Les modalités de perception visuelle et auditive

Enghels, Renata

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“…Furthermore, ‘being audible’ entails producing a sound signal, whereas ‘being visible’ is the result of being present in the perceiver's field of view. In this sense, an auditory signal is more autonomous of the perceiving experiencer than a visual signal (see Enghels 2007:28–32; Huumo 2010:87–88) 16…”

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Being perceptible: Animacy, existentiality and intersubjectivity in constructions with the Finnish verbkuulua‘to be perceptible (through hearing)’

Peltola¹

2018

Nord J Linguist

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This paper deals with the grammatical differences and overlaps between the uses of the Finnishkuuluaas a verb of auditory perceptibility (‘to be audible’) and as a verb of appearance, when employed in negative clauses (‘to be imperceptible (through unspecified sensory input)’). Both meanings entail perceptibility, existentiality and motion from the experienced towards the experiencer. However, they differ significantly in regard to the nature of the motion as well as the degree of animacy of the subject referent. As a verb of auditory perceptibility,kuuluaaccepts mainly inanimate subjects referring to a perceivable sound. As a verb of appearance,kuuluais mostly used with animate subjects. The semantic difference between the two constructions is accounted for in terms of objective and intersubjective meaning construal. The potential movement of a sound towards the experiencer concerns the relationship between the world and the subject of conceptualization, whereas the non-appearance of an animate being is viewed on the level of intersubjective cognitive coordination, with regard to interactional expectations. The results of this study shed light on the complex semantics of perceptibility. The analysis is based on 1,528 occurrences ofkuuluain dialectal and literary data.

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Being perceptible: Animacy, existentiality and intersubjectivity in constructions with the Finnish verbkuulua‘to be perceptible (through hearing)’

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2018

Nord J Linguist

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“…Thus, the subject of visual perception has more control over the perception event than the subject of auditory perception, who is less agentive (e.g. Enghels 2007b;Ibarretxe-Antuñano 1999;Sweetser 1990; Sekuler & Blake 2006 5 among others).…”

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“…This means that concrete human and animate entities are potentially dynamic whereas abstract and inanimate entities are not. However, within the category of the inanimates, non-dynamic entities, such as a house or a table, oppose to inanimates which 'auto-control' their activities, such as a car or the wind (see Enghels 2007bEnghels , 2009. Table 4 establishes a correlation between the dynamicity of NP 2 and its case marking: These data show that human NP 2 s are predominantly marked by the dative (86.8%) (27a) and that the number decreases with non-human animate entities (50.6%) (27bc), and certainly with inanimate entities.…”

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“…For a more detailed analysis of these notions see for instanceHolierhoek (1980, chap. 1),Kirsner & Thompson (1976: 206-207) andEnghels (2007b).…”

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“…Definite stimuli are proper names(Juan, Miguel,…) and NPs introduced by the definite article (el, la, los, las), a demonstrative (este, esa, aquellos,…) or possessive adjective(mi, tu, nuestros, vuestras,…); indefinite stimuli are NPs introduced by the indefinite article(un, una, unos, unas), a numeral adjective(dos, mil,…) or an indefinite quantifier (tantos, otros,…)(Enghels 2007b). 9 It should however be taken into account that these data have been calculated in the specific corpus of PVs followed by an infinitive construction.…”

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Transitivity of Spanish perception verbs: a gradual category?

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2013

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This article examines to what extent perception verbs occurring in a syntactically transitive scheme are also semantically transitive. Indeed, since the perception process represents a mental rather than a physical contact between the perceiver/subject and the stimulus/object, it should be distinguished from the prototypical transfer of energy. It is shown that the semantic and conceptual differences between the perception modalities influence on the linguistic behaviour of Spanish perception verbs. In this perspective, the verbs ver (to see), oír (to hear), mirar (to look at) and escuchar (to listen to) are ranged on a scale of transitivity. The validity of the elaborated hierarchy of transitivity is verified by means of empirical data. Based on a large corpus of infinitive constructions, it will be examined to what extent the position of a perception verb on the scale of transitivity correlates with the preferred case markings of its stimulus/object. A specific morphosyntactic phenomenon is studied, namely the special marking of the DO by the prepositional accusative. 2007

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Les modalités de perception visuelle et auditive

Cited by 18 publications

References 89 publications

Being perceptible: Animacy, existentiality and intersubjectivity in constructions with the Finnish verbkuulua‘to be perceptible (through hearing)’

Being perceptible: Animacy, existentiality and intersubjectivity in constructions with the Finnish verbkuulua‘to be perceptible (through hearing)’

Transitivity of Spanish perception verbs: a gradual category?

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