In this paper I propose an original idealized cognitive model of color conceptualization. Color has been used to discuss linguistic phenomena in considering many different aspects: e.g. universality vs. relativity (Berlin and Kay 1969, Pawłowski 2006, Kay, Berlin, Maffi, Merrifield, Cook 2009), categorization (Lakoff 1990, Taylor 1999, Talmy 2003), prototypes (Heider 1972, Rosch 1973, 1975, Geeraerts 2006), primitives (Wierzbicka 2006), vantage theory (MacLaury 2002), metaphor (Deignan 2005), metonymy (Croft 2006), metaphor, metonymy, and embodiment (Lakoff and Johnson 1980, Lakoff and Turner 1989, Steinvall 2007, Kövecses 2010), embodiment (Kay and Mc Daniel 1978, Gibbs 2005), frames (Croft and Cruse 2004), domains, summary scanning (Ungerer and Schmid 2006), domains, minimal concepts, grammatical classes, subclasses, (Langacker 2008). Nonetheless, a model of the frame of COLOR is lacking. The Master Metaphor List states only that color is not mapped from the source domain of vision (Lakoff et al. 1991:88). Cognitive linguistics establishes a central role to meaning through the ideas of embodied experience and cognitive models that are evinced through usage-based analysis of constructions and conceptualization, frequency and distribution in corpus analysis, and psycholinguistic analysis of speaker judgement, salience, reaction time, and implicit associations. The proposed model reassumes research that I have carried out over the past eight years using these empirical methods (cf. Sandford and Buck 2007, Sandford 2009, 2010, 2011a,b,c, 2012, 2013). It culminates in five types of distinction in a conceptual mapping of color: 1) primary, 2) complex, 3) sub-systemic, and 4) specific metaphor, and 5) conceptual metonymy in substantive and spatial relations. The mapping reveals the conceptualization process as surmised from usage of color terms in contemporary American English. The idealized cognitive model of color mapping illustrates primary embodied conceptual correlations in experience that are established through the dynamic interactions and conceptual integration of COLOR both as a source and a target domain.
The Embodiment of Color Conceptualization in English: An idealized cognitive model
SANDFORD, Jodi Louise
2014
Abstract
In this paper I propose an original idealized cognitive model of color conceptualization. Color has been used to discuss linguistic phenomena in considering many different aspects: e.g. universality vs. relativity (Berlin and Kay 1969, Pawłowski 2006, Kay, Berlin, Maffi, Merrifield, Cook 2009), categorization (Lakoff 1990, Taylor 1999, Talmy 2003), prototypes (Heider 1972, Rosch 1973, 1975, Geeraerts 2006), primitives (Wierzbicka 2006), vantage theory (MacLaury 2002), metaphor (Deignan 2005), metonymy (Croft 2006), metaphor, metonymy, and embodiment (Lakoff and Johnson 1980, Lakoff and Turner 1989, Steinvall 2007, Kövecses 2010), embodiment (Kay and Mc Daniel 1978, Gibbs 2005), frames (Croft and Cruse 2004), domains, summary scanning (Ungerer and Schmid 2006), domains, minimal concepts, grammatical classes, subclasses, (Langacker 2008). Nonetheless, a model of the frame of COLOR is lacking. The Master Metaphor List states only that color is not mapped from the source domain of vision (Lakoff et al. 1991:88). Cognitive linguistics establishes a central role to meaning through the ideas of embodied experience and cognitive models that are evinced through usage-based analysis of constructions and conceptualization, frequency and distribution in corpus analysis, and psycholinguistic analysis of speaker judgement, salience, reaction time, and implicit associations. The proposed model reassumes research that I have carried out over the past eight years using these empirical methods (cf. Sandford and Buck 2007, Sandford 2009, 2010, 2011a,b,c, 2012, 2013). It culminates in five types of distinction in a conceptual mapping of color: 1) primary, 2) complex, 3) sub-systemic, and 4) specific metaphor, and 5) conceptual metonymy in substantive and spatial relations. The mapping reveals the conceptualization process as surmised from usage of color terms in contemporary American English. The idealized cognitive model of color mapping illustrates primary embodied conceptual correlations in experience that are established through the dynamic interactions and conceptual integration of COLOR both as a source and a target domain.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
