Cognition in context (Lodz Studies in Language)

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• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 238
• Edition: New
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

As cognitive scientists continue to probe into the nature of the human mind, it is increasingly clear that research into cognition cannot be dissociated from the context in which our mental activity occurs. The papers collected in this book testify to the growing interest in adopting a broad characterisation of what counts as relevant context. The vices of seeking essences behind complex phenomena should not go unnoticed, the primary, and possibly the most crucial, downside of this approach being a reductionist treatment of the human mind. With this book, the authors want to show that humans are not merely brains, minds, speakers, learners, readers, etc., but, first and foremost, complex beings who communicate within and beyond the contexts of their own cultures.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Copyright information
Contents
List of contributors
Introduction to the volume Cognition in Context. New Insights into Language, Culture, and the Mind
Second-person narration: A new mode of (mis)understanding the other?
1 Aims of the paper
2 ‘You’ turn in philosophy and neuroscience
3 Literary you – an Infant Terrible of literary theory
4 Enacting ‘You’ in social cognition
5 Bridging social cognition and literary theory
6 Narrating as participating – literary example
7 A new life of second-person – Why it is getting so popular?
8 Conclusion
References
The role of the language in human evolution
1 Introduction
2 A philosophical perspective on intentions
3 Mirror neurons
4 Linguistic cognition
5 Conclusions
References
Intersemiotic and interlingual translation on the basis of “Vermeer” by Wisława Szymborska
1 Introduction
2 Ekphrasis or intersemiotic translation?
2 Intersemiotic translation “Vermeer” by Wisława Szymborska (Szymborska, 2009, 2012)
3 Interlingual translation
4 Concluding remarks
References
Less words, please! Visual ads as evocative rhetorical constructs of the modern age
1 Advertising in contemporary visual communication
2 The visual turn in communication
3 Deliberations on multimodality
4 Visualism versus visuality
5 Visual ads – Analysis
6 Polish visual ads
7 English visual ads
8 French visual ads
9 Conclusions as regards (inter)cultural perspectives on visual ads
References
Mental models, culture, cognition and communication
1 Introduction
2 Situations in people’s minds
2.1 Situational contexts and mental models
3 The qualities of mental models
4 Public mental models, private mental models and intent
5 Conclusion
References
Arabic native speaker in his linguistic environment: Some insights into language attitudes and practices
The situation of the Arabic language
Native user of Arabic: Language attitudes, ideology and language practices
How do Damascene native speakers cope with collocational expressions in MSA? A field study
Summary
References
“It was Your Fault”, or strategies used in the construal of blame and causal structure of stories written in English as a Foreign Language
1 Introduction
2 Questions, hypotheses, method
3 Materials
4 Procedures and results
5 Strategies
5.1 Blaming the other by using evaluation
5.2 Blaming the other by presenting routine events and situations
5.3 Blaming the other by appealing to emotions
5.4 Blaming the other by presenting subjective events
5.5 Miscellaneous strategies
6 Conclusions
References
Patterns of metaphor-metonymy interaction in compound signs of Polish Sign Language
1 Introduction: Theoretical framework
2 Signed languages
3 Metaphor-metonymy interaction in PJM compounds
3.1 Compounds based on Metonymy + Metaphor
3.2 Compounds based on Metonymy + Metonymy + Metaphor
3.3 Compounds based on Metonymy + Metonymy + Metonymy + Metaphor
3.4 Compounds based on Metonymy + Metonymy + Metaphor + Metonymy
3.5 Compounds based on Metonymy + Metaphor-Within-Metonymy
3.6 Compounds based on Metaphor + Metaphor + Metonymy
3.7 Compounds based on Metaphor + Metaphor + Metonymy-Within-Metaphor
4 Metaphor-metonymy interaction in other signed languages
5 Conclusions
References
The role of formulaic language in constructing common ground in intercultural communication
1 Introduction
2 Formulaic language in intercultural communication
2.1 Formulaicity in intercultural pragmatics
2.2 Situation-bound utterances
3 Socialization and common ground
4 Formulaicity as an indicator of common ground
4.1 Current approaches to common ground
4.2 The role of formulaic language in constructing common ground
5 The significance of formulaicity for intercultural and interlanguage pragmatics
6 Conclusion
Notes
References
Variativity of a speaker’s verbal and non-verbal behavior in English business discourse
References
The Japanese higher education learning environment: Challenges in building intercultural competences
1 The investigation setting
2 KGU and its organizational objectives
3 Powerful learning environments at KGU
3.1 Programs and departments at KGU
3.2 Cross-cultural contact in language center courses
3.3 Implementation of continuous instructor contracts
3.4 Creation of student-centered spaces
4 Outstanding learning issues
5 Discussion and conclusion
References
Language and cognition in the construction of emotive stereotypes
1 Language and cognition in the construction of emotive stereotypes
2 Method
3 Results
4 General sources
5 Shared sources
6 Exclusive sources
7 Conclusions
Appendix A
Appendix B
References
The concept HIDNIST as based on the associative experiment data
1 Introduction
2 Case study
3 Identification of concept-shaping cognitive attributes
4 The concept GODNOŚĆ via the prism of the associative data
5 Conclusions
References
The problem of truth in the Jain philosophy of language of classical period (5th–10th c. CE)
1 Introduction
2 The ontology of substance
3 Cognitive criteria and cognitive errors
4 Cognition, language and multifaceted reality
5 The concept of truth
6 Omniscience and truth
7 Conclusions
References
List of figures
List of tables