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Lexical typology and cognitive semantics: extended uses of temperature terms| title | Lexical typology and cognitive semantics: extended uses of temperature terms |
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| start_date | 2022/10/21 |
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| schedule | 14h-16h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle de conférence |
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| details | Séance 4 |
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| summary | Metaphoric and metonymic processes, are a central concern of cognitive semantics (e.g. Geeraerts & Cuyckens eds. 2007, Dąbrowska & Divjak eds. 2015), but this theory has on the whole operated with a limited number of languages. In fact, very few of the allegedly “universal” metaphors have been subject to systematic large-scale cross-linguistic comparison (some of the rare exceptions include thinking as perceiving, cf. Sweetser 1900, Evans & Wilkins 2000, Vanhove 2008, and instrument as companion, Stolz et al. 2006). This seminar will focus on extended uses of temperature expressions, i.e. their uses outside of the temperature domain proper, among others on uses commonly viewed as metaphors, e.g. warm words (Koptjevskaja-Tamm 2015, Koptjevskaja-Tamm & Nikolaev 2021). We will look at the areal and genetic patterns in such uses and in their absence across a large cross-linguistic sample and discuss to what extent the findings provide evidence for vs. against the allegedly universal conceptual metaphors suggested for some of such uses (Lakoff & Johnson 1999, Kövecses 2003). |
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| responsibles | Isel |
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| submitted | published | | 2022/11/30 14:14 UTC |
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