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Professor Elena Semino

Distinguished Professor

  1. 2018
  2. Published

    Metaphor, Cancer and the End of Life: A Corpus-based Study

    Semino, E., Demjen, Z., Hardie, A., Payne, S. A. & Rayson, P. E., 2018, London: Routledge. 308 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  3. 2017
  4. Published

    Healthcare professionals’ online use of violence metaphors for care at the end of life in the US: a corpus-based comparison with the UK

    Potts, A. & Semino, E., 04/2017, In: Corpora. 12, 1, p. 55-84 30 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  5. Published

    Images and the dynamics of pain consultations

    Semino, E., Zakrzewska, J. M. & Williams, A., 25/03/2017, In: The Lancet. 389, 10075, p. 1186-1187 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  6. Published

    The online use of Violence and Journey metaphors by patients with cancer, as compared with health professionals: a mixed methods study

    Semino, E., Demjen, Z., Demmen, J., Koller, V., Payne, S., Hardie, A. & Rayson, P., 1/03/2017, In: BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care. 7, 1, p. 60-66 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  7. Published

    Corpus linguistics and metaphor

    Semino, E., 2017, The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. Dancygier, B. (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  8. Published

    Introduction: metaphor and language

    Demjen, Z. & Semino, E., 2017, The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language. Semino, E. & Demjen, Z. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 1-10 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  9. Published

    The cancer card: Metaphor, intimacy and humor in online interactions about the experience of cancer

    Semino, E. & Demjen, Z., 2017, Metaphor: Embodied Cognition and Discourse. Hampe, B. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, p. 181-199 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  10. Published

    The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language

    Semino, E. (Editor) & Demjen, Z. (Editor), 2017, London: Routledge. 544 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsAnthology

  11. Published

    Using metaphor in healthcare: physical health

    Semino, E. & Demjen, Z., 2017, The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language. Semino, E. & Demjen, Z. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 385-399 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  12. 2016
  13. Published

    Metaphors for 'good' and 'bad' deaths: a health professional view

    Demjen, Z., Semino, E. & Koller, V., 05/2016, In: Metaphor and the Social World. 6, 1, p. 1-19 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  14. Published

    A corpus-based study of ‘mixed metaphor’ as a metalinguistic comment

    Semino, E., 16/03/2016, Mixing metaphor. R. W. Jr, G. (ed.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, p. 203-220 18 p. (Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication; vol. 6).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  15. Published

    Face attack in Italian politics: Beppe Grillo’s insulting epithets for other politicians

    Bortoluzzi, M. & Semino, E., 2016, In: Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict. 4, 2, p. 178-201 24 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  16. 2015
  17. Published

    A computer-assisted study of the use of violence metaphors for cancer and end of life by patients, family carers and health professionals

    Demmen, J. E., Semino, E., Demjen, Z., Koller, V., Hardie, A., Rayson, P. & Payne, S., 17/08/2015, In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 20, 2, p. 205-231 27 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  18. Published

    Henry's voices: the representation of auditory verbal hallucinations in an autobiographical narrative

    Demjen, Z. & Semino, E., 8/06/2015, In: Medical Humanities. 41, 1, p. 57-62 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  19. 2014
  20. Published

    Pragmatic failure, mind style and characterisation in fiction about autism

    Semino, E., 8/05/2014, In: Language and Literature. 23, 2, p. 141-158 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  21. Published

    Language, mind and autism in Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

    Semino, E., 15/03/2014, Linguistics and literary studies: interfaces, encounters, transfers. Fludernik, M. & Jacob, D. (eds.). Berlin: de Gruyter, p. 279-303 25 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  22. Published

    ‘Good’ and ‘bad’ deaths: narratives and professional identities in interviews with hospice managers

    Semino, E., Demjen, Z. & Koller, V., 2014, In: Discourse Studies. 16, 5, p. 667-685 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  23. 2013
  24. Published

    Metaphor, genre and recontextualization

    Semino, E., Deignan, A. & Littlemore, J., 15/01/2013, In: Metaphor and Symbol. 28, 1, p. 41-59 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  25. Published

    Figurative language, genre and register

    Deignan, A., Littlemore, J. & Semino, E., 2013, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 330 p. (Cambridge Applied Linguistics)

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  26. 2011
  27. Published

    Deixis and fictional minds

    Semino, E., 2011, In: Style. 45, 3, p. 418-440 23 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  28. Published

    La teoria del blending applicata alla letteratura: un'analisi di un racconto di Virginia Woolf

    Semino, E., 2011, In: Italianistica: Rivista di Letteratura Italiana. 40, 3, p. 61-80 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  29. Published

    Metaphor, creativity, and the experience of pain across genres

    Semino, E., 2011, Creativity, Language, Literature: The State of the Art. Swann, J., Carter, R. & Pope, R. (eds.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 83-102 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  30. Published

    Rethinking 'inferred' thought presentation

    Semino, E., 2011, In: Style. 45, 2, p. 296-300 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  31. Published

    Stylistics

    Semino, E., 2011, Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics. Simpson, J. (ed.). London: Routledge

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNEntry for encyclopedia/dictionary

  32. Published

    The adaptation of metaphors across genres

    Semino, E., 2011, In: Review of Cognitive Linguistics. 9, 1, p. 130-152 23 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

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