Empirical Methods in Language Studies
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- Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2015. 322 pp., 31 tables, 50 graphs
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- Part One: Experimental and Survey Methods
- Events and sentences in story construal of English-native and Polish–foreign language users: experimental methodology and outcomes
- Factors determining genericity in the light of experimental studies of generics
- Linguistic worldview of esperanto: a questionnaire method
- Comprehension of metaphor-based non-literality in signed languages by the hearing persons
- Second language acquisition in the canton of Zurich: the Swiss are fond of English
- Part Two: Language Corpora
- No problem or no problems? Special problems raised by the reference to absence in the sequences no+N-Ø and no+N-s
- The socio-cultural conceptualisation of femininity: corpus evidence for cognitive models
- Negative self-evaluative emotions from a cross-cultural perspective: A case of ‘shame’ and ‘guilt’ in English and Polish
- A categorization of conditional Expressions in Japanese: insights from a lexical approach
- Identifying and measuring personification in journalistic discourse
- A covarying collexeme analysis of the verb play and the manner adjunct in the domain of soccer
- Time in structuring fictive motion: an empirical corpus-based study
- Multimodal communication in career coaching sessions: lexical and gestural corpus study
- Research design in corpus-supported critical discourse analysis
- Part Three: Language Analysis
- Ellipsis and sentence fragments in Ian McEwan’s Amsterdam: their effect on meaning
- Meaning change of gradual verbs denoting colour in English
- ‘Shuttle’ methods in the analysis of metaphor in English philosophical discourse
- Part Four: Miscellaneous Methods
- Iconic effects in loanword adaptation
- Chaucer’s selected narratives: through the looking-glass of medieval imagery
- Alternatives to intuition in linguistics research
- Compliments in film subtitles: a pragmatic and cognitive study of translations from English into Polish
- Specific universals: a comparative analysis of subject of evaluation construal
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of contents
- Part One: Experimental and Survey Methods
- Events and sentences in story construal of English-native and Polish–foreign language users: experimental methodology and outcomes
- Factors determining genericity in the light of experimental studies of generics
- Linguistic worldview of esperanto: a questionnaire method
- Comprehension of metaphor-based non-literality in signed languages by the hearing persons
- Second language acquisition in the canton of Zurich: the Swiss are fond of English
- Part Two: Language Corpora
- No problem or no problems? Special problems raised by the reference to absence in the sequences no+N-Ø and no+N-s
- The socio-cultural conceptualisation of femininity: corpus evidence for cognitive models
- Negative self-evaluative emotions from a cross-cultural perspective: A case of ‘shame’ and ‘guilt’ in English and Polish
- A categorization of conditional Expressions in Japanese: insights from a lexical approach
- Identifying and measuring personification in journalistic discourse
- A covarying collexeme analysis of the verb play and the manner adjunct in the domain of soccer
- Time in structuring fictive motion: an empirical corpus-based study
- Multimodal communication in career coaching sessions: lexical and gestural corpus study
- Research design in corpus-supported critical discourse analysis
- Part Three: Language Analysis
- Ellipsis and sentence fragments in Ian McEwan’s Amsterdam: their effect on meaning
- Meaning change of gradual verbs denoting colour in English
- ‘Shuttle’ methods in the analysis of metaphor in English philosophical discourse
- Part Four: Miscellaneous Methods
- Iconic effects in loanword adaptation
- Chaucer’s selected narratives: through the looking-glass of medieval imagery
- Alternatives to intuition in linguistics research
- Compliments in film subtitles: a pragmatic and cognitive study of translations from English into Polish
- Specific universals: a comparative analysis of subject of evaluation construal
Iconic effects in loanword adaptation
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Abstract: The way a loanword accommodates to the recipient language is often guided by a tendency to maintain harmony between its form and its meaning. The tendency can be seen as an example of iconicity in natural languages. Drawing on examples from an ongoing research project, this paper presents a typology of iconic effects that appear in the process of loanword adaptation. A variety of methods used in the project will be shown, ranging from corpus queries to psycholinguistic experiments.
Keywords: iconicity, lexical borrowings, loanword adaptation, synonymy, word perception.
