scholarly journals Embodiment und Un-Höflichkeit. Kognitive Aspekte kulturell geprägter Konzepte

2019 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 247-260
Author(s):  
Anna Sulikowska
Keyword(s):  
Social Experience ◽  
The Body ◽  
Conceptual System ◽  
Conceptual Organization ◽  
Human Specific

Eine der Grundprämissen der Kognitiven Linguistik bildet die Embodiment-These, die besagt, dass die menschliche Kognition und konzeptuelle Organisation sich aus der Art und Weise ergeben, in denen unsere artenspezifischen Körper mit der Umwelt interagieren. Das Fundament des konzeptuellen Systems eines Menschen baut also auf der Wahrnehmung, Sensomotorik, auf körperlicher und sozialer Erfahrung auf. Im folgenden Beitrag wird auf die Frage eingegangen, inwieweit kulturell geprägte Konzepte wie die Höflichkeit und Unhöflichkeit embodied sind. Der Analyse werden Idiome sowie figurative Einwortlexeme unterzogen.Embodiment and im-politeness: Cognitive aspects of culture-bound conceptsOne of the most important assumptions within the Cognitive Lingustics is the embodiment thesis, which postulates the human’s cognition and conceptual organization being formed by the contact of the body with the environment. The basis for the human-specific conceptual system is the perception, sensomotorics and the physical and social experience. The article discusses the question of embodiment of the culture-based concepts like politeness and impoliteness. In the scope of the conducted analysis are idioms and figurative one-word lexems.

scholarly journals Pantomimic fossils in modern human communication

2021 ◽  
Vol 376 (1824) ◽  
Author(s):  
Przemysław Żywiczyński ◽  
Sławomir Wacewicz ◽  
Casey Lister
Keyword(s):  
Modern Human ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Theme Issue ◽  
Core Component ◽  
Early Humans ◽  
Ape Communication ◽  
Iconic Signs ◽  
Human Specific ◽  
Key Innovations

Bodily mimesis, the capacity to use the body representationally, was one of the key innovations that allowed early humans to go beyond the ‘baseline’ of generalized ape communication and cognition. We argue that the original human-specific communication afforded by bodily mimesis was based on signs that involve three entities: an expression that represents an object (i.e. communicated content) for an interpreter . We further propose that the core component of this communication, pantomime, was able to transmit referential information that was not limited to select semantic domains or the ‘here-and-now’, by means of motivated—most importantly iconic—signs. Pressures for expressivity and economy then led to conventionalization of signs and a growth of linguistic characteristics: semiotic systematicity and combinatorial expression. Despite these developments, both naturalistic and experimental data suggest that the system of pantomime did not disappear and is actively used by modern humans. Its contemporary manifestations, or pantomimic fossils , emerge when language cannot be used, for instance when people do not share a common language, or in situations where the use of (spoken) language is difficult, impossible or forbidden. Under such circumstances, people bootstrap communication by means of pantomime and, when these circumstances persist, newly emergent pantomimic communication becomes increasingly language-like. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Reconstructing prehistoric languages’.

Understanding mobile payment continuance usage in physical store through social impact theory and trust transfer

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yonathan Dri Handarkho
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Experience ◽  
The Body ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Mobile Payment ◽  
Principal Component Factor Analysis ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Trust Transfer ◽  
Continuance Usage

PurposeThis study aimed to understand mobile payment (MP) continuance usage in physical settings from trust and social experience perspective. A theoretical model was proposed based on trust transfer and social impact to reveal the factors influencing user intention to continually use MP.Design/methodology/approachStructural equation modeling (SEM) analysis was used on 308 respondents from Indonesia to examine the theoretical model while principal component factor analysis and descriptive statistics were utilized for data preparation.FindingsThe findings revealed the Perceived Herd behavior had the most significant contribution to Trust formation followed by Perceived Risk and Para-social interaction while the analysis of indirect and moderating effect was also significant in enriching the result.Originality/valueThis study postulated social experience as an antecedent factor to the formation of Trust in the MP continuance usage context. Moreover, while the commonly explored direct effect was investigated, the indirect effect and moderating impact that has not been addressed adequately in previous MP studies were also analyzed and this can be considered as a contribution to the body of knowledge.

