Alexander Onysko's research while affiliated with Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt and other places
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Publications (39)
The global reach of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing localized policy reactions provides a case to uncover how a global crisis translates into linguistic discourse. Based on the JSI Timestamped Web Corpora that are automatically POS-tagged and accessible via SketchEngine, this study compares French, German, Dutch, and English. After identifyin...
The global spread of English, manifest in multiple Englishes around the world, and its role as a global language continue to be dynamically evolving areas of investigation. A range of studies have emerged along related strands of research concerned with the global spread and creation of Englishes (World Englishes); the use of English as an addition...
Capturing the intense interest in research on Englishes worldwide, Bloomsbury Advances in World Englishes promotes approaches to the complexities of world Englishes from a multitude of linguistic perspectives. Responding to recent trends in socio-cognitive, critical sociolinguistic, contact linguistic and communication-based research, books in this...
Psycholinguistic research has shown that conceptual metaphors influence how people produce and understand language (e.g. So far, investigations have mostly paid attention to non-poetic metaphor comprehension. This focus stems from the original discovery of Conceptual Metaphor Theory that much of everyday, non-poetic language is metaphorical. The pr...
English in the German-Speaking World - edited by Raymond Hickey December 2019
Psycholinguistic research has shown that conceptual metaphors influence how people produce and understand language (e.g., Gibbs 1994, 2017a; Kövecses, 2010; Jacobs & Kinder 2017). So far, investigations have mostly paid attention to non-poetic metaphor comprehension. This focus stems from the original discovery of Conceptual Metaphor Theory that mu...
This study investigates the use of conceptual metaphors by Donald Trump in three important political speeches on his way to the US presidency: the acceptance speech of his candidacy, the victory speech on election night, and his inaugural address as president of the US. The consistent analysis of all the metaphors in the speeches shows that Trump r...
This paper contributes to research on metaphor variation in the context of world Englishes from a theoretical and an empirical point of view. Starting with a discussion of the strife between universality and cultural specificity in conceptual metaphor research, basic dimensions of variation are outlined that are relevant to conceptual metaphor theo...
This article explores the hypothesis that bilingual knowledge of different compounding patterns can influence the interpretation of a set of novel English noun-noun compounds. The focus of the study is on bilingual speakers who are fluent in two typologically diverse languages: te reo Māori (postmodifying) and English (premodifying). A comparison o...
Research into world Englishes has continued to expand and diversify since the publication of foundational studies in the late 1970s and early 1980s. From then on, the question of how to model the plurality of Englishes has inspired a range of answers given in different theoretical models. After tracing some of the major approaches to classifying th...
Language contact has continued to play a role in world Englishes research, but its potential for analyzing Englishes and for mapping their diversity has not yet been applied in a comprehensive manner. This introduction to the special issue addresses different facets of the connection between language contact and world Englishes. The seven articles...
This article focuses on automatic text classification which aims at identifying the first language (L1) background of learners of English. A particular question arising in the context of automated L1 identification is whether any features that are informative for a machine learning algorithm relate to L1-specific transfer...
This study aims to contribute to research on whether bilinguals show increased creativity in a verbal task when compared to monolinguals. In line with previous research, creativity is linked to divergent thinking, and a particular focus is laid on figurative associations among the monolingual and bilingual speakers. To investigate potential differe...
Talk in the Work in Progress Series at the Kompetenzzentrum Sprachen, Freie Universität Bozen
This paper is concerned with the success of loanwords in a recipient language compared to their native equivalents, and it aims at determining why some borrowings are more successful than others. This issue is explored with the example of highly frequent anglicisms entering German as non-catachrestic loans (cf. Onysko and Winter-Froemel 2011) and c...
When English nouns are borrowed into German, they need to be assigned grammatical gender. Since grammatical gender information is not present in English, the integration of anglicisms in German offers the opportunity to investigate regularities of gender assignment. Furthermore, it can be expected that the integration of loanwords can cause some va...
This chapter examines variation in gender assignment to English loanwords -a phenomenon that has rarely been studied on a large empirical basis to date. We report on a multi-method study of gender assignment to Anglicisms as evidenced by large newspaper corpora and experimental data elicited from German native speakers, allowing empirically well-gr...
While certain Anglicisms (e.g. Event and Kids in German) typically appear as marked lexical choices, such effects are absent in other Anglicisms (e.g. Film and PC in German). In order to investigate these different pragmatic interpretations, we consider the criterion of whether an Anglicism exists alongside a semantically-close equivalent in the re...
Departing from the traditional and controversial distinction between necessary and luxury loans, this paper proposes a differentiation into catachrestic and non-catachrestic innovations which mirror two general pragmatic effects of borrowings. As such, the paper deconstructs the notions of necessary and luxury loans and proposes a new set of terms...
This study investigates hybrid compound formation of Maori and English terms in present day New Zealand English (NZE). On the background of Maori and English language contact, the phenomenon of hybrid compounding emerges as a process that, on the one hand, symbolizes the vitality of the Maori element in NZE and, on the other hand, marks the integ...
A case study of discourse on anglicisms in German.
“By recognizing our uncanny strangeness, we shall neither suffer from it nor enjoy it from the outside. The foreigner is within me, hence we are all foreigners. If I am a foreigner, there are no foreigners.” (Julia Kristeva, Strangers to Ourselves (1991)).
Is Kristeva's dissolution of the notion ‘f...
