{"title":"What does it mean to wear a mask?","authors":"D. Geeraerts","doi":"10.1075/rcl.00101.gee","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00101.gee","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000If first-order empathy is the ability of Self to take into account Other’s point of view, then second-order empathy may be identified as the ability of Self to take into account Other’s point of view as including a view of Self. Considering that a hearer may choose between a first-order empathic and a second-order empathic interpretation of speaker utterances, second-order empathy introduces a pervasive indeterminacy in speaker-hearer interactions. The paper introduces this ambiguity potential in terms of the semiotics of face mask wearing during the corona pandemic, and then extrapolates the ensuing pattern of interpretative options to representative speech acts. The interaction between degree of empathy on one hand, and on the other the convergence or divergence of speaker and hearer beliefs is shown to yield six basic interpretative configurations: assertion, mistake, agreement, disagreement, irony, deception. Recognizing this ambiguity potential of second-order empathy is relevant for linguistic intersubjectivity research and post-Gricean pragmatics, and for the psychological theory of mind paradigm.","PeriodicalId":51932,"journal":{"name":"Review of Cognitive Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43448323","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":"Review of Sommerer & Smirnova (2020): Nodes and networks in diachronic Construction Grammar","authors":"Meili Liu","doi":"10.1075/rcl.00111.liu","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00111.liu","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51932,"journal":{"name":"Review of Cognitive Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59083016","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":"Metonymic hitting","authors":"Günter Radden","doi":"10.1075/rcl.00105.rad","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00105.rad","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The chapter is concerned with the metonymic use of hit in expressions such as hit the\u0000 road. The metonymic nature underlying these expressions has already been noticed by Ruhl (1989) and Hirtle (2013). The present study focuses on the mapping of the literal use of\u0000 hit as the metonymic source to its target. The metonymic source is characterized by the use of\u0000 hit as an Achievement verb in sentences such as The ball hit the window. The metonymic\u0000 target in hit the road comprises two events, motion to a goal and a subsequent action. The relevant part of\u0000 meaning resides in the unexpressed action. The action is inferred from the close relationship between a type of thing and\u0000 potential actions afforded by the thing. In Let’s hit the road, the type noun road affords\u0000 metonymic “routes” to three motivated kinds of actions: ‘travelling’, ‘beginning a journey’ and ‘leaving’.","PeriodicalId":51932,"journal":{"name":"Review of Cognitive Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46200841","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":"On the creative use of metonymy","authors":"J. Littlemore","doi":"10.1075/rcl.00103.lit","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00103.lit","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Antonio Barcelona’s work has advanced our understanding of the role played by pragmatics in the production and\u0000 comprehension of metonymy. Much of his work has focused on playful uses of metonymy, which involve creative extensions of attested\u0000 metonymic relationships, particularly in the pursuit of adversarial humour. Whilst there has been extensive work on the creative\u0000 use of metaphor, very few studies have explored the range of ways in which metonymy is used creatively. In this article, I analyse\u0000 creative uses of metonymy from a range of sources including film reviews, text messaging, art, advertising, cinema and literature\u0000 in order to identify the different forms that creative uses of metonymy can take. In the process of analysing these different\u0000 creative uses of metonymy, I address the following questions: What is the difference between ‘novelty’ and ‘creativity’ and what\u0000 is the relationship between them, in the context of metaphor and metonymy? To what extent and in what ways are the principles\u0000 underpinning the identification of creative metonymy, analogous to those used in the identification of creative metaphor? At what\u0000 level of abstraction should the creativity be identified in each case? Can and should we distinguish between ‘creative metonymy\u0000 per se, and creative uses of metonymy? At what point can we say that a new metonymic mapping has been created as\u0000 opposed to a creative use of an existing mapping? What affordances does metonymy offer for creative use and how do these compare\u0000 with the affordances that are offered by metaphor?","PeriodicalId":51932,"journal":{"name":"Review of Cognitive Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48640505","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":"Rosie the Riveter of the COVID time","authors":"M. Brdar, Rita Brdar-Szabó, Tanja Gradečak","doi":"10.1075/rcl.00110.brd","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00110.brd","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Cyclic repetition can be observed in the use of figurative elements in the conceptualization of the coronavirus\u0000 crisis, involving visual intertextuality or intervisuality. An example is provided by Rosie the Riveter, an\u0000 iconic image from WW2, which has become extremely popular in recent times. The image in question has undergone a number of changes\u0000 over time. Initially it was used as a personification thereby becoming a feminist symbol (essentially a stereotype). Then, it\u0000 continued as a paragon. More recently it has acquired new meanings and functions by dispensing with almost all paragon and\u0000 stereotype elements. These changes have been driven or supported by metonymies. Some of these metonymies have had an intrinsic or\u0000 constitutive role, while other have had an extrinsic or recontextualizing role. The effects of the latter can be appreciated in\u0000 the light of exemplification theory, which we take here to be a special form of discourse framing that heavily relies on metonymy.