Dziwirek / Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk Complex Emotions and Grammatical Mismatches

A Contrastive Corpus-Based Study
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-3-11-022775-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 189 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm

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The concept of is obviously polysemous. On the one hand, we can interpret it as a non-basic, non-prototypical, or culture-specific notion, on the other - and this is the interpretation we propose in this work - a complex emotion concept can be looked upon as a concept whose complexity in interaction, due to the complex nature of its . Our interpretation is thus , one in which meaning is not to be found exclusively in the lexical semantics of the term, but also in the, clearly meaning-laden, grammatical construction, e.g. a complement clause, expressing the object or cause of the emotion. The mapped on the form of a complex sentence involves the emotion that is unambiguously complex and not necessarily universal or prototypical. We argue throughout this book that are a visible sign of conceptual and categorizational distinctions between the conceptualization of emotion in different languages and cultures. They also signal differences in what individual speakers consider in a portrayed scene.

We offer a contrastive corpus-based study of Polish and English emotion concepts and the linguistic patterns they enter. Our theoretical approach combines lexical semantics and cognitive linguistics and proposes a methodology. It is a cognitive linguistic endeavor in which we analyze grammatical category mismatches and provide detailed semantic analyses of different complement choices of emotion predicates. We also discuss insights into Polish and English cultural values gleaned from the different underlying categorizations of emotions.

Combining theoretical analyses with pedagogical theory and classroom applications, this work breaks new ground and will reach audiences of linguists, teachers and students of Polish, teachers and students of English, translators, and other language researchers and practitioners.

Zielgruppe

Slavic and General Linguists, Cognitive and Corpus Linguists, Tra

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dziwirek, Katarzyna

Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Table of contents;6
2;1. Introducing basic concepts and premises;10
3;2. Part of speech mismatches between English and Polish;27
4;3. Complex emotions: Conceptualizations and data;59
5;4. Complex emotions: Case studies;84
6;5. Folk classifications of emotions in Polish and English;112
7;6. Emotional expression in the FL classroom;134
8;7. Conclusions;154
9;Appendix A: Polish and English emotion words;158
10;Appendix B: Polish evaluative nouns;162
11;Appendix C: Polish MI O;166
12;Appendix D: English EASY, DIFFICULT, NICE;168
13;Appendix E: Contents of the PELCRA Sampler (15 M);171
14;Appendix F: Contents of the PELCRA Corpus (93 M);175
15;References;176
16;Index of terms;189

Über Autor(innen)

Katarzyna Dziwirek, University of Washington, USA; Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, University of Lodz, Poland.