elena (2002) A sturdy baby or a derailing train? Metaphorical representations of the euro in British and Italian newspapers. Text, 22 (1). pp. 107-139. ISSN 0165-4888
Heywood, J. and Semino, Elena and Short, M. H. (2002) Linguistic metaphor identification in two extracts from novels. Language and Literature, 11 (1). pp. 35-54. ISSN 0963-9470
Short, M. H. and Semino, Elena and Wynne, M. (2002) Revisiting the notion of faithfulness in discourse presentation using a corpus approach. Language and Literature, 11 (4). pp. 325-355. ISSN Online ISSN: 1461-7293 Print ISSN: 0963-9470
Semino, Elena (2002) Stylistics and linguistic variation in poetry. Journal of English Linguistics, 30 (1). pp. 28-50. ISSN Online ISSN: 1552-5457 Print ISSN: 0075-4242
Semino, Elena (2001) On readings, literariness and schema theory: a reply to Jeffries. Language and Literature, 10 (4). pp. 345-355. ISSN 0963-9470
Culpeper, Jonathan and Semino, Elena (2000) Constructing witches and spells: speech acts and activity types in early modern England. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 1 (1). pp. 97-116. ISSN 1566-5852
Semino, Elena and Short, M. H. and Wynne, M. (1999) Hypothetical words and thoughts in contemporary British narratives. Narrative, 7 (3). pp. 307-334. ISSN 1063-3685
Semino, Elena and Short, Mick and Culpeper, Jonathan (1997) Using a corpus to test a model of speech and thought presentation. Poetics, 25 (1). pp. 17-43. ISSN 0304-422X
Semino, Elena and Swindlehurst, Kate (1996) Metaphor and mind style in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Style, 30 (1). pp. 143-166. ISSN 0039-4238
Semino, Elena and Masci, Michela (1996) Politics is football : metaphor in the discourse of Silvio Berlusconi in Italy. Discourse and Society, 7 (2). pp. 243-269. ISSN Online ISSN: 1460-3624 Print ISSN: 0957-9265
Semino, Elena (1995) Schema theory and the analysis of text worlds in poetry. Language and Literature, 4 (2). pp. 79-108. ISSN 0963-9470
Semino, Elena (1992) Building on Keith Green’s “Deixis and the Poetic Persona” : further reflections on deixis in poetry. Language and Literature, 1 (2). pp. 135-140. ISSN Online ISSN: 1461-7293 Print ISSN: 0963-9470
Book/report/proceedings
Semino, Elena (2008) Metaphor in Discourse. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9780521867306
Semino, Elena and Short, M. H. (2004) Corpus stylistics: speech, writing and thought presentation in a corpus of English writing. Routledge, London. ISBN 0415286697
Semino, Elena and Culpeper, Jonathan (2002) Cognitive stylistics: language and cognition in text analysis. Linguistic approaches to literature (1). John Benjamins, Amsterdam. ISBN 9027233322
Semino, Elena (1997) Language and world creation in poems and other texts. Textual Explorations . Longman, London. ISBN 9780582303546
Conference Items
Semino, Elena and Steen, Gerard (2001) A method for annotating metaphors in corpora. In: Figurative Language Workshop at Corpus Linguistics 2001, 2001-01-01.
Contribution_in_book/report/proceedings
Semino, Elena (2011) Metaphor, creativity, and the experience of pain across genres. In: Creativity, Language, Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 83-102. ISBN 978-0230575592
Semino, Elena (2011) Stylistics. In: Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics. Routledge, London. ISBN 978-0-415-49067-2
Deignan, Alice and Semino, Elena (2010) Corpus techniques for metaphor analysis. In: Metaphor Analysis. Studies in Applied Linguistics . Equinox, London, pp. 161-179. ISBN 978-1845534462
Koller, Veronika and Semino, Elena (2009) Metaphor, politics and gender : a case study from Germany. In: Politics, Gender and Conceptual Metaphors. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 9-35. ISBN 978-0-230-20345-7
Semino, Elena and Koller, Veronika (2009) Metaphor, politics and gender : a case study from Italy. In: Politics, Gender and Conceptual Metaphors. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 36-61. ISBN 978-0-230-20345-7
Semino, Elena (2009) Stylistics. In: The Pragmatics Encyclopaedia. Routledge, London, pp. 459-460. ISBN 978-0415430968
Semino, Elena (2009) Text worlds. In: Cognitive Poetics. Applications of Cognitive Linguistics . Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 33-71. ISBN 978-3-11-020560-2
Semino, Elena (2009) The language of newspapers. In: English Language: Description, Variation and Context. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 439-453. ISBN 9781403945891
Semino, Elena and Steen, Gerard (2008) Metaphor in literature. In: Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 232-246. ISBN 9780521841061
Short, Mick H. and Semino, Elena (2008) Stylistics and Literary Evaluation. In: The quality of literature. Linguistic Approaches to Literature . John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 117-37. ISBN 978-9027233363
Heywood, J. and Semino, Elena (2007) Metaphors for speaking and writing in the British press. In: Language in the Media. Continuum, London, pp. 25-47. ISBN 978-0826495495
Semino, Elena (2006) A corpus-based study of metaphors for speech activity in British English. In: Corpora in Cognitive Linguistics. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 35-60. ISBN 9783110186055
Semino, Elena (2006) Cognitive poetics. In: The art of English. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 37-44. ISBN 9781403985590
Semino, Elena (2006) Metaphor and fictional minds. In: The metaphors of sixty. Eötvös Loránd University Press, Budapest.
