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A multimodal perspective on metaphors and metonymies in art: A case study of the artwork Agora by Magdalena Abakanowicz

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Dąbrowska D.

Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies

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2016

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vol. 13

EN

The article is a semiotic study of the artistic installation Agora designed by a famous Polish sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz, based on the theoretical grounds of Cognitive Semantics. Metaphor and metonymy are conceptual processes whose communicative function is discussed in the paper, in particular, their role in deciphering possible meanings of the artwork. The paper also demonstrates how the multimodal analysis of the verbo-visual material can give rise to diverse interpretations of the figures.

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Niedookreśloność znaczeniowa idiomów z perspektywy semantyki kognitywnej i jej implikacje dla frazeografii

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Sulikowska A.

Applied Linguistics Papers

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2018

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issue 25/3

61-77

EN

One of the most important and most complex research tasks within phraseology and phraseography is the description of the meaning of idioms. Idioms are, as seen from the semantic point of view, especially complicated language units. They contain a semantic added value which results from two aspects: (i) their ambiguity based on feedback between the literal and the lexicalized meaning, (ii) their polylexicality – their semantic derivations can occur on the level of the word group and also concern the individual elements. The aim of the article is to characterize the semantic potential of idioms and to try its explication.

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El análisis semántico de la palabra regocijo desde la perspectiva de la lingüística cognitiva

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Adamiczka J.

Estudios Hispánicos

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2012

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vol. 20

89 - 97

EN

In the present paper I present a study that constitutes a part of a project aimed to analyze the conceptualization of joy in the Spanish and Polish languages. The study consists in the semantic analysis of the word regocijo conducted within the cognitive linguistics framework, by means of the theory of the cognitive models of emotions. The analysis is based on the data from dictionaries of the Spanish language and from the digital corpus of Spanish CREA. The study shows that the word regocijo can be interpreted as having a general central meaning: ‘intense joy,’ which can be described as a set of more or less prototypical cognitive models of joy: reactive joy, ludic joy, joy caused by something comic, etc., and another meaning related to the central meaning by metonymy: ‘celebrations, festivities’.

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Struktura wieloznaczności poznawczej (na podstawie komunikowania w polityce)

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Dobrosz-Michiewicz K., Uniwersytet Łódzki W. F., karolinadobrosz@wp.pl

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica

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2016

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vol. 32

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issue 2

EN

The paper presents ambiguity phenomena in terms of cognitive categorization and blending processes. Politicians’ manifesto speeches are analysed based on Lakoff’s and Langacker’s semantics and Langacker’s grammar research investigation, resulting in describing ambiguity phenomena more as the sender’s or receiver’s mental concepts than as a linguistic property of the message. Moreover, cognitive points of view in the research on ambiguity reveals its multileveled nature due to the polysemic nature of mental categories or blends.

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W nurcie tak zwanej nowej ewangelizacji. Próba rekonstrukcji językowego obrazu ewangelizacji w Biblii, Katechizmie Kościoła Katolickiego i tekstach współczesnych ewangelizatorów

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Kulwicka-Kamińska J.

Język a Kultura

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2017

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vol. 27

119 - 135

EN

The article is an attempt to present the linguistic image of the notion of “evangelization”, namely its cognitive structure in the Bible, in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and in selected source texts, thematically related to the so-called new evangelization. It applies the method of description of the major aspects of a notion, which is used in ethnolinguistics. For evangelization, such aspects are: object and subject of evangelization; the place and time of evangelization; the ways and methods of evangelization; the circumstances related to the event of evangelization (conditions); the effective works of evangelization; the definitions of evangelization; the works focused on evangelization; the acts of evangelization; the features of evangelization; the phenomena related to evangelization; and what serves the purpose of evangelization. On the basis of the presented analysis, it is pointed out that during the last 20 years in the teachings of the Catholic Church’s evangelists the semantic range of the notion “evangelization” has changed.

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Werbalizacja metafory kognitywnej MYŚLENIE TO PODRÓŻ na przykładzie polskiego tłumaczenia monografii J. D. Apresjana

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Węglowska A. M.

Kultury Wschodniosłowiańskie - Oblicza i Dialog

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2018

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issue 8

265-271

EN

This paper is devoted to the analysis of the cognitive metaphor verbalization of THINKING IS A JOURNEY on the examples from Lexical semantics by J.D. Apresjan. Basing on the theory of cognitive metaphor by G. Lakoff and M. Johnson, the author of the article attempts to analyze and present the role of the abovementioned metaphor in scientific texts.

