Browsing by Subject "Conceptual metaphor"

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    Adding and subtracting by hand: Metaphorical representations of arithmetic in spontaneous co-speech gestures
    Alcaraz Carrion, D.; Alibali, M. W.; Valenzuela Manzanares, J.; Filología Inglesa
    This study investigated the spontaneous co-speech gestures produced by speakers who were talking about the concepts of addition and subtraction in a television news setting. We performed a linguistic and co-speech gesture analysis of expressions related to the concepts of addition (N plus N, addition, add) and subtraction (Nminus N, subtraction, subtract). First, we compared the linguistic frequency of these structures across several corpora. Second, we performed a multimodal gesture analysis, drawing data from a television news repository. We analyzed 423 co-speech gestures (169 for subtraction and 254 for addition) in terms of their axis (e.g., lateral, sagittal) and their direction (e.g., leftwards, away from their body). Third, we examined the semantic properties of the direct object that was added or subtracted. There were two main findings. First, low-frequency linguistic expressions were more likely to be accompanied by co-speech gestures. Second, most gestures about addition and subtraction were produced along the lateral or sagittal axes. When people spoke about addition, they tended to produce lateral, rightwards movements or movements away from the body. When people spoke about subtraction, they tended to produce lateral, leftwards movements or movements towards the body. This co-speech gesture data provides evidence that people activate two different metaphors for arithmetic in spontaneous behavior: ARITHMETIC IS MOTION ALONG A PATH and ARITHMETIC IS COLLECTING OBJECTS.
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    Il discorso sulla pandemia del covid19 nella stampa italiana.
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2023) Paliczuk, Aleksandra
    For over two years the lives of many people have changed signifcantly, the way they spend time, work and communicate has undergone major changes. The pandemic situation has also greatly infuenced the way we perceive the world, our behavior, choices and priorities. In many languages, including Italian, new words and phrases concerning the context of the coronavirus pandemic have appeared more and more frequent. The purpose of this work is to analyze the way in which reality infuences language, particularly the metaphoricity of the covid19-pandemic and its refection in language. The corpus of analysis will consist of journalistic articles and texts published mostly on the Internet, in portals and online magazines, which report current news on Italy and the world.
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    Much more than money: Conceptual integration and the materialization of time in Michael Ende’s Momo and the social sciences.
    (John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012-01) Pagán Cánovas, Cristóbal; Teuschner, Ursina; Filología Inglesa
    We analyze conceptual patterns shared by Michael Ende’s novel about time, Momo, and examples of time conceptualization from psychology, sociology, economics, conventional language, and real social practices. We study three major mappings in the materialization of time: time as money in relation with time banking, time units as objects produced by an internal clock, and time as a substance that flows. We show that binary projections between experiential domains are not enough to model the complexity of meaning construction in these widely successful examples. To account for the intricacies of time materialization in context, we use generic integration templates, models for conceptual templates based on Fauconnier and Turner’s Blending Theory. The interplay of such detailed patterns with pragmatic and cultural factors, including diachronic aspects, is crucial to identify the cognitive models at work, and the factors that guide their instantiations as a variety of surface products. The blending model for the spatialized time can be refined and extended to the materialization of time.