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Inconsistency in Conceptual Metaphor Theory 概念隐喻理论中的不一致性
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-08-07 DOI: 10.1163/23526416-bja10054
A. Kertész, Csilla Rákosi
Although Lakoff and Johnson’s (1980) theory of conceptual metaphor has been extremely popular and successful, it has been criticized in many respects, one of which is its alleged inconsistency. This criticism presupposes that the principle of non-contradiction is the most important pillar of scientific theorizing because its violation turns the theory into logical chaos. Against this background, the paper asks: What kinds of inconsistencies emerge in conceptual metaphor theory and how should they be evaluated? In order to give an answer, the authors introduce Kertész and Rákosi’s (2019) [2012], (2022) p-model as a metatheoretical framework, with the help of which they analyse those arguments which charge conceptual metaphor theory with inconsistency. The authors conclude that if the dichotomy between inconsistency and consistency is replaced by the sophisticated distinctions among strong p-inconsistency, well-motivated permanent p-paraconsistency, temporary p-paraconsistency, and p-consistency, then the initial question can be answered in a straightforward manner.
尽管Lakoff和Johnson(1980)的概念隐喻理论非常流行和成功,但它在许多方面受到了批评,其中之一是其所谓的不一致性。这种批评的前提是,非矛盾性原则是科学理论化的最重要支柱,因为违反该原则会使理论陷入逻辑混乱。在此背景下,本文提出了一个问题:概念隐喻理论中出现了哪些不一致性?如何评价这些不一致性?为了给出答案,作者引入了kertsamsz和Rákosi (2019) [2012], (2022) p模型作为元理论框架,借助该框架,他们分析了那些使概念隐喻理论具有不一致性的论点。作者得出结论,如果用强p-不一致性、良好动机的永久p-副一致性、临时p-副一致性和p-一致性之间的复杂区分来取代不一致性和一致性之间的二分法,那么最初的问题就可以以一种直截了当的方式得到回答。
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Overhauling Collostructional Analysis: Towards More Descriptive Simplicity and More Explanatory Adequacy 结构分析的改革:走向更简单的描述和更充分的解释
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-08-07 DOI: 10.1163/23526416-bja10056
S. Gries
In this paper, I make two sets of suggestions of how collostructional analysis can be updated. One set of suggestions involves simplifying the analysis for descriptive/exploratory purposes while at the same time enriching it with bootstrapped confidence intervals. The other set of suggestions involves the idea that we should move away from a single kind of association measure for theoretical/exploratory purposes and instead quantify collostructional attraction as a tuple of, minimally, three ideally orthogonal dimensions, namely frequency, association, and dispersion, because only this kind of analysis will be able to address all the dimensions that are relevant to cognitive/usage-based approaches to constructions. In addition, I end with a (renewed) plea to take the notion of construction more seriously: Rather than looking at associations of constructions to forms, which many studies have basically amounted to, I would like us to ‘go back to’ looking at associations of constructions to constructions, i.e. to take the meaning/functional pole of constructions more seriously again and include sense/function in all kinds of collostructional analyses more.
在本文中,我提出了两组关于如何更新结构分析的建议。一组建议涉及简化分析以达到描述性/探索性目的,同时用自举置信区间丰富分析。另一组建议涉及这样一种观点,即出于理论/探索的目的,我们应该放弃单一类型的关联测度,而是将搭配吸引力量化为三个理想正交维度的元组,即频率、关联和分散,因为只有这种分析才能解决与基于认知/使用的建构方法相关的所有维度。此外,我最后(再次)呼吁更认真地对待结构的概念:与其像许多研究基本上所说的那样研究结构与形式的关联,我希望我们“回到”研究结构与结构的关联,即重新重视结构的意义/功能极,并将意义/功能更多地纳入各种结构分析中。
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引用次数: 1
Radial Representations of the Semantics of Reduplicative Constructions in Nigerian Pidgin (Naija) 尼日利亚皮钦语重复结构语义的径向表征
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-08-07 DOI: 10.1163/23526416-bja10057
Nancy Chiagolum Odiegwu
The purpose of this study is to account for the functions of reduplication Nigerian Pidgin in a more comprehensive way than in previous work, by shifting the focus away from de-contextualized assignments of unitary meaning, and toward a full range of context-sensitive readings. The data for the study come from Wazobia fm radio programmes, as well as interviews and focus group discussions with native speakers of the language. Reduplication is attested in word classes such as ideophones, adverbs, numerals, adjectives, nouns, verbs and pronouns in Nigerian Pidgin. Using a version of the prototype theory elaborated by Lakoff and other Cognitive linguists, I represent the various readings of reduplicative constructions for each word class as radial categories, and show that both central and peripheral meanings are attested, and are indeed motivated by varying degrees of family resemblance.
