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{"title":"The relationship between lexical complexity measures and language learning\u0000beliefs","authors":"Ervin Kovačević","doi":"10.29162/jez.2019.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29162/jez.2019.20","url":null,"abstract":"Although the relationship between language proficiency and learner beliefs is generally viewed as weak, indirect, and distant, there are empirical findings which show that the relationship between syntactic complexity measures and language\u0000learning beliefs is statistically tangible. Since syntactic complexity is only\u0000one constituent of the linguistic complexity system, it seems plausible to\u0000question whether other constituents of the system are also in statistically\u0000measurable relationships with language learning beliefs. This research project\u0000explores the relationship between 25 lexical complexity measures (Lu 2012;\u00002014) and four subscales of language learning beliefs that are suggested for\u0000Horwitz’s (2013) Beliefs about Language Learning Inventory—BALLI 2.0 (Kovačević\u00002017). For three semesters (Fall 2014, Spring and Fall 2015), 152 freshman\u0000students at the International University of Sarajevo responded to BALLI 2.0 and\u0000wrote in-class exam essays which were converted into an electronic format. The\u0000results show 15 statistically significant correlation coefficients between 14\u0000lexical complexity measures and three BALLI 2.0 subscales. Overall, it may be\u0000concluded that the relationship between lexical complexity measures and\u0000language learning beliefs is statistically detectable. The findings imply that\u0000the lexical complexity framework offers valuable opportunities for exploring\u0000how and to what extent particular individual differences manifest in foreign\u0000language production.","PeriodicalId":41610,"journal":{"name":"Jezikoslovlje","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.29162/jez.2019.20","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47819632","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":"A critical note on the evolution of social theoretical and linguistic underpinnings of contemporary discourse studies","authors":"Piotr Cap","doi":"10.29162/jez.2019.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29162/jez.2019.12","url":null,"abstract":"This paper gives a\u0000critical overview of analytical approaches dominating the field of discourse\u0000studies in the last three decades, from the perspective of their\u0000philosophical and formative bases: social constructionism and linguistics. It\u0000explores different conceptions of the theoretical nexus between these two\u0000bases leading to the emergence of three distinct yet complementary strands of\u0000thought (i–iii). The paper starts with poststructuralist views of discourse\u0000salient in (i) Laclau and Mouffe’s Discourse Theory. Laclau and Mouffe’s\u0000assumption that no discourse is a closed entity but rather transformed\u0000through contact with other discourses is taken as the introductory premise to\u0000present a large family of (ii) critical discourse studies, characterized as\u0000text-analytical practices explaining how discourse partakes in the production\u0000and negotiations of ideological meanings. Finally, the paper discusses (iii)\u0000three recent discourse analytical models: Discourse Space Theory, Critical\u0000Metaphor Analysis, and Legitimization-Proximization Model. These new theories\u0000make a further (and thus far final) step toward consolidation of the\u0000social-theoretical and linguistic bases in contemporary discourse studies.\u0000The empirical benefits of this consolidation are discussed in the last part\u0000of the paper, which includes a case study where the new models are used in\u0000the analysis of Polish anti-immigration discourse.","PeriodicalId":41610,"journal":{"name":"Jezikoslovlje","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.29162/jez.2019.12","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47751568","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":"Taste and sight","authors":"J. Sandford","doi":"10.29162/jez.2019.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29162/jez.2019.8","url":null,"abstract":"Embodiment is central to the Cognitive\u0000Linguistics enterprise. The grounding of language in body experience is one\u0000of the major tenets of linguistic description at various levels of analysis.\u0000We receive the infor-mation of the world around us through the bodily\u0000sensations; i.e. we per-ceive, then process and conceptualize it. Research\u0000into the sensory do-mains has continued to elicit further examination of how\u0000we use meta-phoric and metonymic cross-modal conceptualization in language.