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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Cognitive Linguistics"”.
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Polysemy in Biblical Hebrew: Examining the Semantic Domain of Fear in the Book of Job
Cognitive linguistics has opened new avenues for Biblical studies in the last several decades. In particular, prototype theory, metaphor theory, and polysemy studies can shed light on the Biblical text. Prototype theory aids the Biblical scholar in understanding how semantic domains are organized …
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Seeking Meaning in the Hebrew Bible: A Lexicographical Study of בקש and דרש using Structuralist and Cognitivist Linguistic Tools.
… insights from contemporary Structuralist and Cognitive Linguistics, to present an original diachronic analysis of the relationship between the Hebrew Bible’s verbs of ‘Seeking’ and their semantic interdependence. Key concepts from Cognitive Linguistics – such as Embodiment, Inter-subjectivity, …
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Metaphor and bilingual cognition : the case of Akan and English in Ghana
This study employs a cognitive linguistics approach, conceptual metaphor theory (CMT) to investigate bilingual conceptual representation. The study analyses the metaphorical and metonymic expressions commonly used among Akan-English bilinguals in Ghana to talk about different aspects of two basic …
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A Constructive Theology of Truth as a Divine Name with Reference to the Bible and Augustine
… productive engagement with biblical studies and cognitive linguistics, which accomplishes theological retrieval and resolves interdisciplinary tension. The second chapter examines Augustine’s writings On Free Will (De Libero Arbitrio), Confessions (Confessiones), and On the Trinity (De …
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AXEL: A framework to deal with ambiguity in three-noun compounds
Cognitive Linguistics has been widely used to deal with the ambiguity generated by words in combination. Although this domain offers many solutions to address this challenge, not all of them can be implemented in a computational environment. The Dynamic Construal of Meaning framework is argued to …
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The Language of Collapsing Power: A Cognitive-Lingusitic Critical Discourse Analysis of the Arab Spring Speeches of Mubarak
… in Egypt. Seven linguistic, paralinguistic, cognitive-linguistic, argumentative, and multimodal features have been investigated and triangulated systematically as markers of power: deixis, presupposition, frames, hidden dialogicality, logical fallacies, stumbles, and backdrops. The thesis is …
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Animal names and categorisation in the Hebrew Bible : a textual and cognitive approach
… aspects of their worldview. The discipline of cognitive linguistics, in particular the prototype theory of categories, is used to interpret the various types and levels of animal classification; a theory on spatiality as the main basis for classification is developed, and new light is shed on a …
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Sensing the Vexation: an Embodied Reading of the Book of Job
… and work in the analytic tradition, such cognitive linguistics and cognitive science. Ultimately, this frame is conducive to a postmodern hermeneutical context that values a plurality of voices, without slipping into a deconstructive posture or interpretative relativism. Most of all, this …
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The Myth of the Universal User. Pursuing a Cultural Variable in ICT Design for Conflict Management through Quantitative Analysis: Implications from a Ugandan Case Study.
… a novel experimental approach from the field of cognitive linguistics to quantitatively describe the impact of culture on the use of mobile information and communication technology (ICT) in the context of peace and conflict. Beginning with the hypothesis that ICT reflects a mono-cultural …
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The narrative of Ephesians 2:11-22: motion towards maximal proximity and higher status
… adapts, and implements tools and insights from cognitive linguistics to understand how the metaphors present in Ephesians 2:11-22 fit within the narrative of the text. This work’s main thrust is to establish a reasonable and plausible approximation of what the audience might have understood. …
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Collocation and preposition sense: a phraseological approach to the cognition of polysemy
… It uses concepts drawn from both corpus linguistics and cognitive linguistics, in particular drawing on theories of phraseology formulated by Sinclair and others and on theories of preposition meaning formulated by Langacker and Tyler. 1,366 instances of the use of the prepositions from …
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Cognitive Modeling and conceptual complexity in translation, multimodal communication, and constructionalization
This PhD dissertation explores cognitive modeling applied to three different areas of analysis: constructionalization, translation, and multimodality. Its aim is to account for the great potential of cognitive models and cognitive operations in the conceptualization and understanding of both …
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Exploring the function and distribution of generic pronouns: The example of German man and du
… are critically discussed from the persectives of cognitive linguistics, text and discourse analysis. Past research has primarily concerned itself with written discourse, or with data gathered under controlled conditions, such as researcher–participant interviews or elicited narratives. This work …
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Implementing Cognitive Semantics
… and processed. It is based on the findings in cognitive linguistics over the last decade, where thorough studies have been made about how concepts function. Concepts appear as image schemata, a spatial form of representation with very powerful properties. It embodies prototypicality, …
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Metatheater in the French Baroque: The Boundaries of Cognition, the Power of Spectacle, and the Horror of Violence
… of the relations between mind and brain in cognitive science, this project explores how this expansion of the play beyond itself includes the human organism. In analyzing metatheater with Early Modern thought, neurophenomenology, cognitive linguistics, enactive theories of mind, and also …
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A cognitive-linguistic study of the causative, agent-deprofiling, and resultative constructions: system internal and external perspectives
This dissertation is framed within the field of Cognitive Linguistics, more specifically, within the framework of the Lexical Constructional Model (LCM), as initially formulated in Ruiz de Mendoza & Mairal (2008, 2011), Mairal & Ruiz de Mendoza (2008, 2009). This thesis develops central aspects of …
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Censoring allegorical texts: interpreting Orwell and Miller
… and censorship from a perspective focused on cognitive linguistics. Each text’s respective sections devote attention both to the censorship of the texts and their authors, and to critical responses and reviews which act as examples of literary interpretations. Close readings (selected on the …
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A multimodal analysis of the rhetorical devices used for meaning-making and humour in Saudi media cartoons
… established link between multimodality and cognitive linguistics. Different aspects of constructing creative multimodal metaphors for triggering satirical effect are highlighted. The interaction between multimodal metaphors and multimodal metonymies reveals further complexities underlying …
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O desenvolvimento de jogos de linguagem em crianças pequenas: uma análise dos vlogs do canal Gêmeos Ale Nanda, no Youtube
… (DUQUE, 2015b; 2016; 2017; 2018) strand of Cognitive Linguistics whose initial condition is the organism-environment relationship (GIBSON, 2015), frames (LAKOFF , 2011; DUQUE, 2015a; 2017), language games (WITTGENTEIN, 1999; STEELS, 2012; DUQUE, 2018; 2022), and Joint Attention (TOMASELLO, …
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Assessment of the expert locomotive engineer's mental Model through expert-novice interactions
… research team developed a coding scheme based on cognitive linguistics research and prior work on freight driving strategies to categorize each interaction from the study. Analysis of this data suggested that experienced engineers know what decisions and actions should be taken when various …
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