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Linguistic expressions of surprise (i.e., surprise markers) are epistemically motivated and inherently connected to knowledge construction. Taking a frame semantic approach, this study examined how surprise markers were used by academic writers to disseminate knowledge in research articles. Based on a self-built corpus of 640 journal articles totaling four million words, the study explored how the use of surprise markers was mediated by various factors, including disciplinary background (i.e., applied linguistics, history, biology, mechanical engineering), gender (male vs. female), geo-academic locations (Core vs. Periphery), and time of publication (1985–1989 vs. 2015–2019). Semi-structured interviews were also conducted with 16 disciplinary informants. Corpus-based quantitative analyses of surprise markers and a thematic analysis of the interviews uncovered distinct patterns in the use of surprise markers across the variables examined. These findings deepen our understanding of how surprise markers in academic writing function within specific linguistic and situational contexts, highlighting the intricate nature of knowledge construction in scholarly discourse. • Linguistic expressions of surprise were examined in 640 research articles (RAs). • RAs from hard and soft disciplines expressed surprises at different entities. • Female authors more often identified themselves as experiencers of surprise. • Authors from different regions expressed surprises with varying intensity. • Recent RAs gave explanations for expressed surprises more often than earlier RAs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reference to current discourse is often cited as a definitional criterion for classifying linguistic units as metapragmatic. However, there is no consensus in research on the precise meaning and limits of this criterion. In this paper, a cognitive-linguistic perspective is adopted to address this issue by focusing on how interactants conceptualize discourse. A synthesis of Langacker's (2001)current-discourse-space model (CDS model) and the notion of pragmatic frames is used to analyze metapragmatic practices in a television discussion. The analytical annotation process shows that metapragmatic markers (MPMs) evoke specific kinds of frame structures including the instantiation of pragmatic frames. Based on the annotation of the entire transcribed discussion, it will be argued that the visualization of discourse sequences in the CDS model and the examination of the specific frame structures evoked by MPMs contribute to a better understanding of the core of metapragmaticity. The paper concludes with a pilot study that uses quantitative methods to demonstrate the analytical potential of a cognition-centered categorization of MPMs. It is shown that the use of MPMs reflects different interactional roles (i.e., host or discussant) and the conversational strategies used to shape the conceptualization of argumentative discourse to pursue specific interactional goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the use of surprise frames in judicial opinions of the HKSAR. Specifically, it examines the semantic variation of surprise frames and the discourse purposes for which they are used. In doing so, it explores the underlying interactivity of surprise frames by distinguishing between performative expressions of surprise (those that emanate from the current author's reflection) and descriptive expressions (those that report on another's sense of surprise). Recognising that legal discourse scholars often neglect lower courts, the paper contrasts opinions from three levels of court in the HKSAR. Genre and court-specific patterns emerge: a key similarity is that all three courts, performatively and descriptively, most often use the TYPICALITY frame. Key differences include a significantly greater use of the TYPICALITY frame by the appeal courts in relation to the trial courts; more qualitatively oriented analysis shows that the use of surprise frames maps onto the common law standard of review, i.e., the appeal courts largely use surprise frames to focus on legal issues. In contrast, the trial courts focus on facts and evidence. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications of the main findings for researchers and professionals. • Surprise frames in the majority opinions of 119 HKSAR court cases analysed. • Three levels of court are analysed. • A distinction is made between performative and descriptive frames. • All courts used the TYPICALITY frame most frequently. • Appeal courts focus on legal issues, trial courts on facts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The launch of the FrameNet project in 1997 was both a crystallisation point of decades worth of theoretical investigations into lexical meaning by Charles J. Fillmore and colleagues, as well as the seed of an ongoing line of corpus-based and computational research that seeks to implement Fillmore's theory of Frame Semantics in a way that both provides an interesting model relevant for further theorising and also is applicable practically for semantic analysis, lexicology, and lexicography. At the occasion of FrameNet's 25th birthday, we want to introduce the project to a new generation of researchers but also take stock of, and report on, what has been achieved. We revisit the origins of the FrameNet project, assess its development and various changes in the years since it was first reported on in a special issue in the pages of this journal twenty years ago. