Theoretical Framework: Poetic Metaphor and Cognitive Approach

2010 ◽  
pp. 25-53
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Poetic Metaphor

The ideological construction of solidarity in translated newspaper commentaries: Context models and inter-subjective positioning

2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 693-722 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ya-mei Chen
Keyword(s):  
Economic Cooperation ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Target Audience ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Framework Agreement ◽  
Professional Ideology ◽  
English Translations ◽  
Context Models ◽  
Notable Addition ◽  
Ideological Construction

This article utilizes Van Dijk’s socio-cognitive approach as a theoretical framework to demonstrate how news translators ideologically construe solidarity in translated newspaper commentaries about the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) signing between Taiwan and China. Using a corpus of 26 Chinese commentaries from the Liberty Times in Taiwan and their English translations from the Taipei Times as data, this article (1) compares the context models, together with relevant ideological forces, constructed by the news translators and the original writers and (2) investigates how contextual variations guide the translators to make inter-subjective positioning shifts through engagement resources. The results reveal that the shifts identified in the translated headlines and arguments (including the change in dialogic nature and the notable addition of dialogically expansive expressions) were performed by the translators to establish presumably appropriate solidarity relations (i.e. tolerance-based solidarity) and to align the writers and the potentially diverse target audience, at whom the translated pieces are aimed. In this way, the translators can achieve the goals of translating commentaries while adequately responding to the pro-independence ideology of the Taipei Times and the professional ideology of the news translators as media practitioners.

scholarly journals What's in a title? The strategic use of metaphor and metonymy in "Some like it hot"

1999 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
María del Rosario Caballero Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Semantic Networks ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
The One ◽  
Metaphor And Metonymy

The aim of this paper is to call attention upon the strategic and relevant use of the polysemous nature of language as it is instantiated in film titles such as the one in our discussion. The theoretical framework adopted in our analysis of the concept hot in our title is that of Cognitive Linguistics (Lakoff 1987; Langacker 1987), which explains polysemy in terms of conceptual organisation and categorisation. We defend that the cognitive approach to lexis as an array of semantic networks triggered by the words within them proves a useful explanation in solving a number of troublesome issues in the analysis of short texts like titles, namely the use of implicatures, polysemy, and the ambiguity usually resulting from both.

Deictic Representations of Person in Media Discourse

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Azad Mammadov
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Reflexive Pronouns ◽  
American Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Newspaper Articles

AbstractThis paper aims to analyze the deictic representations of person in the British and American media discourse, mostly focusing on such genres and subgenres as newspaper articles, interviews, letters to editors, opinions, headlines and advertisements. For this purpose, we wish to introduce a theoretical framework for the study and then we hope to present certain ways in which deictic expressions (personal, possessive and reflexive pronouns) represent person. Theoretical framework for our study is based upon the socio-cognitive approach, which gives priority to individual practices and subjectivity over social practices in discourse as well as the definition of discourse based on knowledge. The reason why we focus on the media discourse is obvious. The high degree of personalized conceptualization and contextualization dominated by a large number of subjective factors prevail in the above-mentioned genres and subgenres of media discourse. The deictic representations of person play the key role in this process.

scholarly journals Islamification vs. Islamophobia: A Message to the Youth in the Occident: Critical & Rhetorical Inquiries

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 786-799
Author(s):  
Bahram Kazemian ◽  
Shatha Naiyf Qaiwer ◽  
Shafigeh Mohammadian
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Text Talk ◽  
Supreme Leader

Drawing upon the recent theoretical framework of Burkean concept of identification (ID), the current study aims at probing the interaction of content and form in two letters penned by Iran’s Supreme Leader and addressed to the Youth on Jan. and Nov. 2015. To this end, the study seeks (i) to determine a role ID takes in the conveyance of intended assumptions to the targeted readers; and (ii) to observe if the writer’s objectives, i.e. to identify himself with the readers and to realize his politically-religiously-infused creeds, result in success or failure; moreover, (iii) it seeks to determine how he achieved his end to attenuate the impacts of blazing inferno of Islamophobia and anti-Islam sentiments in his addressees. The whole corpus (about 3000 words), in light of van Dijk’s Socio-cognitive approach, is critically perused to seek out contextually-coded expressions. The study tries to set out a manner in which political text/talk could be analyzed rhetorically employing ID concept. It was found that ID as a two-way process is a key component for both parties to identify with. It makes the readers align themselves with the writer and helps the writer to associate with the readers and accomplish his goals.

scholarly journals The Anthropomorphic Metaphor in Slovene and English Wine Tasting Discourses

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-35
Author(s):  
Silva Bratož
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Metaphor ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Mineral Components ◽  
The Way