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Struktura wieloznaczności poznawczej (na podstawie komunikowania w polityce)

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Dobrosz-Michiewicz K.

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica

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2016

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vol. 32

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issue 2

187-205

EN

The paper presents ambiguity phenomena in terms of cognitive categorization and blending processes. Politicians’ manifesto speeches are analysed based on Lakoff’s and Langacker’s semantics and Langacker’s grammar research investigation, resulting in describing ambiguity phenomena more as the sender’s or receiver’s mental concepts than as a linguistic property of the message. Moreover, cognitive points of view in the research on ambiguity reveals its multileveled nature due to the polysemic nature of mental categories or blends.

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До питання про основні напрями вивчення емоцій у польському, російському та українському мовознавстві

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Nikołajenko L.

Acta Polono-Ruthenica

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2018

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vol. Tom 3 Nr XXIII

99-107

EN

The article is devoted to the main directions of studying emotions in linguistics. The subject of the study are the works of Polish, Russian and Ukrainian linguists, devoted to the description of the verbalisation of emotions. The analysis of works shows that the main linguistic directions in the study of the concepts of emotions are linguocognitivistics and linguoculturology. The main approaches to the semantic description of the verbalisation of emotions can be called semantic, metaphorical and combined. Despite the diversity of vectors of linguistic analysis, each study reconstructs a separate fragment of the general linguistic picture of the world of emotions.

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Ways of Conceptualising Male and Female Genitalia in Spanish and Polish: a Contrastive Study

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Popek-Bernat K.

Cognitive Studies

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2015

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issue 15

EN

Ways of Conceptualising Male and Female Genitalia in Spanish and Polish: a Contrastive StudyThe article deals with the reconstruction of the ways of conceptualising male and female genitalia encoded in Spanish and Polish lexicon. In order to carry out our investigation we propose a 5-stage analytical procedure based on the ideas developed previously by Pragglejaz Group in 2007 and by the investigators from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in 2009. We pretend to demonstrate that the metalexicographic analysis applied to cognitive studies enables us to observe some interesting linguistic trends which reflect sociocultural attitudes towards, among others, erotic issues.

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The Norwegian lexical item akkurat and the Polish akurat: a cognitive semantic analysis

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Data-Bukowska E.

Cognitive Studies

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2014

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issue 14

219-235

EN

The aim of the article is to demonstrate to what extent the Norwegian akkurat and the Polish akurat show similarities and differences in their conceptual content (meaning). Adopting the perspective of cognitive semantics (CS), as described in Langacker (1987) and Lakoff (1987), I shall try to show that the meanings ascribed to these etymologically and formally related words constitute complex networks of senses, rooted in a prototypical centre in each of the languages under discussion. In addition to this, the findings will be interpreted with reference to the process of pragmaticalization (a language unit’s development of increasing pragmatic functions). Within this theoretical framework I shall demonstrate that subjectification/intersubjectification and pejoration/melioration motivate the main semantic difference between akkurat and akurat. The analysis is based on Norwegian and Polish monolingual corpus data.

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

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Dobrosz-Michiewicz K., The University of Lodz F. o. P., karolinadobrosz@wp.pl

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica

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2016

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vol. 35

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issue 5

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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.

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Musical sense-making between experience and conceptualisation: the legacy of Peirce, Dewey and James

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Reybrouck M.

Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology

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2015

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issue 14

192-205

PL

This contribution revolves around the concept of musical sense-making. Starting from the seminal works of Peirce, Dewey and James, it focusses on the musical experience, which can be defined from an empiricist position as a process that calls forth epistemic interactions with the sounds. Central in this approach is the tension between the richness and fullness of the musical experience and the cognitive economy of symbolic abstraction. Dewey, in particular, has stressed the role of having an experience proper as a kind of heightened vitality. James, on the contrary, has dealt with the distinction between percept and concept, stressing the role of knowledge-by-acquaintance as the kind of knowledge we have of something by its presentation to the senses. In what he coined as radical empiricism he states that the significance of concepts always consists in their relation to perceptual particulars, which, in turn, are embedded in a conceptual map. This map can be described in semiotic terms, which holds a symbolic approach to cognition to the extent that it is concerned with signs rather than with sensory realia. The question should be raised, however, as to the nature of these signs. There is, in fact, a critical distinction between internal and external semantics with signs referring primarily to themselves or to something external to the music. In an attempt to bring these claims together, it is argued that musical signs should provide a self-referential semantics for which the abstract is really material, a real semiotics of singular potential wich is grounded in the real and natural experience. Reying on some grounding work of Peirce and Morris and the relation between signs and tool using, a theoretical framework is introduced that has at least some operational power in going beyond a merely acoustic description of the music as it sounds.

