Jan Svanlund

Jan Svanlund
  • Stockholm University

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Introduction
Skills and Expertise
Lexical Semantics
Corpus Linguistics
Cognitive Linguistics
Linguistic Semantics
Cognitive Semantics
Lexicology
Current institution
Stockholm University
Stockholm University
  • Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
  • Stockholm, Sweden

Publications

Publications (4)
Metalinguistic comments and signals: What can they tell us about the conventionalization of neologies?
Article
  • Dec 2018
Many neologies receive a large amount of metalinguistic focus during their conventionalization. This includes explicit metalinguistic comments, as well as several ways of emphasizing a new word qua word in running texts, so-called metasignals (e.g., quotation marks). This article reports from a large quantitative study of 360 Swedish neologies. It...
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Metaphor and convention
Article
  • Jan 2007
This article argues that lexical metaphors should be seen as graded: they differ in their conventionalized ability to activate concepts from the source domain. Such differences in metaphorical strength are analyzed, along with other (graded) dimensions of conventionality. Co-occurrence patterns for conventionalized metaphors from the WEIGHT domain...
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Metaforen som konvention : graden av bildlighet i svenskans vikt- och tyngdmetaforer /
Article
  • Jan 2001
Added t.p. with thesis stetement inserted. Abstract and summary in English. Thesis (doctoral)--Stockholms universitet, 2001. Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-357).
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