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Meaning and Cognition SIG 22-23-CV
Meaning and Cognition SIG 22-23-CV
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Analysis of meaning 2022-23
1. Cognitive semantics
2. Categorization
3. Metaphor and metonymy
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Basic tenets:
1) Rejection of a modular approach to language
2) Identification of meaning with “conceptual
structure”
3) Rejection of syntax-semantics distinction
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Prototypes 1
Prototypes 2
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Exercise 1
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Important:
Culture plays a role in protypicality, e.g. apple and
guava.
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3.1. Metaphor
3.2. Metonymy
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(11)’ MORE IS UP
SD: up
TD: more
(12)’ LESS IS DOWN
SD: down
TD: less
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Main metaphors
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Summary:
Metaphors structure thinking.
Metaphors structure knowledge.
Metaphors are grounded in physical experience.
Metaphors are ideological.
Their cognitive function is to enable to
understand the target by means of the structure
of the source (by means of conceptual mappings).
The source domain provides a relatively rich
knowledge for the target concept.
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Usual metonymies
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