{"title":"Review of Pérez-Hernández (2021): Speech acts in English: From research to instruction and textbook development","authors":"Klaus-Uwe Panther","doi":"10.1075/rcl.00123.pan","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00123.pan","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51932,"journal":{"name":"Review of Cognitive Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42007222","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}
Despite the fact that semantic change studies have intensively argued that intensional readings develop from the literal reading as a whole, diachronic prototype semantics proposes that intensional readings arise from the extensional subsets of the literal reading. This study empirically explored this proposal by carrying out a corpus-based diachronic study. It is proved from the semantic change of Chinese pò that: (1) There exists a corresponding relationship between extensional usages and intensional readings of a lexical item. (2) Extension and intension both converge and diverge on semantic change. Their convergence lies in the fact that extensional usages give rise to intensional readings. Extensional usages, though nuanced, motivate the emergence and development of intensional readings. Their divergence is reflected in the independent development of extensional usages and intensional readings. The subsistence or dying out of extensional usages does not constrain the appearance or disappearance of intensional readings. (3) Semantic change involves three stages, namely the extensional stage, the intensional stage, and the grammaticalization stage. These three stages constitute an interweaving continuum in the process of semantic change.
{"title":"The convergence and divergence of extension and intension on semantic change","authors":"Jing Du, F. Li","doi":"10.1075/rcl.00118.du","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00118.du","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Despite the fact that semantic change studies have intensively argued that intensional readings develop from the\u0000 literal reading as a whole, diachronic prototype semantics proposes that intensional readings arise from the extensional subsets\u0000 of the literal reading. This study empirically explored this proposal by carrying out a corpus-based diachronic study. It is\u0000 proved from the semantic change of Chinese pò that: (1) There exists a corresponding relationship between\u0000 extensional usages and intensional readings of a lexical item. (2) Extension and intension both converge and diverge on semantic\u0000 change. Their convergence lies in the fact that extensional usages give rise to intensional readings. Extensional usages, though\u0000 nuanced, motivate the emergence and development of intensional readings. Their divergence is reflected in the independent\u0000 development of extensional usages and intensional readings. The subsistence or dying out of extensional usages does not constrain\u0000 the appearance or disappearance of intensional readings. (3) Semantic change involves three stages, namely the extensional stage,\u0000 the intensional stage, and the grammaticalization stage. These three stages constitute an interweaving continuum in the process of\u0000 semantic change.","PeriodicalId":51932,"journal":{"name":"Review of Cognitive Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45919873","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 current study aims to demonstrate that trading card games (TCGs), also called collectible card games (CCGs), represent a potentially fruitful area of research in metaphor studies. A popular trading card game called Yu-Gi-Oh! is examined, and the argument is made that players utilize the cognitive mechanisms of conceptual metaphor to conceptualize its core game mechanics. Based on the results of a survey (n = 186) it was concluded that players conceptualize such game mechanics in line with the logics inherent in the Location Event Structure Metaphor, in conjunction with the metaphors birth is arrival, life is being present here, and death is departure. This implies that it is precisely the embodied cognitive mechanisms of conceptual metaphor which allow for a shared, intersubjective understanding between players to exist regarding the meanings of various gameplay scenarios in Yu-Gi-Oh!, and possibly in many other trading card games as well.
