scholarly journals The Norwegian lexical item akkurat and the Polish akurat: a cognitive semantic analysis

2014 ◽  
pp. 219-235
Author(s):  
Ewa Data-Bukowska

The Norwegian lexical item akkurat and the Polish akurat: a cognitive semantic analysisThe aim of the article is to demonstrate to what extent the Norwegian akkurat and the Polish akurat show similarities and differences in their conceptual content (meaning). Adopting the perspective of cognitive semantics (CS), as described in Langacker (1987) and Lakoff (1987), I shall try to show that the meanings ascribed to these etymologically and formally related words constitute complex networks of senses, rooted in a prototypical centre in each of the languages under discussion. In addition to this, the findings will be interpreted with reference to the process of pragmaticalization (a language unit’s development of increasing pragmatic functions). Within this theoretical framework I shall demonstrate that subjectification/intersubjectification and pejoration/melioration motivate the main semantic difference between akkurat and akurat. The analysis is based on Norwegian and Polish monolingual corpus data.

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vesna Jovanović-Mihaylov

A Comparative Cognitive-Semantic Analysis of Polish and Serbian Phraseological Units Which Are Related to Emotional-Affective States and Contain Components Referring to Parts of Human Body This article offers an analysis of Polish and Serbian phraseological units which are related to emotional-affective states and contain components referring to parts of human body. The cognitive-semantic analysis presented in the study considers 145 such units. The corpus is divided into three thematic groups, taking into account all three types of emotions: positive, neutral and negative. The article presents the meaning of phraseological units in focus and considers the impact of symbolism of given parts of the body on shap­ing it. The conclusion highlights the key similarities and differences between the Polish and Serbian phraseological units under discussion. Analiza kognitywno-semantyczna polskich oraz serbskich związków frazeologicznych z komponentem somatycznym określających stany emocjonalno-uczuciowe  Celem artykułu jest prezentacja analizy związków frazeologicznych odnoszących się do stanów emocjonalno-uczuciowych z komponentem somatycznym w języku polskim oraz serbskim. Na podstawie korpusu, zawierającego 145 frazeologizmów, jednostki frazeologiczne zostały poddane semantyczno-kognitywnej analizie. Korpus został podzielony na trzy grupy tematyczne. Zaproponowana klasyfikacja uwzględniła wszystkie trzy typy emocji: pozytywne, negatywne oraz neutralne. Przedstawiono znaczenie badanych frazeologizmów oraz ukazano, w jakim stopniu symbolika danych części ciała wpłynęła na ukształtowanie znaczenia frazeologicznego. W końcowej części artykułu omówiono podobieństwa i różnice w zakresie polskich i serbskich związków frazeologicznych.


Author(s):  
Nils Brunsson ◽  
Mats Jutterström

Organizing and Reorganizing Markets is an edited volume that brings organization theory to the study of markets. The differences between markets and organizations are often exaggerated. Both are organized. Organizing exists in addition to other processes and phenomena that form markets: the mutual adaption among sellers and buyers as described in mainstream economics and the institutions described in institutional economics and economic sociology. Market organization can be analysed with the same type of theories used for analysing organization within formal organizations. Through the use of many empirical examples, the book demonstrates how this can be done. We argue that the way a certain market is organized can be understood as the (intermediate) result of previous organizing processes. We discuss such questions as ‘What drives market organizing and reorganizing processes? What makes various organizations intervene as market organizers? And how are the specific contents of market organization determined?’ The answers to these questions help us to analyse similarities and differences among organizing processes in formal organizations and those in markets. The arguments are illustrated by in-depth studies of many types of markets. The book is intended to open up markets as a field of study for scholars of organization. Although the chapters have different authors, they use and elaborate upon the same general theoretical framework. The book contributes to the issue of organization outside and among organizations where a fundamental concept is that of partial organization.