Short, M. H. and Semino, Elena and Culpeper, Jonathan (2006) Narrative skill in Bilgewater's prologue. In: The Art of English. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 407-413. ISBN 140398560X (pbk.)
Semino, Elena and Hardie, Andrew and Koller, Veronika and Rayson, Paul (2005) A computer-assisted approach to the analysis of metaphor variation across genres. In: Corpus-based Approaches to Figurative Language. University of Birmingham School of Computer Science, Birmingham, pp. 145-153.
Semino, Elena (2005) Mind style. In: Elsevier Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier, pp. 142-148.
Semino, Elena (2005) Possible worlds : stylistics applications. In: Elsevier Encycloapedia of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier, pp. 777-782. ISBN 978-0-08-044299-0
Semino, Elena (2003) Discourse worlds and mental spaces. In: Cognitive poetics in practice. Routledge, London, pp. 83-98. ISBN 041527799X
McIntyre, D. and Bellard-Thomson, C. and Heywood, J. and McEnery, A. M. and Semino, Elena and Short, M. (2003) The construction of a corpus to investigate the presentation of speech, thought and writing in written and spoken British English. In: Proceedings of the corpus linguistics 2003 conference. Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language Technical Papers, Lancaster University, Lancaster, pp. 513-522.
Semino, Elena (2002) A cognitive stylistic approach to mind style in narrative fiction. In: Cognitive stylistics: language and cognition in text analysis. Linguistic approaches to literature (1). John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 95-122. ISBN 9027233322
Short, Michael and Semino, Elena and Wynne, M. (2001) Revisiting the notion of faithfulness in discourse : report/(re)presentation using a corpus approach. In: Poetics, linguistics and history. Potchefstroom University, Potchefstroom, South Africa, pp. 484-509.
Semino, Elena (2001) Schema and script theory. In: Routledge encyclopaedia of language teaching and learning. Routledge, London, pp. 525-527. ISBN 0415120853
Short, M. H. and Semino, Elena and Culpeper, Jonathan (2000) Language and context(s) : Jane Gardam’s ‘Bilgewater’. In: Contextualised stylistics. Rodopi, Amsterdam, pp. 131-151.
Short, M. H. and Wynne, M. and Semino, Elena (1999) Reading reports : discourse presentation in a corpus of narratives with special reference to news reports. In: English via various media. Universitätsverlag C, Heidelberg, pp. 39-66.
Wynne, Martin and Short, Mick and Semino, Elena (1998) A corpus-based investigation of speech, thought and writing presentation in English narrative texts. In: Explorations in Corpus Linguistics. Language and computers (23). Rodopi, Amsterdam, pp. 233-247. ISBN 9042007516
Short, Mick and Semino, Elena and Culpeper, Jonathan (1996) Using a corpus for stylistics research : speech presentation. In: Using Corpora in Language Research. Longman, Harlow, pp. 110-131.
Semino, Elena (1995) Deixis and the dynamics of poetic voice. In: New Essays in Deixis. Costerus, new series (103). Rodopi, Amsterdam, pp. 145-160. ISBN 905183831X
Culpeper, Jonathan and Semino, Elena (1995) Stylistics. In: Handbook of Pragmatics. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 513-520. ISBN 9027250812
Other Items
Short, M. H. and Semino, Elena and McEnery, A. M. (2004) Lancaster speech, writing and thought presentation spoken corpus. UNSPECIFIED.