Language And Ideology Theoretical Cognitive Approaches

Author : René Dirven,Bruce Hawkins,Esra Sandikcioglu
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001-02-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789027299543

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Together with its sister volume on Descriptive Cognitive Approaches, this volume explores the contribution which cognitive linguistics can make to the identification and analysis of overt and hidden ideologies. As a theory of language which sees language as the accumulation of the conventionalised conceptualisations of a given linguistic and/or cultural community or sub-group within it, cognitive linguistics is called upon to make its own inroads in the study of ideology. This volume offers theoretical approaches and first discusses the philosophical foundations of cognitive linguistics. The question whether cognitive linguistics is not an ideology itself is not tabooed. The speaker’s deictic centre is the anchoring point, not only for spatial, temporal or interactional deixis, but also for cultural and ideological deixis. Cognitive linguistics is also confronted with a severe Marxist critique, but the potential convergence between the two ‘philosophies’ is highlighted as well. Further the question is raised to what extent the central nervous system and the grammatical system of a language impose sexually biased, and hence ideological representations on cognition. Finally, linguistics itself is seen as a potential bearer of ideological deviations as was the case with the ‘politics of linguistics’ in Nazi Germany, and even with the quest for the Indo-European homeland in comparative and historical linguistics throughout the 19th century and well into the 20th century.

Author : René Dirven,Bruce Wayne Hawkins,Esra Sandikcioglu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Cognitive grammar
ISBN : OCLC:666941522

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Author : René Dirven,Roslyn M. Frank,Cornelia Ilie
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001-03-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027299536

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Language and Ideology by René Dirven,Roslyn M. Frank,Cornelia Ilie Pdf

Together with its sister volume on Theoretical Cognitive Approaches, this volume explores the contribution which cognitive linguistics can make to the identification and analysis of overt and hidden ideologies. This volume shows that descriptive tools which cognitive linguistics developed for the analysis of language-in-use are highly efficient for the analysis of ideologies as well. Amongst them are the concept of grounding and the speaker’s deictic centre, iconographic reference, frames, cultural cognitive models as a subgroup of Idealized Cognitive Models, conceptual metaphors, root metaphors, frames as groups of metaphors, mental spaces, and conceptual blending. The first section ‘Political metaphor and ideology’ discusses topics such as Nazi Germany, discrimination of Afro-Americans, South Africa’s “rainbow nation”, and the impeachment campaign against President Clinton. The second section, on cross-cultural “Otherness” deals with cultural clashes such as those between the Basque symbolic world and the general European value systems; between the Islam and the West, determining its treatment of Iraq in the Gulf War; and between Hong Kong “Otherness” and centuries of Western dominance. The third section deals with ‘Metaphors for institutional ideologies’ and concentrates on the globalisation of the North and South American markets, on insults in (un)parliamentary debates, and on the Internet being for sale.

Author : René Dirven,Bruce Wayne Hawkins,Esra Sandikcioglu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Cognitive grammar
ISBN : 9027237123

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Language and Ideology: Descriptive cognitive approaches by René Dirven,Bruce Wayne Hawkins,Esra Sandikcioglu Pdf

Author : René Dirven,Bruce Wayne Hawkins,Esra Sandikcioglu
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1556197306

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Language and Ideology: Theoretical cognitive approaches by René Dirven,Bruce Wayne Hawkins,Esra Sandikcioglu Pdf

This volume explores the contribution which cognitive linguistics can make to the identification and analysis of overt and hidden ideologies. As a theory of language which sees language as the accumulation of the conventionalised conceptualisations of a given linguistic and/or cultural community or sub-group within it, cognitive linguistics is called upon to make its own inroads in the study of ideology. This volume offers theoretical approaches and first discusses the philosophical foundations of cognitive linguistics. Finally, linguistics itself is seen as a potential bearer of ideological deviations as was the case with the 'politics of linguistics' in Nazi Germany, and even with the quest for the Indo-European homeland in comparative and historical linguistics throughout the 19th century and well into the 20th century.