\u0000 The metonymic figurativity analyzed in this article is not purely referential. There is added attitudinal value that primarily\u0000 arises from establishing social rapport, creating empathy, and mobilizing citizens for action, while criticizing certain\u0000 behaviors.","PeriodicalId":51932,"journal":{"name":"Review of Cognitive Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47139709","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":"Forty years of metonymy","authors":"C. Muñoz","doi":"10.1075/rcl.00106.mun","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00106.mun","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This study contributes to the existing body of research that aims at showing the impact of metonymy in grammar. In this case, new evidence will be provided by exploring the English pseudo-partitive construction of time measurement, illustrated by ten years of marriage. By using corpus data, it will be shown that metonymy is at work in many instantiations of this construction. The second noun in these expressions should prima facie be semantically eligible for time measurement, that is, a temporal entity or a second-order entity. However, this is not the only type of noun that appears in the second noun slot, which can also be occupied by first and third-order entities as well as places. The presence of an expression of time-measurement in the first part of the construction coerces different ontological categories into a second-order reading and can be regarded as a guide for the correct interpretation when the second noun includes several facets, illustrating the cognitive process of cueing.","PeriodicalId":51932,"journal":{"name":"Review of Cognitive Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44774771","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":"Metonymy and the polysemy of Covid in Italian","authors":"Rossella Pannain, L. Pace","doi":"10.1075/rcl.00109.pan","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00109.pan","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Among the linguistic consequences of the current pandemic, we focus on the usage of the lexeme\u0000 Covid(-19) in Italian, both in the language of the daily press and in institutional/technical language. More\u0000 specifically, we analyze the range of its polysemy and the role of metonymy in the semantic shifts that have produced it. The\u0000 salience of the highly infectious pathogen, which also prompted its metaphorical reconceptualization, triggered the first\u0000 extension of the term, originally denoting the disease, to predominantly denote the virus that causes it. This has also resulted\u0000 in an almost complete shift of grammatical gender from feminine to masculine. Beside the primary metonymic shift,\u0000 Covid(-19) developed a variety of further meanings which highlight different components of the emerging\u0000 covid frame. The linguistic data are drawn from La Repubblica, a daily general-interest newspaper,\u0000 and from a selection of texts by major governmental and health institutions.","PeriodicalId":51932,"journal":{"name":"Review of Cognitive Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42022409","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":"Metonymy, reflexive hyperbole and broadly reflexive relationships","authors":"J. Barnden","doi":"10.1075/rcl.00100.bar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00100.bar","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 I explore some relationships between metonymy and a special type of hyperbole that I call reflexive\u0000 hyperbole. Reflexive hyperbole provides a unified, simple explanation of certain natural meanings of statements such\u0000 as the following: Sailing is Mary’s life, The undersea sculptures became the ocean, When Sally watched the film she became\u0000 James Bond, I am Charlie Hebdo, John is Hitler, The internet is cocaine and I am Amsterdam. The\u0000 meanings, while of seemingly disparate types, are deeply united: they are all hyperbolic about some contextually salient\u0000 relationship that has a special property that I call “broad reflexivity.” Although a few of the types of meaning of interest have\u0000 metonymic aspects (or metaphorical aspects), reflexive hyperbole cannot just be explained by a straightforward application of\u0000 metonymy theory (or metaphor theory). Indeed, I argue instead for a dependency in the converse direction: that much and perhaps\u0000 even all metonymy is rooted – if sometimes slightly indirectly – in broadly reflexive relationships, though not usually in a\u0000 hyperbolic way.","PeriodicalId":51932,"journal":{"name":"Review of Cognitive Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46201904","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 heart of the matter: A matter of the heart","authors":"Zoltán Kövecses","doi":"10.1075/rcl.00102.kov","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00102.kov","url":null,"abstract":"Why should Jesus die? I attempt to investigate the symbolic roots and significance of the crucifixion by means of the conceptual tools and methodology of cognitive semantics. In particular, I propose that we approach the meaning of Jesus’ death on four symbolic levels: the level where Jesus is a sacrificial lamb; the level where Jesus is a scapegoat and a sufferer for people’s sins; the level where Jesus is a redeemer and a savior; the level where Jesus is bread and wine in the Holy Communion. I suggest that all four levels prove distinct yet interdependent interpretations for the crucifixion. The different interpretations bring to the fore different aspects of the figure of Jesus and his death. While all of these aspects have been studied extensively by various authors from a cognitive linguistic perspective, my focus will be on the interrelations and interdependence of the four interpretations of Jesus’ figure and death.","PeriodicalId":51932,"journal":{"name":"Review of Cognitive Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138524300","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":"Metaphorical experience","authors":"Raymond W. Gibbs Jr.","doi":"10.1075/rcl.00099.gib","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00099.gib","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines whether metaphorical experiences are better characterized in terms of contiguity or cross-domain mappings. My claim is that many facets of concrete experience are infused with metaphoricity as part of our ordinary understanding of these events. Many source domains in conceptual metaphors may also be interpreted via different metaphorical ideas. If both source and target domains in metaphorical concepts may be characterized in metaphorical terms, then the relationship between them may be related via contiguity or metonymy rather than cross-domain mappings. For this reason, metaphorical concepts and language may originate in the contiguous, and at times almost isomorphic, relationships between concrete actions and larger metaphorical ideas.","PeriodicalId":51932,"journal":{"name":"Review of Cognitive Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138524301","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}