1. Introduction
Iconicity in natural languages can be defined as a similarity relation between linguistic signs and their referents. Among signs which are iconic in this sense there are onomatopoeic words, certain prosodic phenomena and gestures, whether in sign languages or in normal, auditory speech. More abstract cases of sign – referent similarity involve resemblance of structure and are known under the term diagrammaticality. For example, in compound words the order of elements is indicative of the order of their referents (e.g., a Polish-English dictionary can be expected to give Polish words first), the order of verbs in a story corresponds to the order of events (cf. Veni, vidi, vici), and the structure of one’s CV reflects, albeit in the reverse order, the sequence of events in one’s life.
The scope of iconic effects becomes even broader when non-arbitrariness of signs is taken as the defining criterion. For example, the word wing...
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- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of contents
- Part One: Experimental and Survey Methods
- Events and sentences in story construal of English-native and Polish–foreign language users: experimental methodology and outcomes
- Factors determining genericity in the light of experimental studies of generics
- Linguistic worldview of esperanto: a questionnaire method
- Comprehension of metaphor-based non-literality in signed languages by the hearing persons
- Second language acquisition in the canton of Zurich: the Swiss are fond of English
- Part Two: Language Corpora
- No problem or no problems? Special problems raised by the reference to absence in the sequences no+N-Ø and no+N-s
- The socio-cultural conceptualisation of femininity: corpus evidence for cognitive models
- Negative self-evaluative emotions from a cross-cultural perspective: A case of ‘shame’ and ‘guilt’ in English and Polish
- A categorization of conditional Expressions in Japanese: insights from a lexical approach
- Identifying and measuring personification in journalistic discourse
- A covarying collexeme analysis of the verb play and the manner adjunct in the domain of soccer
- Time in structuring fictive motion: an empirical corpus-based study
- Multimodal communication in career coaching sessions: lexical and gestural corpus study
- Research design in corpus-supported critical discourse analysis
- Part Three: Language Analysis
- Ellipsis and sentence fragments in Ian McEwan’s Amsterdam: their effect on meaning
- Meaning change of gradual verbs denoting colour in English
- ‘Shuttle’ methods in the analysis of metaphor in English philosophical discourse
- Part Four: Miscellaneous Methods
- Iconic effects in loanword adaptation
- Chaucer’s selected narratives: through the looking-glass of medieval imagery
- Alternatives to intuition in linguistics research
- Compliments in film subtitles: a pragmatic and cognitive study of translations from English into Polish
- Specific universals: a comparative analysis of subject of evaluation construal
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of contents
- Part One: Experimental and Survey Methods
- Events and sentences in story construal of English-native and Polish–foreign language users: experimental methodology and outcomes
- Factors determining genericity in the light of experimental studies of generics
- Linguistic worldview of esperanto: a questionnaire method
- Comprehension of metaphor-based non-literality in signed languages by the hearing persons
- Second language acquisition in the canton of Zurich: the Swiss are fond of English
- Part Two: Language Corpora
- No problem or no problems? Special problems raised by the reference to absence in the sequences no+N-Ø and no+N-s
- The socio-cultural conceptualisation of femininity: corpus evidence for cognitive models
- Negative self-evaluative emotions from a cross-cultural perspective: A case of ‘shame’ and ‘guilt’ in English and Polish
- A categorization of conditional Expressions in Japanese: insights from a lexical approach
- Identifying and measuring personification in journalistic discourse
- A covarying collexeme analysis of the verb play and the manner adjunct in the domain of soccer
- Time in structuring fictive motion: an empirical corpus-based study
- Multimodal communication in career coaching sessions: lexical and gestural corpus study
- Research design in corpus-supported critical discourse analysis
- Part Three: Language Analysis
- Ellipsis and sentence fragments in Ian McEwan’s Amsterdam: their effect on meaning
- Meaning change of gradual verbs denoting colour in English
- ‘Shuttle’ methods in the analysis of metaphor in English philosophical discourse
- Part Four: Miscellaneous Methods
- Iconic effects in loanword adaptation
- Chaucer’s selected narratives: through the looking-glass of medieval imagery
- Alternatives to intuition in linguistics research
- Compliments in film subtitles: a pragmatic and cognitive study of translations from English into Polish
- Specific universals: a comparative analysis of subject of evaluation construal