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Riemer, Nick – Language Sciences, 2013
A familiar assumption in much linguistic semantics is that meanings are to be identified conceptually as, or as subparts of, the conceptual representations deployed in general cognitive processes. However, this assumption has increasingly come into question as a result of developments in the study of cognition both within and outside linguistics.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Semantics, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory
Willems, Klaas – Language Sciences, 2012
This article explores the relationship between intuition, introspection and the observation of naturally occurring utterances in linguistic inquiry. Its focus is on the problems that this relationship poses in cognitive approaches to semantics and case theory within the framework of Cognitive Grammar. Given the increasing commitment of linguistics…
Descriptors: Intuition, Semantics, Cognitive Processes, Grammar
Allan, Keith – Language Sciences, 2010
Rob MacLaury's Vantage Theory, VT, models the way in which a cognizer constructs, recalls, uses, and modifies a category in terms of point of view or vantage. Alongside of VT, there is place for the kind of semantic specification found in the lexicon. VT2 [Allan, Keith, 2002. "Vantage theory, VT2, and number." "Language Sciences" 24(5-6), 679-703…
Descriptors: Semantics, Linguistics, Classification, Cognitive Processes
Grace, Caroline A.; Glaz, Adam – Language Sciences, 2010
This study explores some specific aspects of compatibility between cognitive models. Robert E. MacLaury's theory of vantages as arrangements of coordinates and Lakoff's concept of radial categories are mutually reinforcing to an analysis of semantic polysemy. Vantage Theory (VT) includes the notions of "zooming in" and "zooming out", allowing…
Descriptors: Semantics, Spanish, Models, Cultural Influences
Smith, Michael B. – Language Sciences, 2009
Studies on complementation in English and other languages have traditionally focused on syntactic issues, most notably on the constituent structures of different complement types. As a result, they have neglected the role of meaning in the choice of different complements. This paper investigates the semantics of complementation within the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Grammar, English, Linguistic Theory
Riddle, Elizabeth M. – Language Sciences, 2010
This article discusses some apparently paradoxical behavior of the English demonstratives "this/these" and "that/those" as determiners of proper nouns and as metaphorical signals of epistemic and affective stance within the proximal-distal opposition. It is argued that the apparent paradoxes are actually cases of shifting perspectives or points of…
Descriptors: English, Nouns, Semantics, Linguistics
Fabiszak, Malgorzata – Language Sciences, 2010
This paper is an application of Robert E. MacLaury's Vantage Theory (VT) to the analysis of real life spoken discourse. It utilizes Dennis R. Preston's (1994) modification of MacLaury's VT. It elucidates how cognitive processes of coordinate selection and combination contribute to the on-line construction of category membership in the abstract…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Self Concept, Discourse Analysis
Winters, Margaret E. – Language Sciences, 2010
Vantage Theory (VT) and Cognitive Grammar (CG) both rely crucially on the cognitive phenomenon of categorization as well as on the semantic/pragmatic notion of participant point of view in making claims about human linguistic production and perception. In this paper these commonalities of commitment are explored, as are the differences in the ways…
Descriptors: Semantics, Old English, Pragmatics, Classification
Stanulewicz, Danuta – Language Sciences, 2010
The Polish set of terms for blue includes, inter alia, the following adjectives: "niebieski" "blue", "blekitny" "(sky) blue", "granatowy" "navy blue", "lazurowy" "azure", "modry" "(intense) blue" and "siny" "(grey) violet-blue". The adjective "niebieski" is the basic term; however, it shares some of its functions with "blekitny", which is…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Negative Attitudes, Color, Semantics
Anishchanka, Alena – Language Sciences, 2010
The article presents a usage-based analysis of color attribution, i.e. the construal of the relation between color property and an entity to which it is attributed in painting descriptions. The study is based on the corpus of 100 catalog entries written for American art museums. It focuses on the two most frequent morpho-syntactic patterns in the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Museums, Classification, Content Analysis
Niewiara, Aleksandra – Language Sciences, 2010
The paper investigates Polish punk and hip hop (rap) song lyrics broken down into frequency lists. In an analysis inspired by MacLaury's view of categorization, the construals of punk and hip hop worldviews are shown to vary in the distance of the observer from the world, the width of the viewing frame, as well as the granularity and density of…
Descriptors: Singing, Form Classes (Languages), Polish, Popular Culture

Ruuskanen, Deborah D. K. – Language Sciences, 1996
Professional translators were asked what questions they asked the clients before accepting a commission, and were then asked to comment on how the answers to these questions affected the translation assignment. The creation of an "implied reader" by the translator is posited, and a variable definition of equivalence is proposed, based on pragmatic…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Context Effect, Interpreters, Interviews

Strohner, Hans; Brose, Roselore – Language Sciences, 1992
A cognitive systems approach of linguistic knowledge is outlined. According to this view, linguistic knowledge or cognitive grammar is part of the coherent structure and function of a cognitive system that is able to process language. (97 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Grammar, Language Processing, Linguistic Theory

Langacker, Ronald W. – Language Sciences, 1993
Some basic notions of cognitive grammar are introduced in a discussion that emphasizes the importance to linguistic semantics of the way in which we construe a perceived situation. It is concluded that developing an optimal account of semantic structure and of grammatical structure are best conceived as simultaneous, mutually informative…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Linguistic Theory

Allan, Keith – Language Sciences, 2002
Reviews vantage theory and makes a claim that it does not replace, but coexists with a semantics for color terms. Identifies basic facts about countability in English, and presents further evidence of the fact that the grammar of number and quantification in English is exploited to reveal different conceptualizations of what is spoken of. Claims…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Color, Concept Formation, English
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