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Event integration – the conflation of multiple events into a unitary event – plays a vital role in language and cognition. However, the conditions under which event integration occurs in linguistic representation and the differences in how linguistic forms encode complex events remain unclear. This corpus study examines two types of Japanese complex predicates – compound verbs [V1-V2]V and complex predicates consisting of a deverbal compound noun and the light verb suru 'do' [[V1-V2]Nsuru]V – using an original "related-event approach". Findings indicate that [[V1-V2]Nsuru]V can be established based on coextensiveness alone, whereas [V1-V2]V typically requires direct or shared causality ("the inevitable co-occurrence constraint"). The related-event approach examines related events of linguistic concepts, such as causes and purposes of an event, identified through "complex sentences" from ultra-large-scale web corpora. This study demonstrates that such an approach is effective in clarifying causal relationships between verbs. Furthermore, this paper contributes to the "iconicity versus frequency" debate by showing that conceptually more accessible events (causality plus coextensiveness) tend to be represented in a simpler form than less accessible events (coextensiveness only), due to "efficiency". The frequency of usage is a result of the nature of concepts rather than the driving force of coding asymmetries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the introduction of frame semantics in SciE-Lex, a lexical database of biomedical English, in order to establish frame-based semantic networks among the lexical units contained in the database and draw attention to the domain-specific meanings and syntactic patterns that they exhibit. Taking the general English FrameNet database as a reference and the verbs diminish, compete, and perturb as an illustration, this paper shows how modelling the syntacticosemantic properties of biomedical English results in three scenarios: (a) the general English FrameNet analysis is fully adequate for biomedical usage (b) the frame elements in the general English FrameNet do not fully characterize the semantic and syntactic properties of the lexical items in biomedical English, so an existing frame needs to be customized (c) the frame(s) evoked in general English are different, so either the customization of an existing frame or the addition of a new frame is necessary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many issues face construction grammar today. I start with the role of usage in construction grammar, and trace the changes in the usage-based model from mental storage to social interaction to evolution of populations of speakers and utterances. Just as speech communities and linguistic categories can be described as evolving populations, so can the construction grammar community and the theoretical concepts and formalisms that have evolved in it. Meaning remains the most challenging question for the future. Meaning is human experience, incredibly rich, and I suggest that construction grammar move away from mental representations to radical embodiment (existential phenomenology). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What does the future hold for Construction Grammar? What are the most promising future avenues for research on constructions? This paper addresses the development of Construction Grammar as a theory of language through the perspective of six recent PhD dissertations that explore constructional meaning, the architecture of the constructional network, and the role of language change in a constructional theory of language. The goal of this paper is to establish connections between these ideas, and to spell out how different questions concerning Frame Semantics, distributional semantic methods, priming, nodes and connections, individual differences, and constructional change all contribute to a picture that is bigger than the sum of its parts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Commonsense knowledge is a broad and challenging area of research which investigates our understanding of the world as well as human assumptions about reality. Deriving directly from the subjective perception of the external world, it is intrinsically intertwined with embodied cognition. Commonsense reasoning is linked to human sense-making, pattern recognition and knowledge framing abilities. This work presents a new resource that formalizes the cognitive theory of image schemas. Image schemas are dynamic conceptual building blocks originating from our sensorimotor interactions with the physical world, and enable our sense-making cognitive activity to assign coherence and structure to entities, events and situations we experience everyday. ImageSchemaNet is an ontology that aligns pre-existing resources, such as FrameNet, VerbNet, WordNet and MetaNet from the Framester hub, to image schema theory. This article describes an empirical application of ImageSchemaNet, combined with semantic parsers, on the task of annotating natural language sentences with image schemas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The verb שׁמד is a prominent verb of destruction that appears throughout the Hebrew Bible (HB). It is well represented in both Dtn-Dtr and the Prophetic Books. Many verses related to the conquest of Canaan and the exile feature this verb. Relevant scholarly literature also indicates that some elements of its meaning and usage remain obscure. All this makes it worthy of investigation. The last few decades have seen a rise in the utilisation of cognitive linguistics (CL) for the exegesis of the HB. A review of scholarly literature did not identify any robust attempt at utilising CL to gain insight into the meaning of שׁמד. In this study, frame semantics (FS) along with several other CL methodologies are used to gain greater insight into the semantic force of שׁמד in the HB. Three major discoveries were made. (1) While there usually are severe fatalities, all-encompassing fatality (i.e. annihilation) is not at the semantic core of שׁמד. Rather, decimation is the idea. (2) The destruction envisaged by שׁמד is conceptualised as removal from a location, whether dispossession or extermination. (3) Some insight was gained into the obscurity of when שׁמד takes במות as an object. Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This study traverses the fields of CL, Semitics, Biblical Studies, and Biblical Theology. It utilises CL to gain greater insight into a Hebrew verb. This insight enabled more accurate exegesis of the HB. These exegetical findings have implications for Biblical Theology, especially divine judgement and the conquest of Canaan.

