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This contribution focuses on the close link between perception and language. The analysis will extend beyond morphological evidence to include the role of submorphological relics. It will also raise the question of whether sensorimotor and submorphemic knowledge might have an impact on political discussion. In short, this paper seeks to tackle the...
This contribution focuses on the close link between perception and language. The interaction between perceptual and conceptual parameters will be illustrated in detail and from different perspectives via specific examples. Three questions will be tackled: first how aware are we that words are never "innocent" second, how transparent are words, and...
Assuming linguistic representation has only been studied by linguists using grammaticality judgments, Branigan and Pickering present structural priming as a novel alternative. We show that their assumptions are incorrect for cognitive-functional linguistics, exposing converging perspectives on form/meaning pairings between generativists and cogniti...
Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung steht die Frage, inwieweit Verknappung bewusst als funktionales Instrument und zeitgenössisches Stilmittel in Sprache, Kultur und neuen Medien eingesetzt wird.
Der Sammelband untersucht das Phänomen der Verknappung zunächst als Strategie in der digitalen Welt, der Werbung und der graphischen Kommunikation und anschli...
Nos sens visuels présentent nos fenêtres sur le monde. Ils fournissent la matière première pour construire notre compréhension de l'environnement et la traduire en langage. Mais comment percevons-nous « ce monde qui nous entoure » et quels sont les paramètres à l'œuvre lorsque nous transférons ce que nous voyons, dans notre cas particulier « les co...
Referendums allow people to participate in political decision-making. However, they also come with the challenge of presenting complex issues to the electorate in a concise and comprehensible way. In order to simplify the decision-making process, referendum questions are often tailored to yes/no response options. In comparison, the UK European Unio...
In the three articles, “Las bases conceptuales del subjuntivo - Entre la implicación, la falta de control semántico y contextual y la conexión ilógica”, “Sur les traces de la base conceptuelle du subjonctif à l'aide des exemples du livre Le jardin des mots de Jacqueline de Romilly” and “Tre parole sul congiuntivo”, the semantic additional informati...
No other grammatical phenomenon causes as many problems in teaching and learning as the subjunctive. Most grammars devote as many pages to the presentation of the rules as to the exceptions. This becomes even more frustrating when dealing with the differences, not only between different language families, but even within the Romance language family...
Starting from the assumption that such a complex encoding of a grammatical phenomena, as is the case with the Spanish subjuntivo, cannot be accidental but must be the result of an encoding strategy, a search is made for the speaker's original motivation and the specific additional information that the Spanish subjuntivo contains. The results will b...
In the three articles, “Las bases conceptuales del subjuntivo - Entre la implicación, la falta de control semántico y contextual y la conexión ilógica”, “Sur les traces de la base conceptuelle du subjonctif à l'aide des exemples du livre Le jardin des mots de Jacqueline de Romilly” and “Tre parole sul congiuntivo”, the semantic additional informati...
Emotions permeate every aspect of our lives and not only provide us with invaluable information about our environment and the people in it, but also influence our perception of situations and events. Interestingly, this domain, so ubiquitous in our everyday lives, largely resists attempts at scientific definition. One reason for this could be that...
Within emotions, surprise still poses a challenge. The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether a more complete picture of this short-lived emotional state can be given to this phenomenon through the interplay of perceptual and conceptual parameters.
Das Gespenst des Nationalismus geht wieder um und nährt sich aus den aktuellen Krisen und dem angeblichen Scheitern der Europäischen Union diese zu bewältigen. Vielfach wird die Frage aufgeworfen, ob der Traum der EU als nicht nur transnationales Gebilde, sondern auch als große Nation und Gegenpol zu anderen Großmächten überhaupt noch weiter geträu...
The specter of populism is looming over us again. Contrary to its historical manifestation, this phenomenon currently eludes a generally accepted definition, which remains rather vague. However, this does not make the phantom of populism any less dangerous, but rather a real challenge and a threat to our democracy. Globalization and mediatization a...
The article examines the extent to which populist concepts are reflected in Matteo Salvini’s Twitter statements in 2019. With this specific analysis, we attempt to bridge the gap between the different definitions of populism and populists by showing that both can be narrowed down within a continuum from strong vs. weak via a measure of populist att...
The paper examines the coverage of the European migrant crisis in the French press. Instead of addressing the almost prototypical metaphors related to migratory movements (the associations with disastrous natural events, invasions, or obstacles) the main focus is on the use of framing effects, caused or intensified by adjective and
verb clusters. A...
