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Mario Brdar
Brdar, Mario
Mario
Brdar
University of Osijek
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A01
Stefan Th. Gries
Gries, Stefan Th.
Stefan Th.
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University of California
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Convergence in cognitive linguistics
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Ronald W. Langacker
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Ronald W.
Langacker
University of California, San Diego
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In contrast to the generative tradition, the overall tendency in cognitive linguistics has been convergent rather than divergent. At the outset it was quite diverse, as it did not stem from any single theory, scholar, or object of description. The passing years have seen the recognition of common interests and the integration of various strands of research. Conceptual unifications have been achieved (e.g. the constructional approach to lexicon and grammar; metaphor and grammatical composition as instances of conceptual integration). There has been convergence with other theoretical approaches (even generativism, as it has evolved). From an initial focus on semantics and grammar cognitive linguistics has made contact with other disciplines, methodologies, and sources of evidence. A coherent overall view is emerging.
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An overview of cognitive linguistics
An
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Antonio Barcelona
Barcelona, Antonio
Antonio
Barcelona
University of Córdoba
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A01
Javier Valenzuela
Valenzuela, Javier
Javier
Valenzuela
University of Murcia
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This chapter provides a survey of cognitive linguistics (CL). It presents the historical and intellectual context leading to its emergence as a reaction against generativism and extreme modularism. The chapter describes the main theoretical and methodological tenets of CL (non-modularism, non-objectivist, blueprint view of linguistic meaning, emphasis on prototype categorization, the inseparability of experience-based encyclopedic knowledge from linguistic knowledge, embodiment, emphasis on constructions as form-meaning pairings), its main research areas (construction grammars, lexico-semantic networks, and conceptual metaphor and metonymy and blending), its impressive results and applications in these areas, and its main problems and possible future development (greater integration with current research on cognition, giving weight to actual use and to the social and cultural dimension of language, among others).
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Pattern versus process concepts of grammar and mind
A cognitive-functional perspective
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Jan Nuyts
Nuyts, Jan
Jan
Nuyts
University of Antwerp
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This chapter focuses on one element dividing cognitive linguistics and more traditional functional linguistic approaches to grammar, viz. the contrast between the construction oriented approach predominating in the former and the rule or process oriented approach prevailing in the latter. It offers a ‘conceptual analysis’ of the issue, arguing (i) that a process concept of grammar is not misguided (pace suggestions to the contrary by some cognitive linguists) but needs to integrate certain insights from the constructional approach, and (ii) that in some version the two model types are largely compatible, reflecting different perspectives on the same phenomena.
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Metaphor in language and thought
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Gerard J. Steen
Steen, Gerard J.
Gerard J.
Steen
Free University, Amsterdam
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This chapter suggests that metaphor research can benefit from a clearer description of the field of research. Three dimensions of doing metaphor research are distinguished: metaphor can be studied as part of grammar or usage, it can be studied as part of language or thought, and it can be studied as part of sign systems or behavior. When these three dimensions are crossed, eight distinct areas of research emerge that have their own assumptions about metaphorical meaning, which have their own implications and consequences for the aims and evaluation of research. It is suggested that these distinctions will help in clarifying the validity of claims about the role of conceptual metaphor in language.
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Emotion and desire in independent complement clauses
A case study from German
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A01
Klaus-Uwe Panther
Panther, Klaus-Uwe
Klaus-Uwe
Panther
University of Hamburg
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A01
Linda L. Thornburg
Thornburg, Linda L.
Linda L.
Thornburg
Independent researcher
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We advocate the use of theoretical tools from both cognitive linguistics and contemporary pragmatics to analyze complement clause constructions that are syntactically dependent but independent in terms of their illocutionary force, as exemplified in English by <i>That it should have come to this!</i> Such apparent mismatches between syntactic form and illocutionary function raise important questions about how much of meaning is compositional and how much is inferential, i.e. to be derived through metaphoric, metonymic and/or pragmatic elaboration. The focus of this study is on German complement clauses headed by the complementizer <i>dass</i>, but data from other languages are also adduced, attesting to the fact that this speech act construction is not an isolated and quirky phenomenon restricted to one language.
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Schematic meaning of the Croatian verbal prefix <i>iz-</i>
Meaning chains and syntactic implications
1
A01
Branimir Belaj
Belaj, Branimir
Branimir
Belaj
University of Osijek
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In contrast to the traditional approach where all verbs with the same prefix form a cluster of homonymic relations, this chapter proposes a single underlying schematic meaning as more or less common to all such verbs. Although these verbs differ in their more specific individual meanings, on the schematic level they form a category motivated by the single superschema. The schematic meaning of the Croatian verbal prefix <i>iz-</i> and its allomorphs <i>is-</i>, <i>iš-</i>, <i>iž-</i>, <i>i-</i> and <i>iza-</i> (jointly referred to as <i>iz-</i>) is best characterized as ‘<i>transition from an intralocative to an extralocative position</i>’. Its semantic span runs from prototypical to peripheral cases, and is defined by the conceptual status and relations among the agentive trajector, trajector and landmark.
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The conceptual motivation of bahuvrihi compounds in English and Spanish
The
conceptual motivation of bahuvrihi compounds in English and Spanish
1
A01
Antonio Barcelona
Barcelona, Antonio
Antonio
Barcelona
University of Córdoba
01
This chapter investigates a representative sample of English and Spanish bahuvrihi compounds (BCs). The main thesis is that, although BCs are motivated by the overriding metonymy characteristic property for category, the property itself can be conceptualized “literally” (as in <i>humpback</i> or <i>dos piezas</i>), metonymically (as in <i>acidhead</i> or <i>simpecado</i>), or metaphtonymically, with two major types and several subtypes (<i>fathead, cabeza cuadrada, featherweight, caradura</i>). The analysis is followed by a brief discussion of the connection between the semantics of BCs and their grammatical and prosodic form, and by some remarks on the contrasts between the two languages.
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On the subject of impersonals
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A01
Ronald W. Langacker
Langacker, Ronald W.
Ronald W.
Langacker
University of California, San Diego
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In accordance with basic principles of Cognitive Grammar, impersonal it (e.g. <i>It’s obvious that he’s angry</i>) is claimed to be meaningful. Three avenues of approach are followed in the characterization of <i>it</i> and the constructions it appears in: a comparison with related constructions; a comparison to other pronouns; and examination of a basic cognitive model called the “control cycle”. This broad perspective leads to a unified account in which the meaning of impersonal <i>it</i> is a special case of the general semantic value of this pronoun.
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Do people infer the entailments of conceptual metaphors during verbal metaphor understanding?
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A01
Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.
Gibbs, Jr., Raymond W.
Raymond W.
Gibbs, Jr.
University of California, Santa Cruz
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Luciane Corrêa Ferreira
Corrêa Ferreira, Luciane
Luciane
Corrêa Ferreira
Federal Universty of Rio Grande do Sul
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One of the central claims of conceptual metaphor theory is that metaphorical mappings from source to target domains express a rich set of correspondences or entailments. We present the results of a psychological experiment that suggests people can recognize certain metaphorical inferences about a target domain as being appropriate when they read metaphorical statements. Moreover, when people read verbal metaphors about a target domain, they see other metaphorical entailments from different conceptual metaphors as being less appropriate. These data are reasonably consistent with certain claims of conceptual metaphor theory, yet more empirical studies are needed to examine the conditions under which people actually generate entailments motivated by underlying conceptual metaphors during ordinary language use.
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Corpus data in usage-based linguistics
What’s the right degree of granularity for the analysis of argument structure constructions?
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A01
Stefan Th. Gries
Gries, Stefan Th.
Stefan Th.
Gries
University of California, Santa Barbara
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The use of corpus data in cognitive linguistics brings with it a host of methodological problems. One concerns the degree of granularity that provides the most insightful results. The present study investigates two granularity issues – different inflectional forms and (register-)based corpus parts. First, I compare the results of a lemma-based corpus analysis of an English argument structure construction to an inflectional-form-based corpus analysis to determine whether the two approaches result in different suggestions concerning the semantics of the construction at issue. Second, I outline how to determine whether data from different corpus parts/registers result in different semantic generalizations of the same construction and how relevant corpus distinctions can be determined in an objective bottom-up manner.
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Cognitive linguistics meets the corpus
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A01
Anatol Stefanowitsch
Stefanowitsch, Anatol
Anatol
Stefanowitsch
University of Hamburg
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A first empirical turn in cognitive linguistics (CL) occurred in the mid–1990s, when researchers began to apply psycholinguistic methods to CL research questions, which quickly gained widespread acceptance in the field. More recently, a number of CL researchers have turned to corpus-linguistic methods, but these are not yet widely accepted. This is surprising, given the strong commitment in the CL community to ‘usage-based’ models of language. In this paper, I take up a number of ideas from construction grammar and cognitive linguistics and confront them with corpus data and corpus methods in order to show how such data may be used to address cognitive linguistic research issues that are difficult or impossible to address in other ways.
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304
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Oops blush!
Beyond metaphors of emotion
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A01
Heli Tissari
Tissari, Heli
Heli
Tissari
University of Helsinki
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In this chapter I relate the metonymic, embodied basis of emotion metaphors, illustrated, for example, by Zoltán Kövecses’s research in the 1980s and 1990s, to the concept of affect as discussed in a tradition founded by Silvan Tomkins. I focus on Tomkins’s claim that the responses of the body to stimulation constitute the affect itself. This can be seen as a challenge to the theory of conceptual metaphor: to what extent are emotion metaphors actually metaphorical, or is Tomkin’s claim itself a metaphor? Instead of attempting to resolve this puzzle, attention is given to shame in particular, in order to illustrate how work on conceptual metaphors and an understanding of affect as a fundamentally embodied phenomenon might cross-fertilize each other.
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Conceptual construal and social construction
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A01
Peter Harder
Harder, Peter
Peter
Harder
University of Copenhagen
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This chapter focuses on what happens when “emerged” concepts acquire a role in the social process: where concepts go, rather than where they come from. Conceptual construal is seen as the mind-internal end of a process that also involves social ‘construction’. The relationship is discussed in relation to an evolutionary approach to language change (Croft 2000), and the discussion emphasizes the role of causal power as criterial for the distinction between conceptual and social constructions. The framework is contrasted with analysis in terms of ‘discourses’ and analysis in terms of ‘framing’ and is illustrated by an analysis of the so-called ‘cartoon crisis’, a salient example of how social processes involving contested concepts raise interesting conceptual as well as social-constructional issues.
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354
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The biblical story retold
The
biblical story retold
A cognitive linguistic perspective
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A01
Zoltán Kövecses
Kövecses, Zoltán
Zoltán
Kövecses
Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest
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In this chapter I offer one, or a small set of, possible interpretation(s) of the basic story of the Bible. I suggest that the symbolic meaning of the story derives in large part from conceptual structures and conceptual mechanisms that are shared by a large number of speakers of English and other languages belonging to the European cultural sphere. My claim is that a large part of the dominant features of Christianity can be understood on the basis of people’s everyday conceptual system and that the understanding of these features does not require an entirely independently existing conceptual apparatus that is somehow unique to the interpretation of the sacred.
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This book is a much-needed and timely addition to the fast-growing multidisciplinary endeavor of the field, representing both state-of-the-art research and cutting-edge studies in cognitive linguistics proper and its expansion into other fields of inquiry.
Zhen-qiang Fan, Zhejiang Gongshang University, P.R. China, on Linguist List 23.2247 (2012)
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This volume offers a superb collection of fourteen articles on a wide range of interrelated topics within cognitive linguistics. Living fully up to its ambitious title, the book is based upon the keynote talks and papers presented at the “Converging and Diverging Tendencies in Cognitive Linguistics” conference, held in Dubrovnik (Croatia) in 2005, as well as a couple of papers that have been commissioned specifically for the present volume. Therefore, the six years that have elapsed between the conference and the publication of the book was definitively worth the wait, as the editors have managed to compile a volume that provides an excellent snapshot of where cognitive linguistics is right now, but at the same time also offers a glimpse into what the future might hold for cognitive linguistic research. [...] This book is a manifestation of the fact that cognitive linguistics is indeed ready and willing to expand, and can only benefit by the process, as expansion (resting on past convergences) can lead to future convergences. With this timely and widely applicable volume the editors have managed to compile a thought–provoking, yet highly enjoyable book that will serve as reference for plenty of linguists – within and outside of the cognitive linguistic paradigm – for years to come.
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Mario Brdar
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University of Osijek
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Stefan Th. Gries
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University of California
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University of California, San Diego
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In contrast to the generative tradition, the overall tendency in cognitive linguistics has been convergent rather than divergent. At the outset it was quite diverse, as it did not stem from any single theory, scholar, or object of description. The passing years have seen the recognition of common interests and the integration of various strands of research. Conceptual unifications have been achieved (e.g. the constructional approach to lexicon and grammar; metaphor and grammatical composition as instances of conceptual integration). There has been convergence with other theoretical approaches (even generativism, as it has evolved). From an initial focus on semantics and grammar cognitive linguistics has made contact with other disciplines, methodologies, and sources of evidence. A coherent overall view is emerging.
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Antonio Barcelona
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Barcelona
University of Córdoba
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Javier Valenzuela
Valenzuela, Javier
Javier
Valenzuela
University of Murcia
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This chapter provides a survey of cognitive linguistics (CL). It presents the historical and intellectual context leading to its emergence as a reaction against generativism and extreme modularism. The chapter describes the main theoretical and methodological tenets of CL (non-modularism, non-objectivist, blueprint view of linguistic meaning, emphasis on prototype categorization, the inseparability of experience-based encyclopedic knowledge from linguistic knowledge, embodiment, emphasis on constructions as form-meaning pairings), its main research areas (construction grammars, lexico-semantic networks, and conceptual metaphor and metonymy and blending), its impressive results and applications in these areas, and its main problems and possible future development (greater integration with current research on cognition, giving weight to actual use and to the social and cultural dimension of language, among others).
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Jan Nuyts
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University of Antwerp
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This chapter focuses on one element dividing cognitive linguistics and more traditional functional linguistic approaches to grammar, viz. the contrast between the construction oriented approach predominating in the former and the rule or process oriented approach prevailing in the latter. It offers a ‘conceptual analysis’ of the issue, arguing (i) that a process concept of grammar is not misguided (pace suggestions to the contrary by some cognitive linguists) but needs to integrate certain insights from the constructional approach, and (ii) that in some version the two model types are largely compatible, reflecting different perspectives on the same phenomena.
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Metaphor in language and thought
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Gerard J. Steen
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Free University, Amsterdam
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This chapter suggests that metaphor research can benefit from a clearer description of the field of research. Three dimensions of doing metaphor research are distinguished: metaphor can be studied as part of grammar or usage, it can be studied as part of language or thought, and it can be studied as part of sign systems or behavior. When these three dimensions are crossed, eight distinct areas of research emerge that have their own assumptions about metaphorical meaning, which have their own implications and consequences for the aims and evaluation of research. It is suggested that these distinctions will help in clarifying the validity of claims about the role of conceptual metaphor in language.
