Conceptual Integration Theory In Idiom Modifications

Author : Nihada Delibegović Džanić,Sanja Berberović
Publisher : Universitat de València
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788491345565

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Conceptual Integration Theory in Idiom Modifications by Nihada Delibegović Džanić,Sanja Berberović Pdf

The long-standing view that idioms are formally and thus also semantically fixed has been challenged and many studies have shown that idioms are indeed flexible both structurally and semantically to varying degrees. We often come across examples of creatively used idioms, with their original structure disrupted and their semantics affected in the process. This book investigates the phenomenon of innovation and creativity in phraseology and examines the limits to innovation, i.e. it questions whether modified idioms are choreographed by a set of principles or constraints and whether these principles are coherent. Conceptual Integration Theory is used to analyze modified phraseological units in order to provide insights into mechanisms which regulate their creation and cognitive organization.

Author : Nihada Delibegovic Dzanic
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8491345345

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Conceptual Integration Theory in Idiom Modifications by Nihada Delibegovic Dzanic Pdf

Author : Sylviane Granger,Fanny Meunier
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027232466

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Phraseology by Sylviane Granger,Fanny Meunier Pdf

Long regarded as a peripheral issue, phraseology is now taking centre stage in a wide range of fields. This recent explosion of interest undoubtedly has a great deal to do with the development of corpus linguistics research, which has both demonstrated the key role of phraseological expressions in language and provided researchers with automated methods of extraction and analysis. The aim of this volume is to take stock of current research in phraseology from a variety of perspectives: theoretical, descriptive, contrastive, cultural, lexicographic and computational. It contains overview chapters by leading experts in the field and a series of case studies focusing on a wide range of multiword units: collocations, similes, idioms, routine formulae and recurrent phrases. The volume is an invitation for experienced phraseologists to look at the field with different eyes and a useful introduction for the many researchers who are intrigued by phraseology but need help in finding their way in this rich but complex domain.

Author : Mario Brdar,Marija Omazić,Višnja Pavičić Takač
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443818018

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Cognitive Approaches to English by Mario Brdar,Marija Omazić,Višnja Pavičić Takač Pdf

The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the conference Cognitive Approaches to English, an international event organized to mark the 30th anniversary of English studies at the Faculty of Philosophy, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University, Osijek, which was held in Osijek on October 18–19, 2007. The participants were invited to discuss issues in cognitive accounts of English, ranging from fundamental to methodological to interdisciplinary and applied. The volume is accordingly divided into four parts. Part I, Motivation in grammar, deals with various phenomena in the grammar of English in the broadest sense of the term, all of which are shown to be motivated by metaphorical and/or metonymic operations. Part II, Constructing meaning (between grammar and lexicon), contains five chapters dealing with phenomena ranging from various peculiarities of form-meaning pairings (such as synonymy, polysemy, and figurative meanings) to concept formation. The four chapters that make up Part III are concerned with the phenomenon of interlinguistic and intercultural variation in the use of metaphorical and metonymic processes. The volume is concluded by Part IV, the three papers of which attempt to reconsider some TEFL issues from a cognitive linguistic point of view.

Author : Nancy Henaku,G. Edzordzi Agbozo,Mark Nartey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000936568

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Communicative Perspectives on COVID-19 in Ghana by Nancy Henaku,G. Edzordzi Agbozo,Mark Nartey Pdf

This collection explores the communicative dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana, redressing the absence of perspectives from Africa and the Global South in pandemic discourses and highlighting the importance of considering the impact of local contexts in global crises. The volume critically reflects on the significance of communicative dimensions, understood here as the effects of communication on bidirectional flows between senders and receivers, on many different aspects of the coronavirus pandemic. Grounded in transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives and drawing on data from the Ghanian experience, the book showcases how important it is for local factors to be taken into account by governments, medical professionals, social commentators, and everyday people in communicating during a pandemic, when local cultures, histories, and infrastructures all play a role in shaping communication and the dissemination of knowledge. Chapter examines such topics as the role of metaphor, the use of social media in disinformation, and the range of strategies and channels employed by stakeholders. This volume centers the pandemic experience in a Global South context, demonstrating the importance of a greater focus on local contexts in understanding communication in a time of pandemic. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in intercultural communication, crisis communication, health communication, discourse analysis, and African studies.

