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The linguistic dimensions of concrete and abstract concepts: lexical category, morphological structure, countability, and etymology 具体概念和抽象概念的语言维度:词汇范畴、形态结构、可数性和词源

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-10-27 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2021-0007

Francesca Strik Lievers, M. Bolognesi, Bodo Winter

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引用次数: 17

Articulatory features of phonemes pattern to iconic meanings: evidence from cross-linguistic ideophones 从音位模式到标志意义的衔接特征——来自跨语言表意词的证据

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-10-22 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2020-0055

A. Thompson, Thomas Van Hoey, Youngah Do

{"title":"Articulatory features of phonemes pattern to iconic meanings: evidence from cross-linguistic ideophones","authors":"A. Thompson, Thomas Van Hoey, Youngah Do","doi":"10.1515/cog-2020-0055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2020-0055","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Iconic words are supposed to exhibit imitative relationships between their linguistic forms and their referents. Many studies have worked to pinpoint sound-to-meaning correspondences for ideophones from different languages. The correspondence patterns show similarities across languages, but what makes such language-specific correspondences universal, as iconicity claims to be, remains unclear. This could be due to a lack of consensus on how to describe and test the perceptuo-motor affordances that make an iconic word feel imitative to speakers. We created and analysed a database of 1,860 ideophones across 13 languages, and found that seven articulatory features, physiologically accessible to all spoken language users, pattern according to semantic features of ideophones. Our findings pave the way for future research to utilize articulatory properties as a means to test and explain how iconicity is encoded in spoken language. The perspective taken here fits in with ongoing research of embodiment, motivation, and iconicity research, three major strands of research within Cognitive Linguistics. The results support that there is a degree of unity between the concepts of imitative communication and the spoken forms through cross-domain mappings, which involve physical articulatory movement.","PeriodicalId":51530,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Linguistics","volume":"32 1","pages":"563 - 608"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48803786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

A cognitive account of subjectivity put to the test: using an insertion task to investigate Mandarin result connectives 主体性的认知解释:用插入任务考察普通话结果连接词

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-10-20 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2020-0075

Hongling Xiao, R. van Hout, T. Sanders, W. Spooren

{"title":"A cognitive account of subjectivity put to the test: using an insertion task to investigate Mandarin result connectives","authors":"Hongling Xiao, R. van Hout, T. Sanders, W. Spooren","doi":"10.1515/cog-2020-0075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2020-0075","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article aims to further test the cognitive claims of the so-called subjectivity account of causal events and their linguistic markers, causal connectives. We took Mandarin Chinese, a language that is typologically completely different from the usual western languages, as a case to provide evidence for this subjectivity account. Complementary to the commonly used corpora analyses, we employed crowdsourcing to tap native speakers’ intuitions about causal coherence, focusing on four result connectives kějiàn ‘therefore’, suǒyǐ ‘so’, yīncǐ ‘so/for this reason’ and yúshì ‘thereupon/as a result’. The analysis shows systematic differences regarding the use of connectives in relations that differ in terms of subjectivity, demonstrating that native speakers make use of subjectivity to encode and decode different types of causal relations in discourse. Moreover, our study evidences that a comprehensive model of subjectivity should include the epistemic dimension of certainty about the subjectivity scale that might be indicated by other linguistic elements. In-depth analyses of the test items revealed that the presence/absence of modality words in the result segments are related to different preferential patterns for the connectives. There is a trade-off between the epistemic dimension of certainty and the expression of subjectivity in the four connectives involved.","PeriodicalId":51530,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Linguistics","volume":"32 1","pages":"671 - 702"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48408781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Individual differences in word senses 词义的个体差异

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-10-19 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2021-0020

Rachel E. Ramsey

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引用次数: 2

What can cognitive linguistics tell us about language-image relations? A multidimensional approach to intersemiotic convergence in multimodal texts 关于语言-意象关系，认知语言学能告诉我们什么?多模态语篇中符号间趋同的多维方法

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-10-05 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2021-0039

C. Hart, Javier Marmol Queralto

{"title":"What can cognitive linguistics tell us about language-image relations? A multidimensional approach to intersemiotic convergence in multimodal texts","authors":"C. Hart, Javier Marmol Queralto","doi":"10.1515/cog-2021-0039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2021-0039","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In contrast to symbol-manipulation approaches, Cognitive Linguistics offers a modal rather than an amodal account of meaning in language. From this perspective, the meanings attached to linguistic expressions, in the form of conceptualisations, have various properties in common with visual forms of representation. This makes Cognitive Linguistics a potentially useful framework for identifying and analysing language-image relations in multimodal texts. In this paper, we investigate language-image relations with a specific focus on intersemiotic convergence. Analogous with research on gesture, we extend the notion of co-text images and argue that images and language usages which are proximal to one another in a multimodal text can be expected to exhibit the same or consistent construals of the target scene. We outline some of the dimensions of conceptualisation along which intersemiotic convergence may be enacted in texts, including event-structure, viewpoint, distribution of attention and metaphor. We take as illustrative data photographs and their captions in online news texts covering a range of topics including immigration, political protests, and inter-state conflict. Our analysis suggests the utility of Cognitive Linguistics in allowing new potential sites of intersemiotic convergence to be identified and in proffering an account of language-image relations that is based in language cognition.","PeriodicalId":51530,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Linguistics","volume":"32 1","pages":"529 - 562"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42840072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 5

Patterns of semantic variation differ across body parts: evidence from the Japonic languages 不同身体部位的语义变化模式不同:来自日本语言的证据

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2020-0079

John L. A. Huisman, R. van Hout, A. Majid

{"title":"Patterns of semantic variation differ across body parts: evidence from the Japonic languages","authors":"John L. A. Huisman, R. van Hout, A. Majid","doi":"10.1515/cog-2020-0079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2020-0079","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The human body is central to myriad metaphors, so studying the conceptualisation of the body itself is critical if we are to understand its broader use. One essential but understudied issue is whether languages differ in which body parts they single out for naming. This paper takes a multi-method approach to investigate body part nomenclature within a single language family. Using both a naming task (Study 1) and colouring-in task (Study 2) to collect data from six Japonic languages, we found that lexical similarity for body part terminology was notably differentiated within Japonic, and similar variation was evident in semantics too. Novel application of cluster analysis on naming data revealed a relatively flat hierarchical structure for parts of the face, whereas parts of the body were organised with deeper hierarchical structure. The colouring data revealed that bounded parts show more stability across languages than unbounded parts. Overall, the data reveal there is not a single universal conceptualisation of the body as is often assumed, and that in-depth, multi-method explorations of under-studied languages are urgently required.","PeriodicalId":51530,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Linguistics","volume":"32 1","pages":"455 - 486"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44999735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 5

Incorporating the multi-level nature of the constructicon into hypothesis testing 将建构主义的多层次性纳入假设检验

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2020-0039

Dirk Pijpops, D. Speelman, Freek Van de Velde, S. Grondelaers

引用次数: 5

Analogy as driving force of language change: a usage-based approach to wo and da clauses in 17th and 18th century German 类比是语言变化的驱动力:17、18世纪德语中“wo”和“da”从句的用法分析

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-07-09 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2020-0011

M. Gillmann

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Putting the argument back into argument structure constructions 把论点放回论点结构结构中

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-06-24 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2021-0021

Laurence Romain

引用次数: 5

Ambiguity avoidance as a factor in the rise of the English dative alternation 歧义回避是英语与格交替兴起的一个因素

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-06-18 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2021-0018

Eva Zehentner

引用次数: 3