Review of Leeson & Saeed (2012): Irish Sign Language. A Cognitive Linguistic Account

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-134
Author(s):  
Christina Healy
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
Linguistic Account

scholarly journals Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak on the Performance of Sign Language Interpreters

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 1077-1085
Author(s):  
Saeb Kamel Ellala ◽  
Ibrahim Hammad ◽  
Mohamed Abushaira
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Sign Language Interpreters ◽  
Arab Region ◽  
Performance Levels ◽  
Average Performance ◽  
General Stress ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
Stress Levels

In general, stress affects the efficiency of workers’ performance. With the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic outbreak, sign language interpreters experience increased stress due to various factors. This study aims to determine the stressors faced by sign language interpreters during the pandemic. To achieve this goal, we prepared a questionnaire consisting of 15 paragraphs covering psychological, health, cognitive, linguistic and environmental aspects. Then, we surveyed 57 sign language interpreters in the Arab region. In the analysis, we calculated the average performance levels in addition to the differences between participants’ average scores. We also divided the stress levels into three categories: simple, moderate and severe. Results indicated that the stress was medium on average and no statistically significant differences in the performance average in accordance with the study variables (gender, experience and workplace).

Describing Sound

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zachary Wallmark ◽  
Roger A. Kendall
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
Linguistic Approach ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Empirical Thought ◽  
Linguistic Account ◽  
Human Embodiment

Timbre exists at the confluence of the physical and the perceptual, and due to inconsistencies between these frames, it is notoriously hard to describe. This chapter examines the relationship between timbre and language, offering a critical review of theoretical and empirical thought on timbre semantics and providing a preliminary cognitive linguistic account of timbre description. It first traces the major conceptual and methodological advances in psychological timbre research since the 1970s with a focus on the mediating role of verbalization in previous paradigms. It then discusses the cognitive mechanisms underlying how listeners map timbral qualities onto verbal attributes. Applying a cognitive linguistic approach, the chapter concludes that timbre description may reflect certain fundamental aspects of human embodiment, which may help account for certain trans-historical and cross-cultural consistencies in descriptive practices.

Metaphor and metonymy in jokes

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 650-684
Author(s):  
Javier Herrero Ruiz
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
And Shifts ◽  
Linguistic Account ◽  
Metaphor And Metonymy

Abstract Over the last few years there has been a rapprochement between Cognitive Linguistics and semantic theories of humour based on the notion of script or frame. By drawing on Ritchie’s version of the theory of frame-shifting (2005) and reviewing the cognitive linguistic account of humour, we shall demonstrate how the interpretation of jokes containing a metaphor or a metonymy involves two cognitive-pragmatic tasks: the completion of the metaphorical/metonymic mapping that results in a new frame, and the resolution of the joke’s incongruity via a contrast with the surrounding frames of the joke. We also develop a classification of frame shifts according to their ontological structure (non-metaphorical/metonymic shifts and shifts based on metaphorical and/or metonymic reasoning) and the degree of the interpreter’s inferential activity (conceptual filling out and metaphor/metonymy replacement). In doing so, we attempt to identify some of the defining features of humorous metaphors and metonymies, as well as other phenomena that may also characterise jokes.

THE BENEFICIAL ROLE OF L1 SPOKEN LANGUAGE SKILLS ON INITIAL L2 SIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 833-850 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua T. Williams ◽  
Isabelle Darcy ◽  
Sharlene D. Newman
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
American Sign Language ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
Verbal Memory ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Vocabulary Knowledge ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
Linguistic Skills ◽  
Phonetic Categorization

Understanding how language modality (i.e., signed vs. spoken) affects second language outcomes in hearing adults is important both theoretically and pedagogically, as it can determine the specificity of second language (L2) theory and inform how best to teach a language that uses a new modality. The present study investigated which cognitive-linguistic skills predict successful L2 sign language acquisition. A group (n = 25) of adult hearing L2 learners of American Sign Language underwent a cognitive-linguistic test battery before and after one semester of sign language instruction. A number of cognitive-linguistic measures of verbal memory, phonetic categorization skills, and vocabulary knowledge were examined to determine whether they predicted proficiency in a multiple linear regression analysis. Results indicated that English vocabulary knowledge and phonetic categorization skills predicted both vocabulary growth and self-rated proficiency at the end of one semester of instruction. Memory skills did not significantly predict either proficiency measures. These results highlight how linguistic skills in the first language (L1) directly predict L2 learning outcomes regardless of differences in L1 and L2 language modalities.

