scholarly journals A Cognitive Linguistic Study of Silence/Pause-Based Incongruities in Selected Instances from Mind Your Language's Sitcom Series

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (30) ◽  
pp. 795-829
Author(s):  
Rana H. Al-Bahrani
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expressions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Linguistic Study ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
Facial Gestures

The present research aims at: First, to examine the reasons behind using silence/pause-based unintentional incongruities in selected instances from the British Sitcom Mind Your Language; second, to explore specifically the types of silence/pause-based unintentional incongruities and the different facial gestures that accompany each of these types. To meet these two objectives, the analysis will be theoretically and conceptually-based, respectively. Conclusions, as far as the first objective is concerned, have shown that silence can be used to reflect: the sense of being inattentive; lack of understanding; being unfamiliar with what one hears; the time needed for thinking and associating, and the act of hiding one's nervousness, etc. As for pause, it is used for reflecting the sense of being confused; indicating that there is an interrupting event; and giving time to oneself to comprehend, re-consider, and correct what one has said, etc. As for the second objective, it has been concluded that silence appears to have the four categories cited by Kostiuk (2012); these included the structural, reflexive, tactical, and ignorant types of silence. Pauses, on the other hand, have only three categories: tactical, structural, and reflexive. Speaking of the reactions and facial expressions that accompany silence when encountering unintentionally incongruous events, they include the following: closing one's eyes, and feeling amazed, proud, shocked, and speechless, etc. whereas those that accompany pause are: feeling confused, asking a question for clarification, and opening one's mouth, etc.  

Co-forming real space blends in tactile signed language dialogues

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Mesch ◽  
Eli Raanes ◽  
Lindsay Ferrara
Keyword(s):  
Body Part ◽  
Real Space ◽  
Meaning Construction ◽  
The Other ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Linguistic Study ◽  
Signed Languages ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
Signed Language ◽  
Semiotic Perspective

AbstractThis article reports on a linguistic study examining the use of real space blending in the tactile signed languages of Norwegian and Swedish signers who are both deaf and blind. Tactile signed languages are typically produced by interactants in contact with each other’s hands while signing. Of particular interest to this study are utterances which not only consist of the signer producing signs with his or her own hands (or other body parts), but which also recruit the other interactant’s hands (or another body part). These utterances, although perhaps less frequent, are co-constructed, in a very real sense, and they illustrate meaning construction during emerging, embodied discourse. Here, we analyze several examples of these types of utterances from a cognitive linguistic and cognitive semiotic perspective to explore how interactants prompt meaning construction through touch and the involvement of each other’s bodies during a particular type of co-regulation.

Il corpo dell’auleta

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 286-310
Author(s):  
Anna Dolazza
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expressions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Physical Representation ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Philosophical Texts ◽  
As If ◽  
Bodily Movements ◽  
Circular Breathing

The versatility of the aulos is passed on to the musician, who in turn is transformed into a physical representation of the instrument’s sound. With the precious aid of book iv of Pollux’s Onomasticon it is possible to reconstruct the special set of vocabulary linked to the sound of the aulos. If it could already in itself be considered as ἐπαγωγόν, the additional effect of the movements, gestures, and facial expressions of the aulete resulted in a strong visual, as well as emotional, impact. Nor can we forget, on the other hand, the less than favorable judgments, abundant in philosophical texts, that arose in regard to auletic performances: just as certain physiognomic traits of the aulos are to blame, so too are certain bodily movements of the aulete: almost as if the negative characteristics are passed reciprocally from instrument to musician in a sort of circular breathing. La versatilità dell’aulos si trasmette all’esecutore, che durante la performance diviene così immagine fisica e concreta del suono percepito. Con il prezioso ausilio del libro iv dell’Onomasticon di Giulio Polluce è possibile ricostruire il campo semantico legato alla produzione del suono auletico. Se esso poteva già di per sé essere avvertito come ἐπαγωγόν, inoltre, i movimenti, i gesti e le espressioni facciali dell’auleta risultavano di forte impatto visivo, oltre che emotivo. Non ci si può dimenticare, d’altro canto, dei giudizi poco benigni, affioranti soprattutto dai testi filosofici, in merito alla pratica auletica: come alcuni tratti della fisionomia dell’aulos, così anche alcuni atteggiamenti del corpo dell’auleta sono biasimevoli, quasi che le caratteristiche negative passino vicendevolmente da strumento a esecutore in una sorta di respirazione circolare. This article is in Italian.