\u0000Inves-tigation has been carried out both on the single sense domains of\u0000touch, taste, smell, hearing, and sight, but also on cross-modality or synesthetic\u0000phenomena. Linguistic transfer between various senses seems to respect a\u0000hierarchy from the lower (touch, taste, smell) to the higher senses (hear-ing\u0000and sight), even though some variation of this hierarchy has been noted. The\u0000present study is the first part of a two-fold analysis of cross-modal\u0000linguistic mappings that exist between the senses of taste and sight. The\u0000objective is to verify what collocations occur between the two do-mains: do\u0000they respect the hierarchy, and how frequent, or how strong are they? Corpus\u0000analysis of the construction of the adjective + noun type are in keeping with\u0000existing literature: the sensory domain that func-tions as source is\u0000understood as an adjective modifying another sensory domain, which is found\u0000in the form of a noun. This research concentrates on cross-modal pairs found\u0000through a corpus-based analysis of taste ad-jectives in the description of\u0000vision nouns, e.g. delicious colors. Linguis-tic data were retrieved from\u0000corpora that allow for comparison of the ac-tual usage and definition of\u0000these constructions. These include the Cor-pus of Contemporary American\u0000English (COCA), and the Mapping Meta-phor with the Historical Thesaurus of\u0000English. The experimental method-ology is in keeping with the usage-based\u0000approach of Cognitive Linguis-tics, considering frequency and relevance.","PeriodicalId":41610,"journal":{"name":"Jezikoslovlje","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.29162/jez.2019.8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46894616","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":"Light as a visual source domain for the divine in the 17th century painting","authors":"J. Čulig","doi":"10.29162/jez.2019.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29162/jez.2019.11","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to explain the motivation behind the creation of religious visual art in which light plays the role of the signifier of divine presence. We will endeavor to show that representations of light in paintings from a particular socio-cultural period and context are based on metaphorization. The meaning that arises from this metaphorization establishes a connection between depicted light and the basic conceptual metaphor KNOWING IS SEEING. Our aim is to show that the understanding of these kinds of representations by the viewer as the presence of the divine is based on the fundamental human capacity to conceptualize abstract notions through concrete ones. We propose that a visual representation of light would not be completely understandable if the viewer did not possess an inherent knowledge of basic conceptual metaphors of light. The visual material selected for this article comprises samples of 17th century religious paintings of the Western artistic tradition, in which light serves as the primary carrier of divine meaning and the central element of the composition. Our proposition is based on the conjoining of two disciplines into an interdisciplinary approach to analyzing paintings from the Baroque period. The selected theoretical framework includes Conceptual Metaphor Theory and the conceptualization of abstract notions (Lakoff & Johnson 1980; Gibbs 1994, 2008; Kövecses 2005; Forceville & Urios-Aparisi 2009; Sharifian 2011; Raffaelli 2012; Forceville 2017), as well as art-historical insights into the utilization of pictorial elements of light in the formal visual language of the Baroque (Haskell 1963; Lambert 2007; Toman 2007; Cvetnić 2007). The significance of this kind of research lies in the prospects of interdisciplinary approaches to concepts in general. This combination of scientific perspectives could enable us to approach the concept of light from a wider perspective, which could lead to a deeper understanding of the concept, its use in human communication, and its significance for the structuring of the knowledge of the world by an individual, but also by the wider socio-cultural collective to which they belong.","PeriodicalId":41610,"journal":{"name":"Jezikoslovlje","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.29162/jez.2019.11","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41995928","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":"Figurative representation of death in the Italian comic book Dylan Dog","authors":"Ilhana Škrgić","doi":"10.29162/jez.2019.