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  1. Deconstructing Verbal Irony: The Mechanics of Echoic Mention

    Article • October 2025, John Benjamins

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza

  2. How Imitation Creates Humor and Criticism

    Article • Cultura Lenguaje y Representación, May 2025, Universitat Jaume I

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza

  3. Decoding Exaggerated Word Blends: A Cognitive Study

    Article • Lege artis Language yesterday today tomorrow, April 2025, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Saints Cyril and Methodius

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza, Dr. Mª Sandra Peña Cervel

  4. Understading Verbal Irony in High Intellectual Ability

    Article • Journal of Intelligence, January 2025, MDPI AG

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza

  5. Metaphor’s Missing Link: How Similarity Shapes Thought

    Article • Cognitive Linguistic Studies, June 2024, John Benjamins

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza

  6. How Our Minds Build and Understand Irony

    Article • December 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza

  7. How Similes with “Like” Differ from Metaphors—and Why It Matters

    Article • Lege artis Language yesterday today tomorrow, July 2023, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Saints Cyril and Methodius

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza

  8. Unlocking Metaphor: How Structural Similarity Builds Meaning

    Article • Lingua, July 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza, Dr. Mª Sandra Peña Cervel

  9. The Two Faces of Similarity in Language: From Metaphor to Mockery

    Article • November 2022, John Benjamins

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza

  10. Metaphor in Science: How Experts Think and Communicate

    Article • June 2022, John Benjamins

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza

  11. A Unified Theory of Figurative Language: How Our Minds Create Meaning

    Article • April 2022, John Benjamins

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza, Dr. Mª Sandra Peña Cervel

  12. Irony from the point of view of pragmatics and cognition

    Article • January 2022, John Benjamins

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza, Inés Lozano Palacio

  13. How We Understand Irony in Speech and Everyday Situations

    Article • May 2021, John Benjamins

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza

  14. The Architecture of Figurative Language: Operations & Constraints

    Article • November 2020, John Benjamins

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza

  15. How Mental Scenarios Shape Meaning: Metonymy’s Hidden Role

    Article • July 2020, John Benjamins

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza

  16. When Sentences Pretend: The Cognitive Roots of Agent-Deprofiling

    Article • Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics, November 2019, John Benjamins

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza

  17. How Linguistics and Literature Together Explain How Irony Works

    Article • Cognitive Semantics, February 2019, Brill

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza, Inés Lozano Palacio, Inés Lozano Palacio

  18. Why Irony Works: A Cognitive Explanation

    Article • November 2017, John Benjamins

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza

  19. How Cognitive Models Combine to Create Meaning

    Article • Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics, November 2017, John Benjamins

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza

  20. Mapping Grammar’s Family Trees: A Construction Grammar Approach

    Article • July 2017, John Benjamins

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza, Dr Paula Pérez-Sobrino, Dr Alba Luzondo-Oyón

  21. Why Constructions Form Families: Understanding the Network Structure of Grammar

    Article • July 2017, John Benjamins

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza

  22. Language and communication

    Article • Functions of Language, November 2015, John Benjamins

    Dr Anne McCabe, Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza, Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza

  23. How Marvell Uses Time Metaphors to Build Meaning in “To His Coy Mistress”

    Article • Cognitive Semantics, August 2015, Brill

    Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza, Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza, Asunción Barreras

  24. Teaching Computers to Understand Constructions

    Article • Language Sciences, March 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Alba Luzondo-Oyón, Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza

  25. How English Uses Motion to Express Results: When States Become Destinations

    Article • Language and Cognition, December 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza, Dr Alba Luzondo-Oyón, Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza

  26. How Metaphor, Irony, and Hyperbole Work in the Mind

    Article • Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics, August 2014, John Benjamins

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza

  27. Cognitive Modeling

    Article • June 2014, John Benjamins

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza, Alicia Galera

  28. The Functional Perspective on Language and Discourse

    Article • April 2014, John Benjamins

    Prof. Francisco Gonzálvez-García, Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza, Professor Emeritus Angela Elizabeth Downing, Dr María Ángeles Gómez González

  29. Theory and Practice in Functional-Cognitive Space

    Article • February 2014, John Benjamins

    Prof. Francisco Gonzálvez-García, Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza, Professor Emeritus Angela Elizabeth Downing, Dr María Ángeles Gómez González

  30. Introduction. Plotting functional-cognitive space

    Article • January 2014, John Benjamins

    Prof. Francisco Gonzálvez-García, Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza, Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza

  31. Constructing discourse and discourse constructions

    Article • January 2014, John Benjamins

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza, Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza

  32. Low-level situational cognitive models within the Lexical Constructional Model and their computational implementation in FunGramKB

    Article • January 2014, John Benjamins

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza

  33. How Functional Linguistics and Pragmatics Work Together to Explain Real Language Use

    Article • January 2014, John Benjamins

    Prof. Francisco Gonzálvez-García, Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza, Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza

  34. Meaning construction, meaning interpretation and formal expression in the Lexical Constructional Model

    Article • November 2013, John Benjamins

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza

  35. Lexical class and perspectivization constraints on subsumption in the Lexical Constructional Model: the case of say verbs in English

    Article • Language Sciences, January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza, Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza

  36. A defense of the power of Lakoff's Conceptual Metaphor Theory

    Article • Metaphor and Symbol, July 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza, Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza

  37. Defining Metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics

    Article • June 2011, John Benjamins

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza, Réka Benczes

  38. Introduction

    Article • January 2011, John Benjamins

    Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza, Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza

  39. Going beyond metaphtonymy: Metaphoric and metonymic complexes in phrasal verb interpretation

    Article • January 2011, Universitat Jaume I

    Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza, Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza

  40. Metonymy and cognitive operations

    Article • January 2011, John Benjamins

    Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza, Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza

  41. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics

    Article • Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, November 2009, John Benjamins

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza

  42. Creativity and Convention: The Pragmatics of Everyday Figurative Speech

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, January 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza, Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza

  43. Levels of description and explanation in meaning construction

    Article • January 2009, John Benjamins

    Dr Ricardo Mairal, Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza, Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza

  44. The metonymic and metaphoric grounding of two image-schema transformations

    Article • January 2009, John Benjamins

    Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza, Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza, Dr. Mª Sandra Peña Cervel

  45. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics

    Article • Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, November 2008, John Benjamins

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza

  46. Levels of description in meaning representation

    Article • Folia Linguistica, January 2008, De Gruyter

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza, Dr Ricardo Mairal, Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza

  47. Grammatical metonymy within the 'action' frame in English and Spanish

    Article • January 2008, John Benjamins

    Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza, Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza, Dr. Mª Sandra Peña Cervel

  48. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics

    Article • Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, November 2007, John Benjamins

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza

  49. High-level metaphor and metonymy in meaning construction

    Article • January 2007, John Benjamins

    Dr Ricardo Mairal, Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza, Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza

  50. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics

    Article • Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, October 2006, John Benjamins

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza

  51. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics

    Article • Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, October 2005, John Benjamins

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza

  52. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics

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

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza

  53. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics

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

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza

  54. Cognitive operations and pragmatic implication

    Article • January 2003, John Benjamins

    Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza, Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza

  55. Grounding, semantic motivation, and conceptual interaction in indirect directive speech acts

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, March 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza, Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza

  56. Why Metonymy Matters for Grammar

    Article • Language & Communication, October 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza, Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza