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Landscapes of Hurt and Healing. An Exploratory Cognitive-Linguistic Analysis of Spatial Metaphors in the Book of Job KU Leuven
This thesis argues that spatial metaphors play a crucial role in the theological debate in the book of Job. A spatial metaphor understands something that is intrinsically not spatial in terms of something that is spatial. If a person feels down, up or high, for instance, these linguistic expressions do not have a physical location on a vertical axis; rather people think of emotional well-being in terms of space. Building on conceptual metaphor ...
Monitoring the pretence. Intersubjective grounding, gaze and irony KU Leuven
Cognitive-linguistic and pragmatic research on higher-order phenomena such as irony, sarcasm and hyperbole has focused on how these phenomena involve a form of (joint) pretence (Clark 1996, Barnden 2017, Tobin and Israel 2012, Dancygier and Sweetser 2014, Brône 2008). Crucial to the success of these phenomena is language users’ cognitive ability to gauge the point of view of the other (including the other’s view on the self, Geeraerts 2021). In ...
Development of thalamus mediates paternal age effect on offspring reading: A preliminary investigation KU Leuven
The importance of (inherited) genetic impact in reading development is well established. De novo mutation is another important contributor that is recently gathering interest as a major liability of neurodevelopmental disorders, but has been neglected in reading research to date. Paternal age at childbirth (PatAGE) is known as the most prominent risk factor for de novo mutation, which has been repeatedly shown by molecular genetic studies. As ...
Metrical variation in Byzantine colophons (XI-XV CE) : the example of ἡ μὲν χεὶρ ἡ γράψασα Universiteit Gent
In this chapter, several metrical varieties in a corpus of Byzantine book epigrams are explored. More specifically, we look into a number of varieties in metrical colophons of the type ἡ μὲν χεὶρ ἡ γράψασα‘ the hand that wrote [this]’, which was a very popular colophon throughout the entire Byzantine period. In its canonical form, these epigrams follow a dodecasyllabic metrical pattern, but many scribes freely experimented with the wording and ...
Impact of humor‐related communication elements in natural dyadic interactions on interpersonal physiological synchrony KU Leuven
Evidence suggests that in dyadic conversations some alignment occurs at the physiological level, but relatively little is known about the conditions that may facilitate physiological synchrony of two interlocutors. In the present interdisciplinary study, the impact of specific linguistic features of ongoing dialogues—the use of humor‐related communication elements—was examined in 24 male dyads who were meeting for the first time. Heart rate ...
Humor creation during efforts to find humorous cognitive reappraisals of threatening situations KU Leuven
© 2019, The Author(s). This interdisciplinary study examined the structure of humor creation in the specific context of efforts to positively reappraise stressful situations for effective coping. In a sample of n = 101 participants, a performance test was used to assess the quantity (fluency, number of generated ideas that qualified as humor) and quality (rated funniness) of humor creation in cognitive reappraisal. Linguistic mechanisms were ...
Multimodality in Interaction KU Leuven
In this chapter, we present a plea for a stronger inclusion of two strands of research in Cognitive Linguistics, viz. the analysis of meaning construction and coordination in interactional language use, and the study of multimodal meaning making cues (such as gesture, posture and gaze) as essential ingredients of naturally occurring spoken language. Based on the very foundations of the cognitive-linguistic enterprise, we argue that a true ...
Global machine learning for spatial ontology population KU Leuven
Understanding spatial language is important in many applications such as geographical information systems, human computer interaction or text-to-scene conversion. Due to the challenges of designing spatial ontologies, the extraction of spatial information from natural language still has to be placed in a well-defined framework. In this work, we propose an ontology which bridges between cognitive-linguistic spatial concepts in natural language ...