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Aletta G. Dorst

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11

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596

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10

H-Index

2010

Active since

Affiliations

Leiden University(Current)

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Aletta G. Dorst is an author at Leiden University specializing in language studies, linguistics, and discourse analysis.

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LanguageLinguisticsDiscourse AnalysisRhetoricApplied LinguisticsPragmaticsPhilosophy Of LanguagePoeticsLexical SemanticsCorpus Linguistics

Publications per year

2010–2022

11

Publications

11

Metaphor in usage

Gerard J. Steen, Aletta G. Dorst, J. Berenike Herrmann et al. · Cognitive Linguistics · 2010 · 265 citations

Pragmatic Analysis, Rhetoric, Lexical Semantics +21

Personification in discourse: Linguistic forms, conceptual structures and communicative functions

Aletta G. Dorst · Language and Literature International Journal of Stylistics · 2011 · 99 citations

Engineering, Linguistic Anthropology, Pragmatic Analysis +24

More or different metaphors in fiction? A quantitative cross-register comparison

Aletta G. Dorst · Language and Literature International Journal of Stylistics · 2015 · 50 citations

Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Forensic Linguistics +13

A dictionary gives definitions, not decisions

Aletta G. Dorst, W. Gudrun Reijnierse · Metaphor and the Social World · 2015 · 47 citations

Behavioral Decision Making, Decision Analysis, Lexical Semantics +17

Recognition of personifications in fiction by non-expert readers

Aletta G. Dorst, Gerben Mulder, Gerard J. Steen · Metaphor and the Social World · 2011 · 39 citations

Applied Linguistics, First-person Narrative, Literary Criticism +12

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