1887
Volume 23, Issue 2
  • ISSN 0929-0907
  • E-ISSN: 1569-9943
USD
Buy:$35.00 + Taxes

Abstract

The article looks at idioms as categorization means. On the basis of linguistic analysis of semantic organization of idioms two patterns of idiomatic categorization are argued — general categorization and relevant property based categorization. Cognitive functions of idioms differ with regard to their role as categorization means, idioms can serve different categorization purposes according to two general cognitive processes — static and dynamic — including in a category or considering the given qualities as the reasons for categorization. Moreover, the purpose of categorization was investigated with defining the specificity of the phenomena and its types. The categorization purpose was conceived as different types of information e.g. behavioral expectations or interaction models with the object. The cause-effect relationship between the category and the categorization purpose was claimed.

Loading

Article metrics loading...

/content/journals/10.1075/pc.23.2.08gor
2017-07-10
2024-10-06
Loading full text...

Full text loading...

References

  1. Burger, Harald
    1973Idiomatik des Deutschen. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
    [Google Scholar]
  2. Chafe, Wallace
    1968 Idiomaticity as an anomaly in the Chomskian paradigm. Foundations of Language4: 109–127.
    [Google Scholar]
  3. Croft, William
    2007 Construction Grammar. In Dirk Geeraerts and Hubert Cuyckens (eds.), The Oxford handbook of cognitive linguistics, 463–508. New York: Oxford University Press.
    [Google Scholar]
  4. Fleischer Wolfgang
    1982Phraseologie der deutschen Gegenwartssprache. Leipzig: VEB Verlag.
    [Google Scholar]
  5. Gibbs, Raymond
    2007 Idioms and formulaic language. In Dirk Geeraerts and Hubert Cuyckens (eds.), The Oxford handbook of cognitive linguistics, 697–725. New York: Oxford University Press.
    [Google Scholar]
  6. Gibbs, Raymond & Nayak, Nandini P
    1989 Psycholinguistic studies on the semantic behaviour of idioms. Cognitive Psychology21: 100–138. doi: 10.1016/0010‑0285(89)90004‑2
    https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-0285(89)90004-2 [Google Scholar]
  7. Gogichev, Chermen
    2015 Subordinate categories in Ossetian. Mediterranian Journal of Social Sciences6(5): 197–200. doi: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n5s2p197
    https://doi.org/10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n5s2p197 [Google Scholar]
  8. Katz, Jerrold and Postal, Paul
    1963Semantic interpretation of idioms and sentences containing them. Quarterly progress report, 70, MIT Resesarch Laboratory of Electronics, 275–282.
    [Google Scholar]
  9. Lakoff, George
    1987Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press. doi: 10.7208/chicago/9780226471013.001.0001
    https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226471013.001.0001 [Google Scholar]
  10. Langlotz, Andreas
    2006Idiomatic Creativity: A Cognitive-Linguistic Model of Idiom Variation and Variability in English [Human Cognitive Processing 17]. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/hcp.17
    https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.17 [Google Scholar]
  11. Nunberg, Geoffrey , Sag, Ivan and . Wasow, Thomas
    . (1994) Idioms. Language70(3), 491–538. doi: 10.1353/lan.1994.0007
    https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1994.0007 [Google Scholar]
  12. Rosh, Eleanor
    1978 Principles of categorization. In Eleanor Rosch and Barbara Lloyd (eds), Cognition and Categorization, 27–48. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
    [Google Scholar]
  13. Strässler, Jörg
    1982Idioms in English: A Pragmatic Analysis. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag.
    [Google Scholar]
  14. Talmy, Leonard
    2007 Attention phenomena. In Dirk Geeraerts and Hubert Cuyckens (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics, 264–293. New York: Oxford University Press.
    [Google Scholar]
  15. Weinreich, Uriel
    1969 Problems in the analysis of idioms. In Jaan Puhvel (ed.), Substance and Structure of Language, 23–81. Berkeley, Los Angeles CA: University of California Press.
    [Google Scholar]
/content/journals/10.1075/pc.23.2.08gor
Loading
This is a required field
Please enter a valid email address
Approval was successful
Invalid data
An Error Occurred
Approval was partially successful, following selected items could not be processed due to error