Cognitive Sociolinguistics meets loanword research: Measuring variation in the success of anglicisms in Dutch

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 749-792 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eline Zenner, ◽  
Dirk Speelman, ◽  
Dirk Geeraerts,
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Statistical Techniques ◽  
Automatic Extraction ◽  
Extraction Techniques ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
Person Reference ◽  
The One

AbstractThis paper introduces a new, concept-based method for measuring variation in the use and success of loanwords by presenting the results of a case-study on 149 English person reference nouns (i.e. common nouns used to designate people, such as manager) in Dutch. With this paper, we introduce four methodological improvements to current quantitative corpus-based anglicism research, based on the general tenets of Cognitive Sociolinguistics (Geeraerts 2005; Kristiansen and Geeraerts 2007; Geeraerts 2010; Geeraerts et al. 2010): (1) replacing raw frequency as a success measure by a concept-based onomasiological approach; (2) relying on larger datasets and semi-automatic extraction techniques; (3) adding a multivariate perspective to the predominantly structuralist orientation of current accounts; (4) using inferential statistical techniques to help explain variation. We illustrate our method by presenting a case-study on variation in the success of English person reference nouns in Dutch. Generally, this article aims to show how a Cognitive Sociolinguistic perspective on loanword research is beneficial for both paradigms. On the one hand, the concept-based approach provides new insights in the spread of loanwords. On the other hand, attention to contact linguistic phenomena offers a new expansion to the domain of cognitive linguistic studies taking a variationist approach.

scholarly journals The Relativity Strategy of Old Javanese

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 1100
Author(s):  
Ni Ketut Ratna Erawati
Keyword(s):  
Relative Clauses ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Core System ◽  
Linguistic Study ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Grammatical Relation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Popular Work

Old Javanese is one of the temporal dialects in Indonesia that is estimated to develop from the IX-XV century. The language has a lot of langues inherited in the form of literature kakawin (Old Javanese poetry) and the form of parwa (Old Javanese language prose) until now. Literary works in the form kakawin and parwa are very popular work to be sung in Balinese society especially in religious ceremonies. Therefore, the Old Javanese is very worthy of being used as a linguistic study even though the language is categorized as a dead language. In morphological typology, Old Javanese is an agglutinative type. On the other hand, syntactically the Old Javanese language includes the Split-S typology. Associated with morphological typology and syntax, the Old Javanese has a core system or verb. Thus, the Old Javanese has various forms of verb-alternation in clause structures, either in single clauses or complex clauses. Relative clauses are one part of the complex clause having a change of grammatical relation when the insertion of certain linguistic elements. The topic of this study was the relativity strategy in Old Javanese.  The relativity strategy of Old Javanese was described with related theories and concepts.  Based on the result the Old Javanese could make the subject to be relative by inserting element of the relative sang and ikang. On the other hand there was also an indirect relativity by marking of verbs and penloping.

scholarly journals Linguistic Study on Surigaonon and Kamayo Children’s Songs

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa May A. Mundiz
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Linguistic Study ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Phonological Features ◽  
Children's Songs ◽  
Convenience Sampling ◽  
Inflectional Affixes

This paper looks into the linguistic characteristics of the Surigaonon and the Kamayo languages of the Surigao Provinces through the children’s songs. It aims to identify and explain the morphological and phonological features that bring about the intelligibility of the two languages. Oftentimes confused as the waya-waya or the jaun-jaun language, Surigaonon finds its speech community among the Surigao del Norte inhabitants as well as a few numbers in the municipalities of Surigao del Sur. Kamayo, on the other hand, is common among the Surigao del Sur inhabitants. Using convenience sampling, this qualitative study interviewed ten participants and recorded children’s songs common for both languages. It found out that Surigaonon and Kamayo have to compete for forms and phonological differences. Both languages’ morphological constructions differ with the use of some inflectional affixes and grammatical markers. The morphophonemic alterations between the different versions of the songs reflect the same kind of changes unique to the Cebuano Visayan language. As a result, Surigaonon and Bisliganon Kamayo are in themselves variants of the Cebuano Visayan since speakers from the languages can understand each other without really having to speak the kind of language each speaker is acquainted with: Kamayo language is intelligible with that of Surigaonon; while the latter is intelligible to the Cebuano language.