scholarly journals Investigating Conceptual Metaphorical Expression in English Suicide Notes: A Cognitive Linguistic Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mawj Saadi Sabri Alkhayyat ◽  
Naseer Shukur Hussein
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cognitive Semantics ◽  
Conceptual System ◽  
Suicide Notes ◽  
Cultural Domain ◽  
Metaphorical Expression ◽  
Body Metaphors

The human experience is mysterious, so, metaphor is commonly used to portray life experiences. The significance of metaphor for expressing and developing selfhood. The function of metaphor in determining the conceptual meanings in suicide letters. Language reflects our worldviews. Language is a component of the body. The technique is used to illuminate crucial issues in cognitive semantics that is linked between experience, the conceptual system, and the semantic structures encoded by language is studied in cognitive semantics. These include conceptual metaphor and embodied cognition. The study's flaw is that body metaphors and embodiment may be linked. A suicide note's cultural domain aspect and the importance of interpreting conceptual metaphoric notions cannot be overstated. The study claims that body metaphors utilized in suicide can be systematized utilizing sensoryperceptual information of the outside environment. Either way, the body or actual components as domains are clearly connected. Art is considered to require embodiment.

scholarly journals One’s Own vs. Other / Another / Alien in the Conceptual and Aesthetic Paradigm of Modernism

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-245
Author(s):  
Roman Mnich ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Conceptual System ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Philosophy Of Dialogue ◽  
Poetic Texts ◽  
The One

This article focuses on the issue of the Other/Alien within the conceptual and aesthetic paradigm of modernism. In the context of modernistic ideas, the author analyses the philosophy of dialogue and phenomenological views on the Other as represented in the intellectual heritage of the twentieth century. Taking into consideration these ideas, the author discusses three mainstream aspects of the Other/Alien in Russian modernist literature: 1) mythological tradition, which provokes the image of the enemy through the image of the Other; 2) Romantic tradition of the double (doppelganger), and 3) philosophical / phenomenological notion of the body, which views personality as “me/Self” and “my body”. Conceptual analysis of these aspects is provided with reference to poetic texts by Alexander Blok, Innokenty Annensky, and Osip Mandelstam. The author stresses the conventionality of such a division, on the one hand, and the influence of the analysed aspects of the Other/Alien onto the conceptual system of Postmodernism. Modernism in European culture, in contrast to other historical periods, is characterised primarily by the fact that many of its ideas and concepts were only proclaimed, but not presented in the form of complete theoretical concepts/systems. In this sense, modernism turned out to be open to the future, which allows us to call it an “uncompleted project” (Jürgen Habermas). Previous eras offered solutions to important existential problems in the form of complete philosophical systems (Immanuel Kant or Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel), ideas or concepts (Kant’s concept of “eternal peace” and a moral imperative, Hegel’s idea of state and law). Modernism, influenced by the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, destroyed the systematic nature of thinking, doubted traditional morality, and offered paradoxical solutions to many problems in the form of conceptual questions, which are discussed to this day. One of these uncompleted modernist projects was the concept of the Other/Alien, discussions about which have been going on for over a century.

scholarly journals Corporeality in Context of Problem of Human Identity: Body of Protest as Form of Individual Social Representation

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 01164
Author(s):  
Vladislav O. Sheleketa ◽  
Sophia V. Batzanova
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Social Experience ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Main Aspect ◽  
Human Identity ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Theoretical Premise ◽  
Communicative Space

The article is devoted to socially representative dimensions of human corporeality, considered in the context of social experience. At the same time, social experience is taken by the authors, first of all, as a torture of protest, where the protest is conceived as a constituting factor of self-reflection. Analyzing the phenomenon of corporeality through the prism of the communicative element, as well as a representative of the manifestations of human consciousness, the authors proceed from a theoretical premise: corporeality returns itself, its presents in postmodern neo-postmodernism as a spontaneous sensuality of mass culture that breaks through taboo. The main aspect of corporeality is corporality, acting as the result of communicative action and presenting us to the other in the act of communicative action. At the same time, the authors introduce the concept of “prosthetic solidity” and prove that a demonstrative change in the body, in our opinion, is the most radical, vivid and ambiguous form of protest corporeality. In the article, the various forms of protest corporealityare analyzed. The main categories which were analyzed in the article are: protest corporality, communicative space, protest movement, social representation.

