Verbal Phraseology: An Analysis of Cognitive Verbs in Linguistics, Engineering and Medicine Academic Papers

2017 ◽  
pp. 325-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Luisa Carrió-Pastor
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Verbs

A cross-cultural study of theory of mind and cognitive verbs

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula J. Schwanenflugel ◽  
Mike Martin ◽  
Tomone Takahashi
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Mind ◽  
Cultural Study ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cross Cultural Study ◽  
Cognitive Verbs

scholarly journals Variable subject pronoun expression revisited: This is what the Paisas do

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 713
Author(s):  
Rafael Orozco ◽  
Luz Marcela Hurtado
Keyword(s):  
Null Subjects ◽  
Lexical Effect ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Subject Pronoun ◽  
Conditioning Effect ◽  
Cognitive Verbs ◽  
Effect Of Age

We explore subject pronoun expression (SPE) in Medellín, Colombia using 4,623 tokens to test eight predictors. The 28% overall pronominal rate found is significantly higher than those in other mainland communities. Grammatical person exerts the greatest conditioning effect, with uno ‘one’ strongly favoring overt subjects. Findings for verb class reveal that speech and cognitive verbs promote overt subjects. However, our in-depth analysis unveils opposing tendencies between different pronominal subject + verb collocations for the same verb. E.g., whereas (yo) soy ‘I am’ strongly favors overt subjects, (ellos) son ‘they are’ favors null subjects. These findings suggest that analyses focusing on infinitives do not constitute the most accurate way to explore verb effects on SPE. Moreover, the effect of age reveals a low pronominal rate among the youngest speakers, a finding that appears to have cognitive and acquisitional implications, as younger speakers would be expected to have higher pronominal rates. In general, this study contributes to expand our knowledge of SPE. Further, the findings regarding age and the lexical effect of the verb open promising research paths.

Cognitive verbs in context

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 240-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Fetzer ◽  
Marjut Johansson
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Frequency Distribution ◽  
Argumentative Discourse ◽  
British English ◽  
The Status ◽  
Context Dependent ◽  
Cognitive Verbs ◽  
And Function ◽  
Discourse Connectives

This paper examines the frequency, distribution and function of 1st person self-references with the cognitive verbs think and believe, and penser and croire in British English and French argumentative discourse comprising 29 British political interviews (178,712 words) and 26 French political interviews (118,825 words). It employs quantity-based methodology supplemented by insights from a context-dependent qualitative analysis, considering explicitly the co-occurrence of these cognitive verbs with discourse connectives. It argues for these 1st person self-references to be assigned not only a subjectivising function, but also one of expressing intersubjectivity. In the two sets of data, the parenthetical constructions signify that the status of a particular piece of information encoded in a proposition is open for negotiation. Depending on their co-occurrences with discourse connectives they may boost or attenuate the pragmatic force of the contribution which they qualify.

scholarly journals Thinking out loud: A discourse analysis of ‘thinking’ during talk radio interactions

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 699-724 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ava D. Horowitz ◽  
Laura Kilby
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Mental State ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Integrated Analysis ◽  
Talk Radio ◽  
Social Business ◽  
Discursive Psychology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Cognitive Verbs

Abstract Early work in discursive psychology highlighted the rhetorical strength of devices that serve to establish matters as objective facts. More recently, there has been increasing interest within this discipline concerning mental state invocations (e.g. imagining; knowing; intending), which typically convey speaker subjectivity. Elsewhere, linguists have examined the social business enabled by speakers’ deployment of cognitive verbs, a prime example of which deals with overt references to thinking. The current article sets out to extend the work on thinking by synthesizing research from discursive psychology, linguistics, and conversation analysis in order to undertake an integrated analysis of thinking. In our examination of a UK talk radio corpus, comprising data from 11 talk radio shows, we demonstrate three discursive functions of deploying a thinking device: setting an intersubjective agenda; doing opinion; and managing ‘facts’. An integrated approach allows us to examine the rhetorical strength of these subjectivizing maneuvers, and contribute to the existing body of work concerning the discursive deployment of thinking and mental state terms.

Can vocabulary lessons increase the amount of complex syntax produced by head start teachers? A pilot study

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Owen Van Horne ◽  
Maura Curran ◽  
Jessica Hall
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Head Start ◽  
Vocabulary Intervention ◽  
Complex Syntax ◽  
Preschool Classrooms ◽  
At Risk Children ◽  
Frequency Of Use ◽  
Cognitive Verbs ◽  
Simple Sentences

In this pilot study, we examine the suitability of materials for a vocabulary intervention designed to influence the amount of complex syntax teachers use in at-risk preschool classrooms. Six Head Start classrooms were assigned to one of two vocabulary interventions: a condition using cognitive verbs, which are biased toward complex syntax (e.g. pretend), or a control condition using action verbs, which are biased towards simple sentences (e.g. identify). Consistent with our hypotheses, teachers in the cognitive verb condition used higher rates of complex syntax than those in the action verb condition while our materials were in use. Teacher acceptability and use data indicate that verb characteristics affect frequency of use and perceived benefit of intervention materials. Implications for the development of interventions targeting complex syntax use in at-risk children are discussed, including factors likely to support fidelity of implementation in the classroom.

scholarly journals Licht en recht

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-317
Author(s):  
Jack Hoeksema
Keyword(s):  
Restricted Number ◽  
Corpus Data ◽  
Cognitive Verbs

Abstract Light and rightThe adjectives licht and recht can be used as adverbs of degree; they can also be used to express a negative-polar meaning in combination with a restricted number of verbs. In this squib, we will focus on the negative-polar and collocational properties of licht and recht by means of corpus data. licht is shown to be associated with futural clauses, often in combination with the verb vergeten ‘to forget’, while recht is associated with cognitive verbs, especially weten ‘to know’, begrijpen ‘to understand’ and verstaan ‘to understand’.

scholarly journals Perspectival factors and pro-drop: A corpus study of speaker/addressee pronouns with creer ‘think/ believe’ and saber ‘know’ in spoken Spanish

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Herbeck
Keyword(s):  
Corpus Study ◽  
High Frequencies ◽  
Overt Pronouns ◽  
Overt Pronoun ◽  
Topic Shift ◽  
Cognitive Verbs ◽  
Embedded Clause ◽  
Peninsular Spanish ◽  
Phonetic Realization ◽  
Made In

This paper examines overt and covert speaker/addressee pronouns with the cognitive verbs creer ‘think/believe’ and saber ‘know’ in a corpus of spoken peninsular Spanish – the Madrid and Alcalá samples of PRESEEA (2014– ) – with a focus on 1st person singular (yo) creo que ‘(I) think that’. Departing from the observation made in the literature that overt pronouns are highly frequent with creer and that topic shift cannot account for all of them, it will be argued that perspectival factors related to evidentiality/epistemicity and subjectivity influence overt pronoun realization. A corpus study was conducted to investigate whether (i) [person] and [polarity] and (ii) the type of complement affect overt pronoun realization with the cognitive verbs creer and saber. The results indicate that the type of belief expressed in the embedded clause should be taken into account, as well as person and polarity. The ultimate trigger for phonetic realization of speaker/addressee pronouns will be argued to be the notion of contrast: cognitive verbs whose embedded complement encodes evaluations and non-visual, abstract information have high frequencies of overt pronoun realization because these contexts favor the evoking of alternative perspective holders. Overt pronouns will be analyzed as the result of a [+contrast] feature which is assigned to the specifier of a functional category encoding perspective in the split IP.

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