The University of Queensland

Mixed metaphors: their use and abuse

Sullivan, Karen (2019). Mixed metaphors: their use and abuse. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic. doi: 10.5040/9781350066076

Frames and constructions in metaphoric language

Sullivan, Karen (2013). Frames and constructions in metaphoric language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing. doi: 10.1075/cal.14

The languages of art: How representational and abstract painters conceptualize their work in terms of language

Sullivan, Karen (2009). The languages of art: How representational and abstract painters conceptualize their work in terms of language. Poetics Today, 30 (3), 517-560. doi: 10.1215/03335372-2009-004

Yagara Dictionary and Salvage Grammar

Sullivan, Karen and Harward-Nalder, Glenda (2024). Yagara Dictionary and Salvage Grammar. ANU Press. doi: 10.22459/ydsg.2024

Metonymies and metaphors for death around the world

Wachowski, Wojciech and Sullivan, Karen (2022). Metonymies and metaphors for death around the world. New York, NY United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003183761

Mixed metaphors: their use and abuse

Sullivan, Karen (2019). Mixed metaphors: their use and abuse. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic. doi: 10.5040/9781350066076

Frames and constructions in metaphoric language

Sullivan, Karen (2013). Frames and constructions in metaphoric language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing. doi: 10.1075/cal.14

Why would we rather peg out than simply die?—How do GAME metaphors help us deal with death across languages and cultures?

Wachowski, Wojciech and Sullivan, Karen (2020). Why would we rather peg out than simply die?—How do GAME metaphors help us deal with death across languages and cultures?. Cultural conceptualizations in language and communication. (pp. 25-41) edited by Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-42734-4_2

Comparing word sense distinctions with bilingual comparable corpora: a pilot study of adjectives in English and Spanish

Sullivan, Karen and Valenzuela, Javier (2017). Comparing word sense distinctions with bilingual comparable corpora: a pilot study of adjectives in English and Spanish. Usage-based approaches to language acquisition and language teaching. (pp. 287-303) edited by Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul and Elena Tribushinina. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton. doi: 10.1515/9781501505492-013

Conceptual metaphor

Sullivan, Karen (2017). Conceptual metaphor. The Cambridge handbook of cognitive linguistics. (pp. 385-406) edited by Barbara Dancygier. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781316339732.025

Silent abstractions versus "Look at me" drawings: Corpus evidence that artworks' subject matter affects their fictive speech

Sullivan, Karen (2016). Silent abstractions versus "Look at me" drawings: Corpus evidence that artworks' subject matter affects their fictive speech. The conversation frame: forms and functions of fictive interactions. (pp. 87-109) edited by Esther Pascual and Sergeiy Sandler. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Co. doi: 10.1075/hcp.55.05sul

When my eyes are on you, do you touch my eyes? A reclassification of metaphors mapping from physical contact to perception

Sullivan, Karen and Jiang, Wenying (2013). When my eyes are on you, do you touch my eyes? A reclassification of metaphors mapping from physical contact to perception. Compendium of Cognitive Linguistics Research. (pp. 189-200) edited by Thomas Fuyin Li. New York, NY, United States: Nova Publishers.

Grammatical constructions in metaphoric language

Sullivan, K. (2009). Grammatical constructions in metaphoric language. Studies in cognitive corpus linguistics. (pp. 57-80) edited by Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Katarzyna Dziwirek. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Peter Lang Publishers.

Is 'Generic is Specific' a metaphor?

Sullivan, Karen and Sweetser, Eve (2009). Is 'Generic is Specific' a metaphor?. Meaning, Form, and Body. (pp. 309-327) edited by Fey Parrill, Mark Turner and Vera Tobin. Stanford, CA, U.S.A.: CSLI Publications.

How does art ‘Speak’ and what does it ‘Say’: Conceptual metaphor theory as a tool for understanding the artistic process

Sullivan, Karen (2006). How does art ‘Speak’ and what does it ‘Say’: Conceptual metaphor theory as a tool for understanding the artistic process. Thought tools for a new generation : Essays on thought, ideas and the power of expression. (pp. 81-89) edited by David E Boyes and Frances B Cogan. Eugene, Oregon, USA: Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon.

Three levels of framing

Sullivan, Karen (2023). Three levels of framing. WIREs Cognitive Science, 14 (5) e1651, 1-13. doi: 10.1002/wcs.1651

Anti-Muslim semantic framing by politicians, Facebook groups, and violent extremists

Sullivan, Karen (2022). Anti-Muslim semantic framing by politicians, Facebook groups, and violent extremists. Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 20 (2), 476-503. doi: 10.1075/rcl.00119.sul

Everyone "leaves" the world eventually: culture-based homogeneity and variation in Death Is Departure

Sullivan, Karen and Wachowski, Wojciech (2020). Everyone "leaves" the world eventually: culture-based homogeneity and variation in Death Is Departure. Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 18 (1), 75-93. doi: 10.1075/rcl.00051.sul

Chinese L2 acquisition of sense relatedness for shàng “to go up”

Liang, Haiyan and Sullivan, Karen (2019). Chinese L2 acquisition of sense relatedness for shàng “to go up”. Chinese as a Second Language Research, 8 (1), 1-28. doi: 10.1515/caslar-2019-0001

Being-clauses in Historical Corpora and the US Second Amendment

Sullivan, Karen (2018). Being-clauses in Historical Corpora and the US Second Amendment. English Studies, 99 (3), 300-318. doi: 10.1080/0013838X.2018.1436285

Are dead artists' paintings more lively? - Agency in description of artworks before and after an artist's death