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... In this more recent work, researchers have emphasized the importance of usage-based analyses of the negotiation between English as the linguistic signpost of globalization and the local host languages-which we can consider as a type of "glocalization" (Androutsopoulos, 2010;Garley, 2018). The goal is to uncover (1) the characteristics of users and contexts of English insertions (e.g., Zenner et al., 2014;Vaattovaara and Peterson, 2019); (2) the semantic and socio-pragmatic nuances offered by English loans, often in comparison with alternative lexicalizations available in the receptor language (e.g., Onysko and Winter-Froemel, 2011); (3) the impact of using English insertions on the way messages and their senders are being evaluated (Van Meurs, 2010 on attitudes toward English in Dutch job ads); (4) agentivity and creativity in how different linguistic manifestations of English influence are embedded in the receptor language, both in form and in function (e.g., Andersen, 2014;Peterson and Beers Fägersten, 2018;Onysko, 2021). This paper aims to add to this latter line of research, which has opened up attention for understudied phenotypes of contact-induced variation and change that go beyond the borrowing of individual lexical items (loanwords) from English. ...
... The current state-of-the-art in metaphor detection is achieved by neural methods, enriched with contextual word embeddings (such as ELMo (Peters et al., 2018) Impressive results 1 were presented in the 2018 Metaphor Detection Shared Task (Leong et al., 2018), with most of the groups using neural models with other linguistic elements like POS tags, Word-Net features, concreteness scores and more (Wu et al., 2018;Swarnkar and Singh, 2018;Pramanick et al., 2018;Bizzoni and Ghanimifard, 2018), as well as in the more recent 2020 Shared Task (Leong et al., 2020), with the majority of groups using some variation of BERT in addition to the other features Gao and Zhang, 2002;Kuo and Carpuat, 2020;Torres Rivera et al., 2020;Kumar and Sharma, 2020;Hall Maudslay et al., 2020;Stemle and Onysko, 2020;Liu et al., 2020;Brooks and Youssef, 2020;Alnafesah et al., 2020;Wan et al., 2020;Dankers et al., 2020). ...
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... Several researchers have investigated the use of conceptual metaphors in different types of discourse and genres, such as political discourse, religious discourse, economic discourse, newspaper articles, advertisement, literature, lyrics, etc (Abdelhameed, 2019;Charteris-Black, 2004;El-Sharif, 2011;Fargal & Mansour, 2020;Jannah & Istiqomah, 2021;Lapka 2021;Lenard and Ćosić 2017;Liao 2020;Linkevičiūtė 2013;Kamaliah, 2013;Kuczok, 2010;Miao 2023;Pilyarchuk and Onysko 2018;Pratiwi et al 2020;Qodirova 2022;Rasse et al. 2020;Abu Rumman, 2021;Rumman et al., 2022;Xianrong and Xingliang, 2009;Xiaqing 2017;Zibin 2018, among others). ...
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... Английский язык активно проникает также в неформальные сферы коммуникации (молодежные субкультуры, популярную культуру, моду, музыку, кино и т. д.), обеспечивая доминирование в восприятии того, что престижно и референтно на «низовом» уровне. В числе источников стоит упомянуть [8,13,24,30,37]. ...
... Several researchers have investigated the use of conceptual metaphors in different types of discourse and genres, such as political discourse, religious discourse, economic discourse, newspaper articles, advertisement, literature, lyrics, etc (Abdelhameed, 2019;Charteris-Black, 2004;El-Sharif, 2011;Fargal & Mansour, 2020;Jannah & Istiqomah, 2021;Lapka 2021;Lenard and Ćosić 2017;Liao 2020;Linkevičiūtė 2013;Kamaliah, 2013;Kuczok, 2010;Miao 2023;Pilyarchuk and Onysko 2018;Pratiwi et al 2020;Qodirova 2022;Rasse et al. 2020;Abu Rumman, 2021;Rumman et al., 2022;Xianrong and Xingliang, 2009;Xiaqing 2017;Zibin 2018, among others). ...
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... These approaches used novel features for processing the task. Since the use of metaphors changes among different levels of language proficiency, Stemle and Onysko (2018) trained the word embeddings with multiple learner corpora, simulating the human learning process. However, the learner data with low proficiency levels could result in linguistic errors and noises, such as grammar mistakes. ...
... Following this philosophy, we arrive at the conclusion that "script theory is rather vague and ill-defined" (291). Attardo and Raskin's employment of the two terms script and frame, albeit not directly motivated from a cognitive linguistic perspective, is seen as relating very closely to the Fillmorian notion of frame (Onysko 2016). In other words, although differences exist in the scope of these knowledge-structures (e.g., scripts denote stereotyped sequences of actions), the same ideas are essentially conveyed by such concepts (den Uyl and Oostendorp 1980;van Dijk and Kintsch 1983). ...
... Some evidence regarding this comes from studies of word choice transfer, a type of lexical transfer whereby a person's knowledge of a language influences their choice of words in another language [21][22][23][24]. This transfer means that learners' use of specific words and phrases -referred to as lexical signature, lexical style, or wordprints-can be used in stylometry to aid L1 identification [21,22]. ...
... The presence of a source domain can automatically activate its target domain and thus implicitly facilitate our cognitive process. Embodied metaphorical association between a source domain and a target domain is defined and molded by both human common living conditions and cultures (Callies & Onysko, 2017;Kövecses, 2018;Musolff, 2016;Xu & Sharifian, 2017). For example, a metaphorical expression of "cold and lonely" can be constructed by repeated experiencing body warmth and physical proximity of caregivers from infancy. ...
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... However, variation does not occur similarly in every kind of conceptual metaphor, but asymmetrically, depending on the degree of specificity of the metaphorical mapping analysed. According to Onysko (2017), variation is expected to be lower in primary metaphors mapping basic and experienced concepts, while the degree of variation increases in complex metaphors and elaborations of conceptual metaphors. The maximum degree of variation is assumed to occur in the surface of language, in metaphorical expressions. ...
