Polysemous Posture in English: A Case Study of Non-literal Meaning

Katherine Fraser
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It has been observed that cross-linguistically the core posture verbs ‘sit’/‘stand/‘lie’ can extend their meaning beyond the literal sense encoding posture or spatial orientation (see Newman 2002 for an overview). In the cognitive literature, the conceptual background of these extensions has been discussed, but up to now, there has been no discussion of the non-literal senses in the theoretical linguistic literature, including how the different senses are disambiguated. This paper supplements the cognitive descriptions of posture verbs, presenting data from an independent corpus study and proposing a formal analysis. The in-depth investigation of one English posture verb, ‘sit’, yields an empirical generalization that contributes to the discussion surrounding non-literal meaning.
英语中的多义态势:非字面意义案例研究
据观察,跨语言的核心姿势动词'坐'/'站'/'躺'的意义可以扩展到编码姿势或空间方位的字面意义之外(概况见 Newman 2002)。在认知文献中,这些扩展的概念背景已被讨论过,但到目前为止,理论语言学文献中还没有关于非字面意义的讨论,包括如何消歧不同的意义。本文对姿态动词的认知描述进行了补充,介绍了一项独立语料库研究的数据,并提出了正式的分析方法。通过对一个英语姿势动词 "sit "的深入研究,本文得出了一个经验性的概括,为围绕非字面意义的讨论做出了贡献。
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