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Imagined English: The language of the future sections in David Mitchell’s novel Cloud Atlas
Lieven Vandelanotte (Namur) Friday, May 18th Buchanan B213 Download PDF
Ad hoc concept as source domain in novel metaphor
Esther Romero & Belén Soria (Granada, Spain) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan B215 An ad hoc concept is one that is made up on the spot, that the speaker is most unlikely to have had ready-made before the occasion of the utterance (Barsalou 1983). An example of ad hoc concept is GOOD THINGS TO STAND ON […]
A story-prefacing resource in conversational English
Russell Lee-Goldman (UCB) Sunday, May 20th Buchanan B213 Stories are a key component of everyday conversation, but are difficult to execute successfully (Labov 1972, 1981, 1997; Jefferson 1978, Norrick 2005). Storytelling requires a combination of meta-discursive and semantic techniques: the speaker must hold the floor for an extended period, maintain the recipients’ attention, and ensure […]
The Indefinite Article in Complex Quantifiers
Ronald W. Langacker (UCSD) Friday, May 18th Buchanan A201 The meaning and grammatical status of the indefinite article in core English quantifiers—notably a few, a little, a lot of—are examined from the standpoint of Cognitive Grammar. Arguments are given that these expressions are analyzable, that the initial element grounds the quantifying noun, and that it […]
The Emergence of Null Object Constructions in Child Acquisition of English
Christina Galeano (SFU) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan A hallway on the 2nd floor In English, null object constructions are identified by optionally or normally transitive verbs that show up without an overt object, often in “recipe” and instruction contexts like the examples below. (1) –Mix well and bring to a boil (2) -We have to […]
Convergence in Music and Language Syntactic Representations
Christina Galeano (SFU) Thursday, May 17th The Coach House, Green College – 6201 Cecil Green Park Road Hierarchical structure is one unique property of human language, setting it apart from other forms of animal communication. Similarly, the curious ability to produce music exists in all human cultures, also set apart from other species by its […]
How can a voice be velvety? Synaesthesia between metaphor and conceptual blending
Maria Catricalà (Roma Tre University) and Annarita Guidi (Roma Tre University) Friday, May 18th Buchanan A201 Rhetoric represents an interesting field for the comprehension of the innovative potential of the cognitive paradigm, and the highlighting of the embodied nature of language and interconnections among experiential, neural, linguistic and cultural processes. Within the reanalysis of the […]
Iconic Gestures of a Human-Fostered Gorilla
Marcus Perlman (The Gorilla Foundation), Francine G. Patterson (The Gorilla Foundation), and Ronald H. Cohn (The Gorilla Foundation) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan B215 Download PDF
Some Affinities Between Music and Language
Geoffrey S. Nathan (Wayne) Friday, May 18th Buchanan A201 This talk will examine some recent research in musical cognition and explore how what we understand about our perception and storage of music is paralleled by some aspects of how language is processed. Using the concept of image schema transformation (Lakoff 1987) as a central pivot […]
Think of it as: Spacebuilders and Grounding in Public Science Discourse
Carol Lynn Moder (Oklahoma State University) Friday, May 18th Buchanan B215 In cognitive linguistics, early studies of metaphor gave scant attention to the form of metaphorical expressions and their relation to their discourse context (Lakoff and Johnson 1980, 1999). In Blending Theory, Fauconnier & Turner (2002) do grant a role to form by positing that […]