scholarly journals Metapher, Metonymie und mentales Bild als Motiviertheitsmechanismen in der Phraseologie

2018 ◽  
Vol 143 ◽  
pp. 341-358
Author(s):  
Anna Sulikowska
Keyword(s):  
Mental Image ◽  
Meaning Construction ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Cognitive Mechanism

Das Ziel des Artikels liegt in der Veranschaulichung der Komplexität von Bedeutungskonstituierungs- und Motiviertheitsmechanismen in der Phraseologie. In einer korpusbasierten semantischen Untersuchung des Idioms ein harter Brocken werden Verwendungsprofile ermittelt und kognitive Mechanismen aufgezeigt, die zur Konstruktion der Bedeutung führen und sie motivieren. Außer den etablierten Metaphern und Metonymien wird auch der Einfluss des mentalen Bildes als ein kognitiver Mechanismus aufgezeigt und diskutiert. Metaphor, metonymy and rich image as motivating mechanismsin phraseologyThe aim of the article is to show the complexity of meaning construction and motivation procedures within phraseology. The research concentrates on the idiom ein harter Brocken, on the basis of which usage profiles and cognitive mechanisms have been shown, which support the construction of its meaning and motivation. Another research topic, beyond established metaphors and metonymies, was the influence of the mental image as a cognitive mechanism.

The role of echoing in meaning construction and interpretation

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-41
Author(s):  
Alicia Galera Masegosa
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Construction ◽  
Theoretic Approach ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Cognitive Operation ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Echoic mention was initially proposed as part of the relevance-theoretic approach to irony (Sperber & Wilson, 1986). The aim of this article is to present an account of echoing as a cognitive operation that goes beyond (and yet includes) the interpretation of ironic remarks. For this purpose, we explore the cognitive mechanisms that underlie the production and interpretation of echoic uses of both ironic and non-ironic language. In the light of the examples under scrutiny, we claim that echoic mentions afford metonymic access to the echoed scenario, which is then contrasted with the observable scenario. The relationship between the two scenarios, which ranges from identity to contrast, passing through type-token similarity and metaphorical resemblance, determines the communicative purpose of the speaker, which may convey different kind of attitudes.

scholarly journals Creative industry as a key creative component of the Slovak economy

2020 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 03009
Author(s):  
Daniela Rybarova
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Creative Industry ◽  
Social Mechanisms ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Social Mechanism ◽  
Cognitive Mechanism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Definition Of

The global economy is understood as an economy of information, knowledge, creativity, networks and services. The creation of value in the economy is involved in the economic, social and cognitive mechanisms. The economic mechanism emphasizes the processes of cooperation and production, the social mechanism, in turn, communication and marketing techniques, the cognitive mechanism is based on human imagination and interpretation. Under the cognitive mechanism is meant creativity, the ability to bring new motive, ideas. Cognitive mechanisms are in value creation process complementary to economic and social mechanisms and they are capable of producing value separately. One of the approaches to measuring creativity is to define and analyse creative industries. The creative industries are industries in which “combine and overlap the fields of art, culture, business and technology. They create a cycle of creation, production and distribution, using their intellectual capital as primary capital [1]. The contribution of the creative industry lies in its cross-sectoral dimension with minimal territorial constraints. The article will focus on the definition of creative industries and the analysis of creative industries in the Slovakia. The method used was the analysis of trends in the form of percentage year-on-year change. The creative industry is the sensitive on the state and development of the economy in Slovakia.

Cognitive mechanism of writing to dictation of logographic characters

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 517-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZAIZHU HAN ◽  
LUPING SONG ◽  
YANCHAO BI
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Regression ◽  
Healthy Adults ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Large Sample ◽  
Cognitive Mechanism ◽  
Lexical Semantic ◽  
Chinese Writing ◽  
Semantic Attributes ◽  
Production Probability

ABSTRACTThe cognitive mechanisms for writing to dictation of Chinese syllables by healthy adults were investigated using large-sample multiple regression analyses. In the experiment, subjects wrote down a corresponding character upon hearing a syllable. We mainly examined the effects of three types of attributes (i.e., lexical, semantic, and phonology to orthography conversion [POC] ones) in predicting the production probability of specific characters out of the homophone families for target syllables. We observed significant effects for all three types of attributes, as well as interactions between POC and the lexical attributes, and between POC and the semantic attributes. We further found that the semantic effects vanished for the writing stimuli without homophones. A feedback procedure (i.e., phonetic radical transparency) was also observed to influence Chinese writing performances. Our results support the hypothesis that the extent of semantic involvement in writing (spelling) to dictation is influenced by the effectiveness of POC procedure in a certain language and/or word set. The existence of an interaction between the lexical semantic route and the POC route in writing is further consolidated.

