My Interdisciplinary Research

Book Reviews

• Bort-Mir, L. (2023). Flashbacks in Film: A Cognitive and Multimodal Analysis, by Gordejuela, A, London, Routledge, 2021, 185 pp., (Hardback), ISBN 978 0 367 72133 6. Metaphor and Symbol (online), 23(3), 291-294. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926488.2022.2153337
• C. Müller & H. Kappelhoff (2018). Cinematic Metaphor: Experience–Affectivity–Temporality. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. 279pp. ISBN 9783110579598 (HB) / 9783110580785 (EB). Reviewed by Lorena Bort-Mir, Universitat Politècnica de València. https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/msw.22003.bor

• Visual Metaphor: Structure and Process, ed. Steen, Gerard J. , Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 2018, VI + 196 with an index. ISBN978-90-2720-151-5. 135€ Reseñado por Lorena Bort-Mir, Universitat Jaume I. https://www.e-revistes.uji.es/index.php/clr/article/view/3965/3308

Journal Articles

• Bort-Mir, L., & Bolognesi, M. (2022). Reliability in the identification of metaphors in (filmic) multimodal communication. Multimodal Communication, 11(3), 187-201.

https://doi.org/10.1515/mc-2021-0022

• Bort-Mir, L. (2021). Identifying Metaphors in TV Commercials with FILMIP: The Filmic Metaphor Identification Procedure. Journal of English Studies, 19, pp. 23-46.

https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.4623

• Arenós, M. I., & Bort-Mir, L. (2020). Going Up Is Always Good: A Multimodal Analysis of Metaphors in a TV Ad with FILMIP, the Filmic Metaphor Identification Procedure. Complutense Journal of English Studies, (28), 189-201.

https://doi.org/10.5209/cjes.66959

• Bort-Mir, L., Bolognesi, M., & Ghaffaryan, S. (2020). Cross-cultural interpretation of filmic metaphors: A think-aloud experiment. Intercultural Pragmatics, 17(4), 389-416.

https://doi.org/10.1515/ip-2020-4001

• Bort-Mir, L. (2020). Using Penzu^TM for academic online diaries to enhance metacognitive skills in Higher Education. The EuroCALL Review, 28(2), 50-63.

https://doi.org/10.4995/eurocall.2020.12756

• Bort Mir, L. (2019). Developing, Applying, and Testing FILMIP: the Filmic Metaphor Identification Procedure (Doctoral dissertation, Universitat Jaume I). DOI 10.13140/RG.2.2.18345.03688

• Bort-Mir, L. (2017). To click or not to click: a cognitive linguistic approach to a mental theory of website domains. The Heritage (18), 1-18.

• Bort-Mir, L. (2016). Adult Brain: Game of Metaphors for Understanding the Internet. Ariadna: cultura, educación y tecnología, (3), 11-16.

http://Dx.DOI.Org/10.6035/ArIADnA.2016.3.2

• Bort-Mir, L. (2016). Desarrollando la Herramienta DAG: Diario de Aprendizaje Guiado para promover y evaluar los procesos metacognitivos de los estudiantes en la Educación Superior. In Actas del Congreso Virtual: Avances en Tecnologías, Innovación y Desafíos de la Educación Superior ATIDES 2016 (pp. 421-434). Universitat Jaume I.

Book Chapters

• Bort-Mir, L. (2024). Herramientas, retos y propuestas de la Inteligencia Artificial para la Lingüística Aplicada. In Françoise Olmo Cazevieille (Ed.) Investigación lingüística en entornos digitales (pp. 105-128). Tirant Humanidades. Investigación lingüística en entornos digitalesTirant lo Blanch – Editorial Tirant Lo Blanch

• Bort-Mir, L. (2023). Metaphorical representation of smell: an analysis of perfume TV commercials under the lens of filmic multimodal metaphoricity. In Teresa Molés-Cases, Rosa Currás-Móstoles, Carlos Periñán-Pascual and Francesca Romero-Forteza (Eds.), Estudios de lingüística aplicada VI. [Scientia] Serie Lingüística, (pp- 43-56). Valencia: Editorial UPV. Retrieved from https://monografias.editorial.upv.es/index.php/scling/article/view/618. DOI https://doi.org/10.4995/SCLIN.2023.672001

• Bort-Mir, L. (2021). Keyboarding vs. handwriting in the use of the guided learning diary: a decision towards its use and design. In Olga Buzón García and Carmen Romero García (Coords.), Metodologías Activas con TIC en la Educación del Siglo XXI. Colección Conocimiento Contemporáneo. Madrid: Dykinson. (pp. 1753-1785)

• Bort-Mir, L. (2015). New ways of teaching metacognitive skills in higher education: Converstand, a software for a better knowledge acquisition. In Proceeding of INTED2015 Conference 2nd-4th March 2015 (pp. 4557-4562).