scholarly journals Conceptual and Linguistic Transfer from L2 (Catalan) to L1 (Amazigh) within the Context of Migration

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-132
Author(s):  
Carla Ferrerós Pagès
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Sample Size ◽  
The Body ◽  
Conceptual System ◽  
Semantic Field ◽  
Semantic Fields ◽  
The Status ◽  
Linguistic Transfer ◽  
Basic Semantic ◽  
Analyze Data

This paper focuses on the analysis of the lexical and semantic influences of L2 (Catalan) on the L1 (Amazigh) in a basic semantic field: parts of the body. Based on the observation that our participants show differences in their L1 usage related to the amount of time they have been in contact with Catalan, our goal is to analyze and describe these differences to see if they are the consequence of a transfer from the L2 conceptual system. This paper is a qualitative study with a sample size of 14 participants whose L1 is Amazigh and who live in Catalonia. The results show that there are cases of semantic and conceptual influence, although to a lesser degree than in other studies that do not analyze data from basic semantic fields. We will also show that there are extralinguistic factors that influence these transfers (the status of the languages involved and certain characteristics of the speakers).

On Categorization and Metaphorical Structuring: Some Remarks on Egyptian Art and Language

1997 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. Frandsen
Keyword(s):  
Mental Image ◽  
The Body ◽  
Conceptual System ◽  
Pictorial Material ◽  
Mental Picture ◽  
Immediate Experience ◽  
Art And Language ◽  
The Way

This article discusses some aspects of the way the ancient Egyptians classified their world. The Egyptian method of representation aimed at showing things as they existed in the imagination of the artist who accordingly rendered them as they ‘really were’, and not as they were seen, that is, without having recourse to foreshortening, shadow, perspective. What is stored is a mental image of the prototype or ‘genus’ of the object. Linguistic and pictorial material provide evidence of the existence of inalienable properties of a given mental picture. Another set of components is the interactional properties. Both are grounded in the basic experience of the perceptual, motor and intellectual apparatus of the body. Their distribution is overlapping, because the factual inalienability of its own members is one of the first experiences of a child. While some aspects of the conceptual system and categorization grow out of this immediate experience, others can only be understood in terms of other types of experience, such as metaphors in the sense of Lakoff and Johnson. Hieroglyphs and art are discussed in terms of the notion of metaphorical structuring.

scholarly journals Простір одеського дворику в романі Ганни Костенко „Цурки-Гілкиˮ

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-240
Author(s):  
Iryna Neczytaluk
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Conceptual System ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Attention ◽  
Isaac Babel ◽  
Semiotic Systems ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Good And Evil ◽  
The City ◽  
Complete Concept

The article analyzes Anna Kostenko’s novel Tsurky-Gylky, the main attention in research is focused on the space of the Odessa courtyard, masterfully depicted by the author. The Odessa courtyard is an essential component of the Odessa myth. The body of texts depicting the “Odessa myth” in fiction is quite large, since the poems written by Alexander Pushkin the city has become a part of many works of literature. Today, the most viable myth is the Odessa myth created by Isaac Babel. The components of the myth are known: the romanticized image of criminal life, subtle humor, often on the verge of sarcasm; unprecedented generosity and hospitality. To analyze the novel, we suggest establishing a conceptual system. The most complete concept of “myth” in the context of the semiotics of the city is analyzed in the studies of the Moscow-Tartu school, which, in particular, researched such aspects as space, the structure of myth – V. Toporov; the definition of myth, myth and name – A. Piatyhorskiy, B. Uspenskiy, Y. Lotman and others. In conclusion, the restriction of space for the events that take place within one courtyard, thickens the text of the novel, respectively, the semiotic systems and hierarchies are superimposed on each other. The concepts of good and evil lose their “classic” connotative meanings. This is a kind of purgatory through which strangers passthus subsequently affecting the life of those living there. 

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