All Stories

  1. Fire, wind, and lies

    Article • Metaphor and the Social World, April 2026, John Benjamins

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich, Rusi Jaspal

  2. How to do things with epigenetics: An investigation into the use of metaphors to promote alternative approaches to health and social science, and their implications for interdisciplinary collaboration

    Article • Social Science Information, November 2019, SAGE Publications

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  3. Fecal microbiota transplants: emerging social representations in the English-language print media

    Article • New Genetics and Society, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  4. Uncertainty discourses in the context of climate change: A corpus-assisted analysis of UK national newspaper articles

    Article • Communications, January 2016, De Gruyter

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich, Dr Luke C Collins

  5. Embracing and resisting climate identities in the Australian press: Sceptics, scientists and politics

    Article • Public Understanding of Science, May 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  6. Technologies of Scientific Visualization

    Article • Leonardo, February 2015, The MIT Press

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  7. Nanotechnology: Social and Cultural Aspects

    Article • January 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  8. UK media representations of Carbon Capture and Storage

    Article • Metaphor and the Social World, July 2013, John Benjamins

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  9. Emerging Infectious Diseases and Society

    Article • Sociology of Health & Illness, March 2012, Wiley

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  10. Review of Geeraerts (2010): Theories of Lexical Semantics

    Article • Journal of Historical Pragmatics, February 2012, John Benjamins

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  11. ‘Low carbon’ metals, markets and metaphors: the creation of economic expectations about climate change mitigation

    Article • Climatic Change, March 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  12. Low carbon diet: Reducing the complexities of climate change to human scale

    Article • Language and Cognition, March 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  13. Introducing semantics (review)

    Article • Language, January 2011, Project Muse

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  14. Bird flu hype

    Article • Journal of Language and Politics, November 2010, John Benjamins

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  15. Cognitive Linguistics and the History of Linguistics

    Article • June 2010

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  16. Tropical Truth(s)

    Article • January 2010, De Gruyter

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  17. Theory and language of climate change communication

    Article • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, January 2010, Wiley

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  18. Ethical futures: bioscience and food horizons

    Article • January 2009, De Gruyter

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich, Manuel Magalhaes-Sant'Ana

  19. Wilhelm von Humboldt

    Article • January 2009, John Benjamins

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  20. Balancing Food Risks and Food Benefits: the Coverage of Probiotics in the UK National Press

    Article • Sociological Research Online, January 2008, Sociological Research Online

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  21. The Structure of Time: Language, Meaning and Temporal Cognition (review)

    Article • Language, January 2006, Project Muse

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  22. Introduction

    Article • New Genetics and Society, December 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  23. Review of Santangelo (2003): Sentimental education in Chinese history. An interdisciplinary textual research on Ming and Qing Sources.

    Article • Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, December 2004, John Benjamins

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  24. The use of literally

    Article • Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, November 2003, John Benjamins

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  25. Biological Determinism and Symbolic Interaction: Hereditary Streams and Cultural Roads

    Article • Symbolic Interaction, November 2003, Wiley

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich, Robert Dingwall

  26. Polysemy

    Article • January 2003, De Gruyter

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  27. False friends

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, December 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  28. Vivien Law – Some memories

    Article • Historiographia Linguistica, August 2002, John Benjamins

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  29. Vivien Law — Some memories

    Article • Historiographia Linguistica, January 2002, John Benjamins

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  30. Serial metonymy

    Article • Journal of Historical Pragmatics, August 2001, John Benjamins

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  31. Fictions, fantasies, and fears: The literary foundations of the cl oning debate

    Article • Journal of Literary Semantics, January 2001, De Gruyter

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich, Robert Dingwall

  32. Structuralism, contextualism, dialogism

    Article • Historiographia Linguistica, May 2000, John Benjamins

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  33. Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft in Deutschland: Vom Mittelalter bis ins 20. Jahrhundert. By Andreas Gardt

    Article • Historiographia Linguistica, May 2000, John Benjamins

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  34. Review of Fritz (1998): Historische Semantik

    Article • Journal of Historical Pragmatics, May 2000, John Benjamins

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  35. Metáfora y Conocimiento

    Article • Metaphor and Symbol, April 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  36. Synecdoche as a cognitive and communicative strategy

    Article • December 1999, De Gruyter

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  37. Wilhelm von Humboldt

    Article • October 1999, John Benjamins

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  38. Pragmatics: Critical concepts

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, May 1999, Elsevier

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  39. Using Language

    Article • Language, June 1998, JSTOR

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  40. Using language By Herbert H. Clark

    Article • Language, January 1998, Project Muse

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  41. De la grammaire comparée à la sémantique

    Article • Language, June 1997, JSTOR

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  42. Le sens rhétorique: Essais de sémantique littéraire

    Article • Language, June 1997, JSTOR

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  43. Polysemy

    Article • Historiographia Linguistica, January 1997, John Benjamins

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  44. Language, Action and Context

    Article • June 1996, John Benjamins

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  45. De la grammaire comparée à la sémantique: Textes de Michel Bréal publiés entre 1864 et 1898. Introduction, commentaires et bibliographie par Piet Desmet et Pierre Swiggers

    Article • Historiographia Linguistica, January 1996, John Benjamins

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  46. The 1930s – at the birth of a Pragmatic Conception of Language

    Article • Historiographia Linguistica, January 1995, John Benjamins

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  47. Semantic Theories in Europe 1830-1930: From Etymology to Contextuality

    Article • Language, December 1993, JSTOR

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  48. Semantic Theories in Europe, 1830–1930

    Article • March 1992, John Benjamins

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  49. SEMANTIC CHANCE: CASE STUDIES BASED ON TRADITIONAL AND COGNITIVE SEMANTICS

    Article • Journal of Literary Semantics, January 1992, De Gruyter

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  50. Change in Language: Whitney, Bréal, and Wegener

    Article • Language, June 1991, JSTOR

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  51. The Place of G. F. Stout’s “Thought and Language” (1891) in the History of English Semantics

    Article • Historiographia Linguistica, January 1991, John Benjamins

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  52. Michel Bréal: The Beginnings of Semantics. Edited and translated by George Wolf

    Article • Historiographia Linguistica, January 1991, John Benjamins

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  53. Linguistic evolution

    Article • Lingua, February 1989, Elsevier

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  54. ELEMENTS FOR AN INTEGRAL THEORY OF LANGUAGE CHANCE

    Article • Journal of Literary Semantics, January 1989, De Gruyter

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  55. Meillet : langue et parole

    Article • Histoire Épistémologie Langage, January 1988, PERSEE Program

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  56. A DYNAMIC MODEL OF SEMANTIC CHANGE

    Article • Journal of Literary Semantics, January 1988, De Gruyter

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  57. Symbolsysteme und Handlungsmuster. Elemente für eine semiologische Pragmatik

    Article • January 1986, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  58. Polysemy: past and present

    Article • De Gruyter

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  59. Visual Construction of Nanoscience

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich

  60. 9. The emergence of linguistic semantics in the 19th and early 20th century

    Article • De Gruyter

    Professor Brigitte Nerlich