The Structure of Ambiguity Phenomena (Based on Cognitive Analyses of the Ways in Which Politicians Communicate)

• Authors: Dobrosz-Michiewicz, Karolina

Abstracts

EN

The paper presents the ambiguity phenomena in terms of cognitive categorization and blending processes. The analyses of politicians’ programme speeches, based on Lakoff’s and Langacker’s semantics and Langacker’s grammar research, result in describing the ambiguity phenomena as sender’s or receiver’s mental concepts rather than relating it to linguistic properties of the message. Moreover, a cognitive point of view in the research on ambiguity reveals its multilevelled structure, which stems from the polysemic nature of mental categories and blends.

Keywords

EN

ambiguity; cognitive phenomena; mental categorization; cognitive grammar; cognitive semantics; multilevelled ambiguity

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 35
• Issue: 5

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

author

Dobrosz-Michiewicz, Karolina

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The University of Lodz, Faculty of Philology, Department of Journalism and Communication

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Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11089/21397

DOI

10.18778/1505-9057.35.06