Pub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.1075/RESLA.28.2.08TEI
Annalisa Teixeira
It is widely recognized that the development of mood selection in Spanish poses a unique challenge for English-speaking L2 learners, but the role that aural mood recognition plays in this process has yet to be fully explored (Collentine, 2010). This present study, conducted with intermediate-advanced L2 Spanish students, considers issues of aural saliency for regular and irregular present subjunctive forms, and argues that if students cannot perceive mood modeled in spoken input, the necessary frequency-driven, form-meaning connections essential for acquisition could be hindered, impacting mood production (Ellis, 2002, 2009). These exploratory results suggest a positive correlation between phonological sensitivity to the present subjunctive form and target-like mood production, especially when coupled with mood noticing strategies. The outcome of this study offers insight into L2 mood selection development and adds support to pedagogical approaches that strengthen aural mood recognition and encourage explicit strategies for mood processing.
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Pub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.1075/RESLA.28.1.09LLA
Ángels Llanes, Goretti Prieto Botana
The need to function in multilingual environments and the fact that study abroad (SA) is believed to be one of the most efficient language learning contexts (Collentine, 2009) have boosted the popularity of SA programs. While numerous recent studies have examined the SA impact on oral fluency, vocabulary or writing, among others, certain areas, such as listening skills (Llanes, 2011), have yet to receive substantial attention. In an attempt to address this issue, a pretest-posttest design study was conducted to gauge the listening skills of 12 college students at the beginning and the end of a 5-week SA experience in Costa Rica. Results from non-parametric tests revealed that despite the brief duration of the program, participants’ overall listening comprehension improved significantly. Individual analysis revealed that significant gains emerged in exit tasks in which the topic of conversation was kept consistent, suggesting that contextualization plays a crucial role in input comprehension.
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Pub Date : 2014-01-01DOI: 10.1075/RESLA.27.2.01CAN
Ana Blanco Canales, M. N. López
This article is aimed to present a proposal for the categorization of phonic errors, which has been developed within the project AACFELE, with the objective of studying the Phonics component in depth. Throughout these pages we intend to display both the theoretical framework in which the proposal has been formulated and the criteria which have been followed. We will describe the different sections and subsections of the classification and illustrate each one of them with examples of phonic mistakes made by native speakers of eleven distinct languages. Our main goal is to provide a tool for analysis that makes it possible to describe, categorize and tag, uniformly, any type of phonic error in such a way that the outcomes obtained with prospective studies, apart from being comparable, will contribute to valid hypothesis formulation. We hope that it will promote further studies in order to embrace both error analysis and interlanguage from a multidimensional perspective.
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Pub Date : 2014-01-01DOI: 10.1075/RESLA.27.1.05KOV
Z. Kövecses, S. Csábi
The lexicon of a language is not an unstructured list of words. In this paper, we exemplify some of the basic conceptual structures that cognitive linguists work with and we discuss their potential applications to lexicographic work. Specifically, we focus on the possible advantages of using cognitive linguistics as a theoretical background in the structuring of entries, meanings, and idioms in dictionaries. In connection with these organizational issues, we discuss the knowledge-based organization of the mental lexicon (known as conceptual frames), and a type of organization of the mental lexicon that seems to be much more characteristic of Hungarian than of English: organization according to certain “root morphemes.” We also deal with the conceptualization of an element within a topic area through another element within the same topic area (known as conceptual metonymy), the conceptualization of a topic area in terms of another topic area (known as conceptual metaphor); and the internal organization of the various senses of a word-concept (known as polysemy). We devote a section to idioms and their role as well as possible arrangement in the dictionary. Such thematic structures have, on the whole, remained outside the focus of everyday lexicographic practice. Here, we hope to demonstrate their importance and usefulness.
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Pub Date : 2014-01-01DOI: 10.1075/RESLA.27.2.05CLA
Jeroen Claes
In this article, we investigate the pluralization of presentational haber (e.g., Habian fiestas. ‘There were parties.’) in the Spanish of Havana, Santo Domingo, and San Juan. Drawing on Goldberg’s (1995) Cognitive Construction Grammar, we claim that the phenomenon consists in a language change from below: the pluralized variant of the presentational haber construction ( ) is replacing the impersonal variant ( ). Using a mixed-effects regression analysis, we show that speakers of the Caribbean dialects pluralize the verb in 41–46% of the cases. The linguistic factors that were investigated in this study (typical action-chain position of the noun’s referent, clause polarity, verb tense, comprehension-to-production priming and production-to-production priming) argue in favor of considering the variation an argument-structure alternation. The comparative sociolinguistic analyses reveal that these factors have the same effects and relative strengths in the three communities. For the three communities, the results for gender and social class support that the phenomenon constitutes an advanced language change from below.
