Problem ogólnych pojęć abstrakcyjnych w kontekście językoznawstwa kognitywnego

• Authors: Marzena Fornal

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The problem of general abstract concepts in the context of cognitive linguistics

Abstracts

EN

It is now widely believed that the assumptions of the first cognitivist approach in linguistics should be completely replaced by the embodiment paradigm. While there is widespread agreement that the grounding problem is well understood in conceptual metaphor theory, a serious problem arises when trying to explain the mechanism of the emergence of abstract concepts (ungrounding problem, Dove 2016). In this article, I tried to show that the real problem facing embodiment theories is not how abstract thinking is embodied (Lakoff, Barsalou), but how embodied cognition can become abstract. This is the so-called “ungrounding problem” that breaks down into three minor issues: the generalization problem, the flexibility problem, and the dis-embodied problem. As I argue, only the adoption of an intermediate position between the theories of embodiment and distributive theories will allow us to formulate a satisfactory solution. The following article is an approximation of one such intermediate position as Guy Dove's theory of embodied and de-corporeal cognition.

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Obecnie panuje powszechne przekonanie, że założenia pierwszego kognitywizmu w językoznawstwie powinny być całkowicie zastąpione przez paradygmat ucieleśnienia. Jednak choć panuje powszechna zgoda, że kwestia ugruntowania pojęć konkretnych jest dobrze wyjaśniona w ramach teorii ucieleśnionego języka (Lakoff, Johnson), pojawia się poważny problem w przypadku prób wyjaśnienia mechanizmu wyłaniania się pojęć abstrakcyjnych (ang. ungrounding problem, Dove). W niniejszym artykule staram się wykazać, że prawdziwym problemem, przed jakim stoją teorie ucieleśnienia, nie jest to, w jaki sposób myślenie abstrakcyjne jest ucieleśnione (Lakoff, Barsalou), lecz jak ucieleśnione poznanie może stać się abstrakcyjne. Jest to tak zwany ungrounding problem, który rozbija się na trzy pomniejsze kwestie: problem generalizacji, problem elastyczności oraz problem od-cieleśnienia. Jak twierdzę, dopiero przyjęcie stanowiska pośredniego pomiędzy teoriami ucieleśnienia a teoriami dystrybutywnymi pozwoli na sformułowanie satysfakcjonującego rozwiązania. Poniższy artykuł stanowi przybliżenie jednego z takich stanowisk pośrednich, jakim jest teoria ucieleśnionego i od-cieleśnionego poznania Guya Dove’a.

Keywords

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językoznawstwo kognitywne; ucieleśniony język; ucieleśnione poznanie; Barsalou; Dove; od-cieleśnione poznanie

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cognitive linguistics; embodied cognition; embodied language; Barsalou; Dove; dis-embodied cognition

• Publisher: Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Łodzi
• Journal: Językoznawstwo
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 9-27

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Marzena Fornal

• Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Łodzi

• https://orcid.org/0000000202639081

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DOI

10.25312/2391-5137.16/2022_01mf

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2085399