Author(s):  
Irzam Sarif S ◽  
Yuyu Yohana Risagarniwa ◽  
Nani Sunarni

Abstract. Conceptual metaphors are the result of mental construction, conceptualization of the experience of human life. In Japanese, metaphorical features are often found in conveying information so that information can be easily understood. This study aimed to describe the conceptual metaphors found at the Japanese Prime Minister's Press Conference, Shinzo Abe on March 14 and 28, 2020 through the official website kantei.go.jp. The research method used was descriptive qualitative analysis. Data were collected by taking text that contained metaphorical elements and then selected. Data selection was based on the basic principle of metaphor, which was the mapping from the source domain to the target domain. Then the data were classified based on the type of metaphor by Lakoff and Johnson and the type of image scheme by Cruse and Croft. Based on the study done, there were three types of conceptual metaphors, 1) Structural metaphors with conceptuals meaning of enemy, medical treatment, control, and mind; 2) Orientational metaphors with conceptual meaning of disadvantage, and approval; 3) Ontological metaphors with conceptuals meaning of finance, and emotion. In addition, there were also six types of image schemes, namely the image scheme of Strength, Existence, Identity, Scale, Space, and Unity.Keywords: Conceptual Meaning, Press Conference, Cognitive Semantic, Image Scheme


Author(s):  
Wang Min ◽  

This study raises the issue of the stereotype «man» in the group consciousness of Chinese native speakers. Such methods as questionnaire, comparison, and semantic analysis were used. Semantic analysis enabled to determine four semantic zones: nucleus, pre-nuclear, closest peripheral, and distant peripheral ones. As a result, similarities and differences were obtained in the stereotype «man» in the linguistic consciousness of men and women. The influence of the sociopsychological factor «gender» on the stereotype «man» was revealed.


1999 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 625-625 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald W. Langacker

Barsalou's contribution converges with basic ideas and empirical findings of cognitive linguistics. They posit the same general architecture. The perceptual grounding of conceptual structure is a central tenet of cognitive linguistics. Our capacity to construe the same situation in alternate ways is fundamental to cognitive semantics, and numerous parallels are discernible between conceptual construal and visual perception. Grammar is meaningful, consisting of schematized patterns for the pairing of semantic and phonological structures. The meanings of grammatical elements reside primarily in the construal they impose on conceptual content. This view of linguistic structure appears to be compatible with Barsalou's proposals.


Mathematics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 1469
Author(s):  
Andrew James Bruce ◽  
Janusz Grabowski

Very loosely, Z2n-manifolds are ‘manifolds’ with Z2n-graded coordinates and their sign rule is determined by the scalar product of their Z2n-degrees. A little more carefully, such objects can be understood within a sheaf-theoretical framework, just as supermanifolds can, but with subtle differences. In this paper, we examine the notion of a Riemannian Z2n-manifold, i.e., a Z2n-manifold equipped with a Riemannian metric that may carry non-zero Z2n-degree. We show that the basic notions and tenets of Riemannian geometry directly generalize to the setting of Z2n-geometry. For example, the Fundamental Theorem holds in this higher graded setting. We point out the similarities and differences with Riemannian supergeometry.


Terminology ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatriz Méndez-Cendón ◽  
Belén López Arroyo

Studies related to ESP genres have been carried out lately focusing on different levels of analysis, such as internal ordering, lexico-grammatical patterns or terminology. However, there are not many studies combining different levels of analysis so as to observe how information is rendered in scientific genres. The present study intends to offer a description of rhetorical and phraseological patterns observed in medical research papers and abstracts using a semantic and functional approach. Our methodology is descriptively performed on a comparable corpus composed of research papers and abstracts in the field of diagnostic imaging and published in esteemed journals. We will determine composition strategies by means of the description of the authors’ favourite structures found in our corpus. Once these favourite structures have been obtained for every genre, we will proceed with semantic analysis so as to establish their similarities and differences. Our results will, primarily, help translators, technical writers and ESP students to infer discursive strategies in these genres, as well as to better understand some of the discourse aspects of rendering scientific information in general.


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