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The Problem of Polysemy within the Cognitive-Discursive Linguistic Paradigm (Based on the Contexts of the Fictional Discourse of the Verbal Predicates чудиться, почудиться)

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Чернцова Е., Педченко Л., Cherntsova E., Pedchenko L.

Slavia Orientalis

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2022

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vol. LXXI

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issue 2

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

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Dobrosz-Michiewicz K.

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica

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2016

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vol. 35

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issue 5

75-92

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.

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Метакогнитивная репрезентация концептуальной области „кажимости” (на материале семантики глагольных предикатов „казаться”, „показаться”)

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Чернцова Е.

Studia Rossica Posnaniensia

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2019

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vol. 44

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issue 1

277-288

RU

The article analyzes the correlation between the cognitive semantics of the words казаться, показаться and the ordinary/fictional narrative strategy, embodied in a context of a particular type. The cognitive semantics of the words is identified within such parameters as a ‘discourse context type’, ‘narrative strategy’, as well as the ‘communicative register’ – either ‘reproductive’ or ‘informative’. The paper considers a gestalt scenario, according to which different contexts with the words казаться, показаться are built up. The author demonstrates the integrity of the gestalt and also describes focus shifts which underlie the construction of different contexts – ‘background’ and ‘figure’.

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Rola metafor ontologicznych w dziele Karola Darwina O powstawaniu gatunków

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Drogosz A.

Prace Językoznawcze

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2015

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issue 17/1

21-32

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This paper addresses the question of the function that ontological metaphors perform in the theory of evolution presented by Charles Darwin in his book On the Origin of Species. The analysis focuses on three concepts: (evolutionary) change, species/variety and natural selection as well as two types of ontological metaphors: objectification and personification. We claim that ontological metaphors constitute an indispensable step in conceptualization of abstract concepts and their precipitation in language. We have established that objectification and personification of the investigated concepts cannot be removed through paraphrase into literal language and that these metaphors shaped subsequent studies within the field of evolutionary biology. Consequently, we believe that ontological metaphors have primarily a theory-constitutive function, and the exegetical function is only marginal.

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Fuga daemonum, czyli dziurawiec jako amalgamat pojęciowy. Studium kognitywne

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Mierzwińska-Hajnos A. B.

Etnolingwistyka. Problemy Języka i Kultury

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2017

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vol. 29

EN

The article aims to explore the cognitive mechanisms activated in conceptualising complex expressions, with the example of Fuga daemonum, a synonym to St John’s wort, a flowering plant from the family Hypericaceae, used as a herbal remedy to treat various physical and emotional ailments (in particular depression and anxiety). The four-space model of conceptual integration as proposed by Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner (2002) is used here for the purpose of the analysis. Fuga daemonum is found to be a conceptual blend, arising through a dynamism of a complex cognitive operation known as conceptual integration, where the activation of at least two distinct input spaces is required to arrive at the resultant meaning of the blend. In the case of Fuga daemonum, input space 1 refers to the appearance and properties of the plant, and input space 2 contains its symbolic and religious connotations. Thus, the process yields the emergent meaning of Fuga daemonum, which is not the sum of the meanings inherent in the input spaces but which becomes a new dynamic context-dependent expression.

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Prezentowana praca, wpisująca się w paradygmat kognitywnych badań nad językiem, ma na celu wyjaśnienie mechanizmów, jakie uruchamiane są w procesie konceptualizacji pojęć na przykładzie wyrażenia fuga daemonum, synonimicznej nazwy dziurawca pospolitego (Hypericum perforatum L.). Fuga daemonum to jedna z bardziej interesujących i semantycznie złożonych nazw dziurawca, w której obserwujemy dynamiczny proces zwany integracją pojęciową (ang. conceptual blending), polegający na stapianiu elementów zaczerpniętych z co najmniej dwóch przestrzeni wyjściowych przestrzeni odnoszącej się do wyglądu i właściwości dziurawca oraz przestrzeni przywołującej konotacje symboliczne i religijne tej rośliny. W celu przeprowadzenia analizy semantycznej nazwy fuga daemonum autorka stosuje tzw. czteroprzestrzenny model integracji pojęciowej, autorstwa Gillesa Fauconniera i Marka Turnera, który ma za zadanie ukazać dynamiczny charakter znaczenia.

