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The papers in this book address the most fundamental, currently investigated problems in cognitive linguistics in a wide spectrum of perspectives. Apart from some traditional descriptions of particular metaphors and metonymies, there are analyses of spatio-temporal relations, motion and stillness, iconicity, force dynamics, as well as subjectivity and objectivity in language. The analyses are based on a number of languages: English, Polish, Russian, German, Lithuanian, Italian and Danish. The essays represent case studies, theoretical analyses as well as practical applications.
List of contents
Contents: Boguslaw Bierwiaczonek: On constructivization - a few remarks on the role of metonymy in grammar - Beata Brzozowska-Zburzynska: A concept of container in temporal phrases - a comparative study - Marta Falkowska: Subjectivity and objectivity in language as seen by Louis Hjelmslev and Ronald W. Langacker - Blazej Garczynski: A cognitive analysis of spatial particles in Danish ENHEDSFORBINDELSER and corresponding compounds - Agnieszka Gicala: A cognitive analysis of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its Polish translations: linguistic worldview in translation criticism - Adam Glaz: When -ities collide. Virtuality, actuality, reality - Anna Kedra-Kardela: Iconicity and the literary text: A cognitive analysis - Krzysztof Kosecki: On multiple metonymic mappings in signed languages - Marcin Kuczok: The metonymic mappings within the event schema in noun-to-verb back-formations - Anna Kuncy-Zajac: The concepts of sleep and death in the Italian language and the unidirectionality of metaphor - Marek Kuzniak / Jacek Wozny: Linguistic Force Dynamics and physics - Katarzyna Kwapisz-Osadnik: The notion of prototype in linguistics and didactics, revisited - Aleksandra Majdzinska: Using cognitive tools in analysing variant construals: the remakes of «The Scream» by Edvard Munch - Józef Marcinkiewicz: The metaphor in feedback transfer in L2 acquisition (with some examples of the interaction between the Polish and Lithuanian languages) - Jolanta Mazurkiewicz-Sokolowska: The process of language acquisition by a child with profound hearing loss and co-existing defects as a contribution to the proposal on the need for a comprehensive approach to the phenomenon of human language capability - Maciej Paprocki: Infecting the body politic? Modern and post-modern (ab)use of Immigrants Are Invading Pathogens metaphor in American socio-political discourse - Judit Pethö-Szirmai: A cognitive investigation of the category of sin - Malgorzata Plominska: Linguistic and cultural image of the notion of 'death' in Polish and German - Joanna Podhorodecka: 'Do we always like doing the things that we like to do?' Non-finite complementation of the verb Like - Beata Rycielska: What do the Russian prefixes -, - and the preposition have in common and what makes them different? - Olga Sokolowska: Metonymy and metaphor as merging categories. A study of linguistic expressions referring to the face - Elzbieta Tabakowska: Iconicity and (cognitive) grammar: where shall the twain meet? - Jacek Tadeusz Walinski: Motion as a modulator of spatiotemporal relations in prepositional expressions of distance - Ewa Wychorska: Abstract vs concrete: contrastive analysis of the conceptualization of stillness and motion in Polish and English - Magdalena Zyga: Conceptual-linguistic creativity in poetic texts as a potential source of translation problems.
About the author
Aleksander Szwedek is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Social Sciences in Warsaw. His current interest is the theory of metaphor: the importance of touch and object in metaphorization.
Kinga Rudnicka-Szozda is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Social Sciences in Warsaw. She is currently interested in cognitive pragmatics and cross-cultural communication.