Towards an interface between Pragma‑Dialectics and Relevance Theory

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Oswald
Keyword(s):  
Relevance Theory ◽  
Meaning Construction ◽  
Formal Logic ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Cognitive Perspective ◽  
Pragmatic Turn

This paper investigates the tentative compatibility of two pragmatic approaches, Pragma-Dialectics (PD) and Relevance Theory (RT). The development of pragmatics historically led to conceptions of communication that supplied answers formal logic approaches had trouble capturing. Within argumentation studies, PD took this pragmatic turn while at the same time pursuing a normative agenda. This gives evidence of an external approach to language (in that argumentation follows norms imposed by the theorist) excluding, though not closing the door to cognitive insights. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the extent to which PD can operate from an internal cognitive perspective — i.e., with explicit ambitions of dealing with cognitive mechanisms of meaning construction and belief fixation.

scholarly journals COGNITIVE MODEL OF NONCE-WORDS FORMATION IN INTERNET DISCOURSE (ENGLISH POLITICAL FORUMS)

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (24) ◽  
pp. 5-9
Author(s):  
M.M. Chetina ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Model ◽  
Meaning Construction ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Conceptual Integration ◽  
Cognitive Mechanism ◽  
Pragmatic Factor

The aim of the research is to analyze the cognitive mechanism of noncewords formation in the Internet discourse. The material of the studies is English political forums. The methodology of the research is the theory of conceptual integration of G. Fauconnier and M. Turner which makes it possible to study the cognitive mechanism of nonceword meaning generation and describe the properties and structure of its concept. The specific traits of the cognitivesemantic nonceword meaning construction process are: occasionality, occasional recatecorization of the concept, sensegeneration operators, pragmatic factor.

scholarly journals #ForgiveUsForWeHaveSinned: Conceptual integration theory and political Internet humour

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Nihada Delibegovic Dzanic ◽  
Sanja Berberovic
Keyword(s):  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Meaning Construction ◽  
Linguistic Theory ◽  
Integration Theory ◽  
Conceptual Blending ◽  
Conceptual Integration ◽  
Cognitive Mechanism ◽  
Construction Of Meaning ◽  
Conceptual Integration Theory

The aim of the paper is to uncover the extent to which different forms of political Internet humour can criticise current political affairs in a developing democracy such as Bosnia and Herzegovina. Specifically, applying a cognitive linguistic theory of meaning construction, namely conceptual integration theory, the paper analyses the construction of meaning of humorous Internet forms, such as memes, demotivational posters, hashtag posts, and memetic photographs, representing innovative ways of providing political commentaries on current political affairs. The meaning of political humour is constructed in conceptual blending as a basic cognitive mechanism. As it is claimed (Coulson & Pascual 2006, Coulson & Oakley 2006, Coulson 2006, Oakley & Coulson 2008) that blending can be used as a rhetorical tool influencing the audience to change the reality and even act upon it, the analysis of the construction of meaning of political humour as products of conceptual integration can reveal hidden ideologies in political discourse.

scholarly journals A Cognitive Study of the Multimodal Metaphors in National Publicity Documentaries China Enters a New Era: A Case Study of National Image

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Ma Chao
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Meaning Construction ◽  
Multimodal Communication ◽  
Multimodal Texts ◽  
New Era ◽  
National Image ◽  
Cognitive Mechanism ◽  
Cognitive Study

Recent years have witnessed great interests in multimodal communication due to the rapid development of information technology. Multimodal texts of different genres have sparked great interest of researchers in linguistic study. Based on the cognitive mechanism of multimodal metaphor, this study attempts to figure out the types of metaphor in National Image Publicity Documentary China enters a new era, meaning construction of multimodal metaphors, and what kinds of national image have been constructed by multimodal metaphor.