Sullivan, Karen and Butler, Sally (2017). Are dead artists' paintings more lively? - Agency in description of artworks before and after an artist's death. Word, 63 (3), 198-206. doi: 10.1080/00437956.2017.1347312

Integrating constructional semantics and conceptual metaphor

Sullivan, Karen (2017). Integrating constructional semantics and conceptual metaphor. Constructions and Frames, 8 (2), 141-165. doi: 10.1075/cf.8.2.02sul

With the future coming up behind them: evidence that time approaches from behind in Vietnamese

Sullivan, Karen and Bui, Linh Thuy (2016). With the future coming up behind them: evidence that time approaches from behind in Vietnamese. Cognitive Linguistics, 27 (2), 1-29. doi: 10.1515/cog-2015-0066

Why suave movimiento isn't 'smooth movement': a corpus comparison of polysemous adjectives in English and Spanish

Sullivan, Karen (2016). Why suave movimiento isn't 'smooth movement': a corpus comparison of polysemous adjectives in English and Spanish. Languages in Contrast, 16 (1), 118-132. doi: 10.1075/lic.16.1.05sul

If you study a word do you use it more often? Lexical repetition priming in a corpus of Natural Semantic Metalanguage publications

Sullivan, Karen (2015). If you study a word do you use it more often? Lexical repetition priming in a corpus of Natural Semantic Metalanguage publications. Corpora, 10 (3), 277-290. doi: 10.3366/cor.2015.0078

Esther Pascual: Fictive interaction: the conversation frame in thought, language and discourse

Sullivan, Karen (2015). Esther Pascual: Fictive interaction: the conversation frame in thought, language and discourse. Cognitive Semiotics, 8 (1), 93-96. doi: 10.1515/cogsem-2015-0003

Judging a book by its cover (and its background): effects of the metaphor intelligence is brightness on ratings of book images

Sullivan, Karen (2015). Judging a book by its cover (and its background): effects of the metaphor intelligence is brightness on ratings of book images. Visual Communication, 14 (1), 3-14. doi: 10.1177/1470357214554348

Visibility and economy as dimensions of metaphoric language

Sullivan, Karen (2014). Visibility and economy as dimensions of metaphoric language. Language and Literature, 23 (4), 347-368. doi: 10.1177/0963947014543608

Censoring metaphors in translation: Shakespeare's Hamlet under Franco

Sullivan, Karen and Bandín, Elena (2014). Censoring metaphors in translation: Shakespeare's Hamlet under Franco. Cognitive Linguistics, 25 (2), 177-202. doi: 10.1515/cog-2014-0016

One metaphor to rule them all? 'Objects' as tests of character in The Lord of the Rings

Sullivan, Karen (2013). One metaphor to rule them all? 'Objects' as tests of character in The Lord of the Rings. Language and Literature, 22 (1), 77-94. doi: 10.1177/0963947012462949

A tangled knot of target domains: Assessing INTELLIGENCE IS BRIGHTNESS and GOODNESS IS BRIGHTNESS in an image rating task

Sullivan, Karen (2013). A tangled knot of target domains: Assessing INTELLIGENCE IS BRIGHTNESS and GOODNESS IS BRIGHTNESS in an image rating task. metaphorik.de, 23, 7-18.

It's only a model: discussion note on 'Small Model Languages as Tools for Reflection'

Sullivan, Karen (2013). It's only a model: discussion note on 'Small Model Languages as Tools for Reflection'. Language Under Discussion, 1 (1), 27-29. doi: 10.31885/lud.1.1.250

It’s hard being soft: Antonymous senses versus antonymous words

Sullivan, Karen (2012). It’s hard being soft: Antonymous senses versus antonymous words. The Mental Lexicon, 7 (3), 307-326. doi: 10.1075/ml.7.3.03sul

Minimalist metaphors

Sweetser, Eve and Sullivan, Karen (2012). Minimalist metaphors. English Text Construction, 5 (2), 153-173. doi: 10.1075/etc.5.2.01swe

If and when it's a construction ...

Sullivan, Karen (2011). If and when it's a construction .... Constructions and Frames, 3 (2), 236-260. doi: 10.1075/cf.3.2.04sul

When my eyes are on you, do you touch my eyes? A reclassificaiton of metaphors mapping from physical contact to perception

Sullivan, Karen and Jiang, Wenying (2011). When my eyes are on you, do you touch my eyes? A reclassificaiton of metaphors mapping from physical contact to perception. International Journal of Cognitive Linguistics, 2 (2), 185-196.

The languages of art: How representational and abstract painters conceptualize their work in terms of language

Sullivan, Karen (2009). The languages of art: How representational and abstract painters conceptualize their work in terms of language. Poetics Today, 30 (3), 517-560. doi: 10.1215/03335372-2009-004

Genre-dependent metonymy in Norse skaldic poetry

Sullivan, Karen (2008). Genre-dependent metonymy in Norse skaldic poetry. Language and Literature, 17 (1), 21-36. doi: 10.1177/0963947007085051

Metaphoric extension and invited inferencing in semantic change

Sullivan, Karen (2007). Metaphoric extension and invited inferencing in semantic change. Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación, 5, 255-271.

Lexical filledness and metaphor in idioms

Sullivan, Karen (2007). Lexical filledness and metaphor in idioms. First Nordic Conference on Syntactic Freezes, Joensuu, Finland, 19-20 May 2006. Joensuu, Finland: Joensuu University Press.

Frame-based constraints on lexical choice in metaphor

Sullivan, Karen (2006). Frame-based constraints on lexical choice in metaphor. 32nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A., 10-12 February 2006. Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.: Berkeley Linguistics Society.