本研究的目的是通过将重点从单一意义的非语境化分配转移到全方位的语境敏感阅读,以比以往工作更全面的方式解释尼日利亚洋泾浜语的重复功能。这项研究的数据来自Wazobia调频广播节目,以及对以该语言为母语的人的采访和焦点小组讨论。尼日利亚洋泾浜语中的表意音、副词、数词、形容词、名词、动词和代词等词类都存在重复现象。使用Lakoff和其他认知语言学家阐述的原型理论,我将每个词类的重复结构的各种解读表示为径向类别,并表明中心和外围意义都得到证实,并且确实受到不同程度的家族相似性的驱动。
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引用次数: 2
Words of Wonder: The Cognitive and Semantic Dimension of the Literal and Figurative Denominators for wonder in Old English Sources 奇迹之词:古英语来源中奇迹的字面和比喻分母的认知和语义维度
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-08-07 DOI: 10.1163/23526416-bja10055
F. J. Minaya Gómez
Based on the most recent research on emotion and, specifically, on contemporary aesthetic emotion theories, and combining methods from cognitive and historical linguistics, this paper aims at looking into the cognitive and semantic dimension of Old English literal and figurative denominators of wonder. Exploring how these terms are used in the Old English corpus, this paper highlights a recurrent use of literal emotion terms for wonder with varying semantics, and a wide array of figurative expressions that rely on the most common action tendencies and somatic profiles that are attributed to this emotion. This research stresses the rich variety that Old English authors had at their disposal when describing wonder-experiences and the many ways in which these authors described and narrated these emotional experiences, all of which, in extreme, reveals important information about the semantic dimension of these terms and identifiable patterns of conceptualisation for this emotion.
本文基于对情感的最新研究,特别是对当代美学情感理论的研究,并结合认知语言学和历史语言学的方法,旨在探讨古英语奇观的字面和比喻名词的认知和语义维度。通过探索这些术语在古英语语料库中的使用方式,本文强调了对具有不同语义的惊奇的字面情感术语的反复使用,以及依赖于最常见的动作倾向和归因于这种情感的身体特征的大量比喻表达。这项研究强调了古英语作者在描述奇妙体验时可以使用的丰富多样性,以及这些作者描述和叙述这些情感体验的多种方式,所有这些都极端地揭示了关于这些术语的语义维度和这种情感的可识别概念化模式的重要信息。
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Emojis: Metonymy in Meaning and Use 表情符号:意义和使用上的转喻
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-06-12 DOI: 10.1163/23526416-bja10049
J. Morrás, A. Barcelona
Emojis are changing the way we communicate in digital text interactions nowadays. They allow us to express kinesthetic cues that are always present in face-to-face communication. Such non-verbal cues may be understood as windows into the emotional/attitudinal states of human beings, and they are conventionalized on the basis of metonymy which, as a mental shortcut, automatically connects facial expressions to the feelings and emotions triggering those expressions. Using a new methodological approach in the form of an entry model for metonymic description, the article intends to provide some insights on how the semantics of emojis is deeply linked to metonymic patterns. The emotions analyzed are hilarity and anger. The paper also briefly addresses the meaning and use of emojis for things and non-affective relations.