Author : Sylvia Jaki
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269874

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Phraseological Substitutions in Newspaper Headlines by Sylvia Jaki Pdf

The major purpose of newspaper headlines is to trigger the reader’s interest. A popular way to achieve this goal is the use of phraseological modifications. Based on previous findings from various linguistic disciplines, this book provides an interdisciplinary approach to shed light on the reception of substitutions like More than Meats the Eye. It develops an empirical methodology for investigating the complex cognitive processes involved, using a large sample of authentic examples for illustration. Along these lines, this volume not only shows what associations readers make when they encounter a lexical substitution and what factors facilitate the recognition of the canonical form. It also addresses the question of how meaning is constructed in terms of Conceptual Integration Theory and establishes an experimentally supported model of interpretation. This multifaceted perspective renders Phraseological Substitutions in Newspaper Headlines: "More than Meats the Eye" relevant to scholars and advanced students from a wide range of linguistic areas, such as phraseology, cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, and humour research, but also to interested journalists.

Author : Andreas Langlotz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027293763

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Idiomatic Creativity by Andreas Langlotz Pdf

This book revisits the theoretical and psycholinguistic controversies centred around the intriguing nature of idioms and proposes a more systematic cognitive-linguistic model of their grammatical status and use. Whenever speakers vary idioms in actual discourse, they open a linguistic window into idiomatic creativity – the complex cognitive processing and representation of these heterogeneous linguistic constructions. Idiomatic creativity therefore raises two challenging questions: What are the cognitive mechanisms that underlie and shape idiom-representation? How do these mechanisms define the scope and limits of systematic idiom-variation in actual discourse? The book approaches these problems by means of a comprehensive cognitive-linguistic architecture of meaning and language and analyses them on the basis of corpus-data from the British National Corpus (BNC). Therefore, Idiomatic Creativity should be of great interest to cognitive linguists, phraseologists, corpus linguists, advanced students of linguistics, and all readers who are interested in the fascinating interplay of language and cognitive processing.This book has a companion website: www.idiomatic-creativity.ch.

Author : Adam Tomasz Warchoł
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781527520875

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Conceptual Blending and the Arts by Adam Tomasz Warchoł Pdf

This book presents an analysis of how the processes described in Conceptual Blending Theory can be applied in practice, on the basis of Michał Batory’s posters designed for artistic events. Therefore, it begins with an introduction of the origins of Conceptual Blending Theory, the very nature and elements of conceptual blending as a linguistic and mental phenomenon. It also provides an overview of the models and types of integration networks, which is followed by an analysis of vital relations that accompany the blending process. Importantly, the principles constraining Conceptual Blending Theory, together with the criticism levelled at Fauconnier and Turner’s approach are put forward. The book then moves on to analyse Michał Batory’s posters in terms of conceptual blending processes. The blended space is meticulously discussed and illustrated to show explicitly how two distinct notions are combined to create a new meaning that is non-computable from the two input spaces. The interaction that occurs between the inscriptions and images is very distinct in every single poster. The analysis highlights how Batory’s artefacts influence people and convey the hidden message, with the use of strong visual and verbal elements that accompany the blending process.

Author : René Dirven,Ralf Pörings
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Cognitive grammar
ISBN : 9783110173741

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Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast by René Dirven,Ralf Pörings Pdf

The book elaborates one of Roman Jakobson's many brilliant ideas, i.e. his insight that the two cognitive strategies of the metaphoric and the metonymic are the end-points on a continuum of conceptualization processes. This elaboration is achieved on the background of Lakoff and Johnson's twodomain approach, i.e. the mapping of a source onto a target domain of conceptualization. Further approaches dwell on different stretches of this metaphor-metonymy continuum. Still other papers probe into the specialized conceptual division of labor associated with both modes of thought. Two new breakthroughs in the cognitive linguistics approach to metaphor and metonymy have recently been developed: one is the three-domain approach, which concentrates on the new blends that become possible after the integration or the blending of source and target domain elements; the other is the approach in terms of primary scenes and subscenes which often determine the way source and target domains interact.

