Metaphor Variation in Englishes around the World
Edited by Marcus Callies and Alexander Onysko
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 4:1 (2017) v, 169 pp.
Alexander Onysko
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alexander Onysko plays a role.
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Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Cognitive psychology | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
Articles
2021 Cognitive models of language contact: An integrated perspective of Diasystematic Construction Grammar and Cognitive Language Contact Phenotypes Constructions in Contact 2: Language change, multilingual practices, and additional language acquisition, Boas, Hans C. and Steffen Höder (eds.), pp. 81–105 | Chapter
This paper provides an integrated view of two recent cognitive models of language contact that have been developed on the basis of a usage-based approach to language: Diasystematic Construction Grammar (DCxG; Höder 2012, 2014, 2018, this volume) and Cognitive Language Contact Phenotypes (CLCP;… read more
2017 Metaphor variation in Englishes around the world: Introduction to the special issue Metaphor Variation in Englishes around the World, Callies, Marcus and Alexander Onysko (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Introduction
2017 Conceptual metaphor variation in meaning interpretation: Evidence from speakers of New Zealand English Metaphor Variation in Englishes around the World, Callies, Marcus and Alexander Onysko (eds.), pp. 7–35 | Article
This paper contributes to research on metaphor variation in the context of world Englishes from a theoretical and an empirical point of view. Starting with a discussion of the dissonance between universality and cultural specificity in conceptual metaphor research, basic dimensions of variation… read more
2015 Automated L1 identification in English learner essays and its implications for language transfer Transfer Effects in Multilingual Language Development, Peukert, Hagen (ed.), pp. 297–321 | Article
This article focuses on automatic text classification which aims at identifying the first language (L1) background of learners of English. A particular question arising in the context of automated L1 identification is whether any features that are informative for a machine learning algorithm relate… read more
2014 Finding a wooden jandal in the jandal wood: The role of bilingualism for the interpretation of headedness in novel English compounds Multilingual Cognition and Language Use: Processing and typological perspectives, Filipović, Luna and Martin Pütz (eds.), pp. 309–332 | Article
Set in the context of bilingualism in Māori and English, this chapter discusses the interpretation of novel English compounds as right or left-headed. The aim is to report evidence of structural transfer in bilinguals on the level of word formation. In accordance with Grosjean (2012), this study… read more
2012 Chapter 3. Investigating gender variation of English loanwords in German The Anglicization of European Lexis, Furiassi, Cristiano, Virginia Pulcini and Félix Rodríguez González (eds.), pp. 65–89 | Article
This article examines variation in gender assignment to English loanwords – a phenomenon that has rarely been studied on a large empirical basis to date. We report on a multi-method study of gender assignment to Anglicisms as evidenced by large newspaper corpora and experimental data elicited from… read more
2012 Chapter 2. Proposing a pragmatic distinction for lexical Anglicisms The Anglicization of European Lexis, Furiassi, Cristiano, Virginia Pulcini and Félix Rodríguez González (eds.), pp. 43–64 | Article
While certain Anglicisms (e.g. Event and Kids in German) typically appear as marked lexical choices, such effects are absent in other Anglicisms (e.g. Film and PC in German). In order to investigate these different pragmatic interpretations, we consider the criterion of whether an Anglicism exists… read more