scholarly journals Name-based derivatives suffixed with -izm /-yzm in the current political discourse in Poland

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 21-40
Author(s):  
Iwona Góralczyk ◽  
Joanna Paszenda
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
Linguistic Account ◽  
Written Sources

The present study offers a cognitive linguistic account of selected recent derivatives in-izm/-yzm, such as jakizm, cejrowskizm, erdoganizm and petruizm(y)pl. Over a hundredcomplex nouns of this type, employing a politician’s or a public figure’s name as the derivationalbase, have been culled from online written sources. The coinages under analysisare mostly occasionalisms that are currently used in informal and semi-formal politicaldiscourse in Poland. Both their morpho-syntactic and semanto-pragmatic properties areexamined. The focus is placed on metonymies and metaphors that motivate the constructionof their meaning and enhance their semantic analysability.

scholarly journals Embodiment in Irish Sign Language Passives

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorraine Mary Leeson ◽  
John Saeed
Keyword(s):  
European Commission ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
Cognitive Grammar ◽  
Passive Construction ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
External Actors ◽  
Linguistic Approach ◽  
Related Category

Taking a cognitive linguistic approach, this paper explores passive constructions in Irish Sign Language (ISL). Adopting Foley & Van Valin’s (1984) concept of ‘macroroles’, we introduce the prototypical passive construction in ISL, a construction that incorporates several elements including a shift in focus from the Actor to the Undergoer, the recruitment of body partitioning, the use of an empty locus for establishment of an unspecified actor/s, and potentially, a body lean which may be coupled with averted eyegaze. We explore the viewpoint shifts that this construction allows signers, which support the cognitive grammar emphasis on the importance of construal. We also introduce a related category of constructions which recruit the signer’s body as a surrogate for unspecified actors. Unlike the prototypical passive, these constructions are less complex in that they do not recruit body partitioning, body leans or averted eyegaze. However, they are interesting because they seem to demand inferential readings where the surrogate represents external actors or, metonymically, institutions. In particular, we discuss the use of the signer’s body to represent an unspecified Actor and consider the role of embodiment as a lynchpin for understanding how passives operate. We present examples from the Signs of Ireland corpus and from the European Commission funded Medisigns project to illustrate these constructions in ISL.

Construal of content

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-48
Author(s):  
Christina Healy
Keyword(s):  
American Sign Language ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
Cognitive Model ◽  
Stage Model ◽  
American Sign ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
Meaning Transfer ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Linguistic Approach

Abstract Interpreting requires a nuanced understanding of language, and Wilcox and Shaffer (2005) propose that interpreting is enhanced by adopting a cognitive model of communication rather than the conduit model implicit in many interpreting pedagogy models. The present study used a cognitive linguistic approach to investigate affective constructions in American Sign Language (ASL). Relative cognitive linguistic principles are reviewed in the context of English affective constructions and applied in reporting the ASL findings. Then the article explores how these theoretical concepts can support meaning-transfer work. Specifically, Langacker’s Stage Model (2008) is expanded as a framework for comparing source and target text construals of events and for presenting a message with equivalent impact through different language-specific strategies.

Grammaticale Constructies En Micro-Planning Bij Tekstproductie

1994 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 45-56
Author(s):  
Joost Schilperoord
Keyword(s):  
Production System ◽  
Language Production ◽  
Computational Models ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
Function Word ◽  
Grammatical Knowledge ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
Linguistic Account

In this paper it is argued that, contrary to computational models of language production, in the production system grammatical knowledge takes the form of conventionalized declarative schemes. Such schemes can be identified as a particular function word and an obliged element, for instance, a noun and a determiner. The argument is based on a particular pause pattern observed written language production. A cognitive linguistic account of the notion 'grammatical scheme' is given through a dicussion of Langacker's Usage based model of linguistic knowledge and the 'mental grammar'.

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