Author : René Dirven,Bruce Wayne Hawkins,Roslyn M. Frank,Esra Sandikcioglu,Cornelia Ilie
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027237123

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Language and Ideology by René Dirven,Bruce Wayne Hawkins,Roslyn M. Frank,Esra Sandikcioglu,Cornelia Ilie Pdf

Together with its sister volume on Theoretical Cognitive Approaches, this volume explores the contribution which cognitive linguistics can make to the identification and analysis of overt and hidden ideologies. This volume shows that descriptive tools which cognitive linguistics developed for the analysis of language-in-use are highly efficient for the analysis of ideologies as well. Amongst them are the concept of grounding and the speaker's deictic centre, iconographic reference, frames, cultural cognitive models as a subgroup of Idealized Cognitive Models, conceptual metaphors, root metaphors, frames as groups of metaphors, mental spaces, and conceptual blending.The first section 'Political metaphor and ideology' discusses topics such as Nazi Germany, discrimination of Afro-Americans, South Africa's "rainbow nation," and the impeachment campaign against President Clinton. The second section, on cross-cultural "Otherness" deals with cultural clashes such as those between the Basque symbolic world and the general European value systems; between the Islam and the West, determining its treatment of Iraq in the Gulf War; and between Hong Kong "Otherness" and centuries of Western dominance. The third section deals with 'Metaphors for institutional ideologies' and concentrates on the globalisation of the North and South American markets, on insults in (un)parliamentary debates, and on the Internet being for sale.

Author : Minglang Zhou
Publisher : Springer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789811334832

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Language Ideology and Order in Rising China by Minglang Zhou Pdf

This text considers contemporary China’s language ideology and how it supports China as a rising global power player. It examines the materialization of this ideology as China’s language order unfolds on two front, promoting Putonghua domestically and globally, alongside its economic growth and military expansion. Within the conceptual framework of language ideology and language order and using PRC policy documents, education annals, and fieldwork, this book explores how China’s language ideology is related to its growing global power as well as its domestic and global outreaches. It also addresses how this ideology has been materialized as a language order in terms of institutional development and support, and what impact these choices are having on China and the world. Focusing on the relationship between language ideology and language order, the book highlights a closer and coherent linguistic association between China’s domestic drive and global outreach since the turn of the century.

Author : Jean-Pierre Malrieu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134642281

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Evaluative Semantics by Jean-Pierre Malrieu Pdf

Evaluation, from connotations to complex judgements of value, is probably the most neglected dimension of meaning. Calling for a new understanding of truth and value, this book is a comprehensive study of evaluation in natural language, at lexical, syntactic and discursive levels. Jean Pierre Malrieu explores the cognitive foundations of evaluation and uses connectionist networks to model evaluative processes. He takes into account the social dimension of evaluation, showing that ideological contexts account for evaluative variability. A discussion of compositionality and opacity leads to the argument that a semantics of evaluation has some key advantages over truth-conditional semantics and as an example Malrieu applies his evaluative semantics to a complex Shakespeare text. His connectionist model yields a mathematical estimation of the consistency of text with ideology, and is particularly useful in the identification of subtle rhetorical devices such as irony.

Author : Dirk Geeraerts,Herbert Cuyckens
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 1366 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199738632

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The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics by Dirk Geeraerts,Herbert Cuyckens Pdf

With 49 chapters written by experts in the field, this reference volume authoritatively covers cognitive linguistics, from basic concepts and models to practical applications.

Author : Jeannette Littlemore,John R. Taylor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441130488

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The Bloomsbury Companion to Cognitive Linguistics by Jeannette Littlemore,John R. Taylor Pdf

The Bloomsbury Companion to Cognitive Linguistics is a comprehensive and accessible reference resource to research in contemporary cognitive linguistics. Written by leading figures in the field, the volume provides readers with an authoritative overview of methods and current research topics and future directions. The volume covers all the most important issues, concepts, movements and approaches in the field. It devotes space to looking specifically at the major figures and their contributions. It is a complete resource for postgraduate students and researchers working within cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics and those interested more generally in language and cognition.

Author : Christopher Butler,María A. Gómez-González,Susana María Doval Suárez
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027253838

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The Dynamics of Language Use by Christopher Butler,María A. Gómez-González,Susana María Doval Suárez Pdf

This book brings together a collection of articles characterized by two main themes: the contrastive study of parallel phenomena in two or more languages, and an essentially functional approach in which language is regarded, first and foremost, as a rich and complex communication system, inextricably embedded in sociocultural and psychological contexts of use. The majority of the studies reported are empirical in nature, many making use of corpora or other textual materials in the language(s) under investigation. The book begins with an introductory section in which the editors provide surveys of the state of the art in both functional and contrastive linguistics. The other five sections of the volume are devoted to (i) a cognitive perspective on form and function, (ii) information structure, (iii) collocations and formulaic language, (iv) language learning, and (v) discourse and culture.

