<i>The Fragrance of Flowers</i>, or Metaphoric and Metonymic Pseudonyms

Maalej, Zouheir A.; Alghbban, Mohammed I.; Salamh, Sami Ben

doi:10.1080/10926488.2016.1223467

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“…The analysis below will show how exactly pseudonyms in the TNC access the sociocultural cognition of rural Irish English speakers of the 19th century in order to instil fear. Maleej et al (2016: 212) define pseudonymity as the "adoption of a name different from the one an individual has on his or her official identification card", thus making pseudonyms "names that differ from a person's original orthonym ('true name') and that are assumed for a particular purpose" (Room 2010: 3), such as anonymity (Guenther 2009;Maleej et al 2016). However, Newell (2010: 11) contrasts pseudonymity and pure anonymity; the latter refers to "the voluntary condition of non-being" and the former to "the voluntary condition of being other".…”

Section: A Cognitive Sociolinguistic Perspective On Threatmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pseudonyms as carriers of contextualised threat in 19th-century Irish English threatening notices

Peters

Hattum

2021

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This paper explores functions of pseudonyms in written threatening communication from a cognitive sociolinguistic perspective. It addresses the semantic domains present in pseudonyms in a corpus of 19th-century Irish English threatening notices and their cognitive functions in the construction of both cultural-contextualised threat and the threatener’s identity. We identify eight semantic domains that are accessed recurrently in order to create threat. Contributing to the notion of threat involves menacing war, violence, darkness and perdition directly, while also constructing a certain persona for the threatener that highlights their motivation, moral superiority, historical, local and circumstantial expertise, and their physical and mental aptitude. We argue that pseudonyms contribute to the deontic force of the threat by accessing cultural categories and schemas as well as conceptual metaphors and metonymies. Finally, we suggest that pseudonyms function as post-positioned semantic frame setters, providing a cognitive lens through which the entire threatening notice must be interpreted.

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Section: A Cognitive Sociolinguistic Perspective On Threatmentioning

confidence: 99%