Grammaticalization of nouns meaning “head” into reflexive markers: A cross-linguistic study

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Evseeva ◽  
Iker Salaberri
Keyword(s):  
Body Part ◽  
The Other ◽  
Semantic Change ◽  
Linguistic Study ◽  
Language Groups ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Considerable Impact ◽  
The One

Abstract Studies on the grammaticalization of body-part nouns into reflexives have often formulated cross-linguistic generalizations, but have mostly failed to provide detailed analyses of similar developments attested in unrelated languages. As a consequence, valuable insights have sometimes been overlooked. The purpose of this paper is twofold: on the one hand, it identifies a higher number of languages using “head”-reflexives than previous accounts. On the other hand, its purpose is to analyze the diachronic evolution of nouns denoting “head” into reflexive markers in three unrelated language groups (Basque, Berber and Kartvelian) and to show how “head”-reflexives synchronically and diachronically interact with secondary reflexivization strategies, such as detransitivization. The results suggest that the areal factor has a considerable impact on the emergence of “head”-reflexives; they also show that none of the languages analyzed reflects all grammaticalization stages put forward in the literature. Accordingly, it is argued that the grammaticalization stages are optional, and that the correlation between formal and semantic change is not obligatory.

scholarly journals The Concept of the Relative Adjective

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-83
Author(s):  
Svetlana Vinogradova
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
The Other ◽  
Specific Character ◽  
Conceptual Integration ◽  
Dual Nature ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
Mental Spaces ◽  
Linguistic Account ◽  
Semantic Processes

Abstract This article aims to give a cognitive linguistic account of the dual nature of the concept of relative adjectives, and the specific character of their semantic processes. After a brief discussion of the adjectival character of the relative subclass, it will be argued that denominal relative adjectives belong to the class of predicate words (i.e., words denoting property and hence forming a predicate concept), while retaining, on the other hand, the substantive nature of the basic noun’s concept. Further, two subclasses of relative adjectives are contrasted in view of their cognitive processes: substancepredicate, denoting a certain substance of which an object is made, and argumentpredicate, denoting an object the relation to which becomes a property of another object. The substance-predicate group of relative adjectives will be analyzed as having the properties of qualitative adjectives, as they clarify their meanings in discourse due to the operation of profiling the landmark properties on the base of the trajector of the described object. On the other hand, the conceptual entity of argument-predicate relative adjectives can be described by means of the theory of conceptual integration. Argument-predicate adjectives in discourse form a new conceptual blend that is the result of mapping the mental spaces of the predicate concept and the concept of the described noun. The relation between the two objects that appears in the blend forms the context meaning of the adjective

The Passive Voice in Computer Manuals: A New Perspective

1995 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise H. Cornelis
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Passive Voice ◽  
Automatic Computer ◽  
Active Voice ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
User Actions

There is much debate and confusion about the use of the passive voice in texts in general, and in computer manuals in particular. For example, it is often stated that the passive should be avoided, but on the other hand, it may also have a clear function in a text. The aim of this article is to provide clarity by presenting a straightforward principle for the use of the passive voice in computer manuals. This “alternation principle,” in which active voice is used for user actions and the passive voice for automatic computer, is backed by results from recent functional and cognitive linguistic research. It is illustrated by means of fragments from several computer manuals, including some (apparent) counter-examples.

A study of cometary eruptions through OH radio-lines

1999 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 249-254
Author(s):  
A.M. Silva ◽  
R.D. Miró
Keyword(s):  
Short Duration ◽  
Growth Curves ◽  
The Other ◽  
Initial Mass ◽  
Radio Lines ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Sudden Rise

AbstractWe have developed a model for theH2OandOHevolution in a comet outburst, assuming that together with the gas, a distribution of icy grains is ejected. With an initial mass of icy grains of 108kg released, theH2OandOHproductions are increased up to a factor two, and the growth curves change drastically in the first two days. The model is applied to eruptions detected in theOHradio monitorings and fits well with the slow variations in the flux. On the other hand, several events of short duration appear, consisting of a sudden rise ofOHflux, followed by a sudden decay on the second day. These apparent short bursts are frequently found as precursors of a more durable eruption. We suggest that both of them are part of a unique eruption, and that the sudden decay is due to collisions that de-excite theOHmaser, when it reaches the Cometopause region located at 1.35 × 105kmfrom the nucleus.

Closing the GAP—A 5Å Scanning Microscope

1969 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 6-7
Author(s):  
A. V. Crewe
Keyword(s):  
Normal Form ◽  
The Other ◽  
Resolving Power ◽  
Scanning Microscope ◽  
Conventional Microscope ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Closing The Gap ◽  
Thermal Sources ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Transmission Microscope

We have become accustomed to differentiating between the scanning microscope and the conventional transmission microscope according to the resolving power which the two instruments offer. The conventional microscope is capable of a point resolution of a few angstroms and line resolutions of periodic objects of about 1Å. On the other hand, the scanning microscope, in its normal form, is not ordinarily capable of a point resolution better than 100Å. Upon examining reasons for the 100Å limitation, it becomes clear that this is based more on tradition than reason, and in particular, it is a condition imposed upon the microscope by adherence to thermal sources of electrons.

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