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The uploaded presentation was shown at the ADDA3 conference held in St. Petersburg, Florida on 13-15 May 2022.This is a well-established event that brings together specialists in digital discourse analysis. The presentation showsthe work of Working Group 4, Task 4.1, Use Case 4.1.1 which is currently developing the annotation and taxonomy system for offensive language. &nbsp

The present paper focuses on the phenomenon of normativity and genericity in language and cognition. More specifically, it investigates the use of normative generics, which are generalizations that state an ideal norm for a given category, in the context of norm breaching in parent-child interactions in English. This issue is researched by means of a specially designed questionnaire including 8 norm breaching parent-child interactions, which has been completed online by ca. 70 English-speaking female respondents. The paper uses qualitative and quantitative methods to address two specific research issues. First, it compares the frequency of use of normative generics in norm breaching situations vis-à-vis the use of other types of normative linguistic expressions. Second, it analyses selected factors that are believed to favour the use of normative generics, including interactive openness of a given situation, norm salience, and perceived norm importance. Moreover, the paper sketches an explanatory model of normative generics that draws upon insights from the Conceptual Metonymy Theory, Construction Grammar, and Dual System Theory.

Human perception involves the recognition and processing of specific object properties detected by different senses together with the multimodal integration of this perceptual data. Cognitive linguistics sees the metaphorical linguistic expressions such as sweet memories as grounded in embodied experiences, including sensory perception. These claims are the theoretical point of departure for the present study which investigates various similar and contrasting sensory properties of physical objects used to metaphorically describe memories in Polish and English. Moreover, it investigates what kinds of meanings are conveyed by these sensory properties. In order to achieve this goal, the study uses the methodological tools of corpus-illustrated linguistics and the theoretical frameworks of the Theory of Objectification and the multisensory integration theory. By analysing linguistic data from the National Corpus of Polish and the British National Corpus in the light of these theories, the study attempts to show how multisensory perception of physical objects and their sensory properties, mediated by the physical object image schema, gives rise to various similar and contrasting metaphorical conceptualizations of the analysed abstract cognitive phenomenon.