An integrated approach to conventionality and its implications for the semantics of emotion terms
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2012
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Adam Mickiewicz University
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The aim of this article is to demonstrate that an integrated methodology can shed a new light on
the understanding of notions inherent in contemporary conceptual approaches to linguistic analysis.
One of the key ideas around which the cognitive paradigm is built is conventionality. It is
assumed, however, that various strands of the cognitive enterprise view conventionality in dissimilar
ways. Consequently, by extrapolating diverse interpretations of the notion, we are going to
argue that certain conceptual approaches are more cognitive than others. As a result, it will be
argued that a conceptual metaphor methodology, an apparently dominant approach to the semantics
of emotion terms, is too coarse-grained to account for the richness of cognitive processes
observable in real data. Providing a corpus-assisted verification of selected instantiations of the
attributive construction, we are going to argue that a conceptual metaphor approach cannot be
successfully applied within a usage-based model.
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Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, vol. 47.1 (2012), pp. 25-46