Conference presentations

• Bort-Mir, Lorena; Ghaffaryan, S. (2024). Metaphors of Inner Peace: A Contrastive Linguistic Perspective through Islamic and Christian Scriptures. EN 20th TELLSI and 7th ATU ELT Conference in One Frame. ELT Teacher Education in the Spotlight. Tehran, Iran.
• Bort-Mir, Lorena; Ureña-Tormo, Clara (2023). Developing effective communication skills through active methodologies in Higher Education contexts. EN 40º Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada (AESLA 2023). Mérida, España.
• Bort-Mir, Lorena; Fortanet-Gómez, Inmaculada (2023). Analyzing how ESP students process multimodal materials through the eye-tracking technique. EN 32nd European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference (ESFLC 2023). Vigo, Spain.
• Bort-Mir, Lorena; Carolina Girón (2023). Integrating sentiment and gender analysis for the selection of texts to practice the reading skill in ESP courses. EN 40º Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada (AESLA 2023). Mérida, España.
• Bort-Mir, Lorena (2023). Metaphorical representation of smell: an analysis of perfume TV commercials under the lens of filmic multimodal metaphoricity. EN 14º Seminario de Investigación del Departamento de Lingüística Aplicada. (43 – 56). València, España
• Bort-Mir, Lorena (2021). Longhand over laptop use of the Guided Learning Diary (GLD): A definitive guide to the design of learning diaries to foster academic success. EN 15th International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED 2021). Online: IATED.
• Bort-Mir, Lorena (2020). Workshop: Identifying metaphorical elements in films with FILMIP: the Filmic Metaphor Identification Procedure. EN 13th Conference of the Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM 2020). Online.
• Bort-Mir, Lorena (2019). Using Penzu as academic online diaries to enhance metacognitive skills in Higher Education. EN iTECLA international conference on Intercultural Learning in the Digital Age: Building up Telecollaborative Networks. Valencia, España.
• Lorena Bort-Mir and Marianna Bolognesi. Understanding the mental operations during filmic metaphor processing: a think aloud experiment. Metaphor Festival, University of Amsterdam, 2018.
• Lorena Bort-Mir. Introducing FILMIP: a method for metaphor identification in moving pictures. Metaphor Festival, University of Amsterdam, 2017.
• Workshop by invitation: Applying FILMIP: the filmic metaphor identification procedure. UVA, Amsterdam, 2017.
• Lorena Bort-Mir. Desarrollando la Herramienta DAG: Diario de Aprendizaje Guiado para Promover y Evaluar los Procesos Metacognitivos de los Estudiantes en la Educación Superior. Congreso virtual ATIDES, Avances en Tecnología, Innovación y Desafíos de la Educación Superior, Oct. 2016, UJI. International.

• Lorena Bort-Mir. A method for filmic metaphors identification in TV commercials. IV International Conference on Metaphor and Discourse. Castellón (UJI). International. 2015.
• Keynote speaker (by invitation). Lorena Bort-Mir. Adult Brain: Game of Metaphors to Undestand the Internet, 4th International Conference on Elderly and New Technologies, Universitat Jaume I, International, 2015.
• Lorena Bort-Mir. ConverStand: new software for enhancing task and domain specific metacognitive skills for a better knowledge acquisition in Higher Education. XXXIII Congreso Internacional de AESLA. International. Madrid, 2015
• Lorena Bort-Mir. Much Ado About Nothing? ICT: Revitalizing Literature Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. XIX Jornadas de Fomento de la Investigación de la Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales. Castellón (UJI), 2014
• Lorena Bort-Mir. Romeo and Juliet. Luhrman vs. Zeffirelli: A Contrastive Analysis of both films. Jornadas de Fomento a la Investigación de Filología Inglesa. Castellón (UJI), 2006.

Member of…

• 2022- present: External collaborator member at GRAPE research group, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain.
• 2021- present: Research Member of the GALE research group, Applied Linguistics Department, Universitat Politècnica de València.
• 2021- 2024: Elected Communications Officer in the Executive Committee of the Researching and Applying Metaphor Association (UK).
• 2015-2021: Member of the GReSCA research group: Research Group on Contrastive and Applied Linguistics, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain.

Awards

Bort-Mir, Lorena. Finalist team of the IMFAHE¿s Idea Competition-Nodal Award/Shark Tank Edition (2022). Imfahe Foundation

Bort-Mir, Lorena. Second Prize ff the Compostela Group of Universities I Research Pitches Contest 2017 (2017). Compostela Group of Universities

Bort-Mir, Lorena. Segundo Premio Research Pitches de Comunicación Científica (2016). Universitat Jaume I

Bort-Mir, Lorena. 1er Premio Innovación y Creatividad (2015). Cátedra INCREA, Universitat Jaume I

Projects

Poza-Lujan, Jose-Luis (I.P.); Bort-Mir, Lorena; Terrasa Barrena, Silvia Mª; Ferri Ramírez, César; Blanc Clavero, Sara; Perello-Marin, M Rosario … Gil-Salom, Daniela . New Way To a Sustainable Transformational Educational Programme ( 101083210). (01/05/23 – 30/04/26).Cooperación académica/educativa. COMISION DE LAS COMUNIDADES EUROPEA. Spain, Finland, Nepal.