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Religious Metaphors at the Crossroads between Apophatical Theology and Cognitive Linguistics: an Interdisciplinary Study KU Leuven
© Oxford University Press 2018. All rights reserved. This chapter introduces an interdisciplinary approach to the study of religious discourse, inspired by the observation that the tradition of negative theology, rediscovered by postmodern philosophy and theology, shares major points of interest with the cognitive theory of language. Its primary goal is an attempt to compare two epistemological systems in a fruitful and promising way. There are ...
Space in language and linguistics: Geographical, Interactional, and Cognitive Perspectives KU Leuven
Cognitive, linguistic and affective disturbances following a right superior cerebellar artery infarction Vrije Universiteit Brussel University of Antwerp
The cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome (CCAS) is a neurobehavioral syndrome that may develop after congenital and acquired cerebellar lesions. The syndrome consists of deficits in executive functioning, spatial cognition, visual-spatial memory and language and also involves personality and behavioral changes. We describe a 58-year-old right-handed man who in addition to affective disturbances presented with a unique combination of ...
Variation in Metonymy: A Corpus-based Cognitive Linguistic Approach. KU Leuven
This dissertation presents an investigation of variation in metonymy in the framework of Cognitive Linguistics, focusing specially on variation from an onomasiological perspective, i.e. a change of naming/designation with respect to a particular concept. The principal objective is to provide a systematic way of disclosing how certain bodily and/or cultural-social factors exert an influence on the metonymic conceptualization. A secondary ...
Perspective-taking and intersubjectivity in oral narratives of people with a schizophrenia diagnosis : a cognitive linguistic viewpoint analysis Ghent University
Disruptions in theory of mind faculties and the ability to relate to an intersubjective reality are widely thought to be crucial to schizophrenic symptomology. This paper applies a cognitive linguistic framework to analyze spontaneous perspective-taking in two corpora of stories told by people with a schizophrenia diagnosis. We elicited natural narrative language use through life story interviews and a guided storytelling task and analyzed the ...
Cognitive, social, and individual constraints on linguistic variation: A case study of presentational haber pluralization in Caribbean Spanish KU Leuven
At the heart of "Cognitive, social, and individual constraints on linguistic variation" stands a central question that concerns both cognitive and variationist approaches to language, namely, what constrains morphosyntactic variation? To answer this question, this monograph combines methodological and theoretical constructs from Cognitive Sociolinguistics (in particular, Cognitive Construction Grammar; Goldberg, 1995, 2006), psycholinguistics, ...