The contribution analyses the language specific variations of the #metoo movement, such as #yotambien, #moiaussi or #anchio, which prompted women to share their story of sexual harassment. The analysed hashtags were published in two time periods: from 15/10/17 to 15.11.17 and from 15/05/18 to 15/06/18.
Firstly, the main hashtags of the analysis are...
Framing is defined as the means by which information is organized, presented and interpreted. The present study focuses on explicit and implicit frames that are used to describe the concept of DISABILITY in multilingual texts published on the World Health Organization (WHO) website. The World Health Organization is the United Nations coordinating a...
Zibaldone. Zeitschrift für italienische Kultur der Gegenwart
Los marcos cognitivos (cognitive frames) presentan una de las estrategias comunicativas más efectivas. Permiten la comprensión e interpretación de la información obtenida, por ejemplo, al leer, escuchar o al ver algo, de acuerdo a los registros conceptuales o antecedentes que se tienen en el inconsciente. Nuestra contribución muestra la imagen vari...
The COVID-19 outbreak was accompanied by a massive "infodemic", making it difficult to identify reliable sources. While poorly edited fake news fundamentally differs from trustworthy information in the area of narrative structure (van der Linden, 2017), the situation is much different with fake news of higher editorial standards. Our goal is to dev...
Verbos leves show the interaction of language, speech and cognition particularly clearly. They are not only an extremely frequent phenomenon of orality, but can also be traced back to one and the same cognitive anchor point, namely the HAND. The intra-Romanesque comparison is particularly revealing here: although verbos leves follow the same develo...
Steve Bannon, former chief strategist of the White House, played an important role in Donald Trump’s political campaign until 2018. Since his departure from the White House, Bannon has made several efforts to expand right-wing populism across Europe. Bannon’s ideology and worldview cannot be understood without an analysis of The Fourth Turning by S...
Sensorimotor-based concepts (SBCs), a variation of political metaphors, are frequently used in political discourse. The particular challenge with these kinds of metaphors is that for a long time they have kept a low profile. SBCs are basic level concepts and can be used, not only frequently, but also iteratively to convey a subliminal story line. T...
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Abstrakt Wahlkampf ist nicht nur Wortkampf, sondern vor allem ein Kampf um die Gunst der Wähler. Die Rezeption einer Rede bzw. ihr Erfolg hängt stark davon abhängt, wie sehr sich der einzelne Wähler mit dem Gesagten identifizieren kann. Der Beitrag untersucht daher, welche Rolle der Gebrauch von sensomotrischen Konzepten im aktuellen französischen...
The idea of the Visual Grammar is based, on the one hand, on a fundamental questioning of the traditional view on grammar division and description, and on the other hand, on the conviction that memorization of grammatical structures is no longer up-to-date in today’s language teaching.
This contribution focuses on the close link between sensorimotor actions and language. The interaction between perceptual and conceptual parameters will be illustrated in detail and from different perspectives via specific examples. Furthermore, the analysis will extend beyond morphological evidence to include the role of sub morphological relicts...
This contribution focuses on the close link between sensorimotor actions and language. The interaction between perceptual and conceptual parameters will be illustrated in detail and from different perspectives via specific examples. Furthermore, the analysis will extend beyond morphological evidence to include the role of sub morphological relicts...
Assuming that linguistic representation has been studied only by linguists using grammaticality judgments, Branigan & Pickering (B&P) present structural priming as a novel alternative. We show that their assumptions are incorrect for cognitive-functional linguistics, exposing converging perspectives on form/meaning pairings between generativists an...
Metaphors are an important tool of political discourse as they help to convey a great deal of information in a concise manner and to collapse complicated issues into more simplified packets of information, by defining patterns of perception to which people can respond (Edelmann 1971: 67). In other words, metaphors are so suitable for political disc...
This contribution focuses on the close link between perception and language. The interaction between perceptual and conceptual parameters will be illustrated in detail and from different perspectives via specific examples. In short, this paper seeks to tackle three questions: first, how aware are we that words are never „innocent”, second, how tran...
How is our knowledge organized, stored, and used?
