Cognitive Modeling: A linguistic perspective
Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez and Alicia Galera Masegosa
[Human Cognitive Processing, 45] 2014. ix, 250 pp.
Alicia Galera Masegosa
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alicia Galera Masegosa plays a role.
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Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2020 The role of echoing in meaning construction and interpretation: A cognitive-linguistic perspective Review of Cognitive Linguistics 18:1, pp. 19–41 | Article
Echoic mention was initially proposed as part of the relevance-theoretic approach to irony (Sperber & Wilson, 1986). The aim of this article is to present an account of echoing as a cognitive operation that goes beyond (and yet includes) the interpretation of ironic remarks. For this purpose, we… read more
2020 The metonymic exploitation of descriptive, attitudinal, and regulatory scenarios in meaning making Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language, Baicchi, Annalisa (ed.), pp. 283–308 | Chapter
This chapter accounts for the different outcomes resulting from the exploitation of different kinds of situational cognitive models (scenarios). Starting from Ruiz de Mendoza and Galera’s (2014) taxonomy of cognitive models, we take a step further by subdividing scenarios into descriptive,… read more
2015 Conceptual complexity in metaphorical resemblance operations revisited Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 28:1, pp. 97–117 | Article
The present article is concerned with the analysis of so-called metaphoric resemblance operations. Our corpus of animal metaphors, as representative of resemblance metaphors, reveals that there are complex cognitive operations other than simple one-correspondence mappings that are necessary to… read more