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Emotion and desire in independent complement clauses
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Klaus-Uwe Panther
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Independent researcher
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We advocate the use of theoretical tools from both cognitive linguistics and contemporary pragmatics to analyze complement clause constructions that are syntactically dependent but independent in terms of their illocutionary force, as exemplified in English by <i>That it should have come to this!</i> Such apparent mismatches between syntactic form and illocutionary function raise important questions about how much of meaning is compositional and how much is inferential, i.e. to be derived through metaphoric, metonymic and/or pragmatic elaboration. The focus of this study is on German complement clauses headed by the complementizer <i>dass</i>, but data from other languages are also adduced, attesting to the fact that this speech act construction is not an isolated and quirky phenomenon restricted to one language.
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hcp.32.10bel
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Article
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Schematic meaning of the Croatian verbal prefix <i>iz-</i>
Meaning chains and syntactic implications
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A01
Branimir Belaj
Belaj, Branimir
Branimir
Belaj
University of Osijek
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In contrast to the traditional approach where all verbs with the same prefix form a cluster of homonymic relations, this chapter proposes a single underlying schematic meaning as more or less common to all such verbs. Although these verbs differ in their more specific individual meanings, on the schematic level they form a category motivated by the single superschema. The schematic meaning of the Croatian verbal prefix <i>iz-</i> and its allomorphs <i>is-</i>, <i>iš-</i>, <i>iž-</i>, <i>i-</i> and <i>iza-</i> (jointly referred to as <i>iz-</i>) is best characterized as ‘<i>transition from an intralocative to an extralocative position</i>’. Its semantic span runs from prototypical to peripheral cases, and is defined by the conceptual status and relations among the agentive trajector, trajector and landmark.
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hcp.32.11bar
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178
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The conceptual motivation of bahuvrihi compounds in English and Spanish
The
conceptual motivation of bahuvrihi compounds in English and Spanish
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Antonio Barcelona
Barcelona, Antonio
Antonio
Barcelona
University of Córdoba
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This chapter investigates a representative sample of English and Spanish bahuvrihi compounds (BCs). The main thesis is that, although BCs are motivated by the overriding metonymy characteristic property for category, the property itself can be conceptualized “literally” (as in <i>humpback</i> or <i>dos piezas</i>), metonymically (as in <i>acidhead</i> or <i>simpecado</i>), or metaphtonymically, with two major types and several subtypes (<i>fathead, cabeza cuadrada, featherweight, caradura</i>). The analysis is followed by a brief discussion of the connection between the semantics of BCs and their grammatical and prosodic form, and by some remarks on the contrasts between the two languages.
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hcp.32.12lan
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On the subject of impersonals
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Ronald W. Langacker
Langacker, Ronald W.
Ronald W.
Langacker
University of California, San Diego
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In accordance with basic principles of Cognitive Grammar, impersonal it (e.g. <i>It’s obvious that he’s angry</i>) is claimed to be meaningful. Three avenues of approach are followed in the characterization of <i>it</i> and the constructions it appears in: a comparison with related constructions; a comparison to other pronouns; and examination of a basic cognitive model called the “control cycle”. This broad perspective leads to a unified account in which the meaning of impersonal <i>it</i> is a special case of the general semantic value of this pronoun.
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hcp.32.13pa3
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Part 3. Expanding the paradigm
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hcp.32.14gib
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Do people infer the entailments of conceptual metaphors during verbal metaphor understanding?
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Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.
Gibbs, Jr., Raymond W.
Raymond W.
Gibbs, Jr.
University of California, Santa Cruz
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Luciane Corrêa Ferreira
Corrêa Ferreira, Luciane
Luciane
Corrêa Ferreira
Federal Universty of Rio Grande do Sul
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One of the central claims of conceptual metaphor theory is that metaphorical mappings from source to target domains express a rich set of correspondences or entailments. We present the results of a psychological experiment that suggests people can recognize certain metaphorical inferences about a target domain as being appropriate when they read metaphorical statements. Moreover, when people read verbal metaphors about a target domain, they see other metaphorical entailments from different conceptual metaphors as being less appropriate. These data are reasonably consistent with certain claims of conceptual metaphor theory, yet more empirical studies are needed to examine the conditions under which people actually generate entailments motivated by underlying conceptual metaphors during ordinary language use.