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Dziedzictwo czy balast? Wybrane aspekty konceptualizacji przeszłości w świetle analizy kolokacji leksemu przeszłość w języku polskim

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Szymańska M.

Prace Językoznawcze

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2020

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issue XXII/1

271–282

PL

Artykuł prezentuje wyniki kognitywnej analizy semantycznej wybranych kolokacji leksemu przeszłość i związanych z nimi struktur gramatycznych. Celem analizy jest rekonstrukcja elementów mentalnego obrazu przeszłości odzwierciedlonego w tych strukturach językowych i ukazanie pewnych aspektów konceptualizacji przeszłości w języku polskim. Analiza pokazuje, że przeszłość jest postrzegana jako determinanta kształtująca tożsamość człowieka albo społeczności (np. narodu). Ujawnia również naszą skłonność do przedstawiania w naszych wypowiedziach przeszłości jako istotnego czynnika oddziałującego zarówno na współczesność, jak i na przyszłość.

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This paper presents the results of cognitive semantic analysis of both: collocations of the lexeme przeszłość (‘the past’) and grammatical structures associated with them. The aim of the analysis is to reconstruct some elements of the mental image of the past reflected in those language structures and to show some aspects of the conceptualization of the past in Polish. The analysis shows that the past is perceived as a determinant shaping the identity of a particular human being or some kind of community (e.g. nation). It indicates that we tend to picture the past in our utterances as an important factor having an effect on the presence and the future.

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Körper in Bewegung: Zur Figurativität der Sprache zeitgenössischer Tänzer aus kognitiver Perspektive

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Pędzisz J., Staniewski P.

Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław

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2018

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issue 14

159-173

EN

Body in Motion: On the Figurativity in the Language of Modern Dancers. A Cognitive Perspective. The language used by modern dancers in dance workshops and/or lessons is an understudied research area for several reasons, e.g. lack of developed analysis methodology, insufficiently deep awareness of one’s own body indispensable for understanding of motion descriptions, linguistic diversity of existing dance schools, multimodal nature of the dance itself and lack of conventionalised and objective vocabulary. Thus, considering the two latter points the aim of the paper is to analyse a small corpus of motion descriptions used by the teachers and students of the Lublin Dance Theatre. Drawing on the cognitive linguistic methodology we conclude that the analysed expressions are used figuratively and divide them into three metaphor groups: conceptual metaphors, frame-based metaphors and metaphors pertaining to the prominent role of space in a dance situation.

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Im Fokus der in dem vorliegenden Beitrag präsentierten Überlegungen befinden sich die sprachlichen Mittel, die im Rahmen eines Tanzunterrichts dazu verwendet werden, die auszuführenden Bewegungen zu beschreiben. Die Beschreibung bestimmter Bewegungskonzepte des zeitgenössischen Tanzes erfolgt auf figurative Art und Weise. Die figurativen Beschreibungsstrategien werden im Laufe der Analyse in drei Metapherngruppen klassifiziert, je nachdem welche Elemente der Tanzsituation hervorgehoben werden sollen. Dies erlaubt auch, der Frage nach der Aufteilung der klassischen Sinnesmodalitäten nachzugehen und ihre Relation zur Motorik und Propriozeption zu erörtern.

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Semantyka nocy w pieśniach religijnych

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Maziarz M.

