{"title":"Bodily engagement in the learning and teaching of grammar","authors":"F. Suñer, Jörg Roche, Liesbeth Van Vossel","doi":"10.1075/rcl.00126.sun","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00126.sun","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Cognitive Linguistics claims that language is not purely abstract and arbitrary, but meaningful and grounded in\u0000 concepts arising from our embodied experiences (Oakley, 2007). The potential of using\u0000 imagery and bodily representations to explain the conceptual motivation of grammar has been widely recognized in the context of\u0000 language acquisition and teaching. This study investigates whether an increase of learners’ bodily engagement through the\u0000 performance of bodily movements and locomotion produces even greater learning outcomes. To this end, we refer to Talmy’s (2000) Force Dynamic System to conduct a pretest-posttest interventional study\u0000 with two groups of learners dealing with the German modal verb system. Whereas the first group watched multimedia animations (low\u0000 bodily engagement), the second group was asked to perform bodily movements in line with the force-dynamic notions underlying the\u0000 different modal verbs (high bodily engagement). The results show that both groups produced similar learning gains and that an\u0000 increased bodily engagement could not be associated directly with a significantly better performance.","PeriodicalId":51932,"journal":{"name":"Review of Cognitive Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43433032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The proper names ‘Assad’, ‘ISIL’, ‘ISIS’, ‘Daesh’ and ‘European’ as metonymic blends in political\u0000 discourse","authors":"T. Golubeva","doi":"10.1075/rcl.00129.gol","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00129.gol","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The study investigated metonymic uses of the anthroponym ‘Assad’, the acronyms ‘ISIL’, ‘ISIS’, ‘Daesh’ and the\u0000 toponymic adjective ‘European’ from a blending theory perspective. The corpus comprised British and American politicians’ speeches\u0000 covering such topics as the activity of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, the fight against ISIS, and Euromaidan. Analysis of the\u0000 data revealed that the source domain of a metonymic expression which has certain cognitive salience in an utterance fuses with the\u0000 target leading to the emergence of a blend. It was also found that the construction of a metonymic blend in proper names often\u0000 requires activation of world knowledge which forms part of the conceptual structure of the source or target domains of a proper\u0000 name.","PeriodicalId":51932,"journal":{"name":"Review of Cognitive Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45985951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}