Javier E. Díaz-Vera- PhD
- Professor (Full) at University of Castilla-La Mancha
Javier E. Díaz-Vera
- PhD
- Professor (Full) at University of Castilla-La Mancha
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Since 2017, I hold a Professorship in Linguistic Variation and Change at UCLM (Spain). My desire to know more about the evolution of languages, emotions, and communication, is reflected in my research, which deals with how linguistic practices both mirror and influence social and cultural identities throughout history. I have published research on the verbal and non-verbal expression of emotions across a wide range of languages, both modern and historical, from Europe and East Asia.
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Este estudio explora las expresiones emocionales utilizadas por hablantes de diversas variantes dialectales del español para describir sus experiencias estéticas. Con este objetivo, se analizará un corpus de reseñas publicadas en una popular red social para viajeros, centrándonos específicamente en las referidas a las Pirámides de Giza (Egipto). El...
This paper explores the processes of identity construction and negotiation through face work in a Portuguese Inquisition record, corresponding to the trial for Judaism of Catarina de Orta. Concentrating as much on the inquisitor’s questions as on the answers offered by the defendant, I show here that impoliteness and self-politeness co-occur in int...
Using Conceptual Metaphor Theory, I propose a study of aesthetic emotional expressions in Japanese. With this aim, I have created a medium-sized corpus (c100,000 running words) of travellers’ reviews in Japanese published on TripAdvisor between 2012 and 2022. The corpus consists of 1,100 reviews, grouped into three subsections, corresponding to thr...
The topic of figurative language in Old English ( OE ) has recently become the focus of substantial research. In this article, the authors will describe work on the semantic description of the lexicon of shame words in OE and in particular the taxonomical organisation of this lexicon on the basis of different kinds of semantic mappings (metonymic,...
Research on emotional expressions has focused on our expressions for utilitarian emotions. Little is known about how speakers express aesthetic emotions. Aesthetic emotions, in fact, have been traditionally considered as lacking specific patterns of metaphoric and metonymic representation, so that our linguistic and gestural expressions for art-rel...
La historia del caballero Gawein (en yidis Riter Gabejn) que presentamos en este trabajo es la traducción al castellano de la breve «Historje oder moralische erzehlung handelt von wunder-bahre begebenheiten eines jungen Rjter Gabejn worous die getliche vor-sehung erkant wert», contenida en la obra llevada a cabo en 1912 por el estudioso polaco Leo...
In recent years, the study of emotion metaphors and metonymies has broadened our understanding of how people conceptualise and verbalise their emotional experiences. While some emotion source domains appear to be culture-specific, others are widely employed to denominate the same emotion. One of these potentially universal source domains, temperatu...
One of the most fundamental claims of the Cognitive Theory of Metaphor is the direction of mapping from concrete to abstract. The pervasiveness of this path of semantic change has been widely accepted among researchers interested in the study of the history and development of emotional expressions. Whereas most studies focus on the analysis of one...
La Saga de los vikingos de Jóm (ca. 1200) es una de las obras narrativas más antiguas producidas en Islandia y supone la representación literaria más completa de lo que en su día fue una leyenda en torno a un grupo de vikingos daneses del siglo X que se adentraron en el Báltico, fundaron una fortaleza inexpugnable, se regían por un conjunto de pecu...
This research focuses on the analysis of onomasiological variation in Old English texts written by Ælfric; more specifically, I am interested in the study of the different motifs that shape the linguistic expressions of shame and guilt used by this Anglo-Saxon monk across different textual genres. Through the fine-grained analysis of the whole set...
Punto de partida, siquiera laxo, de la conocida serie de televisión Vikingos creada por Michael Hirst, la "Saga de Ragnarr Lodbrók" reúne, además de la «Saga de Ragnarr» (el documento más completo que permite rastrear la tradición del personaje o personajes semilegendarios que conocemos bajo este nombre), otros cuatro textos que ayudan a complement...
RELEVANCE: This research explores the profound impact of emotions on human existence, cognition, and behavior, emphasizing their role as a driving force in shaping attitudes and perceptions. By examining how cultural artifacts, crafted within specific ecological and socio-cultural contexts, elicit emotions across time and space, the study sheds lig...