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hcp.32.15gri
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Corpus data in usage-based linguistics
What’s the right degree of granularity for the analysis of argument structure constructions?
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Stefan Th. Gries
Gries, Stefan Th.
Stefan Th.
Gries
University of California, Santa Barbara
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The use of corpus data in cognitive linguistics brings with it a host of methodological problems. One concerns the degree of granularity that provides the most insightful results. The present study investigates two granularity issues – different inflectional forms and (register-)based corpus parts. First, I compare the results of a lemma-based corpus analysis of an English argument structure construction to an inflectional-form-based corpus analysis to determine whether the two approaches result in different suggestions concerning the semantics of the construction at issue. Second, I outline how to determine whether data from different corpus parts/registers result in different semantic generalizations of the same construction and how relevant corpus distinctions can be determined in an objective bottom-up manner.
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hcp.32.16ste
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Cognitive linguistics meets the corpus
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Anatol Stefanowitsch
Stefanowitsch, Anatol
Anatol
Stefanowitsch
University of Hamburg
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A first empirical turn in cognitive linguistics (CL) occurred in the mid–1990s, when researchers began to apply psycholinguistic methods to CL research questions, which quickly gained widespread acceptance in the field. More recently, a number of CL researchers have turned to corpus-linguistic methods, but these are not yet widely accepted. This is surprising, given the strong commitment in the CL community to ‘usage-based’ models of language. In this paper, I take up a number of ideas from construction grammar and cognitive linguistics and confront them with corpus data and corpus methods in order to show how such data may be used to address cognitive linguistic research issues that are difficult or impossible to address in other ways.
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hcp.32.17tis
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304
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Article
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Oops blush!
Beyond metaphors of emotion
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Heli Tissari
Tissari, Heli
Heli
Tissari
University of Helsinki
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In this chapter I relate the metonymic, embodied basis of emotion metaphors, illustrated, for example, by Zoltán Kövecses’s research in the 1980s and 1990s, to the concept of affect as discussed in a tradition founded by Silvan Tomkins. I focus on Tomkins’s claim that the responses of the body to stimulation constitute the affect itself. This can be seen as a challenge to the theory of conceptual metaphor: to what extent are emotion metaphors actually metaphorical, or is Tomkin’s claim itself a metaphor? Instead of attempting to resolve this puzzle, attention is given to shame in particular, in order to illustrate how work on conceptual metaphors and an understanding of affect as a fundamentally embodied phenomenon might cross-fertilize each other.
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hcp.32.18har
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Conceptual construal and social construction
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Peter Harder
Harder, Peter
Peter
Harder
University of Copenhagen
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This chapter focuses on what happens when “emerged” concepts acquire a role in the social process: where concepts go, rather than where they come from. Conceptual construal is seen as the mind-internal end of a process that also involves social ‘construction’. The relationship is discussed in relation to an evolutionary approach to language change (Croft 2000), and the discussion emphasizes the role of causal power as criterial for the distinction between conceptual and social constructions. The framework is contrasted with analysis in terms of ‘discourses’ and analysis in terms of ‘framing’ and is illustrated by an analysis of the so-called ‘cartoon crisis’, a salient example of how social processes involving contested concepts raise interesting conceptual as well as social-constructional issues.
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hcp.32.19kov
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354
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The biblical story retold
The
biblical story retold
A cognitive linguistic perspective
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Zoltán Kövecses
Kövecses, Zoltán
Zoltán
Kövecses
Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest
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In this chapter I offer one, or a small set of, possible interpretation(s) of the basic story of the Bible. I suggest that the symbolic meaning of the story derives in large part from conceptual structures and conceptual mechanisms that are shared by a large number of speakers of English and other languages belonging to the European cultural sphere. My claim is that a large part of the dominant features of Christianity can be understood on the basis of people’s everyday conceptual system and that the understanding of these features does not require an entirely independently existing conceptual apparatus that is somehow unique to the interpretation of the sacred.
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hcp.32.20nam
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