Some observations concerning mental verbs and speech act verbs

Shinzato, Rumiko

doi:10.1016/s0378-2166(03)00002-x

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“…Their connectedness has been pointed out by Givón (1993) in his classification of private and public verbs into a single perception-cognition-utterance class, with its prototypical representatives see, know, and say. In another examination, Shinzato (2004) demonstrates that think and say are connected closely from a semantic perspective. This is not only reflected in their distribution across different languages but also in their co-occurrence patterns.…”

Section: Cognitive Verbsmentioning

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“And I Think That Is a Very Straightforward Way of Dealing With It”

Fetzer

2008

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

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This contribution examines the distribution and communicative function of cognitive verbs in political discourse, giving particular attention to their impact on the expression of commitment. From a semantic viewpoint, cognitive verbs are seen as a means of subjectification expressing the speaker's attitude towards proposition and force whereas, from a discursive perspective, they are assigned the status of multifunctional devices expressing different types and different degrees of commitment. Part I analyzes the semantics and pragmatics of cognitive verbs, in particular those of think. Part II examines their particularized form and function in political discourse, accommodating both quantitative and qualitative perspectives. It shows that cognitive verbs tend to co-occur with other linguistic devices expressing commitment, thus illustrating their fine-grained interplay in the presentation of the political agent. The particularized use of cognitive verbs is assigned the status of a contextualization device, inviting the addressees to adopt the speaker's perspective and interpret a communicative contribution accordingly.

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Section: Cognitive Verbsmentioning

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“And I Think That Is a Very Straightforward Way of Dealing With It”

Fetzer

2008

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

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“…Wierzbicka (1996: 48-49) defines the concept of THINKING as a basic universal, whose difficulty in defining may be indicated by the circularity of its English dictionary definitions. The concept "represent [s] what originates in the subject's mind" and is represented by what is referred to as "mental verbs", analyzed for instance by Schlesinger (1998: 138-162) or Shinzato (2004). As opposed to concepts instantiating speech act verbs, THINK-ING "depict[s] the 'internal reality' still in the private domain" and does "not assume the presence of the underlying 'you'", that is the recipient of a message (Shinzato 2004: 862).…”

Section: Semantics Of Myśleć 'Think' and Its Prefixed Forms In Polishmentioning

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A corpus-driven quantitative approach to the construal of Polish think

Krawczak

Kokorniak

2012

Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics

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The present paper examines the construal of the verb myśleć 'think' in Polish from the perspective of Cognitive Grammar and Functional Linguistics. Cognitive corpus-driven and quantitative methodology (e.g., Glynn and Fischer 2010) is applied to reveal the formal and semantic correlations obtaining between a set of unprefixed and prefixed verb forms of myśleć 'think', instantiating and profiling various aspects of the category in question. The quantitative configurational method (Geeraerts et al. 1994) reveals the "behavioral profiles" (Gries 2006) of the verb, based on the "usage features" (Glynn 2009) associated with it. The notion of subjective and objective construal, as developed by Langacker (1990Langacker ( , 2006, is further elaborated on by more functional dimensions of perspective-taking, as put forward by Nuyts (2001), Verhagen (2008) and Traugott (1995.

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“…Although the validity of this heuristic definition has never been scrutinized, a considerable number of researchers on various topics in Japanese linguistics present data as soliloquy, e.g., Uyeno 1972, Kuroda 1979, Cheng 1987, Moriyama 1989, Maynard 1991, Nitta 1991, Hirose 1995, Tokui 1995, Usami 1995, Ono and Nakagawa 1997, Suzuki 1997, Washi 1997, Okamoto 1999, Izuhara 2003, Shinzato 2004, Noda 2006, Hirose and Hasegawa 2010 to name a few.…”

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Soliloquy for linguistic investigation

Hasegawa

2011

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This study advocates the investigation of soliloquy as a new approach in pragmatics research. The primary function of language is arguably to communicate with others, but language is also used to think. Thoughts constantly emerge in confluent streams of images, concepts, and ideas within the mind; to grasp and manage them, we need language. An analysis of soliloquy can open a window to a better understanding of our mental activities. Based on experimentally obtained soliloquy data in Japanese, three issues are considered: gendered language, the sentence-final particles ne and yo, and the ko-so-a demonstratives. It is demonstrated that soliloquy can shed new light on these widely studied topics. The conclusions reached include that (a) Japanese gendered language is more gendered than recent studies in the field claim, (b) ne and yo are used to monitor and control the speaker's internal information processing, and (c) the deixisanaphra distinction is not clear-cut.

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Some observations concerning mental verbs and speech act verbs

Cited by 27 publications

References 9 publications

“And I Think That Is a Very Straightforward Way of Dealing With It”

“And I Think That Is a Very Straightforward Way of Dealing With It”

A corpus-driven quantitative approach to the construal of Polish think

Soliloquy for linguistic investigation

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