The language used to describe the tastes of various wines ranges from specific references to chemical, vegetal and mineral components to a wealth of diverse metaphorical constructions. This paper explores the use and characteristics of the anthropomorphic metaphor in wine reviews from a cross–linguistic perspective. The theoretical framework relies on the cognitive approach to metaphor, most notably on the conceptual theory of metaphor. The case study presented is focused on the conceptual metaphor WINE IS A HUMAN BEING and its linguistic realisations in a corpus of wine reviews collected from selected Slovene and English sources. A number of metaphors will be examined with respect to their level of conventionality, from metaphorically motivated terminology to novel linguistic metaphors. It will be argued that despite some variations in the way metaphors are realised in English and Slovene wine discourses, there is a large overlap in the way the two languages conceptualise the taste of wine through the anthropomorphic metaphor.

scholarly journals Teacher education and critical thinking: Systematizing theoretical perspectives and formative experiences in Latin America

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-167
Author(s):  
Yamith José Fandiño Parra ◽  
Andrea Muñoz Barriga ◽  
Rodolfo Alberto López Díaz ◽  
Jairo Alberto Galindo Cuesta
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Educational Experiences ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Mental Abilities ◽  
Formative Experiences

Dentro del marco teórico de la formación del profesorado y el pensamiento crítico, este trabajo de sistematización de experiencias formativas buscó rastrear tendencias e identificar perspectivas en Latinoamérica a través de la recolección de datos mediante dos etapas: revisión documental y análisis de una encuesta cualitativa en línea. Los resultados sugirieron que el enfoque cognitivo predominó en la conceptualización del pensamiento crítico, asumiéndolo como un proceso de adquisición y desarrollo de habilidades mentales a trabajar mediante una formación con enfoque crítico en la lectura y la escritura. No obstante, se observó una ausencia de propuestas que abordaran asuntos actitudinales, motivacionales y emocionales. Within the theoretical framework of teacher education and critical thinking, this work of systematization of educational experiences sought to track trends and describe perspectives in Latin America through documentary reviews and qualitative surveys. The data were analyzed through techniques such as reduction, representation and interpretation (Rodríguez, Gil & García, 1999). The results suggest that the cognitive approach predominates in the conceptualization of critical thinking, assuming it as a process of acquisition and development of mental abilities, which can be developed through critical training in reading and writing. However, there is an absence of proposals that address attitudinal, motivational and emotional issues.

Social transmission bias and the cultural evolution of folk-economic beliefs

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Hirshleifer ◽  
Siew Hong Teoh
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Social Transmission ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Economic Attitudes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Beliefs ◽  
Over Time

AbstractEvolved dispositions influence, but do not determine, how people think about economic problems. The evolutionary cognitive approach offers important insights but underweights the social transmission of ideas as a level of explanation. The need for asocialexplanation for the evolution of economic attitudes is evidenced, for example, by immense variations in folk-economic beliefs over time and across individuals.

Mind wandering as data augmentation: How mental travel supports abstraction

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myrthe Faber
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Data Augmentation ◽  
Mental Content ◽  
Mind Wandering ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Important Addition

Abstract Gilead et al. state that abstraction supports mental travel, and that mental travel critically relies on abstraction. I propose an important addition to this theoretical framework, namely that mental travel might also support abstraction. Specifically, I argue that spontaneous mental travel (mind wandering), much like data augmentation in machine learning, provides variability in mental content and context necessary for abstraction.

A cognitive approach to cumulative technological culture is useful and necessary but only if it also applies to other species

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thibaud Gruber
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Technological Culture ◽  
Social Learning Processes

Abstract The debate on cumulative technological culture (CTC) is dominated by social-learning discussions, at the expense of other cognitive processes, leading to flawed circular arguments. I welcome the authors' approach to decouple CTC from social-learning processes without minimizing their impact. Yet, this model will only be informative to understand the evolution of CTC if tested in other cultural species.

The self and schizophrenia: a cognitive approach

2003 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Nieznanski
Keyword(s):  
Normal Subjects ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Schizophrenic Patients ◽  
Self Schema ◽  
Persons With Schizophrenia ◽  
Basic Features ◽  
Trait Words ◽  
Patients Experience ◽  
Normal Controls

The aim of the study was to explore the basic features of self-schema in persons with schizophrenia. Thirty two schizophrenic patients and 32 normal controls were asked to select personality trait words from a check-list that described themselves, themselves as they were five years ago, and what most people are like. Compared with the control group, participants from the experimental group chose significantly more adjectives that were common to descriptions of self and others, and significantly less that were common to self and past-self descriptions. These results suggest that schizophrenic patients experience their personality as changing over time much more than do healthy subjects. Moreover, their self-representation seems to be less differentiated from others-representation and less clearly defined than in normal subjects.

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