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29162/jez.2019.9","url":null,"abstract":"The canonical representation of death as the Grim\u0000Reaper is a well-known trope in art. The main aim of this paper is to analyze\u0000this trope as it appears in selected instalments of the Italian comics series Dylan Dog. Fauconnier and Turner have\u0000extensively discussed its complexity by describing it in terms of the Blending\u0000Theory/Conceptual Theory model. As a complex integration of several mental spaces, including a\u0000space with an individual human being dying, and a harvest space, the Grim\u0000Reaper blend involves metaphoric and metonymic interactions of non-counterpart\u0000elements (Fauconnier & Turner 1998). This model will be used as a starting point in the\u0000analysis of the corpus consisting of four separate Dylan Dog stories. In the selected issues, the Grim Reaper appears\u0000in both the traditional version: a skeleton-like creature dressed in a monk’s\u0000robe and holding a scythe, as well as variants in which its appearance gains\u0000new and unusual characteristics. It will be demonstrated how the artists' use of the comics medium,\u0000with its combination of written text and\u0000static visuals, enables certain creative varieties\u0000on the classic trope.","PeriodicalId":41610,"journal":{"name":"Jezikoslovlje","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.29162/jez.2019.9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48007465","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":"Operationalising construal","authors":"K. Krawczak, D. Glynn","doi":"10.29162/jez.2019.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29162/jez.2019.1","url":null,"abstract":"This study seeks to demonstrate that the Behavioural Profile Approach, specifically Multifactorial Usage-Feature Analysis (Geeraerts et al. 1994; Gries 2003), can be used to quantitatively describe lexico-grammatical construal (Langacker 1987; 1999). It examines the of – about constructional alternation for the complementation of cognition and communica-tion predicates. The predicates sampled include know, speak, talk, and think distributed across the two prepositions in British and American Eng-lish. In total, a sample of some 700 occurrences are analysed; the annota-tion schema is based on previous literature in the field (Radden 1981; Rudzka-Ostyn 2003; Dirven 2003; Lindstromberg 2010). Using a combi-nation of mixed-effects logistic regression, multiple correspondence analysis, and loglinear analysis, the study is able to successfully identify a behavioural profile of the two alternations, which can be interpreted as an operationalisation of the opposing construals. Although distinct pro-files are obtained, an adequate means for separating the conceptual con-tribution of the predicate and the complement will require further investi-gation.","PeriodicalId":41610,"journal":{"name":"Jezikoslovlje","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.29162/jez.2019.1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47732271","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":"Translatorial and non-translatorial automaticity","authors":"M. Deckert","doi":"10.29162/jez.2019.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29162/jez.2019.4","url":null,"abstract":"The paper examines empirically a subset\u0000of cognitive processes in trainee translators with the objective of gaining\u0000an insight into their decision-making. Specifically, we are interested in the\u0000nature and role of automated processing – above all, how pronounced it can be\u0000and how it influences the quality of decisions. The paper’s objective is then\u0000to come up with an integrative view of the relationship between translatorial\u0000automaticity and cognitive automaticity in general, viz. that not associated\u0000with translation. This could help us better capture some of the\u0000characteristics of translator behaviour and supplement our understanding of\u0000translation competence.\u0000Results from\u0000experiments with trainees reported in the paper show no correlation between\u0000the two dimensions of automated processing, and indicate that translatorial\u0000automaticity could be harder to override than its more general counterpart.","PeriodicalId":41610,"journal":{"name":"Jezikoslovlje","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.29162/jez.2019.4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45419162","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":"From šećerna\u0000tabla to čoCROlada","authors":"Emilija Mustapić","doi":"10.29162/jez.2019.