Gesturing the source domain

Lederer, Jenny

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“…Interestingly, the multimodal analysis by Lederer (2019) has offered similar conclusions. Lederer found that for transgender individuals coming out (and gender transition) is also understood in terms of JOURNEY, and crossing a certain boundary (2019, pp.40-41).…”

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Metaphors of coming out in Polish: A cognitive linguistic approach

Dyrmo

2023

Topics in Linguistics

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The following qualitative study focuses on the metaphors of coming out in the Polish language. Native Polish speakers were asked to define coming out and then describe their coming out experiences. Data from 94 participants were analysed. The results from the analysis show that, consistently with the previous study on English data (Dyrmo, 2022b), coming out metaphors are based on several different conceptual structures and meaning foci, for example the image schema of FORCE and CONTAINER, the concept of openness and visibility, the domain of MOVEMENT and TRANSFER, the frame of SHARING AN OBJECT and two discursively oriented metaphorical scenarios: COMING OUT IS MAKING YOUR ORIENTATION VISIBLE TO OTHERS and COMING OUT IS SHIFTING A HEAVY OBJECT OFF YOUR SHOULDERS. The present analysis lays ground for further multimodal analyses of coming out metaphors.

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Section: Coming Out In Linguistic Researchmentioning

confidence: 61%

Metaphors of coming out in Polish: A cognitive linguistic approach

Dyrmo

2023

Topics in Linguistics

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Gender is a multifaceted concept: evidence that specific life experiences differentially shape the concept of gender

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Gender has been the focus of linguistic and psychological studies, but little is known about its conceptual representation. We investigate whether the conceptual structure of gender – as expressed in participants’ free-listing responses – varies according to gender-related experiences in line with research on conceptual flexibility. Specifically, we tested groups that varied by gender identity, sexual orientation, and gender-normativity. We found that different people stressed distinct aspects of the concept. For example, normative individuals mainly relied on a bigenderist conception (e.g., male/female; man/woman), while non-normative individuals produced more aspects related to social context (e.g., queer, fluidity, construction). At a broader level, our results support the idea that gender is a multifaceted and flexible concept, constituted by social, biological, cultural, and linguistic components. Importantly, the meaning of gender is not exhausted by the classical dichotomy opposing sex, a biological fact, with gender as its cultural counterpart. Instead, both aspects are differentially salient depending on specific life experiences.

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Levels of metaphor in gesture

Dyrmo

2023

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The present contribution integrates a recent, multilevel approach to metaphor advanced by Kövecses (2017 and later publications), with gestures as a mode of metaphorical expression. In doing so, the paper shows how different elements of conceptual structure, varying from the abstract, recurring image schema, through more complex conceptual domains and frames, to contextually embedded and variable metaphorical scenarios, participate in the metaphoricity of gestures. This application of gestures to the multilevel approach lends direct support to the idea that human conceptual system recruits various semiotic modes – not limited to language – for expressing its content. Image schemas of object and source-path-goal have been shown to participate directly in the domain of transfer, which, when embedded in context of a given communicative situation, has become the conceptual frame of coming out. The frame, when realised via different gestural forms in a shared context across many speakers, turns into a highly context-sensitive, variable, and speech co-expressive gestural metaphorical scenario of coming out is showing an object.

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Gesturing the source domain

Cited by 5 publications

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Metaphors of coming out in Polish: A cognitive linguistic approach

Metaphors of coming out in Polish: A cognitive linguistic approach

Gender is a multifaceted concept: evidence that specific life experiences differentially shape the concept of gender

Levels of metaphor in gesture

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