This paper is situated within Cognitive Translation Studies (CTS). It follows Halverson’s Gravitational Pull Hypothesis (2003, 2010, 2017, 2024), a framework that explains the translation process and its outcome by invoking the cognitive mechanisms of the bilingual mind. The paper adopts the cognitive, multi-method approach of the GPH to describe and compare the use of Spanish passive constructions in a multilingual comparable corpus of translated and non-translated texts. In doing so, it pushes the boundaries of the model by: (a) following an onomasiological rather than a semasiological approach; (b) focusing on constructions rather than lexical items; and (c) explicitly incorporating the aspect of translator socialisation into the hypothesis formulation, thereby taking into account the situatedness of translation. The results provide evidence in support of the GPH, as salience of a construction in the source or target language leads to its overrepresentation in the translated texts, and non-salience leads to its underrepresentation.
{"title":"Between source language constructions and target language expectations","authors":"Ulrike Oster, Isabel Tello","doi":"10.1075/rcl.00197.ost","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00197.ost","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper is situated within Cognitive Translation Studies (CTS). It follows Halverson’s Gravitational Pull\u0000 Hypothesis (2003, 2010, 2017, 2024), a framework that explains the\u0000 translation process and its outcome by invoking the cognitive mechanisms of the bilingual mind. The paper adopts the cognitive,\u0000 multi-method approach of the GPH to describe and compare the use of Spanish passive constructions in a multilingual comparable\u0000 corpus of translated and non-translated texts. In doing so, it pushes the boundaries of the model by: (a) following an\u0000 onomasiological rather than a semasiological approach; (b) focusing on constructions rather than lexical items; and (c) explicitly\u0000 incorporating the aspect of translator socialisation into the hypothesis formulation, thereby taking into account the situatedness\u0000 of translation. The results provide evidence in support of the GPH, as salience of a construction in the source or target language\u0000 leads to its overrepresentation in the translated texts, and non-salience leads to its underrepresentation.","PeriodicalId":51932,"journal":{"name":"Review of Cognitive Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141643214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In recent years, a number of scholars have expressed doubts about the productivity of the concept of meaning and its associated methodology for modern lexical semantics. This article aims to examine the current situation by comparing it with the process of transition from classical to quantum physics. Empirical data that challenge classical interpretations are briefly analyzed in a special section, whilst the subsequent sections address alternative theories that propose new methodological frameworks. Particular attention is paid to the ad hoc СС & Ms theory developed by Daniel Casasanto and colleagues, though Hans-Jörg Schmid’s Entrenchment-and-Conventionalization Model and the Motivation & Sedimentation Model formulated by Jordan Zlatev and colleagues are also touched upon. In the final section, frame semantics, as presented by Charles Fillmore, is revisited, with a focus on his dichotomy of U-semantics and T-semantics. A significant result of the analysis of Fillmore’s perspectives is the assertion that the concept of frame in Fillmore’s construal can serve as an alternative to the concept of meaning in its classical interpretation.