Persuasions- und Simulationsstrategien im politischen Diskurs am Beispiel der bewussten Einsetzung von Somatismen und dem Aufrufen von Emotionsassoziationen
Gramática Visual/Visual Grammar
Gramática Visual/Visual Grammar
The global obesity epidemic continues to escalate despite decades of international effort. To date, most work in this area has focused on technical requirements and affordances, with little attention to the conceptual structures underlying the framing of health messages received by the general public. We propose that efforts to contain the obesity...
Introducción/ Introduction (Liane Ströbel)
Primera parte
Este volumen es el resultado de un proyecto sobre temas verbales realizado en el Departamento de Lingüística Románica de la Universidad Técnica de Aquisgrán, inspirado en las experiencias obtenidas en los cursos de lingüística y de práctica del idioma. El libro pretende ser un instrumento ú...
Creole languages lexified by Spanish and Portuguese have played a relatively small role in theories of creole genesis, and as a result the histories of vernaculars such as Palenquero, Papiamentu, Cape Verdean Creole, and the Gulf of Guinea creoles (e.g., São Tomense or Annobonese) have typically been considered distinct evolutionary events. In cont...
The talk focuses on the mental representations of grammar. Given the fact that the dynamic processes inherent to grammatical reanalysis cannot be made visible in FMRI, at least at this technical stage, we have chosen to illustrate the transformation processes which take place on the syntactic level, by starting out with a static representation of t...
L’objectif principal de cette approche sémantico-cognitive est de montrer l’influence prédominante du concept de source (approche diachronique) dans les emplois synchroniques d’un verbe. Souvent considéré comme élément pivot dans le processus de composition sémantique, imposant certaines contraintes au reste de l’énoncé, le verbe présente un intérê...
This paper is an attempt to look into patterns of use and variation concerning the conceptualization of ‘fear.’ Analyzing the semantic �eld and syntactic structure of fear expressions in French, the following questions will be tackled: Which of the parameters associated with fear play a role in the linguistic encoding? Are there conceptual di�erenc...
What does it take to describe an emotion? And how can an experience, such as shock, be described? Shock is not really classified as an emotion, due to the fact that it does not display exclusive features, but rather shares its dominant parameters with more prominent emotions, such as e.g. fear. Therefore, it is mostly considered either as something...
Sprache entsteht durch Kommunikationswillen und Gedankenstrukturierungsversuche und ist daher auch immer das Ergebnis von Problemlösungsstrategien (Langacker 2008: 540). Der vorliegende kognitive Ansatz versucht, Motivationen hinter Sprachwandel im Verbbereich aufzudecken. Dabei wird der Schwerpunkt auf dem Französischen und Spanischen liegen, aber...
Posture verbs which allow for an extended locative use, such as sit, stand and lie, make reference to specific parts of the localized object, to the orientation of prominent object axes and to positional information, which are perceived by means of cognitive modules such as gestalt recognition and spatial perception. These properties render posture...
La grammaire ainsi que le lexique d'une langue peuvent être considérés comme des oeuvres d'art cognitives formées à partir de plusieurs stratégies communicatives. Cette étude aura pour objet d'analyser différents exemples issus de plusieurs langues romanes et non-romanes, afin de démontrer que l'emploi de somatismes est très répandu et très pro-duc...
Ensayo de un crimen es una obra en la que nada es lo que parece. Buñuel nos seduce con su universo misterioso y desconcertante, y con su mirada íntima en la vida de sus protagonistas, que se pierden en un laberinto surrealista de planes truncados.
El siguiente análisis ilustrará por medio de la estructura y la narrativa las constelaciones principal...
Douter, c’est examiner, c’est démonter et remonter les idées comme des rouages, sans prévention et sans précipitation …Emile-Auguste Chartier (Alain)
Abstract. The general aim of the paper is to capture the different extensional readings of the stative (e.g. French La route monte ‘The way climbs’) and dynamic uses (e.g. French Pierre monte le table...
Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of the human mind. As far as the exact relationship between the cognitive sciences and other fields is concerned, however, it appears that interdisciplinary exchange often remains unrealized, possibly because of the uni-directional application of theories, concepts, and methods, which impedes the pro...
In dieser Arbeit wird sich auf eine Spurensuche nach der Entstehung einer neuen Kategorie, nämlich Leerverben als paralleler Kopulastrang, begeben. Der Übergang von einem Inhaltselement (Vollverb) zu einem Funktionselement (Leerverb) wird häufig als ein sprachliches «Paradoxon» betrachtet. Am Beispiel von Leerverben wird verdeutlicht, dass der Verl...