This volume offers new insights into figurative language and its pervasive role as a factor of linguistic change. The case studies included in this book explore some of the different ways new metaphoric and metonymic expressions emerge and spread among speech communities, and how these changes can be related to the need to encode ongoing social and...
In this chapter we will analyze some aspects of the literal and figurative conceptualizations of shame in two different languages: Old English and Old Norse. Our main aim consists in describing the earliest stages in the slow but firm transition from a typically Germanic shame society, where shame acts as an instrument of social control through whi...
Following Forceville (2005, 2011), in this paper I show that the same conceptual models underlie the expression of Old English emotions in both the language and the visual modes. Kövecses (2000, 2005) and Stefanowitsch (2004, 2006) have shown that verbal expressions and idioms used to describe emotions can be traced back to a limited number of conc...
In this paper, we propose an analysis of a set of metaphorical expressions of jealousy in American English and in peninsular Spanish. Using the Corpus of Contemporary American English and the Corpus de Referencia del Espanol, we have analyzed all the occurrences of English jealousy and Spanish celo(s) (and their derivates) in order to make a list o...
In this research i will identify and describe the metaphorical expressions for pain recorded in the texts included in the Middle English Medical Texts corpus, a collection of english medical writings from the period 1350- 1500. Furthermore, i will propose a comparison between the resulting list of specialised medical metaphors and a list of metapho...
This book is the result of five years of intensive dedication to teaching innovation and curriculum development and offers a series of studies exploring how mobile technologies in particular, and mobile learning in general, may be used for second language teaching and learning in a wide variety of environments.
In this paper I describe the process of grammaticalization of Old English causative verbs through the analysis of some of the different strategies for the expression of causation in three different lexical domains: PHYSICAL PERCEPTION, COGNITION and EMOTION. The etymological analysis of these verbs indicates that, in the case of the three lexical d...
In this paper I propose an interpretation of a series of phonological changes in the history of English (including Old English Breaking and the early Modern English Great Vowel Shift) from a cognitive phonology perspective. My analysis is based on Nathan (1886, 1995, 1996), who applies prototype theory to phonological description. In Nathan's analy...
This paper deals with different theoretical aspects of lexical variation and change. More exactly, I will focus here on the analysis of some of the different ways lexical and non-lexical linguistic variation can interact over long periods of time. My analysis is based on the Functional-Lexematic Model, which conceives the lexicon of a language as a...
Through the detailed analysis of the meaning definitions of different semantic sets of old English verbs and of their complementation patterns, I will propose a preliminary reconstruction of a basic set of synsem features, i.e. syntactic and semantic parameters which operate throughout the lexicon in the various areas of meaning. These features are...
En este artículo se intenta determinar algunas de las correspondencias sistemáticas del parámetro gramatical causación con la sintaxis verbal del inglés antiguo, sobre la que actúa como un filtro que permite el uso de determinados parámetros de complementación prohibiendo el de otros. Además, se intentará demostrar que las estrategias usadas en ing...
In this paper, I will propose a diachronic reconstruction of the internal structure of the lexical dimension of REMEMBERING from Indoeuropean to New English. Through the etymological analysis of the group of Old English verbs expressing REMEMBERING, I will argue that these verbal predicates are the result of different processes of metaphorical exte...
In this paper, I propose a diachronic reconstruction of a part of the Old English vocabulary of birth. Starting from a careful and systematic analysis of the semantic entries in the Thesaurus of Old English and of the syntactic complementation patterns in the Helsinki Corpus and the Oxford English Dictionary, I have attempted to derive the internal...
Este artículo se ocupa de un fenómeno de variación sociolingüística en inglés americano temprano. El análisis de una serie de declaraciones pertenecientes al grupo de documentos de finales del siglo XVII conocidos como "Salem Witchcraft Trials" (ed. Boyer & Nisenbaum 1977) se centra en la posibilidad de aplicar el método de redes sociales diseñado...