{"title":"The view of meaning from a “postclassical” perspective","authors":"V. Glebkin","doi":"10.1075/rcl.00196.gle","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00196.gle","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In recent years, a number of scholars have expressed doubts about the productivity of the concept of\u0000 meaning and its associated methodology for modern lexical semantics. This article aims to examine the current\u0000 situation by comparing it with the process of transition from classical to quantum physics. Empirical data that challenge\u0000 classical interpretations are briefly analyzed in a special section, whilst the subsequent sections address alternative theories\u0000 that propose new methodological frameworks. Particular attention is paid to the ad hoc СС & Ms theory developed by Daniel\u0000 Casasanto and colleagues, though Hans-Jörg Schmid’s Entrenchment-and-Conventionalization Model and the Motivation &\u0000 Sedimentation Model formulated by Jordan Zlatev and colleagues are also touched upon. In the final section, frame semantics, as\u0000 presented by Charles Fillmore, is revisited, with a focus on his dichotomy of U-semantics and T-semantics. A significant result of\u0000 the analysis of Fillmore’s perspectives is the assertion that the concept of frame in Fillmore’s construal can serve as\u0000 an alternative to the concept of meaning in its classical interpretation.","PeriodicalId":51932,"journal":{"name":"Review of Cognitive Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141643004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The paper investigates intertextual satire in media discourse from the cognitive linguistic perspective. Within the frameworks of conceptual blending theory and the theory of precedent-related phenomena, we examine the cognitive processes of producing and understanding intertextual satire. By modelling conceptual integration networks, we aim to specify the cognitive mechanisms and operations involved in decoding intertextual satirical articles, drawing on examples from Private Eye magazine. The study demonstrates that the basic cognitive mechanism involved in creating intertextual satire is blending, and, in contrast to ironic utterances, which involve two contexts, in intertextual satire one and the same scenario unfolds in three contexts: real, fictional, and satirical. Thus, the blend that occurs as a result of combining real and fictional scenarios is verbalised and obvious to the recipient. The emergent structure, based on the blend, represents the intended (non-verbalised) meaning of intertextual satire, namely indirect criticism of the real situation under focus.
{"title":"Intertextual satire in media discourse","authors":"O. Doichyk, Vita Yurchyshyn, Yuriy Velykoroda","doi":"10.1075/rcl.00183.doi","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00183.doi","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The paper investigates intertextual satire in media discourse from the cognitive linguistic perspective. Within\u0000 the frameworks of conceptual blending theory and the theory of precedent-related phenomena, we examine the cognitive processes of\u0000 producing and understanding intertextual satire. By modelling conceptual integration networks, we aim to specify the cognitive\u0000 mechanisms and operations involved in decoding intertextual satirical articles, drawing on examples from Private\u0000 Eye magazine. The study demonstrates that the basic cognitive mechanism involved in creating intertextual satire is\u0000 blending, and, in contrast to ironic utterances, which involve two contexts, in intertextual satire one and the same scenario\u0000 unfolds in three contexts: real, fictional, and satirical. Thus, the blend that occurs as a result of combining real and fictional\u0000 scenarios is verbalised and obvious to the recipient. The emergent structure, based on the blend, represents the intended\u0000 (non-verbalised) meaning of intertextual satire, namely indirect criticism of the real situation under focus.","PeriodicalId":51932,"journal":{"name":"Review of Cognitive Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141004912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study investigates the lexical semantic access mode among students (n = 70) who speak Chinese as their first language (L1), English as a second language (L2), and are in the process of learning Spanish as their third language (L3). We use a cross-linguistic repetition priming paradigm with lexical decision tasks to assess whether semantic access to L3 Spanish words is achieved with the help of L1 Chinese or L2 English translation equivalents. The results show that the lexical semantic access mode varies depending on L3 proficiency level: Participants with high Spanish proficiency level have direct access to the concepts, while nonproficient Spanish learners have access to the Spanish words’ conceptual representation with the help of translation equivalents from both L1 Chinese and L2 English, which suggests that the Revised Hierarchical Model (Kroll and Stewart, 1994) in second language acquisition (SLA) can be extended to the third language acquisition (TLA) process. Our results also corroborate the Parasitic Model (Ecke, 2015), as trilingual speakers are shown to be dependent on previously acquired languages at the initial stage.
