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Balancing acts: Felt qualities of meaning in descriptive gestures and artworks by Paul Klee
Irene Mittelberg (Aachen) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan A201 Based on a comparative semiotic analysis of static abstract works of art and dynamic gestural images, this paper explores the role of embodied conceptual structures as driving forces in the constitution and interpretation of visual signs. One of the underlying assumptions is that despite their metonymic “spareness”, […]
Conceptual Blending in Allegorical Political Rhetoric
William H. McKellin (UBC) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan A201 In this paper I will examine the ability of Blending Theory to represent the emergent mappings of the cognitive allegories (Harris and Tolmie 2011) used by the Managalase of Papua New Guinea to negotiate, create, and manipulate social and political relationships. Blending theory commonly focusses on […]
Frame-Shifting and Creative Adaptation: Anne Carson’s Sublime
Steven Maye (UBC) Friday, May 18th Buchanan B213 Drawing on Fillmore’s frame semantics (1982), Coulson introduced the notion of “frameshifting,” where the reader or listener of a discourse happens upon something that fails to make sense and will thus “search working memory for something that can be reinterpreted,” eventually settling on a new frame that […]
Favorable and Unfavorable Effects: A Typology of Benefactive and Adversative Constructions in Japanese, Korean, and Ainu
Katsunobu Izutsu (Hokkaido) and Takeshi Koguma (Miyazaki) Friday, May 18th Buchanan B215 The present paper attempts a conceptual analysis of Japanese, Korean, and Ainu benefactive and adversative constructions, demonstrating that their differences are identifiable as different stages in the grammatical development in which the speaker-oriented notion of (un)favorableness is extended to second- and third-person entities. […]
Conjunctions and sentence-final particles: two processes of grammaticalization
Mitsuko Narita Izutsu (Fuji Women’s) & Katsunobu Izutsu (Hokkaido) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan A hallway on the 2nd floor Observing the “final but” phenomena, Mulder and Thompson (2006, 2008) postulate a grammaticization continuum from “initial but” to “final but” with no “leap” (2008: 196). According to their account, “final but” is divided into three stages […]
Effects of gesture and motion type on word learning in Spanish
Samantha N. Emerson, Şeyda Özçalışkan, Gwen Frishkoff (Georgia SU), & Iria G. Romay-Fernández (Santiago de Compostela) Friday, May 18th Buchanan A201 Languages use different typological strategies to express different aspects of motion events. For example, Spanish typically expresses path of motion in the verb, while English expresses path information outside the verb (e.g., particles, prepositions) […]
When actions speak: Embodied effects on non-literal uses of spatial terms
Marlene E. Burke (Louisiana) and Michele I. Feist (Lafayette) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan B215 Embodied views of language suggest that spatial concepts, formed from our direct physical experience with our environment, are reflected in more abstract uses of spatial language (Bergen et al., 2007; Glenberg & Kaschak, 2002; Lakoff, 1987; Zwaan, 1999). These accounts find […]
A Systemic Functional Analysis of English and Persian Creative Advertising Discourse
Pardis Zaferani (Islamic Azad) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan A hallway on the 2nd floor Advertisement as influential mode of discourse is a good instance of the creative use of persuasive strategies which can be demonstrated through language; accordingly, it is still language that forms the crucial part and distinctive function of advertising. The present comparative […]
More is bigger: Physical size in mental arithmetic
Bodo Winter & Teenie Matlock (UC, Merced) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan B213 In our everyday lifes, we constantly add and subtract quantities, for example when checking whether we have enough money in our pocket to do the grocery’s. How do we perform these mental calculations? One view contends that the process of mental arithmetic can […]
Reconstructing Water metaphor in portraying modern China and its minorities in Zhang Yang’s “Shower.”
Julia Vorontsova (UBC) Thursday, May 17th The Coach House, Green College – 6201 Cecil Green Park Road This paper discusses the issue of Chinese minority representation. Minorities are generally viewed as Chinaʼs “own internal Other”. While the concept of family is often applied to present the relationship between the minorities and a probably illusory1, Han […]