Author : René Dirven,Roslyn Frank,Martin Pütz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110892901

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Cognitive Models in Language and Thought by René Dirven,Roslyn Frank,Martin Pütz Pdf

The volume offers a number of representative papers on cognitive models that are invoked when people deal with questions of social identity, political and economic manipulation, and more general issues such as the genomic discourse. In line with the well-known volume Cultural Models in Language and Thought by Holland and Quinn (1987), the volume shows that Cognitive Linguistics has further explored the idea that we think about social reality in terms of models - 'cognitive/cultural models' or 'folk theories'. As in cultural models, the present volume demonstrates that the technical apparatus of Cognitive Linguistics can be used to analyze the various ways our conception of social reality is shaped by underlying cognitive and/or cultural models or patterns of thought, and also looks into how this is done. The new inroad the volume wants to pursue is the deliberate and explicit orientation towards a cognitive sociolinguistics, or more generally, a cognitive semiotics.

Author : Christa Van der Walt
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781920109707

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Living Through Languages by Christa Van der Walt Pdf

Living through Languages: An African Tribute to René Dirven is a collection of scholarly research meant to honour the various facets of his academic legacy, which includes language policy and politics, language acquisition (specifically in multilingual societies), the role of English and English language teaching, and a life-long interest in cognitive linguistics.

Author : Bambi B. Schieffelin,Kathryn A. Woolard,Paul V. Kroskrity
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1998-05-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195355611

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Language Ideologies by Bambi B. Schieffelin,Kathryn A. Woolard,Paul V. Kroskrity Pdf

"Language ideologies" are cultural representations, whether explicit or implicit, of the intersection of language and human beings in a social world. Mediating between social structures and forms of talk, such ideologies are not only about language. Rather, they link language to identity, power, aesthetics, morality and epistemology. Through such linkages, language ideologies underpin not only linguistic form and use, but also significant social institutions and fundamental nottions of person and community. The essays in this new volume examine definitions and conceptions of language in a wide range of societies around the world. Contributors focus on how such defining activity organizes language use as well as institutions such as religious ritual, gender relations, the nation-state, schooling, and law. Beginning with an introductory survey of language ideology as a field of inquiry, the volume is organized in three parts. Part I, "Scope and Force of Dominant Conceptions of Language," focuse on the propensity of cultural models of language developed in one social domain to affect linguistic and social behavior across domains. Part II, "Language Ideology in Institutions of Power," continues the examination of the force of specific language beliefs, but narrows the scope to the central role that language ideologies play in the functioning of particular institutions of power such as schooling, the law, or mass media. Part III, "Multiplicity and Contention among Ideologies," emphasizes the existence of variability, contradiction, and struggles among ideologies within any given society. This will be the first collection of work to appear in this rapidly growing field, which bridges linguistic and social theory. It will greatly interest linguistic anthropologists, social and cultural anthropologists, sociolinguists, historians, cultural studies, communications, and folklore scholars.

Author : M. Sandra Peña Cervel,Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197716

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Cognitive Linguistics by M. Sandra Peña Cervel,Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez Pdf

The book testifies of the great tolerance of Cognitive Linguists towards internal variety within itself and towards external interaction with major linguistic subdisciplines. Internally, it opens up the broad variety of CL strands and the cognitive unity between convergent linguistic disciplines. Externally, it provides a wide overview of the connections between cognition and social, psychological, pragmatic, and discourse-oriented dimensions of language, which will make this book attractive to scholars from different persuasions. The book is thus expected to raise productive debate inside and outside the CL community. Furthermore, the book examines interdisciplinary connections from the point of view of the internal dynamics of CL research itself. CL is rapidly developing into different compatible frameworks with extensions into levels of linguistics description like discourse, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics among others that have only recently been taken into account in this orientation. The book covers two general topics: (i) the relationship between the embodied nature of language, cultural models, and social action; (ii) the role of metaphor and metonymy in inferential activity and as generators of discourse ties. More specific topics are the nature and scope of constructional meaning, language variation and cultural models; discourse acts; the relationship between communication and cognition, the argumentative role of metaphor in discourse, the role of mental spaces in linguistic processing, and the role of empirical work in CL research. These features endow the book with internal unity and consistency while preserving the identity of each of the contributions therein.