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Space-to-time mappings and temporal concepts

Most research on metaphors that construe time as motion (motion metaphors of time) has focused on the question of whether it is the times or the person experiencing them (ego) that moves...

Keywords: space, time, semantics, frames, polysemy, typology, metaphor, metonymy, deixis, perspective, psychology, Wolof, Japanese

07/2006 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de Gruyter

Reinterpretation and viewpoints

It has often been observed that many jokes rely on the audience reinterpreting the initial part of the joke once the punchline is encountered...

Keywords: ambiguity, belief set, joke, mental space, misinterpretation, perspective

08/2006 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de Gruyter

Communicating affect in news stories: The case of the lead sentence

The phenomenon of affect in language has recently received some attention from researchers who have focused primarily on its lexical expression...

Keywords: affect, cross-cultural communication, grammar, news discourse, perspective

05/2006 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de Gruyter

Moving around: The role of the conceptualizer in semantic interpretation

The first half of this article presents a fairly standard cognitive-semantic account of the semantic variants of the English path expression around...

Keywords: around, construal relationship, conceptualizer, viewpoint, perspective