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29162/jez.2019.5","url":null,"abstract":"The study of linguistic landscape (LL) encompasses the language of public signs, commercial billboards, and other forms of written texts displayed in public (mostly urban) spaces of a particular geographical location. Its dual function, informational and symbolic, provides fertile ground for research into multilingualism, a phenomenon prevalent in today’s society. LL is made up of both large-scale entities such as billboards, and smaller everyday items such as leaflets, posters, and food labels. The aim of this paper is to explore the multilingual discourse on Croatian food labels with a special focus on the advent of words and expressions from the English language. Our quantitative examination of chocolate labels from the 1960s until 2010, presented in the first part of the paper, suggests that the Croatian LL has indeed embraced English (and other languages to some extent) and shifted from primarily monolingual to multilingual practice. Our qualitative analysis of contemporary Croatian chocolate labels in terms of language content relationship and visual arrangement, presented in the second part, indicates a strong English influence on shaping the Croatian LL in the realm of food labelling. It, therefore, confirms the widely held idea that English has become a key component of product marketing.","PeriodicalId":41610,"journal":{"name":"Jezikoslovlje","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.29162/jez.2019.5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69711476","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 expression of path in three satellite-framed languages","authors":"Joanna Łozińska","doi":"10.29162/jez.2019.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29162/jez.2019.2","url":null,"abstract":"Cross-linguistic studies of the lexicalization of motion tend to contrast satellite- with verb-framed languages (e.g. Slobin 1996; 2004; Cardini 2008; Özçalışkan & Slobin 2003; Kopecka 2004; Fargard et al. 2013, etc.) and concentrate less frequently on intra-typological analyses (but cf. e.g. Filipović 2007; Hasko 2010; Ibarretxe-Antuñano 2009; Ibarretxe-Antuñano & Hijazo-Gascón 2012). Even fewer studies contrast genetically related languages (but cf. e.g. Łozińska 2018). The main aim of this study was to establish the path-saliency cline of three satellite-framed languages: Polish, Russian, and English. The analysis was based on elicited data. The overall patterns of expressing the path of motion in the three languages were shown to be caused by their belonging to the same typological category. The differences could be attributed, to a large extent, to differences in the morphological structures and in the lexical repertoires of motion-coding expressions available to the speakers of the three languages. However, the analysis of descriptions of three specific spatial situations (i.e. vertical, boundary-crossing, and deictic relations) pointed to other factors that may influence path coding in the three languages. Thus, despite the satellite-verb character of the languages examined and the morpho-syntactic differences between them, all our participants, who were native speakers of the three languages examined, tended to code vertical relations by means of path verbs. The number of tokens of path verbs used to code this particular spatial relation was found to be higher than the number of tokens of path verbs used to code deictic or boundary-crossing motion.","PeriodicalId":41610,"journal":{"name":"Jezikoslovlje","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.29162/jez.2019.2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69711466","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":"Između diskursa o prostoru i diskursa\u0000prostora","authors":"Mislava Bertoša","doi":"10.29162/jez.2019.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29162/jez.2019.6","url":null,"abstract":"U članku se iz perspektive semiotike prostora analiziraju temeljni dokumenti o osnivanju, ustroju i prostornim preinakama Zavoda za umobolne u Stenjevcu. Oslanjajući se na analitičko-diskursne modele ispituje se način na koji je u njima legitimiziran diskurs o prostornom ustroju stenjevečkog Zavoda i izdvajaju tri temeljna principa (estetski, ekonomski i utilitarni) s pomoću kojih je legitimizacija postignuta, te se identificiraju temeljni topoi i ispituje njihova argumentacija u različitim kontekstima. Posebno se analiziraju tekstovi u kojima različiti stručnjaci raspravljaju o budućem spacijalnom ustroju Zavoda i odmjeravaju prednosti i nedostatke dvaju temeljnih modela spacijalne organizacije ludničkih prostora u 19. stoljeću – paviljonskog i monolitnog. Rezultati analize pokazuju su da su neka od temeljnih obilježja diskursa o prostornom uređenju Zavoda u Stenjevcu ekonomičnost, povoljnost i oportunost te funkcionalnost i svrhovitost. Oni se promatraju u sprezi s kontekstom razdoblja, ponajprije s prevladavajućim društvenim vrijednostima i devetnaestostoljetnim idejama o liječenju umobolnika.","PeriodicalId":41610,"journal":{"name":"Jezikoslovlje","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.29162/jez.2019.6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69711579","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}