目前的研究旨在证明，交易纸牌游戏（TCG），也称为可收藏纸牌游戏（CCG），是隐喻研究中一个潜在的富有成果的研究领域。一个很受欢迎的交易纸牌游戏叫Yu Gi Oh！并提出玩家利用概念隐喻的认知机制来概念化其核心游戏机制的论点。根据调查结果（n = 186）得出的结论是，玩家根据位置事件结构隐喻中固有的逻辑来概念化这种游戏机制，结合这些隐喻，出生就是到达，生命就在这里，死亡就是离开。这意味着，正是概念隐喻的具体认知机制允许玩家之间对《虞姬》中各种游戏场景的含义进行共享的、主体间的理解！，以及可能在许多其他交易卡游戏中也是如此。
{"title":"Conceptual metaphor in trading card games","authors":"Žolt Papišta","doi":"10.1075/rcl.00120.pap","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00120.pap","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The current study aims to demonstrate that trading card games (TCGs), also called collectible card games (CCGs),\u0000 represent a potentially fruitful area of research in metaphor studies. A popular trading card game called\u0000 Yu-Gi-Oh! is examined, and the argument is made that players utilize the cognitive mechanisms of conceptual\u0000 metaphor to conceptualize its core game mechanics. Based on the results of a survey (n = 186) it was concluded\u0000 that players conceptualize such game mechanics in line with the logics inherent in the Location Event Structure Metaphor, in\u0000 conjunction with the metaphors birth is arrival, life is being present here, and death is departure.\u0000 This implies that it is precisely the embodied cognitive mechanisms of conceptual metaphor which allow for a shared,\u0000 intersubjective understanding between players to exist regarding the meanings of various gameplay scenarios in\u0000 Yu-Gi-Oh!, and possibly in many other trading card games as well.","PeriodicalId":51932,"journal":{"name":"Review of Cognitive Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48363388","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}
Accumulating evidence over the last two decades has established that people represent elapsing time along a horizontal or a vertical mental time line (MTL). A recent research (Hartmann et al., 2014) discovered an additional diagonal MTL which develops from bottom left to top right. The present study sought to extend Hartmann et al.’s (2014) work by exploring if the particular representations of diagonal time lines vary across cultures. Two experiments which recruited English and Arabic speakers as participants were conducted. The experimental setups measured participants’ space-time mappings along the bottom-left/top-right, top-left/bottom-right, bottom-right/top-left and top-right/bottom-left axes. Converging evidence demonstrates that there are indeed cross-cultural differences in mental representations of diagonal time lines. While English speakers displayed a salient propensity to conceive of time as oriented from bottom left to top right, Arabic speakers favored a time line unfolding from bottom right to top left. To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first to investigate if diagonal MTLs are cross-culturally represented. Findings of the present study add to existing literature by highlighting the important role of cultural artifacts such as writing direction in structuring people’s MTLs. Writing directions not only bring about cross-cultural discrepancies in space-time associations along the horizontal axis (e.g., left-to-right for English speakers and right-to-left for Arabic speakers), but also affect the creation of culturally specific concepts of diagonal time lines.
在过去的二十年里，越来越多的证据已经证明，人们代表着沿着水平或垂直的精神时间线(MTL)流逝的时间。最近的一项研究(Hartmann et al.， 2014)发现了一个额外的对角线MTL，它从左下到右上发展。本研究试图通过探索对角时间线的特定表示是否在不同文化中有所不同来扩展Hartmann等人(2014)的工作。两个实验分别招募了说英语和阿拉伯语的人作为参与者。实验装置沿着左下/右上、左上/右下、右下/左上、右下/左上和右上/左下坐标轴测量参与者的时空映射。越来越多的证据表明，对角时间线的心理表征确实存在跨文化差异。说英语的人倾向于认为时间从左下到右上，而说阿拉伯语的人则倾向于认为时间从右下到左上。据我们所知，这项研究是第一个调查对角线mtl是否具有跨文化代表性的研究。本研究的发现补充了现有文献，强调了文化产物(如写作方向)在构建人们的mtl中的重要作用。书写方向不仅会带来横轴上时空联想的跨文化差异(如英语为从左到右，阿拉伯语为从右到左)，还会影响对角时间线的文化特定概念的创造。
{"title":"Cross-cultural differences in mental representations of diagonal time lines","authors":"Wenxing Yang, Jiaqi Dong, Ruidan Bi, Jian Gu, Xueqing Feng","doi":"10.1075/rcl.00115.yan","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00115.yan","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Accumulating evidence over the last two decades has established that people represent elapsing time along a\u0000 horizontal or a vertical mental time line (MTL). A recent research (Hartmann et al.,\u0000 2014) discovered an additional diagonal MTL which develops from bottom left to top right. The present study sought to\u0000 extend Hartmann et al.’s (2014) work by exploring if the particular representations of\u0000 diagonal time lines vary across cultures. Two experiments which recruited English and Arabic speakers as participants were\u0000 conducted. The experimental setups measured participants’ space-time mappings along the bottom-left/top-right,\u0000 top-left/bottom-right, bottom-right/top-left and top-right/bottom-left axes. Converging evidence demonstrates that there are\u0000 indeed cross-cultural differences in mental representations of diagonal time lines. While English speakers displayed a salient\u0000 propensity to conceive of time as oriented from bottom left to top right, Arabic speakers favored a time line unfolding from\u0000 bottom right to top left. To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first to investigate if diagonal MTLs are\u0000 cross-culturally represented. Findings of the present study add to existing literature by highlighting the important role of\u0000 cultural artifacts such as writing direction in structuring people’s MTLs. Writing directions not only bring about cross-cultural\u0000 discrepancies in space-time associations along the horizontal axis (e.g., left-to-right for English speakers and right-to-left for\u0000 Arabic speakers), but also affect the creation of culturally specific concepts of diagonal time lines.","PeriodicalId":51932,"journal":{"name":"Review of Cognitive Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45019918","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 examines the similarities and differences regarding the perception of woman between university students in France and Serbia. The method of discrete free associations was used to reconstruct and compare models of the linguistic picture of woman in the two language communities in order to explore the extent to which these pictures reflect properties observed across languages (i.e., universal) and the extent to which they are language specific. The results show that the relationship between the primary response and the stimulus in French is antonymous (woman-man), whereas the primary response given by Serbian students indicates the stability of the concept of mother in the Serbian language and culture. Nevertheless, the conceptual classification of the responses suggests that the linguistic picture of woman in French and Serbian expresses shared stereotypic beliefs about women.
