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Body, Language and Mind Volume 2: Sociocultural Situatedness ≥ Cognitive Linguistics Research 35.2 Editors Dirk Geeraerts Rene´ Dirven John R.Taylor Honorary editor Ronald W. Langacker Mouton de Gruyter Berlin · New York Body, Language and Mind Volume 2: Sociocultural Situatedness Edited by Roslyn M. Frank Rene´ Dirven Tom Ziemke Enrique Berna´rdez Mouton de Gruyter Berlin · New York MoutondeGruyter(formerlyMouton,TheHague) isaDivisionofWalterdeGruyterGmbH&Co.KG,Berlin (cid:2)(cid:2) Printedonacid-freepaper whichfallswithin theguidelinesoftheANSI toensurepermanenceanddurability. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Body, language, and mind. Volume 1, Embodiment / edited by Tom Ziemke,JordanZlatev,RoslynM.Frank. p.cm.(cid:2)(Cognitivelinguisticsresearch;35.1) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-3-11-019327-5(hardcover:alk.paper) 1. Language and languages (cid:2) Philosophy. 2. Mind and body. 3. Semiotics. I. Ziemke, T. (Tom), 1969(cid:2) II. Zlatev, Jordan. III.Frank,RoslynM. P107.B63 2007 401(cid:2)dc22 2007028708 BibliographicinformationpublishedbytheDeutscheNationalbibliothek TheDeutscheNationalbibliothekliststhispublicationintheDeutscheNationalbibliografie; detailedbibliographicdataareavailableintheInternetathttp://dnb.d-nb.de. ISBN 978-3-11-019618-4 ISSN 1861-4132 (cid:2) Copyright2008byWalterdeGruyterGmbH&Co.KG,D-10785Berlin Allrightsreserved,includingthoseoftranslationintoforeignlanguages.Nopartofthisbook maybereproducedortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronicormechanical, including photocopy, recording, or anyinformation storage and retrieval system, without permissioninwritingfromthepublisher. PrintedinGermany Table of contents List of contributors vii Introduction: Sociocultural situatedness Roslyn M. Frank 1 Section A: The dynamics of cultural categorization An interview with Mark Johnson and Tim Rohrer: From neurons to sociocultural situatedness Roberta Pires de Oliveira and Robson de Souza Bittencourt 21 Beyond the body: Towards a full embodied semiosis Patrizia Violi 53 Properties of cultural embodiment: Lessons from the anthropology of the body Michael Kimmel 77 Distributed, emergent cultural cognition, conceptualisation and language Farzad Sharifian 109 Collective cognition and individual activity: Variation, language and culture Enrique Bernárdez 137 Section B: The sociocultural situatedness of scientific discourse Entangled biological, cultural and linguistic origins of the war on invasive species Brendon M. H. Larson 169 vi Table of contents In search of development Joseph Hilferty and Óscar Vilarroya 197 The language-organism-species analogy: Acomplex adaptive systems approach to shifting perspectives on “language” Roslyn M. Frank 215 Section C: Sociocultural situatedness in lexical and usage-based approaches to metaphor Toward a socially situated, functionally embodied lexical semantics: The case of (all) over Kurt Queller 265 The embodiment of Europe: How do metaphors evolve? Andreas Musolff 301 Sociocultural situatedness of terminology in the life sciences: The history of splicing Rita Temmerman 327 Section D: Exploring the sociocultural situatedness of language and cognition Discourse metaphors Jörg Zinken, Iina Hellsten and Brigitte Nerlich 363 The relationship between metaphor, body and culture Ning Yu 387 Idealized cultural models: The group as a variable in the development of cognitive schemata Gitte Kristiansen 409 Index 433 List of contributors Enrique Bernárdez is Professor of English linguistics at the Complutense University, Madrid (Spain). He studied German Philology at the same Uni- versity and Dutch Linguistics at Groningen University, The Netherlands. He specialises in the history of English and other Germanic languages, as well as Old and Modern Icelandic. He has been working on Textlinguistics and in a Cognitive Linguistics framework for many years. Among his most significant books on linguistics are: Qué son las lenguas? published in 1999, and reprinted six times, new edition 2004; Teoría y epistemología del texto, 1995; Introducción a la lingüística del texto, 1982, as well as many scholarly papers published in collective books and journals in many countries. A new book, provisionally titled El lenguaje como cultura, is currently under preparation. He has also been active for years in literary translation, especially from Old and Modern Icelandic. e-mail: [email protected] Robson de Souza Bittencourt is a PhD student in Linguistics at the Eng- lish Graduate Program, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil. Using a framework drawn from Cognitive Linguistics, he is cur- rently writing his dissertation on the role of metaphors in economic dis- course, an analysis which will bring into focus ideological aspects of the data. e-mail: [email protected] Roslyn M. Frank is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Iowa. She is co-editor of Cognitive Models in Language and Thought: Ideology, Metaphors and Meaning (2003); Language and Ideology, Vol. 2. Cognitive Description Approaches (2001) and has published extensively in the field of cognitive linguistics as well as in ethnoscience, most particularly in ethnomathematics and ethnoastro- nomy. Her research on the Basque language has taken her to Euskal Herria, the Basque Country, where she has done extensive fieldwork and given numerous seminars. In addition she has given presentations on these re- search topics throughout Europe. e-mail: [email protected] viii List of contributors Iina Hellsten is a Research Fellow at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in the research group Virtual Knowledge Stu- dio (www.virtualknowledegstudio.nl). Her background is in science com- munication and the social studies of science and technology. Her current research deals with the anatomy of scientific and public controversies on the Web. Her areas of expertise include metaphor theory, science commu- nication, public understanding of science, media and communication sci- ences. She has published articles on the role of metaphors in public contro- versies on science in Metaphor and Symbol, Science Communication, Science as Culture and New Genetics and Society,for example. e-mail: [email protected] Joseph Hilferty, a San Francisco Peninsula native, graduated from San Francisco State University