表情符号正在改变我们如今在数字文本交互中的交流方式。它们使我们能够表达在面对面交流中总是存在的动觉暗示。这种非语言线索可以被理解为了解人类情绪/态度状态的窗口,它们是在转喻的基础上形成的,转喻作为一种心理捷径,自动将面部表情与触发这些表情的感觉和情绪联系起来。本文采用一种新的方法论方法,即转喻描述的入口模型,旨在为表情符号的语义如何与转喻模式紧密联系提供一些见解。分析的情绪是欢乐和愤怒。本文还简要介绍了表情符号在事物和非情感关系中的含义和使用。
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引用次数: 0
Basic Emotion Prototypes in English and in Polish 英语和波兰语中的基本情感原型
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-06-12 DOI: 10.1163/23526416-bja10053
Halszka Bąk, J. Altarriba
This paper explores the conceptualization differences between the prototypical categories of six basic emotions (anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, surprise) in English and Polish lexicalizations of these concepts in noun, verb, and adjective forms. Measures of valence, arousal, and dominance were collected and analyzed across the six semantic categories, between parts of speech and depending on the gender of the study participants for both languages. The results indicate that the basic emotion prototypes in both languages have common characteristics hinging broadly on valence but have unique language-specific patterns of valence, arousal, and dominance across individual emotion categories. Conceptualizations of emotions were found to be different between men and women and across languages, while language-specific patterns were found in part-of-speech effects. These results have serious implications for future study designs and research methodology at the intersection of cognition, emotion, and language and in cross-linguistic contexts.
本文探讨了英语和波兰语中六种基本情绪(愤怒、厌恶、恐惧、喜悦、悲伤、惊讶)的原型类别在名词、动词和形容词形式上的概念化差异。根据两种语言的研究参与者的性别,收集并分析了六个语义类别的效价、唤醒和优势度。结果表明,两种语言中的基本情绪原型都有共同的特征,广泛地取决于配价,但在各个情绪类别中都有独特的语言特有的配价、唤醒和支配模式。情感的概念化在男性和女性之间以及不同语言之间都有所不同,而在词性效应中发现了特定语言的模式。这些结果对未来认知、情感和语言交叉以及跨语言环境下的研究设计和研究方法具有重要意义。
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The Semantics of Eucharistic Miracles 圣餐奇迹的语义
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-06-12 DOI: 10.1163/23526416-bja10047
A. Wierzbicka
The term “Eucharistic miracles” refers to some seemingly inexplicable phenomena which have been observed at many times in Catholic churches in various countries. (“Eucharist” is the central element of Christian worship in general and Catholic worship in particular). According to Wikipedia, “reported Eucharistic miracles usually consist of unexplainable phenomena such as consecrated hosts visibly transforming into myocardium [heart] tissue”.From a believer’s point of view, a “Eucharistic miracle” can be read as a message – a message which doesn’t force belief but which does “want to be believed”; and which, first of all, “wants to be understood”. As such, these phenomena present a task for a semanticist: what meaning can be plausibly attributed to them by people open to faith and how can this message be best articulated?In this paper, the author, a semanticist with a special interest in the semantics of religion (Wierzbicka, 2001, 2019) takes a look at “Eucharistic miracles” from a semantic point of view. Her goal is to explore these phenomena through Minimal English anchored in universal human concepts (Wierzbicka, 1996, 2014; Goddard and Wierzbicka, 2014; Goddard, 2018, 2021).
“圣餐奇迹”一词指的是在各国天主教会中多次观察到的一些看似无法解释的现象。(“圣餐”是一般基督教崇拜,尤其是天主教崇拜的核心元素)。根据维基百科的说法,“报道的圣餐奇迹通常由无法解释的现象组成,比如神圣的宿主明显转变为心肌[心脏]组织”。从信徒的角度来看,“圣餐奇迹”可以被解读为一种信息——一种不强迫信仰但“希望被相信”的信息;首先,它“希望被理解”。因此,这些现象为语义学家提出了一项任务:对信仰持开放态度的人可以合理地将什么意思归因于它们,以及如何最好地表达这一信息?在本文中,作者,一位对宗教语义特别感兴趣的语义学家(Wierzbicka,20012019),从语义的角度来看待“圣餐奇迹”。她的目标是通过植根于普遍人类概念的极简英语来探索这些现象(Wierzbicka,19962014;戈达德和维尔兹比卡,2014;戈达德,20182021)。
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Speakers’ Gestures and Semantic Analysis 说话人手势与语义分析
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-06-12 DOI: 10.1163/23526416-bja10051
A. Cienki
The fact that an increasing number of scholars are approaching linguistic analysis from a multimodal perspective raises theoretical and methodological questions for the study of semantics. Taking a usage-based perspective, and the position that semantics is based in conceptual structures and processes, we see that gesture use relates to some key notions in cognitive linguistics. Gesture provides cues of possible mental simulation of concepts, it inherently involves spatial imagery, and gestures frequently objectify abstract concepts (through metonymy and metaphor). Both spoken language and gesture are dynamic phenomena, but gesture use relates to the accompanying speech on several time scales at once—concerning the level of words, of phrases, and of larger discourse units. Taking gesture into consideration in semantic analysis calls for rethinking the theoretical models for cognitive semantics, the methods of analysis we use, and the means of presenting those analyses. Currently this rethinking is still in its infancy.
