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Space in Languages. Linguistic Systems and Cognitive Categories
No full textThe volume under review – Space in Languages. Linguistic Systems and Cognitive Categories, edited by Maya Hickmann and Stéphane Robert, the 66th release in the Typological Studies in Language Series, collects a selection of papers delivered at a conference held in Paris at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in February 2003 under the same title. The volume gathers fifteen chapters in a three-part subdivision: “Typology of linguistic systems: Universals, variability, and change” , “The nature and uses of space in language and discourse”, and “Space, language, and cognition”. These theoretical approaches and methodologies weave together in a complementary fashion with the aim of tackling the issue from an interdisciplinary perspective. The outcome is a thought-provoking and enlightening volume which sheds light on Space from different scientific areas such as typological and diachronic linguistics, psycholinguistics, philosophy, neuroscience, cognitive and developmental psychology
Cognitive Linguistics. Internal Dynamics and Interdisciplinary Interaction
No full textThe book under review – Cognitive Linguistics. Internal Dynamics and Interdisciplinary Interaction edited by Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza and Sandra Peña, the 32nd release in the Cognitive Linguistics Research Series - does justice to its title since it offers detailed and multifaceted accounts of how the theoretical framework of Cognitive Linguistics gathers intra- and interdisciplinary evidence which sheds light onto the centrality of the cognitive commitment in current research. The selection of papers collected in the volume is based on the editors’ aim to testify “to the great tolerance of Cognitive Linguistics towards internal variety and towards external interaction with major linguistic discipline and subdisciplines
Pragmatica e Semantica
No full textSi distinguono due diversi orientamenti nello studio del significato: quello logico-filosofico e quello linguistico-cognitivo (Violi 1997, Albertazzi 2001). In epoca neo-positivista la semantica ha privilegiato lo studio del rapporto semiotico tra segno e denotatum, dando così maggior impulso alla logica formale, e ha tralasciato gli aspetti cognitivi del significato, seppur validamente studiati nella seconda metà del XIX secolo, operando una netta separazione tra lingua e cognizione. È solo negli ultimi trenta anni che, grazie agli eccellenti studi condotti nel campo delle scienze cognitive, lo studio del significato è stato affrontato attraverso modelli che pongono in relazione il significato con la cognizione. Il presente studio presenta in modo critico le teorie di semantica cognitiva, quali: la Teoria dei Prototipi, le Strutture Concettuali, gli Schemi Topologici, i Modelli Cognitive Idealizzati, Metafora e Metonimia, il Linguaggio Figurato, la Motivazione Linguistica, gli Spazi mentali e l'Integrazione Concettuale, la Polisemia, la Semantica dei corpora
Figurativeness all the way down
No full textFigurative language is the outcome of our figurative thought, which derives from the ever-present interconnection between our physical experience and the relation we set up with the cultural context in which we live. Not only are the mind and the body inseparable, but they cannot be reduced to mechanical brain activity or abstract mental representations separated from the whole personhood
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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