Cognitive processes as evidence of the idiom principle

Erman, Britt

doi:10.1075/ijcl.12.1.04erm

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“…Sinclair's 'semantic preference' 2004: 32) as the connection "in the mind of a language user" of a word "with a semantic set or class, some members of which are also collocates Hoey posits 'priming' as a "property of the word" so that the mental activation of that word "may provoke" the mention of a cognitively related word (2005: 7-9). 1 Priming itself as a property of the word (Hoey 2005: 8) or as a psycholinguistic "paradigm" (Anderson 1983: 87; Anderson invoked by Hoey 2005: 8) may be a result of neural "spreading activation", roughly the activation of neural connections "from original sources to associated concepts" (Anderson 1983: 86-87; see elaboration and empirical testing of spreading activation, for example, in Roelofs 1992, Beer & Diehl 2001, and Erman 2007. Lexical priming is manifested here in the negatively medical by the word risk in risk of infection.…”

Section: Collocations Of the Noun Lemma Riskmentioning

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A genre, collocational, and constructional analysis of RISK

Hardy

Colombini²

2011

IJCL

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Scholars of language have begun to explore the popular academic topic that is "risk" and to establish the viability of corpus linguistics for such analysis. We extend existing scholarship by analyzing the noun lemma RISK over the last two decades of contemporary American discourse with recourse to the Corpus of Contemporary American English. Using the corpus procedures of frequency analysis, concordance contextual analysis, collocational analysis, and a variation on distinctive-collexeme analysis, we revisit the often under-supported assertion that RISK is semantically negative, and then investigate the semantic potential for good risk, a phenomenon associated with economic and adventuring sectors. Data suggest that RISK is genre sensitive, predominantly negative, and heavily medical in shared meaning across genres, and further, that evidence for good risk is minimal. A phrase of interest in recent corpus work -RISK worth taking -is shown to be sensitive perhaps more to constructional constraints than to semantic prosody.

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Section: Collocations Of the Noun Lemma Riskmentioning

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A genre, collocational, and constructional analysis of RISK

Hardy

Colombini²

2011

IJCL

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“…Moreover, the list of expressions covered here may appear to fall under different grammatical categories, including phrases, clauses and other sentence fragments. It is true that many formulaic expressions can be analysed from a grammatical point of view (see Heid 2011) and that grammar is often used to predict speech prosody (see Altenberg 1987Knowles & Lawrence 1987). The intention of this article, however, is to explore if it is possible to look at speech prosody using an alternative approach that does not involve grammatical analysis.…”

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The prosody of formulaic expression in the IBM/Lancaster Spoken English Corpus

Lin

2013

IJCL

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This article examines the distribution of the nucleus around selected formulaic expressions in the IBM/Lancaster Spoken English Corpus (SEC). The study reveals the presence of a positional bias such that formulaic expressions found at the end of intonation units are more likely to receive the nucleus than those found at the beginning. Amongst the formulaic expressions located at the end of intonation units, 70 percent have the nucleus assigned to the last lexical word of the expressions. For the remaining cases, the obligatory nuclei are found either on the lexical words immediately preceding the expressions or on the first words, the degree words or the flexible slots within the expressions. The study shows how prosodically annotated corpora may facilitate research on the prosody of formulaic expressions. At the same time, it also raises awareness of the issues confronting this new research avenue.

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“…As McDonald and Carpenter (1981, 233) Pauses have long been considered a 'window' on the cognitive planning activity intrinsic to speech production in psycholinguistic research on spontaneous speech and interpreting (Goldman-Eisler 1967;Erman 2007). Furthermore, it is quite common to operate with a distinction between filled and unfilled/silent pauses (Duez 1982).…”

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Revisiting the Function of Background Information in Sight Translating Metaphor

Xiang¹,

Zheng²

2014

Metaphor and Intercultural Communication

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Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Additional information Chapter of Metaphor and Intercultural Communication published by Bloomsbury Academic inLondon.2 Revisiting the Function of Background Information in Sight TranslatingMetaphor between-subjects experiment in which background information (BI) serves as the only independent variable, and aims to explore whether the acquisition of BI influences the product and process of metaphor translation. Before proceeding to a detailed analysis, we feel it necessary to clarify some of the basic concepts underlying this research. Some basic concepts Sight translationSight translation (STR) is modeled by Gile (1995) as a process consisting of the Reading Effort (understanding a message written in one language) and the Production Effort (reformulating the message orally in another language) (Gile 1995, 183; Lambert 2004, 298). Despite the various differences compared with consecutive and simultaneous interpreting (Agrifoglio 2004, 44), it has been treated as being closer to interpreting than to written translation, because sight translators "are able to apply largely the same strategies that they use when they perform oral-to-oral interpreting" (Dragsted and Hansen 2007, 254). For many scholars, STR is just a pedagogical exercise for getting started on the techniques of interpreting; however, researchers have shown that the cognitive demands it exerts on the interpreter are no less than those of consecutive and simultaneous interpreting (Agrifoglio 2004;Shreve et al. 2010). Hence, in this study, STR was adopted as the vehicle for examining the effect of BI on metaphor translation. Background informationGile (2002) suggests that professional behaviour in real-life interpretation should include the study of relevant materials, the clarification of terminological doubts and the preparation of a glossary. The acquisition of BI in advance is "regarded 4 unanimously as an important part of working conditions" (Gile 1995, 147). In practice, in training or in experimental research, interpreters expect to be provided with BI in various forms: speech transcripts, drafts of papers, abstracts, outlines, headings, information on the setting, the topic and the participants, etc. (Diaz-Galaz 2011, 176; Gile 1995, 147). In this research, BI refers to the cultural context of the source text (a speech), or more specifically, the social and historical background to the time in which the speech takes place, as an example of the internal manifestations of a culture. Linguistic metaphorsThe...

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Cognitive processes as evidence of the idiom principle

Cited by 67 publications

References 11 publications

A genre, collocational, and constructional analysis of RISK

A genre, collocational, and constructional analysis of RISK

The prosody of formulaic expression in the IBM/Lancaster Spoken English Corpus

Revisiting the Function of Background Information in Sight Translating Metaphor

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