Network analyses of prepositional meaning: Mirroring whose mind—the linguist’s or the language user’s?

Sandra, Dominiek; Rice, Sally

doi:10.1515/cogl.1995.6.1.89

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“…In metaphor studies, Kövecses (2005) concentrates on distinguishing between "real-world" and "culturally-based" metaphoric structures, where for the study of semantic variation and polysemy, Vandeloise (1984), Cuyckens (1993), Dąbrowska (1996), and Tabakowska (2003) inter alia employ spatial representations. Moreover, Sandra & Rice (1995), Cuyckens & al. (1997), and Sandra & Cuyckens (1999) are developing procedures to ascertain the psychological reality of perceptually-based meaning.…”

Section: Cognitive Grammar Cognitive Semantics and Lexicologymentioning

confidence: 98%

Iconicity and the grammar–lexis interface

Glynn¹

2007

Iconicity in Language and Literature

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This study examines the proposal in Cognitive Grammar (Langacker 1987, Talmy 2000 that grammatical classes are iconically motivated. The discussion follows a case-study to test this hypothesis. Using found data, we examine the productivity of a range of grammatical classes across Dutch, English, and German. The study bases its analysis on the lexical concept of precipitation. The perceptual and universal nature of such a concept should be a best-case scenario for iconic motivation of grammatical classes. However, despite this, the test-case produces mixed results. Although the hypothesis is not disproved, we reveal how it cannot, alone, explain the vagaries of lexical -class grammaticality.

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Section: Cognitive Grammar Cognitive Semantics and Lexicologymentioning

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Iconicity and the grammar–lexis interface

Glynn¹

2007

Iconicity in Language and Literature

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“…That words are polysemous is of course not news (see e.g., M. L. Murphy, 2010;Nerlich, 2003;Sandra & Rice, 2009;Tyler & Evans, 2001). The reason polysemy is such a problem for the words-as-mapping view is that it complicates the process of mapping arguably to the point of implausibility.…”

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From words-as-mappings to words-as-cues: the role of language in semantic knowledge

Lupyan

Lewis

2017

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

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Semantic knowledge (or semantic memory) is knowledge we have about the world. For example, we know that knives are typically sharp, made of metal, and that they are tools used for cutting. To what kinds of experiences do we owe such knowledge? Most work has stressed the role of direct sensory and motor experiences. Another kind of experience, considerably less well understood, is our experience with language. We review two ways of thinking about the relationship between language and semantic knowledge: (i) language as mapping onto independently-acquired concepts, and (ii) language as a set of cues to meaning. We highlight some problems with the words-as-mappings view, and argue in favor of the words-as-cues alternative. We then review some surprising ways that language impacts semantic knowledge, and discuss how distributional semantics models can help us better understand its role. We argue that language has an abstracting effect on knowledge, helping to go beyond concrete experiences which are more characteristic of perception and action. We conclude by describing several promising directions for future research. ROLE OF LANGUAGE IN SEMANTIC KNOWLEDGE 3

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“…91-92), "More and more researchers feel that traditional methods of linguistic enquiry, relying mainly on introspective analysis, are not sufficient for the study of cognitive grammar or conceptualization processes." See the study by Sandra and Rice (1995) on prepositional networks, which is discussed in Section 6.2, for an example of criticism.…”

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Complementarity of Space and Time in Distance Representations

Waliński¹

2014

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Network analyses of prepositional meaning: Mirroring whose mind—the linguist’s or the language user’s?

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Iconicity and the grammar–lexis interface

Iconicity and the grammar–lexis interface

From words-as-mappings to words-as-cues: the role of language in semantic knowledge

Complementarity of Space and Time in Distance Representations

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