Approaches to Language, Culture, and Cognition: The Intersection of Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic Anthropology

321 Pages·2014·13.29 MB·English

by  Masataka Yamaguchi

edited by
masataka yamaguchi,
dennis tay, and
benjamin blount
approaches to
language, culture,
and cognition
the intersection
of cognitive
linguistics and
linguistic
anthropology
Approaches to Language, Culture, and Cognition
Also by Dennis Tay
METAPHOR IN PSYCHOTHERAPY: A Descriptive and Prescriptive Analysis
Also by Benjamin Blount
ENVIRONMENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY: A Reader (editor)
ETHNOECOLOGY: Knowledge, Resources, and Rights (co-editor)
LANGUAGE, CULTURE, AND SOCIETY: A Book of Readings (editor)
SOCIOCULTURAL DIMENSIONS OF LANGUAGE CHANGE (co-editor)
SOCIOCULTURAL DIMENSIONS OF LANGUAGE USE (co-editor)
Approaches to Language,
Culture, and Cognition
The Intersection of Cognitive Linguistics
and Linguistic Anthropology
Edited by
Masataka Yamaguchi
University of Queensland, Australia
Dennis Tay
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
and
Benjamin Blount
SocioEcological Informatics, US
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Approaches to language, culture, and cognition : the intersection of cognitive
linguistics and linguistic anthropology / edited by Masataka Yamaguchi,
University of Queensland, Australia ; Dennis Tay, The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University, China ; Benjamin Blount, SocioEcological Informatics, US.
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“This book developed out of an international symposium titled “Cognitive Linguistics
and Second Language Acquisition: Towards an Integration of Language, Culture and
Cognition” at the University of Otago, New Zealand, 21-22 January 2011.”
Summary: “The study of language, culture, and cognition has become increasingly
fragmented into separate disciplines and paradigms. This volume aims to
re-establish dialogue between cognitive linguists and linguistic anthropologists
with 11 original papers on language, culture and cognition, and an editorial
introduction. It demonstrates that cognitively-informed perspectives can
contribute to a better understanding of social, cultural, and historical phenomena,
and argues that cognitive theories are relevant to linguistic anthropology. “—
Provided by publisher.
1. Cognitive grammar. 2. Psycholinguistics. 3. Language and culture.
4. Anthropological linguistics. I. Yamaguchi, Masataka, 1968- editor.
II. Tay, Dennis, editor. III. Blount, Ben G., 1940- editor. IV. University of Otago.
Department of Languages and Cultures.
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Contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
Acknowledgments ix
Notes on Contributors x
1 Introduction: Approaches to Language, Culture,
and Cognition 1
Masataka Yamaguchi, Dennis Tay, and Benjamin Blount
Part I C ognitive Linguistic Approaches to Language
and Culture
2 Culture and Cognition, Lexicon and Grammar 27
Ronald W. Langacker
3 Deliteralization and the Birth of ‘Emotion’ 50
Dirk Geeraerts
4 ‘Overthrowing’ Yesterday’s ICM: (Re)focusing of Meaning in a
Hong Kong Chinese (Cantonese) Constructional Idiom 68
Kam-yiu S. Pang
Part II C ultural Linguistic Approaches to Language
and Culture
5 Advances in Cultural Linguistics 99
Farzad Sharifian
6 Sloppy Selfhood: Metaphor, Embodiment, Animism, and
Anthropomorphization in Japanese Language and C ulture 124
Debra J. Occhi
7 The Ceremonial Origins of Language 145
Gary B. Palmer, Jennifer Thompson, Jeffrey Parkin, and
Elizabeth Harmon
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vi Contents
Part III I ntersection of Cognitive Linguistics and
Linguistic Anthropology
8 On Intersubjective Co- construction of Virtual Space
through Multimodal Means: A Case of Japanese Route-
Finding Discourse 181
Kuniyoshi Kataoka
9 Discovering Shared Understandings in Discourse:
Prototypes and Stereotypes 217
Masataka Yamaguchi
10 Experiences as Resources: Metaphor and Life in
Late Modernity 234
Lionel Wee
11 An Analysis of Metaphor Hedging in Psychotherapeutic Talk 251
Dennis Tay
Part IV Summary and Future Directions
12 Situating Cultural Models in History and Cognition 271
Benjamin Blount
