scholarly journals Modality, Medium, and More: A Toolkit for the Multimodal Cognitive Linguist. Sidenotes on “Understanding Abstract Concepts across Modes in Multimodal Discourse: A Cognitive-Linguistic Approach” (2020) by Elżbieta Górska

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 189-202
Author(s):  
Michał Szawerna
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Multimodal Communication ◽  
The Other ◽  
Abstract Concepts ◽  
Multimodal Discourse ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
The One ◽  
Linguistic Approach

The focus of this review article is on Understanding Abstract Concepts across Modes in Multimodal Discourse: A Cognitive-Linguistic Approach (2020), the latest monograph by professor Elżbieta Górska of Warsaw University, a leading Polish researcher in the area of multimodality studies informed by cognitive linguistics. The goal of this article is twofold. On the one hand, the article aims at evaluating Górska’s monograph on its own merits, as a self-contained study of the cognitive processes involved in the interpretation of multimodal works of art by Janusz Kapusta, with an emphasis on conceptual metaphor, conceptual metonymy, and their interplay. On the other hand, the article aims at considering a number of thorny concepts underlying much of the current linguistically informed research into multimodal communication (notably, modality/mode, medium, and genre) by using Górska’s monograph as a springboard for their discussion.

Taking cognisance of cognitive linguistic research on humour

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Dynel
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Conceptual Metaphor ◽  
The Other ◽  
Conceptual Blending ◽  
The Past ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
The One

Abstract This article is meant to give a state-of-the-art picture of cognitive linguistic studies on humour. Cognitive linguistics has had an immense impact on the development of humour research and, importantly, humour theory over the past few decades. On the one hand, linguists, philosophers and psychologists working in the field of humour research have put forward proposals to explain the cognitive processes underlying specifically humour production and reception (e.g. the incongruity-resolution framework and its refinements). On the other hand, humour research has drawn on theories and concepts advanced in contemporary cognitive linguistics taken as a whole (e.g. mental spaces, conceptual blending, salience or conceptual metaphor). The different notions and approaches originating in these strands of research are in various ways interwoven in order to give new insights into the cognitive workings of humour.

scholarly journals Image schemas, mimetic schemas and children's gestures

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan Zlatev
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
First Person ◽  
Natural Interaction ◽  
Image Schemas ◽  
Person Perspective ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
Third Person ◽  
First Person Perspective ◽  
Third Person Perspective ◽  
The One

Abstract Mimetic schemas, unlike the popular cognitive linguistic notion of image schemas, have been characterized in earlier work as explicitly representational, bodily structures arising from imitation of culture-specific practical actions (Zlatev 2005, 2007a, 2007b). We performed an analysis of the gestures of three Swedish and three Thai children at the age of 18, 22 and 26 months in episodes of natural interaction with caregivers and siblings in order to analyze the hypothesis that iconic gestures emerge as mimetic schemas. In accordance with this hypothesis, we predicted that the children's first iconic gestures would be (a) intermediately specific, (b) culture-typical, (c) falling in a set of recurrent types, (d) predominantly enacted from a first-person perspective (1pp) rather than performed from a third-person perspective (3pp), with (e) 3pp gestures being more dependent on direct imitation than 1pp gestures and (f) more often co-occurring with speech. All specific predictions but the last were confirmed, and differences were found between the children's iconic gestures on the one side and their deictic and emblematic gestures on the other. Thus, the study both confirms earlier conjectures that mimetic schemas “ground” both gesture and speech and implies the need to qualify these proposals, limiting the link between mimetic schemas and gestures to the iconic category.

Rights in Search of Protection†

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 403-423
Author(s):  
Jacob Weinrib
Keyword(s):  
Review Article ◽  
Democratic Governance ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
The Other ◽  
Legislative Power ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Institutional Resources ◽  
The One

Abstract In Where Our Protection Lies, Dimitrios Kyritsis develops an innovative constitutional framework that aims to reconcile two commitments: democratic governance and the protection of fundamental rights. This review article argues that the reconciliation fails to provide fundamental rights with meaningful protection. On the one hand, the framework’s moral resources hollow out the duties that rights impose on legislatures. Instead of protecting persons from the abusive exercise of legislative power, the framework narrows what constitutes abuse. On the other hand, the framework’s institutional resources leave persons without the means of vindicating their rights. What Kyritsis terms protection consists in the ongoing susceptibility to the violation of one’s fundamental rights.