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If first-order empathy is the ability of Self to take into account Other’s point of view, then second-order empathy may be identified as the ability of Self to take into account Other’s point of view as including a view of Self. Considering that a hearer may choose between a first-order empathic and a second-order empathic interpretation of speaker utterances, second-order empathy introduces a pervasive indeterminacy in speaker-hearer interactions. The paper introduces this ambiguity potential in terms of the semiotics of face mask wearing during the corona pandemic, and then extrapolates the ensuing pattern of interpretative options to representative speech acts. The interaction between degree of empathy on one hand, and on the other the convergence or divergence of speaker and hearer beliefs is shown to yield six basic interpretative configurations: assertion, mistake, agreement, disagreement, irony, deception. Recognizing this ambiguity potential of second-order empathy is relevant for linguistic intersubjectivity research and post-Gricean pragmatics, and for the psychological theory of mind paradigm.
{"title":"What does it mean to wear a mask?","authors":"D. Geeraerts","doi":"10.1075/rcl.00101.gee","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00101.gee","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000If first-order empathy is the ability of Self to take into account Other’s point of view, then second-order empathy may be identified as the ability of Self to take into account Other’s point of view as including a view of Self. Considering that a hearer may choose between a first-order empathic and a second-order empathic interpretation of speaker utterances, second-order empathy introduces a pervasive indeterminacy in speaker-hearer interactions. The paper introduces this ambiguity potential in terms of the semiotics of face mask wearing during the corona pandemic, and then extrapolates the ensuing pattern of interpretative options to representative speech acts. The interaction between degree of empathy on one hand, and on the other the convergence or divergence of speaker and hearer beliefs is shown to yield six basic interpretative configurations: assertion, mistake, agreement, disagreement, irony, deception. Recognizing this ambiguity potential of second-order empathy is relevant for linguistic intersubjectivity research and post-Gricean pragmatics, and for the psychological theory of mind paradigm.","PeriodicalId":51932,"journal":{"name":"Review of Cognitive Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43448323","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}
{"title":"Review of Sommerer & Smirnova (2020): Nodes and networks in diachronic Construction Grammar","authors":"Meili Liu","doi":"10.1075/rcl.00111.liu","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00111.liu","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51932,"journal":{"name":"Review of Cognitive Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59083016","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 chapter is concerned with the metonymic use of hit in expressions such as hit the road. The metonymic nature underlying these expressions has already been noticed by Ruhl (1989) and Hirtle (2013). The present study focuses on the mapping of the literal use of hit as the metonymic source to its target. The metonymic source is characterized by the use of hit as an Achievement verb in sentences such as The ball hit the window. The metonymic target in hit the road comprises two events, motion to a goal and a subsequent action. The relevant part of meaning resides in the unexpressed action. The action is inferred from the close relationship between a type of thing and potential actions afforded by the thing. In Let’s hit the road, the type noun road affords metonymic “routes” to three motivated kinds of actions: ‘travelling’, ‘beginning a journey’ and ‘leaving’.