越来越多的学者从多模态的角度进行语言学分析,这一事实为语义学研究提出了理论和方法问题。从基于使用的角度来看,以及语义在概念结构和过程中的地位,我们发现手势使用与认知语言学中的一些关键概念有关。手势提供了可能的概念心理模拟的线索,它本质上涉及空间意象,手势经常将抽象概念物化(通过转喻和隐喻)。口语和手势都是动态现象,但手势的使用同时在几个时间尺度上与伴随的语音有关——涉及单词、短语和更大话语单元的水平。在语义分析中考虑手势需要重新思考认知语义的理论模型、我们使用的分析方法以及呈现这些分析的方法。目前,这种反思仍处于初级阶段。
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The Construal of Specificity in Modification in English 英语修饰语中特定性的构成
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-06-12 DOI: 10.1163/23526416-bja10052
Zeki Hamawand
This study investigates the significance of the construal of specificity in syntax, particularly in modification. In Cognitive Grammar, conceptualizing a situation can be either specific or conversely schematic. Namely, the two conceptualizations focus attention on greater or lesser detail of certain aspects of a situation. Each conceptualization describes the same content but in a peculiar way, and thus results in a distinct meaning. Making use of the language resources, the speaker can map the conceptualizations into different modes of modification: syntactic device by which a noun is accompanied by preceding and/or following modifiers. The aim of the study is to show that the use of a linguistic expression is motivated by the particular construal imposed on its conceptual content relative to communicative purposes. One of the key findings of the study is that specificity intensifies a description and makes it concrete, whereas schematicity attenuates a description and makes it abstract.
本研究探讨了句法中,特别是修饰语中的特异性解释的意义。在认知语法中,对情境进行概念化既可以是具体的,也可以是相反的示意性。也就是说,这两个概念将注意力集中在一个情况的某些方面的或多或少的细节上。每一个概念化都以一种独特的方式描述相同的内容,从而产生不同的含义。利用语言资源,说话人可以将概念化映射成不同的修饰模式:名词配以前修饰语和/或后修饰语的句法手段。本研究的目的是表明,相对于交际目的,语言表达的使用是由强加在其概念内容上的特定解释所驱动的。该研究的一个关键发现是,特异性强化了描述并使其具体化,而图式性削弱了描述并将其抽象化。
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Flying, Floating, Hurtling – a Corpus-Assisted Study of astromotion Verbs in American English 飞行、漂浮、飞驰——美语天体运动动词的语料库辅助研究
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-06-12 DOI: 10.1163/23526416-bja10048
Kajsa Törmä
This paper establishes and explores the lexical field of astromotion (motion in outer space) from a Cognitive Linguistic perspective by investigating verb collocates of space, outer space and deep space from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (coca). The primary focus is on the moving figure and the manner of motion involved. The paper accounts for prototypical uses of the verbs and puts the results in dialogue with previous research into motion events on earth. The main findings are that (1) astromotion is primarily lexicalized by general motion verbs or relexicalizations from other domains of motion; (2) transitive verb constructions are more common than in previously studied domains of motion and; (3) control and speed are important disambiguating properties. The paper also illustrates how the lexical field has been influenced by our empirical knowledge, imagination, and embodied experiences.
本文通过对当代美国英语语料库中space、outer space和deep space动词搭配的研究,从认知语言学的角度建立并探索了astromotion(外太空运动)的词汇场。主要的焦点是移动的人物和涉及的运动方式。本文解释了动词的原型用法,并将结果与先前对地球上运动事件的研究进行了对话。主要发现是:(1)天体运动主要由一般运动动词或来自其他运动领域的释放化词汇化;(2)及物动词结构比之前研究的运动和;(3)控制和速度是重要的消歧特性。本文还说明了词汇领域是如何受到我们的经验知识、想象和具体经验的影响的。
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