本研究调查了以汉语为第一语言（L1）、英语为第二语言（L2）、正在学习西班牙语为第三语言（L3）的学生（n = 70）的词汇语义获取模式。我们采用跨语言重复引物范式，通过词汇决策任务来评估学习者是通过第一语言的中文翻译还是第二语言的英文翻译来获取第三语言西班牙语词汇的语义。结果表明，词汇语义获取模式因三级西班牙语水平而异：这表明，第二语言习得（SLA）中的修订分层模型（Kroll and Stewart, 1994）可以扩展到第三语言习得（TLA）过程中。我们的研究结果还证实了 "寄生模型"（Ecke，2015），因为三语使用者在初始阶段依赖于先前习得的语言。
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This study investigates the cognitive operations and cultural constraints in DOG and CAT proverbs in Taiwan Hakka and English. For understanding and interpreting proverbs, the target themes are categorized into fundamental human virtues, and the cognitive operations are exhaustively examined by Conceptual Blending Theory. It is found that temperance and humanity are the most prevalent virtues profiled in Taiwan Hakka, while wisdom and knowledge are the most dominant ones in English. The analysis explicates that Conceptual Blending Theory can serve as a universally explanatory model, and at the same time, contextual and cultural factors play crucial roles in providing parametric constraints for the use and creation of proverbs.
本研究探讨了台湾客家话和英语中 DOG 和 CAT 谚语的认知运作和文化制约因素。为了理解和阐释谚语，我们将目标主题归类为人类的基本美德，并运用概念混合理论对其认知运作进行了详尽的研究。结果发现，节制和人性是台湾客家话中最普遍的美德，而智慧和知识则是英语中最主要的美德。分析表明，概念混合理论可以作为一个普遍的解释模型，同时，语境和文化因素在为谚语的使用和创造提供参数限制方面发挥着至关重要的作用。
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In the present article, I study the language used in three English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) digital marketing seminars, in which the tutor and other participants gave feedback about the ‘pitches’, (i.e., short marketing speeches), presented by students in the same session. As this activity involved making reference to what students said in their ‘pitches’, the seminars provide ample evidence for the metaphorical construction of speech activity by the participants in the seminars. The analysis shows that these ELF speakers mostly adopted pre-existing and conventionalised metaphorical models used in English and that they do not attempt to incorporate other source domains, except for one, which I have labelled storytelling, as it associates pitch delivery with telling a story. However, at the level of linguistic metaphors used, greater use of unconventional metaphors can be found, although mostly adapted to and consistent with the conceptual models identified. In general terms, metaphor innovation in this English as a Lingua Franca context seems to be ‘norm following’ rather than ‘norm transcending’.
{"title":"Conventional metaphors in English as a lingua franca","authors":"Rafael Alejo-González","doi":"10.1075/rcl.00168.ale","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00168.ale","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In the present article, I study the language used in three English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) digital\u0000 marketing seminars, in which the tutor and other participants gave feedback about the ‘pitches’, (i.e., short marketing speeches),\u0000 presented by students in the same session. As this activity involved making reference to what students said in their ‘pitches’,\u0000 the seminars provide ample evidence for the metaphorical construction of speech activity by the participants in the\u0000 seminars. The analysis shows that these ELF speakers mostly adopted pre-existing and conventionalised metaphorical models used in\u0000 English and that they do not attempt to incorporate other source domains, except for one, which I have labelled\u0000 storytelling, as it associates pitch delivery with telling a story. However, at the level of linguistic metaphors\u0000 used, greater use of unconventional metaphors can be found, although mostly adapted to and consistent with the conceptual models\u0000 identified. In general terms, metaphor innovation in this English as a Lingua Franca context seems to be ‘norm following’ rather\u0000 than ‘norm transcending’.","PeriodicalId":51932,"journal":{"name":"Review of Cognitive Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139001588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article reports an interview with Robert D. Van Valin, Jr., which was held on March 2, 2023, with follow-up e-mail exchanges. Robert Van Valin is the primary developer of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), a syntactic theory whose principles and commitments intersect with those of Cognitive Linguistics (CL). The article discusses RRG vis-à-vis CL and other approaches to the study of language. It aims to raise awareness about the shared principles of RRG and CL, to enhance cross-fertilization between the two approaches and ultimately inspire new research directions in linguistic theory. The paper is organized into three main parts: (i) background information on the birth and development of RRG, (ii) general principles and commitments of RRG and CL, and (iii) specific issues in the study of language.
