Sensation, perception and cognition

Viberg, Åke

doi:10.1075/fol.22.1.05vib

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“…This thing strongly emphasizes the need for serious studies in non-western languages to reach more conclusive results about the universality claim of metaphors of visual perception. Viberg (2015) investigated the semantic extensions of Swedish and English verbs of perception from a cross-linguistic perspective by employing data from translation corpora. Viberg focused on verbs of visual perception which he described as 'nuclear verbs' as they have dominated in the data with respect to their syntactic constructions and meaning extensions.…”

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The English Verb See in Fiction Writing: A Cognitive Semantic Analysis

Jumaah¹,

Rashid²,

Jabar³

et al. 2020

AWEJ

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The study aims at unraveling the conceptual metaphor underlying the English verb of visual perception see in fiction writing. It has two research questions: 1) What are the conceptual metaphors underlying the linguistic expressions of the English verb of visual perception see in fiction writing and 2) What are the theoretical implications of MIND-AS-BODY theory on the motivation of conceptual metaphors underlying the English verb of visual perception see. This study adopts a qualitative approach and is situated within the field of cognitive semantics. A corpus of English fiction writing between the period of 2010 and 2017 was compiled from different sources comprising one million words. Specifically, a sample consisting of 1,000 examples of the English verb of visual perception see was randomly extracted from the corpus using the AntConc 3.5.0 concordancer. The Metaphor Identification Procedures (MIP) were used to identify the metaphorical linguistic expressions in the corpus, and Lakoff and Johnson's (2003) as well as Sweetser's (1990) analytical frameworks were adopted for data analysis. The data analysis revealed various conceptual metaphors underlying the English verb see. These conceptual metaphors are related to the domains of knowledge, intellections, and understanding which support Sweetser's claim regarding the primacy of vision in motivating metaphors of cognition in human speech and thought. Thus, this study contributes to the literature on verbs of perception, particularly verbs of visual perception, as it is the first to address the conceptual metaphors underlying the verb see in English using a real authentic corpus of fiction writing.

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The English Verb See in Fiction Writing: A Cognitive Semantic Analysis

Jumaah¹,

Rashid²,

Jabar³

et al. 2020

AWEJ

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“…These studies mainly focus on three aspects of perception verbs. First, intra-field and trans-field meaning extensions from universal and cultural perspectives (see e.g., Evans & Wilkins 2000;Gisborne 2010;Ibarretxe-Antuñano 2008van Putten 2020;Sweetser 1990;Viberg 1983Viberg , 2015Viberg , 2019; second, their relation to evidentiality and epistemic modality (Aijmer 2009;Whitt 2011;Grund 2016); and third, the semantic relationship between physical experiences, emotions, and sensory modalities (Firestone 2016;Strik-Lievers & de Felice 2019). Among the sensory modalities, vision merits the highest amount of interest, since vision is related to several aspects of human perception and cognition, and cross-linguistic findings show that visual perception verbs display the highest number of meaning extensions in the languages of the world.…”

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Visual perception verbs in Old Anatolian Turkish

Erk Emeksiz,

Rentzsch

2024

JHL

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This study aims at describing the verbs of the visual sensory domain in Old Anatolian Turkish (oat), including basic and compound verb forms. We shall specifically focus on intra-field and trans-field meaning extensions of visual perception verbs such as baḳ-, naẓar et-, gör-, and görin-/gözük-. Our findings are based on a corpus consisting of 11 texts both in prose and poetry from the 13th to 15th centuries. There are mainly two types of verbs that conceptualise mental and emotive states through visual perception: one pertains to idiomatic expressions with göz ‘eye’, such as göz-(ün) aç- (eye-poss.acc open), göz-den düş- (eye-abl fall), and göz dut- (eye hold). The second form includes basic verbs including baḳ- (to look at), gör- (to see), naẓar et- (to look at) and gör-in-/göz-ük- (to appear). We shall show that visual perception constitutes a rich source for expressing emotive states, and the use of vision verbs for the expression of emotions is as productive as it is for mental states. Similar to Sweetser’s body is mind metaphor, we suggest that vision is emotion. The domain of visual perception in oat texts displays a strong connection to intellection; however, there is no evidence in our data indicating that the verbs gör- and baḳ- have meaning extension to ‘to know’. The phenomenon-based verbs görin- and gözük- have mainly two meaning extensions: one is related to physical existence, as in ‘occur’ and ‘appear’ in English. When these verbs co-occur with nouns and adjectives, they reflect the speakers’ judgements and beliefs by means of a metaphor.

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“…In the past few decades, we have seen an upsurge in research on the topic of the role of the senses in human meaning-making through language (e.g., Bagli, 2021;Caballero et al, 2019;Caballero & Paradis, 2015, 2020Levinson & Majid, 2014;Majid & Levinson, 2011;Viberg, 2015;Winter, 2019). These works deal with meanings related to the senses from various points of view, such as how sensory experiences are described through language, the sensory vocabulary, and metaphorical uses of sensory meanings.…”

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Sensory modality profiles of antonyms

2023

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Adjectives that are used to describe sensory experiences are often used to express more than one modality. The adjective sweet, for instance, may primarily be associated with taste (i.e., taste is the dominant modality of sweet), but it can also be used for smell, sound or sight, and possibly even for touch. It has also been shown that some sensory modalities combine more easily than others. Many adjectives that are used to describe taste, for instance, can also be used for smell, but, less likely, for sound. These associations between sensory modalities as they are expressed in language are the topic of this study. We looked at the distribution of the combinations of dominant modalities in pairs of antonymic sensory adjectives (e.g., sweet–sour), and how the dominant modality of the adjectives in these pairs differed from that of the adjectives in isolation. In our dataset, there was a sizeable number of pairs consisting of adjectives with differing dominant modalities. Within those pairs, we observed that adjectives with the dominant modality sight can also be used for touch and vice versa. Similarly, adjectives with the dominant modality of smell can also be used for taste and vice versa. Finally, adjectives with the dominant modalities sight and touch can both also be used for hearing and for taste, but not the other way around. These results contribute to our understanding of how language is used to describe sensory experiences, and, with that, how sensory experiences may be shaped by the words that we use to describe them.

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Sensation, perception and cognition

Cited by 23 publications

References 25 publications

The English Verb See in Fiction Writing: A Cognitive Semantic Analysis

The English Verb See in Fiction Writing: A Cognitive Semantic Analysis

Visual perception verbs in Old Anatolian Turkish

Sensory modality profiles of antonyms

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