在这篇文章中，我们研究了现象性haber(例如，Habian fiestas)的多元化。在哈瓦那、圣多明各和圣胡安的西班牙语区，“有派对。”根据Goldberg(1995)的《认知结构语法》(Cognitive Construction Grammar)，我们认为这一现象是由下面的语言变化构成的:表征haber结构的复数变体()正在取代非人称变体()。使用混合效应回归分析，我们发现加勒比方言的使用者在41-46%的情况下使用复数动词。本研究考察的语言因素(名词指称物的典型动作链位置、分句极性、动词时态、从理解到生产的启动和从生产到生产的启动)支持将变异视为论点结构的交替。比较社会语言学分析表明，这些因素在三个社区中具有相同的作用和相对优势。对于三个群体而言，性别和社会阶层的结果支持这一现象构成了自下而上的高级语言变化。
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Pub Date : 2014-01-01DOI: 10.1075/RESLA.27.1.02COR
F. Rodríguez
The kernel of the semantic representation of a predicate in Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) is based on its characterization in terms of an Aktionsart typology based on Vendler’s (1957) classes plus some additional elements from Smith (1997) and Dowty (1979). This means that event structures are mainly considered a lexical phenomenon pertaining to predicates, and only occasionally higher predicational structures are considered in event construction. Even though this approach is adequate to a great extent, there are still some problems in the approach taken in RRG. The most significant drawback is that non-lexical aspects appear intermingled with predicate-only features, which leads to misinterpretations and misclassifications of predicates. Consequently, it sees more sensible to bring a functional model of grammar like RRG to a compromise position and, thus, consider in what ways different units identified as belonging to the different layers in RRG’s syntactic projections ‘conspire’ in the final aspectual characterization of events. In this line, this paper will propose a classification of aspectual features in terms of the levels found in the functional projection of the clause as devised in RRG, namely the Predicate Level (the domain of Aktionsart typology), the Nucleus (where morphological aspect has scope) and the Core (the locus for what will be described as ‘aspectuality’ features).
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Pub Date : 2014-01-01DOI: 10.1075/RESLA.27.2.10MOR
M. A. Lara
In this paper, we will try to offer an analysis of multimodal representations in a sample of Riojan wine labels. Basic formal operation such as cueing has allowed us to present metonymic and metaphoric relations existing between brand names, their origins, Riojan culture as well as viticultural aspects. We present four models of pictorial metaphors and a model of blended space. The role of these conceptual mappings in meaning derivation is relevant in multimodal genre as well as in the communicative functions of wine labels. In this study we have considered ontological metonymies (Kovecses & Radden, 1998), formal and content cognitive operations (Ruiz de Mendoza, 2001, 2011) as well as multimodal representations (Forceville, 2005, 2009).
在本文中，我们将尝试在里奥詹葡萄酒标签样本中提供多模态表示的分析。像线索这样的基本形式操作使我们能够呈现品牌名称、它们的起源、里奥江文化以及葡萄文化之间存在的转喻和隐喻关系。我们提出了四种图像隐喻模型和一种混合空间模型。这些概念映射在意义衍生中的作用与多模态类型以及酒标的交际功能有关。在本研究中，我们考虑了本体论转喻(Kovecses & Radden, 1998)、形式和内容认知操作(Ruiz de Mendoza, 2001、2011)以及多模态表征(Forceville, 2005、2009)。
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Pub Date : 2014-01-01DOI: 10.1075/RESLA.27.1.08RUI
F. J. R. D. M. Ibáñez
The notion of “conceptual mapping”, as a set of correspondences between conceptual domains, was popularized in Cognitive Semantics, following seminal work by Lakoff & Johnson (1980), as a way of accounting for the basic cognitive activity underlying metaphor and metonymy. Strangely enough, Cognitive Semantics has paid little, if any, attention to other cases of so-called figurative language such as hyperbole, irony, paradox, and oxymoron. This paper contends that it is possible to account for these and other figures of thought in terms of the notion of conceptual mapping. It argues that the differences between these and other figurative uses of language are a matter of the nature of the domains involved in mappings and how they are made to correspond. Additionally, this paper examines constraints on mappings and concludes that the same factors that constrain metaphor and metonymy are operational in the case of mappings for the other figures of thought under discussion.
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Pub Date : 2014-01-01DOI: 10.1075/RESLA.27.2.13SCH
Scott A. Schwenter, Rena Torres Cacoullos
We utilize variationist methodology to explore the conventionalization and pragmatics of 3rd person direct object clitic placement in Spanish periphrastic constructions. Analysis of 652 tokens extracted from three Mexico City speech corpora indicates that while proclitic position is the majority variant, the rate of enclitic position depends on particular [finite + non-finite verb] constructions, distinguished by frequency measures and more grammaticalized meanings. At the same time, enclisis is favored by propositional or non-referential direct objects and by direct objects of low topic persistence, measured by subsequent mentions. In contrast, proclitic position is favored more by inanimate than human referents, especially those that show topic persistence and whose previous mention was in the syntactic role of direct object in the same or preceding clause. These quantitative patterns suggest that proclisis indicates prototypical DOs in non-prototypical use, i.e. topical inanimates. Thus, despite conventionalization of the general proclitic schema, particular constructions and semantic-pragmatic considerations are operative factors in the variation.
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Pub Date : 2014-01-01DOI: 10.1075/RESLA.27.1.04GOM
María Angeles González, A. Varela
Cast within the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics, this paper sheds new light on the ‘thematic management’ of discourse and its interaction with ‘rhetorical management’ in particular, by exploring how the interplay between thematic structure and thematic progression is instantiated in a specific genre, news reports, in English and Spanish. The study shows that, even though there exist a number of differences that are language-determined, genre constraints seem to exert a greater influence because, generally speaking, English and Spanish news reports show greater similarities than differences.
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