in 1987. He became involved with the cognitive linguistics movement in the early 1990s. In 2004, he obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Barcelona with the thesis “In Defense of Grammati- cal Constructions”. He is the coauthor of Introducción a la lingüística cog- nitiva (Ariel, 1999) with Maria Josep Cuenca. Currently, he teaches Eng- lish linguistics at the University of Barcelona. e-mail: [email protected] Michael Kimmel (PhD Vienna University 2002, MA 1995) is a researcher based at the University of Vienna, Austria. His interests span cognitive linguistic methods of metaphor and image schema analysis, socio-cultural embodiment, cognitive narratology, as well as qualitative and mixed meth- ods. He has conducted research on metaphor interaction in political dis- course and literature with software-based analytical tools, and has been working psycholinguistically on sensorimotor resonance in reading and plot comprehension. From 2007–2010 Kimmel will be the principal re- searcher of two research projects, one being a text-linguistic approach to imagery in literary cognition (2007–2008), and the other an ethnographic fieldwork approach to embodied imagery in dance apprenticeship (2008– 2010). The latter project will combine cognitive linguistic and phenomenol- ogical methods with motion analysis to explore dance class interactions and embodied learning. In the past, Kimmel has been a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Advanced Studies, Vienna and the University of Economics, Vienna, as well as a freelance researcher in Vienna, Budapest, and Berlin. e-mail: [email protected] List of contributors ix Gitte Kristiansen is Assistant Professor in linguistics at the Department of English Language and Linguistics, Universidad Complutense, Madrid (Spain). Her main research interests include diachronic linguistics, cogni- tive sociolinguistics and cognitive phonology. She has taught courses on Historical Sociolinguistics, Cognitive Semantics, Linguistic Change in Contemporary English, Registers and Varieties of English, amongst others, and is currently co-editing a volume entitled Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Language Variation, Cultural Models, Social Systems (Mouton) with René Dirven. e-mail: [email protected] Brendon Larson received an M.Sc. in evolutionary ecology from the Uni- versity of Toronto (Canada) in 1997 and an Interdisciplinary PhD in Sci- ence and Society from the University of California, Santa Barbara (USA) in 2004. His dissertation, entitled “The Metaphoric Web of Science and Society: Case Studies from Evolutionary Biology and Invasion Biology”, emphasized the social resonance of competitive and progressive metaphors in evolutionary biology and militaristic ones in invasion biology. In 2005- 2006, he continued his research and teaching on the linguistic and social dimensions of invasion biology as an interdisciplinary post-doctoral fellow in the Center for Population Biology, University of California, Davis (USA). He is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environ- mental Studies, University of Waterloo (Canada). e-mail: [email protected] Andreas Musolff is Professor of German Language at Durham University (UK). He has published widely in the fields of metaphor analysis, the study of public discourse in Britain and Germany, and on the history of func- tional linguistics, including the monograph Metaphor and Political Dis- course. Analogical Reasoning in Debates about Europe (2004). He is cur- rently researching the history of corporeal metaphors in political thought and discourse in Germany as well as popular conceptualisations of evolu- tion in the 19th and 20th centuries. e-mail: [email protected] Brigitte Nerlich is a Principal Research Officer at the Institute for the Study of Genetics, Biorisks and Society (IGBiS) at the University of Not- tingham (UK). She has published numerous books and articles on the his- x List of contributors tory of semantics and pragmatics, cognitive semantics, figurative language, polysemy and semantic change. She currently studies the uses of meta- phorical models in the discourses about cloning, designer babies, GM food, stem cells and genomics. She has recently concluded a project on the social and cultural impact of foot and mouth disease in the UK and will shortly start working on a new project “Talking cleanliness in health and agricul- ture” which deals with MRSA and avian flu from a sociological and ap- plied linguistics perspective. Like the foot and mouth one, this project is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. e-mail: [email protected] Roberta Pires de Oliveira is a professor of semantics at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil, and a researcher at the Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa (CNPq). Her MA dissertation and PhD thesis deal with metaphor from the perspective of Max Black’s Interactionism, and the more recent approach of cognitive linguistics. Since the beginnings of the 90’s, however, her research has moved away from metaphor and the cog- nitive paradigm towards formal approaches to the semantics of natural language. She has published an introduction to semantics, papers analyzing several aspects of Brazilian Portuguese (in particular, the semantics and pragmatics of quantification, free choiceness, tense and aspect), and also articles on the epistemology of linguistics (comparisons between the for- mal and the cognitive paradigms in linguistics). e-mail: [email protected] Kurt Queller (PhD, Stanford, 1994) teaches linguistics and languages (German, Italian, Spanish, Mandarin) at the University of Idaho (USA) and elsewhere. His primary research field is cognitive semantics. Grounded in a usage-based re-analysis of the English over network, his current work ar- gues that most significant polysemy originates non-teleologically, resulting not from intentional speaker innovation, but rather (as in Croft’s 2000 model of change) from hearers’ abductive inferences about the contextual meanings of usage events. (See Queller’s contribution to the present vol- ume, and references cited therein). The overall argument is presented in Polysemy: A Usage-based Approach (in preparation). Other work includes historical analysis of gendered language, e.g. “‘Whether man or woman’:
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