Metaphors in the flesh: Metaphorical pantomimes in sports celebrations

IF 1.8 1区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-12-10 DOI:10.1515/cog-2019-0115
R. Gibbs
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Abstract When athletes make significant plays in sporting competitions, such as scoring a goal in soccer, a touchdown in American football, they often immediately express their joy by performing some bodily action for others to see and understand. Many sports celebrations are staged pantomimes that express metaphorical meanings as a part of athletes’ pretending to perform certain source-path-goal sequences of action from other competitive events. This article examines the possible metaphoricity in different sports celebrations and whether casual observers may understand these actions as conveying metaphorical messages. Studies 1 and 3 present analyses of some of the important, possibly metaphorical, characteristics of a corpus of sports celebrations, both those that are performed by individual athletes (Study 1) and those where several athletes jointly enact some celebratory action (Study 3). Studies 2 (individual athletes) and 4 (group performances) investigated whether casual spectators interpret some celebrations as conveying metaphorical messages beyond simply expressing an athlete’s positive emotions. These studies demonstrate that many sports celebrations express metaphorical meanings where athletes provide bodily commentary on the significance of what they have just accomplished.
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身体中的隐喻:体育庆典中的隐喻哑剧
摘要当运动员在体育比赛中发挥重要作用时,比如在足球比赛中进球,在美式足球中触地得分,他们通常会立即通过表演一些身体动作来表达自己的喜悦,让其他人看到和理解。许多体育庆祝活动都是上演的哑剧,表达隐喻意义,作为运动员假装表演其他竞技项目中某些源路径-目标动作序列的一部分。本文考察了不同体育庆祝活动中可能存在的隐喻性,以及普通观察者是否会将这些行为理解为传达隐喻性信息。研究1和3分析了体育庆祝活动的一些重要特征,可能是隐喻性的,既有由个别运动员进行的庆祝活动(研究1),也有由几个运动员共同进行庆祝活动的庆祝活动。研究2(运动员个人)和4(团体表演)调查了普通观众是否将一些庆祝活动解读为传达隐喻性信息,而不仅仅是表达运动员的积极情绪。这些研究表明,许多体育庆祝活动都表达了隐喻意义,运动员对他们刚刚取得的成就的意义进行身体评论。
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期刊介绍: Cognitive Linguistics presents a forum for linguistic research of all kinds on the interaction between language and cognition. The journal focuses on language as an instrument for organizing, processing and conveying information. Cognitive Linguistics is a peer-reviewed journal of international scope and seeks to publish only works that represent a significant advancement to the theory or methods of cognitive linguistics, or that present an unknown or understudied phenomenon. Topics the structural characteristics of natural language categorization (such as prototypicality, cognitive models, metaphor, and imagery); the functional principles of linguistic organization, as illustrated by iconicity; the conceptual interface between syntax and semantics; the experiential background of language-in-use, including the cultural background; the relationship between language and thought, including matters of universality and language specificity.
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