这一章关注hit在hit The road等表达中的转喻用法。Ruhl(1989)和Hirtle(2013)已经注意到这些表达背后的转喻本质。本研究主要探讨hit作为转喻源的字面用法与转喻目标之间的映射关系。转喻来源的特点是在句子中使用hit作为成就动词，如The ball hit The window。hit The road中的转喻目标包括两个事件，向目标移动和随后的动作。意义的相关部分存在于未表达的行为中。动作是从一类事物与该事物所提供的潜在动作之间的密切关系中推断出来的。在Let ' s hit the road中，类型名词road为三种动机行为提供了转喻的“routes”:“traveling”、“beginning a journey”和“leaving”。
{"title":"Metonymic hitting","authors":"Günter Radden","doi":"10.1075/rcl.00105.rad","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00105.rad","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The chapter is concerned with the metonymic use of hit in expressions such as hit the\u0000 road. The metonymic nature underlying these expressions has already been noticed by Ruhl (1989) and Hirtle (2013). The present study focuses on the mapping of the literal use of\u0000 hit as the metonymic source to its target. The metonymic source is characterized by the use of\u0000 hit as an Achievement verb in sentences such as The ball hit the window. The metonymic\u0000 target in hit the road comprises two events, motion to a goal and a subsequent action. The relevant part of\u0000 meaning resides in the unexpressed action. The action is inferred from the close relationship between a type of thing and\u0000 potential actions afforded by the thing. In Let’s hit the road, the type noun road affords\u0000 metonymic “routes” to three motivated kinds of actions: ‘travelling’, ‘beginning a journey’ and ‘leaving’.","PeriodicalId":51932,"journal":{"name":"Review of Cognitive Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46200841","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}
Cyclic repetition can be observed in the use of figurative elements in the conceptualization of the coronavirus crisis, involving visual intertextuality or intervisuality. An example is provided by Rosie the Riveter, an iconic image from WW2, which has become extremely popular in recent times. The image in question has undergone a number of changes over time. Initially it was used as a personification thereby becoming a feminist symbol (essentially a stereotype). Then, it continued as a paragon. More recently it has acquired new meanings and functions by dispensing with almost all paragon and stereotype elements. These changes have been driven or supported by metonymies. Some of these metonymies have had an intrinsic or constitutive role, while other have had an extrinsic or recontextualizing role. The effects of the latter can be appreciated in the light of exemplification theory, which we take here to be a special form of discourse framing that heavily relies on metonymy. The metonymic figurativity analyzed in this article is not purely referential. There is added attitudinal value that primarily arises from establishing social rapport, creating empathy, and mobilizing citizens for action, while criticizing certain behaviors.
在对冠状病毒危机的概念化中，可以观察到在使用比喻元素时的循环重复，涉及视觉互文性或视觉间性。铆工罗西(Rosie the Riveter)就是一个例子，这是二战时期的标志性形象，近年来非常受欢迎。随着时间的推移，有问题的图像经历了许多变化。最初，它被用作人格化，从而成为女权主义的象征(本质上是一种刻板印象)。然后，它继续作为一个典范。最近，通过摒弃几乎所有的典范和刻板印象元素，它获得了新的含义和功能。这些变化是由转喻推动或支持的。其中一些转喻具有内在的或构成的作用，而另一些则具有外在的或重新语境化的作用。后者的影响可以从例证理论的角度来理解，我们认为例证理论是一种特殊形式的话语框架，它严重依赖于转喻。本文所分析的转喻比喻性并不是纯粹的指称性。在批评某些行为的同时，还可以通过建立社会关系、产生共鸣、动员公民采取行动来增加态度价值。
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Antonio Barcelona’s work has advanced our understanding of the role played by pragmatics in the production and comprehension of metonymy. Much of his work has focused on playful uses of metonymy, which involve creative extensions of attested metonymic relationships, particularly in the pursuit of adversarial humour. Whilst there has been extensive work on the creative use of metaphor, very few studies have explored the range of ways in which metonymy is used creatively. In this article, I analyse creative uses of metonymy from a range of sources including film reviews, text messaging, art, advertising, cinema and literature in order to identify the different forms that creative uses of metonymy can take. In the process of analysing these different creative uses of metonymy, I address the following questions: What is the difference between ‘novelty’ and ‘creativity’ and what is the relationship between them, in the context of metaphor and metonymy? To what extent and in what ways are the principles underpinning the identification of creative metonymy, analogous to those used in the identification of creative metaphor? At what level of abstraction should the creativity be identified in each case? Can and should we distinguish between ‘creative metonymy per se, and creative uses of metonymy? At what point can we say that a new metonymic mapping has been created as opposed to a creative use of an existing mapping? What affordances does metonymy offer for creative use and how do these compare with the affordances that are offered by metaphor?
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