Cognitive Linguistics, gesture studies, and multimodal communication

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 603-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Cienki
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Multimodal Communication ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sociological Factors ◽  
Gesture Studies ◽  
Recorded Data ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Political Economic

AbstractThe fields of Cognitive Linguistics and gesture studies have begun to find each other of great interest in recent years. The cross-recognition is making for a healthy relationship because it is not a simple “mutual admiration society”, but a relation in which recognition of the other involves change and development on the part of each. Taking the usage-based tenet of Cognitive Linguistics seriously in light of video-recorded data of talk raises questions about the very object of study in Cognitive Linguistics, what its nature is, and what its scope is. The still nascient modern field of gesture studies calls for empirical research tied to the real life contexts of gesture use in order to gain a more complete picture of the phenomena “at hand”. Discussion of the place of studying multimodal communication within Cognitive Linguistics leads to consideration of broader political, economic, and sociological factors in academia which can play a role in determining the future of the field.

scholarly journals The importance of being modular

2004 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 593-635 ◽  
Author(s):  
PIETER A. M. SEUREN
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Construction Grammar ◽  
Linguistic Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Large Majority ◽  
Syntactic Theory ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
The One ◽  
Radical Construction

William Croft,Radical Construction Grammar: syntactic theory in typological perspective. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xxviii+416.My reason for writing this review article is that I want to highlight a particular basic opposition in linguistic theory and methodology. On the one hand, we have what is usually called COGNITIVISM, represented in the book under review by the new theory of Radical Construction Grammar, henceforth RCG. On the other hand, there is a variety of schools, together forming a large majority in the field, whose theoretical overlap may be characterized by the term MODULARITY. I argue against cognitivism and in favour of the modularity view, and I am using the book under review as an opportunity to define the issue and put forward the arguments.

scholarly journals En æstetisk filosofi om sanseoverskridende erfaringer

2014 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 317-325
Author(s):  
Lars Albinus
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Review Article ◽  
The Other ◽  
Doctoral Thesis ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
Entertainment Culture

The full doctoral thesis, The Beautiful Thinking, by the DanishHistorian of Ideas Dorthe Jørgensen, is an impressive and erudite workthat challenges modern theology to learn from philosophical aestheticsor, more specifically, a ‘metaphysics of experience’. Taking her point ofdeparture in Baumgarten’s concept of sensitive cognition, she sets out todevelop a philosophy which, contrary to the erratic strictures of empiricalscience, on the one hand, and superficial tendencies of the modern entertainment culture, on the other, is able to grasp experiences of ‘immanenttranscendence’ or ‘a surplus of meaning’. In this review article, however, I warn against the romanticizing implications of this endeavor inasmuch as the subject matter of theology is a confessional tradition rather than some form of experiential sensitivity.

scholarly journals THE COGNITIVE-LINGUISTICS ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT «TIME» AS EXEMPLIFIED IN THE A. DE CUSTINE’S BOOK «LA RUSSIE EN 1839»

2021 ◽  
pp. 29-37
Author(s):  
Сергей Александрович Гашков
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Cognitive Semantics ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
Linguistic Approach

Идеи когнитивной лингвистики (Дж. Лакофф, М. Джонсон, В.А. Маслова и другие) находят широкое применение не только в лингвистике, но и в междисциплинарной сфере. Целью статьи является применить когнитивно-лингвистический анализ к концепту ВРЕМЯ в книге А. де Кюстина «Россия в 1839 году». Доказывается, что алогичность и двойственность образа России у де Кюстина связана, в том числе, со спецификой понимания им концепта ВРЕМЯ. The ideas of the cognitive semantics (J. Lakoff, М. Johnson, R. Langacker, L. Talmy) are used not only in linguistics, but in interdisciplinary sphere. The paper aims to apply the cognitive-linguistic approach to the concept TIME as exemplified in the A. de Custine’s book «La Russie en 1839». We prove that the ambiguous image of Russia is partly due to the specificity of the Custine’s concept of TIME.

