Department of English Applied Linguistics
Publications
Simó, J. (2012). Involvement and subjectivity in the linguistic description of counterfactual scenarios in chess commentaries. Selected Papers from UK-CLA Meetings, volume 1.78-93.
Simó, J. (2011). Metaphors of blood in American English and Hungarian: A cross-linguistic corpus investigation. Journal of Pragmatics, 43, 2897-2910.
Simó, J. (2010). It’s not all about the brain: A cross-linguistic exploration of body part metaphors in chess. In F. Parrill, V. Tobin, & M. Turner (Eds.), Meaning, form, and body (pp. 287-307). Stanford: CSLI Publications.
Simó, J. (2009). Metaphorical uses of blood in American English and Hungarian. In J. Barnden, M. Lee, J. Littlemore, R. Moon, G. Philip, & A. Wallington (Eds.), Corpus-based approaches to figurative language. A corpus linguistics 2009 colloquium. Colloquium companion.(pp.155-163). Birmingham: University of Birmingham.
Simó, J. (2009). Chess metaphors in American English and Hungarian. Metaphor and Symbol, 24(1), 42-59.
Conference PresentationsA deceptive near-synonym pair: A cross-linguistic study. 4th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, July 2012, London, UK
Failure and fatalism in Hungarian sport discourse. 9th Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor, July 2012, Lancaster, UK
Hot-headed: Illogical or impulsive? A cross-linguistic corpus exploration of some body-part metaphors. 44th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2011), Logroño, Spain, 8-11 September, 2011
Involvement and the evaluation of counterfactual scenarios. 4th International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (ICLCE 4), Osnabrueck, Germany, 19-23 July, 2011
A frame-semantic analysis of near-synonyms: A case from chess. The Third Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC III), Copenhagen, Denmark, June 14 - 16th, 2011
The effects of involvement on the linguistic construal of counterfactual scenarios in chess commentaries. 3rd UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, July 2010, Hertfordshire, UK
Cold blood, cool head, warm heart: A corpus analysis of metaphors of body parts at different temperatures. A cross-linguistic study. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), March 2010, Atlanta, GA.
Novelty versus new move: A frame semantic analysis of near-synonyms in chess. 11th International Cognitive Linguistic Conference (ICLC 11), July/August 2009, Berkeley, CA. (abstract accepted. Conference cancelled)
Metaphors of blood in American English and Hungarian. (pre-conference colloquium presentation). Corpus-based Approaches to Figurative Language. July 2009, Liverpool, UK.
White wins vs. White would have won: An examination of the use of past counterfactual in chess commentaries (poster presentation). American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), March 2009, Denver, CO.
It’s not all about the brain: A cross-linguistic exploration of body-part metaphors in chess. The Ninth Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language (CSDL 9), October 2008, Cleveland, OH.
The frame elements of NOVELTY in chess: A cross-linguistic exploration. Fifth International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG-5), September 2008, Austin, TX.
A scandal’s impact on referring sequences: An analysis of a series of newspaper articles.
American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), March/April 2008, Washington, D.C.
The concept of game in Hungarian- a mixed methods study: 10th International Pragmatics Conference, July 2007, Göteborg, Sweden.
What’s in a game? The concept of game in Hungarian and American: A cross-linguistic study. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), April 2007, Costa Mesa, CA.
Do we talk chess by the same rules? Chess metaphors in Hungarian and English: a cross-cultural study. American association for applied linguistics -AAAL 2006: joint AAAL and ACLA/CAAL conference - June 2006, Montreal, Canada.
Attending skills in the writing center. South Central Writing Centers Association 2006: Looking Back, Reaching Forward: Writing Centers at the Center of WAC- 2006 February, Little Rock, AR.
The use of revision strategies in academic writing by graduate and undergraduate students (together with Gusztáv Demeter). OKTESOL 2005: The Year of Languages – October 2005, Tulsa, OK.
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