Author : Dmitrij Dobrovol'skij,Dmitriĭ Olegovich Dobrovolʹskiĭ,Elisabeth Piirainen
Publisher : Brill Academic Pub
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0080438709

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Figurative Language by Dmitrij Dobrovol'skij,Dmitriĭ Olegovich Dobrovolʹskiĭ,Elisabeth Piirainen Pdf

The aim of this study is to discover basic principles underlying linguistic figurativeness and to develop a theory that is capable of capturing conventional figurative language (referred to as CFLT - Conventional Figurative Language Theory). This study analyses idioms, proverbs, lexicalised metaphors, and figurative compounds, drawn from ten standard languages.

Author : Dmitrij Dobrovol'skij,Elisabeth Piirainen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110702538

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Figurative Language by Dmitrij Dobrovol'skij,Elisabeth Piirainen Pdf

The book develops a Theory of the Figurative Lexicon. Units of the figurative lexicon (conventional figurative units, CFUs for short) differ from all other elements of the language in two points: Firstly, they are conventionalized. That is, they are elements of the mental lexicon – in contrast to freely created figurative expressions. Secondly, they consist of two conceptual levels: they can be interpreted at the level of their literal reading and at the level of their figurative meaning – which both can be activated simultaneously. New insights into the Theory of Figurative Lexicon relate, on the one hand, to the metaphor theory. Over time, it became increasingly clear that the Conceptual Metaphor Theory in the sense of Lakoff can only partly explain the conventional figurativeness. On the other hand, it became clear that “intertextuality” plays a far greater role in the CFUs of Western cultures than previously assumed. The book’s main target audience will be linguists, researchers in phraseology, paremiology and metaphor, and cultural studies. The data and explanations of the idioms will provide a welcome textbook in courses on linguistics, culture history, phraseology research and phraseodidactics.

Author : Raymond W. Gibbs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107071148

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Metaphor Wars by Raymond W. Gibbs Pdf

The study of metaphor is now firmly established as a central topic within cognitive science and the humanities. This book explores the critical role that conceptual metaphors play in language, thought, cultural and expressive actions. It evaluates the arguments and evidence for and against conceptual metaphors across academic disciplines.

Author : Sandra Handl,Hans-Jörg Schmid
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110238198

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Windows to the Mind by Sandra Handl,Hans-Jörg Schmid Pdf

Cognitive linguists are convinced that the nature of linguistic structures is strongly influenced by the way we experience and perceive the world and by how we conceptualize and construe these experiences and perceptions in our minds. At the same time, the study of linguistic structure and usage is credited with the potential to open windows to how our minds work. The present volume collects papers investigating linguistic phenomena that reflect the key cognitive processes of metaphor, metonymy and conceptual blending, which have proven to be highly influential in linguistic conceptualization. Theoretical and methodological issues, such as metaphor identification and the relevance of the target domain for children's understanding of metaphor, are focused on in the first section. The second and third parts are devoted to the application of the theoretical frameworks of the conceptual theory of metaphor and metonymy and the theory of conceptual blending to linguistic data. The contributions critically explore the explanatory potential of these theories, build bridges between them, link them with other approaches and notions (such as construction grammar, common ground and stance/evaluation), and uncover conceptual regularities and cognitive models that underlie and shape our language use in specific domains. The linguistic structures under consideration span the range from compounds and premodified noun phrases to constructions and texts such as jokes and political speeches. Methods applied include psycholinguistic experiments, analyses of data culled from authentic language corpora and discourse-analytical approaches.

Author : Ioannis Galantomos
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527574939

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L2 Figurative Language Teaching by Ioannis Galantomos Pdf

During L2 vocabulary instruction, figurative language frustrates even highly proficient users who find it difficult to cope with non-literal expressions, such as metaphors, metonymies, and idioms. Given that figurative language is closely associated with enhanced L2 communicative competence, this volume brings together theory and teaching applications, shedding light on the comprehension and production of figurative language in a foreign language context.

Author : Seana Coulson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521643619

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Semantic Leaps by Seana Coulson Pdf

Semantic Leaps explores how people combine knowledge from different domains in order to understand and express new ideas. Concentrating on dynamic aspects of on-line meaning construction, Coulson identifies two related sets of processes: frame-shifting and conceptual blending. By addressing linguistic phenomena often ignored in traditional meaning research, Coulson explains how processes of cross-domain mapping, frame-shifting, and conceptual blending enhance the explanatory adequacy of traditional frame-based systems for natural language processing. The focus is on how the constructive processes speakers use to assemble, link, and adapt simple cognitive models underlie a broad range of productive language behavior.