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Benczes , R. – Ságvári , B. ( 2018 ): Where Metaphors Really Come from: Social Factors as Contextual Influence in Hungarian Teenagers’ Metaphorical Conceptualizations of Life . Cognitive Linguistics 29 ( 1 ): 121 ‒ 54
the beneficial effects of running, and by extension exercise, as opposed to addiction to other behaviours that might have negative consequences. Since Glasser's conceptualisation, there has been a continuous attempt to delimit the negative aspects of
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This paper focusses on the conceptualising function of Scottish Gaelic preposed adjectives (i.e., AN vs. NA phrases). A combined analysis of a corpus study and interviews with native speakers was applied in the research which underlies the article. Preposed adjectives are often encountered with abstract concepts, verbal nouns, or with words with more complex semantics in general, while plain adjectives tend to qualify more tangible, countable nouns, such as people or objects, as well as pronouns. The plain adjective dona ‘bad’ often conveys criticism, and aosta/sean ‘old’ tend to refer to biological (or physical) age. The paper also addresses similarities with other languages.
Scientific discovery is often identified with the sheer observation of a new phenomenon. Thomas Kuhn has convincingly shown this idea to be false, stressing the vital role that theory and conceptualization play in this process. The history of contextual analysis nicely illustrates the validity of Kuhn's argument: although its earliest applications date back to the 19th century, it was not until Paul Lazarsfeld discussed its basic logic in the 1950s that the potentials of this method have been fully noticed. What Lazarsfeld added to isolated uses of this technique was a conceptual framework that greatly facilitated the diffusion of contextual analysis within the sociological community. This example shows that for a new method to get firmly established, mere application is not enough - serious conceptual work is needed as well. It also demonstrates a central characteristic of Lazarfeld's general methodological philosophy - namely, the strong commitment to the explication of the logical foundations of the procedures employed in empirical social research.
The main goal of this article is the reconstruction of the linguistic image of the concept of ‘death’ which has been registered in the actual users of the Polish language. To achieve this, we have used a questionnaire that consisted of 17 questions and was answered by 134 participants. The analysis of the material showed that the definitions found in the dictionaries that reflect the linguistic categorization and conceptualization of the reality, unfortunately, do not consider the full image of the concept of ‘death’ and do not register the actual state of it.
This paper is an attempt to restore the linguistic image of the world recorded in the language of present-day users. The material investigated is based on a questionnaire survey (17 questionnaires, 132 Polish informants). The analysis shows that the cognitive basis of this concept is made up of some profiles, conceptualizations. It may be concluded that this concept is widely regarded as multicategorial (ontological, axiological, biological, social and religious category). The linguistic image of the lexeme ‘life’ in the opinion of the informants markedly differs from those of dictionary definitions.
The methodological task of defining “translation” across languages forms an apparent aporia, since there is no guarantee that the different terms that might express “translation” are in fact translations of each other. One solution is to propose a formal conceptualization of “translation”, in practice a set of criteria, a research filter, that the scholar imposes on the prior multilingual data. However, this act of imposition may neutralize the dynamic variability and historicity of the many culturally different ways of thinking about translation. Here the extent of that imposition is guaged by taking three examples of formal conceptualizations, from Toury, Gutt and Pym, and testing them on three cases of potentially borderline translational practices. It is found that the formal conceptualizations are not simple cultural impositions and can in fact allow considerable space for the historical study of textuality, receptive positions, and the semi-concealed subjectivities of translators.
& Sugawara (2022) reveals that small talk is significant in maintaining mental health. This present study aims to uncover how small talk, 雑談 ( zatsudan ) in Japanese, is evaluated and conceptualised in a Japanese online discussion forum, and to explore the
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how speakers of Polish and Hungarian conceptualize the concept of <death> and <life>, more specifically how they impersonate and animalize it. In this paper, the authors focus only on examples in which the lexemes death and life are treated as a living organism or its parts.
In a recent opinion paper, Dinardi, Egorov, and Szabo (2021) present a theoretical model aimed at “ conceptualizing exercise addiction as a disorder with unique antecedents, contributing factors, and consequences that set it apart from
