Contextualization and Blending: A Cognitive Linguistics approach to the semantics of in

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Result on the web

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Contextualization and Blending: A Cognitive Linguistics approach to the semantics of in

Original language description

This paper adopts a cognitive pragmatic and a Conceptual Blending approach to the semantics of in. It is argued that pragmatics, with context defined as a composite of surrounding linguistic items and shared world knowledge, can serve as an information processing system that derives the diverse interpretations of in from its proto-scene. The criterion for sense establishment is based on Grice’s Modified Occam’s Razor, according to which the meanings in use that can be considered an inferential product of the proto-scene and contextual factors will not be entitled a status of a distinct sense. The analyses have established two senses, ‘physical containment’ and ‘means’, and the other overlapping meanings discussed in previous studies are regarded context-sensitive uses by the above criterion. Furthermore, it is argued that this pragmatic model of meaning processing can position itself as cognitive in that it corresponds to Conceptual Blending Theory (Fauconnier and Turner 2002), with the details of the present model matches specifically three elements of emergent structure: composition, completion, and elaboration. The implication of the present study is at least two-fold: A context-based pragmatic approach to polysemy, assuming Modified Occam’s Razor as the criterion of sense establishment, is highly parsimonious so can greatly alleviate the problem of sense proliferation. On the other hand, the preposition study can delineate how the context-oriented model of polysemy integrates into Conceptual Blending Theory by carving out the correspondences between details of contextualization and elements of emergent structure, and is hoped to make contribution to cognitive linguistics from a pragmatic point of view.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60202 - Specific languages

Project

<a href="/en/project/EE2.3.30.0037" target="_blank" >EE2.3.30.0037: Employment of Best Young Scientists for International Cooperation Empowerment</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Theory and Practice in English Studies (THEPES)

ISSN

1805-0859

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

7

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

97-114

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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