Glossary 299
Index 303
List of Figures and Tables
Figures
4.1 Distribution of use by speech act function in p ercentages 74
4.2 Incidence by discourse domains 79
4.3 The person split into n on- identical ‘self at time t’ and
‘self at time t - n’ 82
4.4 ‘Self at time t’ daa2 dou2 ‘self at time t- n’ 82
4.5 The person split into identical ‘self at time t’ and
‘self at time t- n’ 86
4.6 ‘Self at time t’ daa2 dou2 ‘self at time t- n’; where the two
are identical, resulting in the anomaly of ‘self supplant-
ing self’, and hence no self left 87
5.1 A diagrammatic representation of Palmer’s (1996)
proposal for cultural l inguistics 101
5.2 Diagrammatic representation of a cultural schema
(adapted from Sharifian, 2011) 105
6.1 AC advert for ai, print v ersion 127
7.1 Homo heidelbergensis s ites 150
7.2 Homo heidelbergensis from Broken Hill, Kabwe, Z ambia 151
7.3(a) Late Acheulian hand axe from Kathu Pan, 600K y a 152
7.3(b) Late Acheulian cleaver from Elandsfontein, South Africa 152
7.4 Time line for development of vocal apparatus 153
8.1 Four major types of p erspective- taking considered 188
8.2 Central face of Peak 4 (a) and a schematic map of trails
under discussion (b) 190
8.3 Another example of intersubjective migi ‘right’ 209
12.1 The basic cultural model of the soul from Aristotle and
the Greeks 291
12.2 The expanded model of soul from Galen 292
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viii List of Figures and Tables
Tables
3.1 Raw frequencies of émouvoir and mouvoir across periods
and senses 59
3.2 Semasiological proportions for émouvoir and mouvoir across
periods and senses 60
3.3 Onomasiological proportions for émouvoir and mouvoir
across p eriods and senses 61
3.4 Syntactic patterns for émouvoir and mouvoir in Old French 64
4.1 Topics within discourse domains and their incidences 80
4.2 Incidences of topics against total number of samples 80
5.1 A comparison of Aboriginal and Anglo-Australian meanings
for ‘family’ 112
7.1 Dates of some African Homo h eidelbergensis 149
8.1 Viewer-oriented spatial frames of reference considered 187
8.2 Different experiential status as to spatial segments 191
8.3 Representing spatial entities/movements through
language/body 200
9.1 Triplet of ‘I [don’t] look’ in Japan 225
9.2 Triplet of Peter’s ascribed identities in New Zealand 225
11.1 Seven step guide for ‘exploring and transforming’
patient metaphors 254
11.2 Most frequent two-word clusters in the corpus 256
Acknowledgments
We wish to thank John R. Taylor, who has been instrumental in
the process of materializing the plan for this edited collection. This
book developed out of an international symposium titled ‘Cognitive
Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition: Towards an Integration
of Language, Culture and Cognition’ at the University of Otago, New
Zealand, 21–22 January 2011. The symposium was funded by the Japan
Foundation (Grant Program for Japanese-Language Education Activities;
Reference No: 22 JTE 62) and New Zealand Japan Exchange Programme
(NZJEP) grant, provided by ILANZ (International Languages: Aotearoa
New Zealand).
This project would not have been possible without the generous
support of a number of institutions and individuals. The Division of
Humanities at the University of Otago supported the project: Nicola
Richmond helped us immensely in preparing for the event. Elaine
Webster of the Centre for Innovation provided us with great assis-
tance in many ways. At various stages of planning the event, we
benefited from consultation with the following: Takashi Shogimen at
the University of Otago, Dirk Geeraerts at the University of Leuven,
Seiichi Makino at Princeton University, Kuniyoshi Kataoka at Aichi
University, Keiko Ikeda at Kansai University, Kazuko Shinohara at Tokyo
University of Agriculture and Technology, and René Dirven at Mechelen
in Belgium. The symposium was planned in honor of John R. Taylor at
the University of Otago, who had retired in April 2010. He constantly
encouraged us to organize a symposium for cognitive linguistics. We
deeply respect and admire John in many ways. He brought interna-
tional prestige to the University of Otago through his numerous and
highly influential publications.
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