scholarly journals The mechanism of “perspectivization” in understanding of educational text

Neophilology ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 241-247
Author(s):  
Alyona A. Rubas ◽  
Antonina S. Shcherbak ◽  
Atirkul E. Agmanova
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Structure ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Educational Discourse ◽  
Semantic Function ◽  
Cognitive Mechanism ◽  
Semantic Inference ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Scientific Achievements

We consider the educational text as a cognitive fund of scientific achievements, which is explicated in the communicative field of “educational discourse”, which predetermines its diffe-rential features that distinguish it from other texts by formal and substantive criteria. We prove that the educational text indicates not only what is really present in it, but also what is subject to semantic inference. Based on the educational text, students make inferences, which is facilitated by the cognitive mechanism “perspectivization”. We establish that this is one of the main cognitive mechanisms that can serve to form the projection of educational discourse in the individual mind. From the standpoint of the relationship of cognitive (educational), communicative, linguistic criteria, we prove that it is the mechanism of “perspectivization” that presupposes the advancement of such a text sign as a title, represented by words or phrases correlated with words in the direct meaning. The title of the educational text reflects the information of the conceptual structure of the entire educational text and dictated by the need for the process of understanding the educational text and comprehending the various metatext created on the basis of educational texts. We make the assumption that the units of the educational text act as a means of representing other conceptual areas, since the educational text reflects the semantic function of the language.

scholarly journals The cognitive mechanisms involved in the “DEGREE ADVERB + PROPER NAME” construction: Evaluating proposals from Construction Grammar and Formal Semantics

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Frazer-McKee ◽  
Patrick Duffley
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Multivariate Analyses ◽  
Mental Representations ◽  
Formal Semantics ◽  
Scientific Understanding ◽  
Construction Grammar ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Cognitive Mechanism ◽  
Proper Name ◽  
Competing Models

There are broad disagreements between existing models regarding the mental representations and processes involved in the "DEGREE ADVERB + PROPER NAME" construction, including disagreements regarding the semantics of the degree device, the category status of the proper name, the construction’s expressed meaning and its (non-)compositionality, and, crucially, the operation that holds between the degree device and the proper name. Our corpus-based investigation into two competing models from Construction Grammar and Formal Semantics shows that these models collectively make useful contributions to the scientific understanding of this construction, but neither is empirically adequate. Most importantly, we find that the construction participates in several non-predicted expressed meanings; multivariate analyses show that the three amenable to statistical analysis cluster with different semantic usage-features. We argue that the best way to account for the construction’s semantics-pragmatics is via a previously-dismissed cognitive mechanism: an enrichment-/strengthening-type operation whereby a pragmatically-supplied scale is added to the message.

COGNITIVE MECHANISMS OF THE QUANTITATIVE MEANING CONSTRUCTION

2020 ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
N.N. Boldyrev ◽  
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E.V. Fedyaeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Analogical Reasoning ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Meaning Construction ◽  
Quantitative Aspect ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Qualitative Properties ◽  
Conceptual Structures ◽  
Life Phenomena

The article considers the cognitive and language mechanisms of quantitative meaning construction. Being a necessary tool in the research into mind and language interaction, cognitive and language mechanisms expose correlations between the conceptual structures and language units’ meanings. The purpose of this article is to show the significant role of quantity in secondary representation of knowledge about the world. The article shows that the activity of mind in understanding the quantitative characteristics of the real life phenomena and facts implies actualization of various mechanisms. The authors argue that the configuration of knowledge about the quantitative aspect of being is based on a variety of cognitive mechanisms, such as reification, analogical reasoning, portion-excerpting, abstraction, multiplexing, comparison, conceptual metaphor, focusing, defocusing, symbolization. Both individually and jointly, these mechanisms form the basis for the process of quantitative interpretation of the reality qualitative properties. Analyzing the effect of various cognitive mechanisms on the evidence derived from Russian, English and French, the authors focus on the variability of means representing quantity in language, which is a natural consequence of the human mind flexibility and ability to creatively interpret various characteristics of objects and events.

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