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Elena Semino

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Elena Semino is an Italian-born British linguist whose research involves stylistics and metaphor theory. Focusing on figurative language in a range of poetic and prose works, most recently she has worked on topics from the domains of medical humanities and health communication. Her projects use corpus linguistic methods as well as qualitative analysis.

Books

Metaphor in Discourse
Metaphor in Discourse
Elena Semino
The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language
The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language
Elena Semino, Zsófia Demjén
Metaphor in Discourse
Metaphor in Discourse
Elena Semino, Semino Elena
Corpus Stylistics
Corpus Stylistics
Elena Semino, Mick Short
Cognitive Stylistics
Cognitive Stylistics
Jonathan Culpeper, Elena Semino
Language and World Creation in Poems and Other Texts
Language and World Creation in Poems and Other Texts
Elena Semino
The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language
The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language
Elena Semino, Zsófia Demjén
Metaphor, Cancer and the End of Life
Metaphor, Cancer and the End of Life
Elena Semino, Zsófia Demjén, Andrew Hardie, Sheila Payne, Paul Rayson
Figurative Language, Genre and Register
Figurative Language, Genre and Register
Alice Deignan, Jeannette Littlemore, Elena Semino

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