NEW TECHNOLOGIES OF EDUCATION ON THE BASIS OF SMALL ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOT ROMA

2019 ◽  
pp. 33-39
Author(s):  
R. T. Sirazetdinov ◽  
A. Yu. Fadeev ◽  
R. E. Hisamutdinov
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Pattern Recognition ◽  
3D Modeling ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
The Other ◽  
Abstract Concepts ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
Small Robot

The article describes the use of the anthropomorphic robot ROMA in the educational process. The trends and the main threats associated with the avalanche-like development of robotics and total robotization of society, and the tasks that the teachers face are considered. A small robot ROMA developed at the Kazan Federal University is presented, and its characteristics are described. A comparison is made with the characteristics of foreign analogues, whence it is clear that the presented robot occupies a worthy place in its niche. Various variants for using the ROMA robot in the educational process — from primary school classes to senior university students, are considered. There are educational disciplines and specific topics on which the use of the robot can give a significant impetus to understanding and mastering the subject. On the one hand, this is connected with the students’ interest in the robot as such, and on the other hand, the robot allows to physically demonstrate certain abstract concepts, the effect of algorithm execution, etc. The robot can be used at school for technology lessons. It may be indispensable when studying programming at various levels, 3D modeling, the theory of automatic control, elements of artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, and in a number of other courses. Currently, the process of developing methodological support for various disciplines is underway.

Sartre's Social Theory

Dialogue ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-25
Author(s):  
Werner Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Human Subject ◽  
The Other ◽  
Thing In Itself ◽  
Dialectical Reason ◽  
The One ◽  
Historical Developments ◽  
Determining Factor ◽  
Individual Human

The title of Sartre's Critique de la raison dialectique evokes, quite intentionally, memories of Kant's critiques of reason. Let us compare the two undertakings. Kant circumscribed the knowledge claimed by the natural sciences of his time. He pointed out that science never grasps more than the appearance of things as conditioned by our cognitive processes; it cannot know the thing-in-itself. Sartre, for his part, circumscribes the knowledge claimed by orthodox Marxism. He agrees that Marxist economic theory understands the general course of contemporary historical developments, but not the dynamics of those developments. Both authors concede no more than a limited validity in deterministic ontology, in the one case to the exact sciences, in the other to Marxism. Nevertheless, both recognize fully the content of the knowledge they are criticizing, but explain it at the result or product respectively of deeper causes. A transcendental investigation is supposed to bring these causes to light. Kant's critique of scientific reason was directed at the interplay between the presumed thing in itself and the viewing, thinking self—the interplay that yeilds objectively-cognizable Nature. Sartre's critique of dialectical reason tries to show that the interaction between individual human activity and an always scarce supply of material things is the source of all social and cultural forms and events. In both works, then, the human subject is a determining factor in what appears to be objectively factual.

scholarly journals Clothing and meaning making: a multimodal approach to women’s abayas

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gwen Bouvier
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
The Other ◽  
Multimodal Approach ◽  
Personal Choice ◽  
Multimodal Discourse ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

This article takes a multimodal discourse approach to women’s fashion in the Middle East. It places the Islamic abaya in the UAE in the context of the wider literature on fashion and identity, exploring the way in which clothing features and forms can prescribe ideas, values and attitudes, and framing this discussion within newer ideas on globalization. As Roland Barthes argued, it is not so much personal choice or diversity in fashion that is of interest, but the kinds of values and expected behaviours that they imply. The abaya, on the one hand, represents a more newly arrived idea of traditional, local and religious identity, linking to some extent to an imagined sense of a monolithic notion of Islamic clothing. But, on the other hand, this is itself reformulated locally through international representations, ideas and values, and integrated with newer ideas of taste.

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