本文报道了 2023 年 3 月 2 日对小罗伯特-D-范-瓦林（Robert D. Van Valin）的采访，以及后续的电子邮件交流。罗伯特-范-瓦林（Robert Van Valin）是角色与参照语法（RRG）的主要开发者，RRG 是一种句法理论，其原则和承诺与认知语言学（CL）的原则和承诺相互交叉。这篇文章讨论了 RRG 与认知语言学和其他语言研究方法的关系。文章旨在提高人们对 RRG 和 CL 的共同原则的认识，加强这两种方法之间的相互交流，并最终激发语言学理论的新研究方向。本文分为三个主要部分：(i) RRG 诞生和发展的背景信息，(ii) RRG 和 CL 的一般原则和承诺，(iii) 语言研究中的具体问题。
{"title":"Reflections on the study of language","authors":"Delia Bentley, Kiyoko Toratani","doi":"10.1075/rcl.00166.ben","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00166.ben","url":null,"abstract":"This article reports an interview with Robert D. Van Valin, Jr., which was held on March 2, 2023, with follow-up e-mail exchanges. Robert Van Valin is the primary developer of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), a syntactic theory whose principles and commitments intersect with those of Cognitive Linguistics (CL). The article discusses RRG vis-à-vis CL and other approaches to the study of language. It aims to raise awareness about the shared principles of RRG and CL, to enhance cross-fertilization between the two approaches and ultimately inspire new research directions in linguistic theory. The paper is organized into three main parts: (i) background information on the birth and development of RRG, (ii) general principles and commitments of RRG and CL, and (iii) specific issues in the study of language.","PeriodicalId":51932,"journal":{"name":"Review of Cognitive Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138691564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The word for grey has been studied in different languages as part of the definition of basic colour terms, and in historical linguistics some studies have addressed grey as their main focus. The Finnish basic colour term harmaa (‘grey’) has been addressed before in data from early to mid-twentieth century and as a basic colour term, but in contemporary language harmaa has not been analysed with corpus methods before. This study presents the semantics of harmaa in written communicational use of language, internet conversation, in the framework of Cognitive Grammar and access semantics, using qualitative corpus analysis. The study results show that the shade or set of shades that harmaa profiles in different contexts vary, and surface textures, mood, or evaluative aspects can also be profiled. However, more studies are needed to reveal the semantics of harmaa in different interactional situations.
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Abstract In recent years, personal development has driven increasing interest, and the study of metaphor has expanded to various discourse types. This study aims to explore the metaphors in personal development discourse and determine their schematicity hierarchies, using Carol Dweck’s (2016) book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success as a case study. Metaphor Identification Procedure VU ( Steen et al., 2010 ) is used to identify metaphors in the book and Zoltan Kövecses’s (2020) Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory is used to establish the relationship between the metaphors identified and primary metaphors. The findings show that topics such as mindset, growth mindset, fixed mindset, success, and failure instantiate correlation and resemblance metaphors. In addition, all the correlation-based metaphors identified in the corpus possess full schematic hierarchies. It entails that they all consist of image schema, domain, frame and mental space levels. Moreover, the findings reveal that in different metaphorical expressions, the same image schema-level metaphor is likely to activate different domain, frame and mental space-level metaphors. Finally, some image schema-level metaphors share the same domain-level metaphor in different schematicity hierarchies, whereas others activate different domain-level metaphors in different schematicity hierarchies.