Prace Językoznawcze

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2018

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issue XX/3

171-196

PL

Przedmiotem artykułu jest semantyczny obraz nocy w pieśniach religijnych, zawartych w Śpiewniku kościelnym ks. Jana Siedleckiego. Artykuł ten mieści się w nurcie badań nad tekstem artystycznym, ale tekstem o specjalnym charakterze, gdyż pieśni religijne w znacznym stopniu odwołują się do konwencji obrazowania znanej z polszczyzny ogólnej. Konwencja ta w znaczeniu metaforycznym ujmuje noc jako coś złego i zagrażającego człowiekowi, co ma też potwierdzenie w analizowanym materiale. Tekstowe konotacje ujawnione w pieśniach zostały jednak skonfrontowane nie tylko z faktami językowymi, ale także z konceptualizacją nocy w Piśmie Świętym, co pozwoliło w zrekonstruowanym tu obrazie dostrzec silną motywację semantyczną ze strony polszczyzny ogólnej, a także wpływów kulturowych. W obrazie tym negatywne konotacje nocy zostały ukonkretnione jako ‘grzech’ i ‘cierpienie’, ale pojawiły się też pozytywne komponenty znaczeniowe tego leksemu, takie jak: ‘czas działania Boga’, ‘czas modlitwy’. Konotacje tekstowe pozwoliły więc dopełnić strukturę semantyczną słowa noc i odsłoniły jego pojęciową ambiwalencję, która w skonwencjonalizowanych formach językowych jest słabo dostrzegalna. Przeprowadzona w artykule analiza wykazała również, że składniki konotacyjne, zarówno te utrwalone, jak i potencjalnie istniejące w języku, odgrywają istotną rolę w całościowej strukturze semantycznej słowa.

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This article concentrates on the semantics of the lexeme night attested in the religious songs collected in Śpiewnik kościelny by Father Jan Siedlecki. The paper falls within the scope of research on artistic texts; however, it is special in the sense that religious songs include elements of imagery typical of general Polish. Conventionally, in the metaphorical sense, the night denotes something evil and threatening to a man. This meaning is also confirmed in the material studied in our analysis. However, the textual connotations revealed in the songs were confronted not only with the language facts but also with the conceptualization of the night in the Holy Bible. The meaning of the lexeme night, which is reconstructed in this way, shows both a robust semantic motivation by general Polish and also influences on the cultural level. Thus the negative connotations of the night are made specific as “sin” and “suffering”, and there are also positive meaning components of this lexeme, for instance, “time of God’s action” or “time of prayer”. The textual connotations allow to enrich the semantic structure of the word, then, unveiling its conceptual ambivalence which is hardly discernible in the conventional language use. The analysis also demonstrated that connotational components, both ones in actual use and ones potentially present in language, play a significant role in the overall semantic structure of a word.

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A multimodal perspective on metaphors and metonymies in art: A case study of the artwork Agora by Magdalena Abakanowicz

Niedookreśloność znaczeniowa idiomów z perspektywy semantyki kognitywnej i jej implikacje dla frazeografii

El análisis semántico de la palabra regocijo desde la perspectiva de la lingüística cognitiva

Struktura wieloznaczności poznawczej (na podstawie komunikowania w polityce)

W nurcie tak zwanej nowej ewangelizacji. Próba rekonstrukcji językowego obrazu ewangelizacji w Biblii, Katechizmie Kościoła Katolickiego i tekstach współczesnych ewangelizatorów

Werbalizacja metafory kognitywnej MYŚLENIE TO PODRÓŻ na przykładzie polskiego tłumaczenia monografii J. D. Apresjana

Struktura wieloznaczności poznawczej (na podstawie komunikowania w polityce)

До питання про основні напрями вивчення емоцій у польському, російському та українському мовознавстві

Ways of Conceptualising Male and Female Genitalia in Spanish and Polish: a Contrastive Study

The Norwegian lexical item akkurat and the Polish akurat: a cognitive semantic analysis

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

Musical sense-making between experience and conceptualisation: the legacy of Peirce, Dewey and James

The Problem of Polysemy within the Cognitive-Discursive Linguistic Paradigm (Based on the Contexts of the Fictional Discourse of the Verbal Predicates чудиться, почудиться)

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

Метакогнитивная репрезентация концептуальной области „кажимости” (на материале семантики глагольных предикатов „казаться”, „показаться”)

Rola metafor ontologicznych w dziele Karola Darwina O powstawaniu gatunków

Fuga daemonum, czyli dziurawiec jako amalgamat pojęciowy. Studium kognitywne

Dziedzictwo czy balast? Wybrane aspekty konceptualizacji przeszłości w świetle analizy kolokacji leksemu przeszłość w języku polskim

Körper in Bewegung: Zur Figurativität der Sprache zeitgenössischer Tänzer aus kognitiver Perspektive

Semantyka nocy w pieśniach religijnych