{"title":"Soft hearts and hard souls","authors":"Javier E. Díaz-Vera","doi":"10.1075/cogls.20025.dia","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/cogls.20025.dia","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000One of the most fundamental claims of the Cognitive Theory of Metaphor is the direction of mapping from concrete to abstract. The pervasiveness of this path of semantic change has been widely accepted among researchers interested in the study of the history and development of emotional expressions. Whereas most studies focus on the analysis of one specific target domain (i.e., one emotion or one family of emotions), less attention has been paid to the reconstruction and analysis of the set of diachronic changes that affected one single source domain. Within this framework, in this paper I have used data extracted from standard Old English dictionaries and thesauri, in order to propose a complete analysis of the set of Old English adjectives for different textural properties of physical objects (such as roughness, smoothness, softness and hardness). I am especially interested in the reconstruction and analysis of the paths of semantic change (from concrete to abstract) illustrated by this section of the Old English vocabulary. Broadly speaking, apart from the original senses for physical texture, these adjectives developed secondary meanings in the fields of feelings and emotions, which I have classified into three categories: physical sensations (such as weakness and pleasantness), sensorial sensations (such as auditive, visual or gustative sensations) and emotional sensations (such as grief, anger, compassion and empathy). Furthermore, the resulting figurative meanings (which I have analysed in terms of metonymic, synaesthetic and metaphoric extensions) can also be grouped into positive and negative sensations. The present paper supports the idea that the origin of our understanding of abstract concepts is deeply rooted in our physical experiences. This is indeed a conceptual pattern showed by the diachronic evolution of Old English adjectives for texture. This paper concludes with some remarks on the social and cultural changes that prompted some of these semantic changes, paying special attention to the Christianization of Anglo-Saxon England and the introduction of Christian values.","PeriodicalId":127458,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Linguistic Studies","volume":"805 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124637026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Individual differences in the decline of the Deontic nci construction","authors":"D. Noël","doi":"10.1075/cogls.00088.noe","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/cogls.00088.noe","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper addresses the question of the (speaker-level) ‘cognitive how’ of (language-level) constructional attrition, defined as a systemic decrease in the occurrence of a construction in the history of a language. Presenting and analysing data from an historical idiolectal corpus on the frequency development in individual speakers’ use of a partially schematic construction instantiated by such types as be obliged to and be permitted to, it offers a first attempt to measure whether a general decline in the frequency of this construction can also be observed to be an internal development during a speaker’s lifespan. The results confirm this to be the case in a sizeable group of speakers and the paper provides an initial insight into how this may contribute to a genuinely cognitive account of the speaker-external development.","PeriodicalId":127458,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Linguistic Studies","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125905564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developments in Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies","authors":"","doi":"10.1075/cogls.8.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/cogls.8.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":127458,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Linguistic Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114472718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making meaning with metaphor in grief therapy","authors":"D. Tay, R. Neimeyer","doi":"10.1075/COGLS.00070.TAY","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/COGLS.00070.TAY","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Metaphors play an important role in contemporary approaches to grief therapy by helping clients (re)construe their continuing relationship with the deceased. Relevant studies have illustrated the substantive elements of metaphors (i.e. sources, targets, and mappings) in this regard, often focusing on localized bursts of intense metaphoric activity. This paper highlights the extended nature of metaphoric conceptualizations and their relationship with key meaning-making processes, following the principle of ‘correspondent analysis’ as a collaborative move between language analysts and therapy practitioners. Three specific phenomena are detailed through a mixed methods analysis of 18 motivated segments in a single session of grief therapy: (i) sporadic sources, (ii) persistent sources, and (iii) metaphor ‘chaining’ across embodied and verbal activity. Their respective links to treatment objectives and processes demonstrate how metaphor theoretic constructs dovetail with therapeutic work, and suggest future avenues for modeling unfolding metaphoric activity as a time series.","PeriodicalId":127458,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Linguistic Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125648461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Metonymy","authors":"Zhuo Jing-Schmidt","doi":"10.1017/9781641890762.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781641890762.009","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article is concerned with metonymy as a cognitive mechanism underlying our best and worst instincts. In particular, I consider two seemingly opposite processes of metonymy: (1) conceptual bypassing of sensory percepts, which leads to an intuitive leap to abstract insights and judgments and (2) conceptual oversimplification of a social category by stereotyping. By directing attention to that which metonymy is apt to obscure, I encourage the reader to rethink existing models of metonymy that focus on its referential and mental access functions. I offer an complementary account of the functions of metonymy by arguing that mental simplism is central to conceptual bypassing and social stereotyping and by pointing out the social psychological reality of an expressive function of metonymy.","PeriodicalId":127458,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Linguistic Studies","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123117495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cognitive Linguistic Aspects of Information Structure and Flow","authors":"","doi":"10.1075/cogls.7.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/cogls.7.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":127458,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Linguistic Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132487041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The decline of the Deontic nci construction in Late Modern English","authors":"D. Noël","doi":"10.1075/COGLS.00029.NOE","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/COGLS.00029.NOE","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Starting from a traditional corpus-based investigation of an\u0000 example of constructional attrition, i.e. of a sustained drop in the frequency\u0000 of use of a construction in a language’s history, this paper argues that usage\u0000 data which make abstraction from individual speakers can no more account for\u0000 this kind of constructional change than they can for constructionalization, the\u0000 creation of new constructions. A more ‘radically’ usage-based approach to\u0000 diachronic construction grammar implements the cognitive commitment of this\u0000 subdiscipline of cognitive linguistics and ultimately explains all\u0000 constructional change with reference to individual speakers’ grammars. Since no\u0000 two speakers’ experience-based constructicons are identical, it is hypothesized\u0000 that, very similar to constructionalization, constructional attrition starts\u0000 from interpersonal variation and the paper encourages the use of idiolectal\u0000 historical corpora to find corroboration for this. The case of constructional\u0000 attrition presented in descriptive detail is that of the English Deontic\u0000 nci construction, which is instantiated by such forms as be\u0000 compelled to, be forbidden to, be obliged to and be\u0000 permitted to. Previous research established this schema to have\u0000 grown in frequency and productivity from the 14th until the 18th century and the\u0000 current paper documents the start of its subsequent decline with data from the\u0000 Corpus of Late Modern English Texts. It goes on to ask whether a usage-based\u0000 approach should stop at offering cultural explanations for such developments and\u0000 proposes a more genuinely cognitive line of explanatory attack.","PeriodicalId":127458,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Linguistic Studies","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122367042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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