近年来，随着个人发展对隐喻的兴趣日益浓厚，隐喻的研究已经扩展到各种话语类型。本研究以Carol Dweck(2016)的著作《Mindset: the New Psychology of Success》为例，探讨个人发展话语中的隐喻，并确定其图式层次。隐喻识别程序VU (Steen et al.， 2010)用于识别书中的隐喻，Zoltan Kövecses(2020)的扩展概念隐喻理论用于建立识别的隐喻与主要隐喻之间的关系。研究结果表明，心态、成长心态、固定心态、成功和失败等主题都是相关性和相似性隐喻的实例。此外，在语料库中发现的所有基于关联的隐喻都具有完整的图式层次结构。这意味着它们都由意象图式、领域、框架和心理空间层次组成。此外，在不同的隐喻表达中，相同的意象图式级隐喻可能激活不同的领域、框架和心理空间级隐喻。最后，一些意象图式层隐喻在不同的图式层次中共享相同的领域层隐喻，而另一些意象图式层隐喻在不同的图式层次中激活不同的领域层隐喻。
{"title":"Metaphor as a key tool in personal development discourse","authors":"Yvan Rudhel Megaptche Megaptche, Iarimalala Jenny Ramanantsoa","doi":"10.1075/rcl.00165.meg","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00165.meg","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In recent years, personal development has driven increasing interest, and the study of metaphor has expanded to various discourse types. This study aims to explore the metaphors in personal development discourse and determine their schematicity hierarchies, using Carol Dweck’s (2016) book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success as a case study. Metaphor Identification Procedure VU ( Steen et al., 2010 ) is used to identify metaphors in the book and Zoltan Kövecses’s (2020) Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory is used to establish the relationship between the metaphors identified and primary metaphors. The findings show that topics such as mindset, growth mindset, fixed mindset, success, and failure instantiate correlation and resemblance metaphors. In addition, all the correlation-based metaphors identified in the corpus possess full schematic hierarchies. It entails that they all consist of image schema, domain, frame and mental space levels. Moreover, the findings reveal that in different metaphorical expressions, the same image schema-level metaphor is likely to activate different domain, frame and mental space-level metaphors. Finally, some image schema-level metaphors share the same domain-level metaphor in different schematicity hierarchies, whereas others activate different domain-level metaphors in different schematicity hierarchies.","PeriodicalId":51932,"journal":{"name":"Review of Cognitive Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135242966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Metaphors can express ideological and evaluative positions. However, comparative studies on the framing implications of sports/game metaphors in Western and Chinese contexts remain underexplored. This study examines how journalists in China, the UK, and the US use sports/game metaphors to frame trade disputes in comparable English-language economic news based on a context-sensitive and hierarchical analytical framework. Results reveal the prevalence of sports/game metaphors in both Chinese and Western texts. Additionally, the results demonstrate that the UK and US texts exhibit socio-cultural preferences for associating specific sports/game scenarios that are salient in Western cultures, e.g., rugby, with trade disputes, and favor a competition narrative. However, the Chinese texts favor a coopetition narrative, suggesting both competition and win-win cooperation. This study adds new insights into cultural variations in the use and framing implications of sports/game metaphors in Western and Chinese economic discourse to express ideological standpoints towards similar economic issues.
{"title":"Zero-sum or Win-win Game?","authors":"Dongman Cai","doi":"10.1075/rcl.00164.cai","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00164.cai","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Metaphors can express ideological and evaluative positions. However, comparative studies on the framing implications of sports/game metaphors in Western and Chinese contexts remain underexplored. This study examines how journalists in China, the UK, and the US use sports/game metaphors to frame trade disputes in comparable English-language economic news based on a context-sensitive and hierarchical analytical framework. Results reveal the prevalence of sports/game metaphors in both Chinese and Western texts. Additionally, the results demonstrate that the UK and US texts exhibit socio-cultural preferences for associating specific sports/game scenarios that are salient in Western cultures, e.g., rugby, with trade disputes, and favor a competition narrative. However, the Chinese texts favor a coopetition narrative, suggesting both competition and win-win cooperation. This study adds new insights into cultural variations in the use and framing implications of sports/game metaphors in Western and Chinese economic discourse to express ideological standpoints towards similar economic issues.","PeriodicalId":51932,"journal":{"name":"Review of Cognitive Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135285856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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