Elena Semino

“Not Soldiers but Fire-fighters” – Metaphors and Covid-19

Elena Semino · Health Communication · 2020 · 407 citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Communication, Infectious Diseases +13

An Integrated Approach to Metaphor and Framing in Cognition, Discourse, and Practice, with an Application to Metaphors for Cancer

Elena Semino, Zsófia Demjén, Jane Demmen · Applied Linguistics · 2016 · 347 citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Communication, Oncology +13

The online use of Violence and Journey metaphors by patients with cancer, as compared with health professionals: a mixed methods study

Elena Semino, Zsófia Demjén, Jane Demmen et al. · BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care · 2015 · 281 citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Communication, Oncology +15

Descriptions of Pain, Metaphor, and Embodied Simulation

Elena Semino · Metaphor and Symbol · 2010 · 225 citations · Full text

Language Studies, Linguistics, Psychology +16

Politics is Football: Metaphor in the Discourse of Silvio Berlusconi in Italy

Elena Semino, Michela Masci · Discourse & Society · 1996 · 163 citations

Public Affairs, Political Communication, Political Science +14