The verb דמש is a prominent verb of destruction that appears throughout the Hebrew Bible (HB). It is well represented in both Dtn-Dtr and the Prophetic Books. Many verses related to the conquest of Canaan and the exile feature this verb. Relevant scholarly literature also indicates that some elements of its meaning and usage remain obscure. All this makes it worthy of investigation. The last few decades have seen a rise in the utilisation of cognitive linguistics (CL) for the exegesis of the HB. A review of scholarly literature did not identify any robust attempt at utilising CL to gain insight into the meaning of דמש. In this study, frame semantics (FS) along with several other CL methodologies are used to gain greater insight into the semantic force of דמש in the HB. Three major discoveries were made. (1) While there usually are severe fatalities, all-encompassing fatality (i.e. annihilation) is not at the semantic core of דמש. Rather, decimation is the idea. (2) The destruction envisaged by דמש is conceptualised as removal from a location, whether dispossession or extermination. (3) Some insight was gained into the obscurity of when דמש takes תומב man as an object. Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This study traverses the fields of CL, Semitics, Biblical Studies, and Biblical Theology. It utilises CL to gain greater insight into a Hebrew verb. This insight enabled more accurate exegesis of the HB. These exegetical findings have implications for Biblical Theology, especially divine judgement and the conquest of Canaan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the study of special languages and translation, the legal field is often insulated from other domains. This is primarily due to the extreme system dependence of the terminology of law, which results from a lack of a common legal system of reference throughout the world. The abstract nature of this human-made field and its dynamicity in view of the continuously evolving case law and constant changes in legislation make it difficult to illustrate its complex ontology through traditional terminology management techniques. Therefore, this paper argues for an interdisciplinary approach to constructing the ontology of legal concepts based on structural constituents from frame semantics and comparative law. Frames allowing for the representation of interconnected knowledge segments evoked by legal concepts and the distinction between micro- and macro-dimensions in legal comparison research make it possible to capture the complex ontology of legal terminology evoked in a specific point in time and a determined legal context. The ontological knowledge structure will be exemplified by terms from German social, commercial, employment, and tax law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this research, semantic frames and construction schemes of compound verbs with "dɑdæn" (to give) light verb has been studied to consider their polysemy. The data includes 382 compound verbs with "dɑdæn" as a light verb, collected from the sources such as Zansu Dictionary (Keshani, 1993), Farhang-e Bozorg-e Sokhan (Anvari, 2002), Syntactic Valency Lexicon for Persian Verbs (Rasooli et al., 2011), and Persian Orthographic Dictionary (Sadeghi and Zendi Moghadam, 2015). The semantic categorization of data is based on Farhang-e Bozorg-e Sokhan (Anvari, 2002). The semantic frames included syntactic valency, grammatical structure, and grammatical functions related to sentences with compound verbs in each semantic category, while the constructional schemas provided templates for making new compound verbs. The findings indicated that by using concepts presented in Frame Semantics (Fillmore, 1982) and Constructional Morphology (Booij, 2010a, 2010b, 2018), the relationship between constructional schemas and semantic frames can be established, and the existing polysemy among compound verbs with the light verb "dɑdæn" can be identified and explained. This analysis leads to a hierarchical and network-like structure of constructional schemes, providing a clear picture of abstract polysemy at the level of construction patterns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Linguistic expressions of confusion, namely confusion markers, construe discrepancies between an academic author's prior knowledge and the information received. These emotive responses motivate knowledge-seeking behaviors to dissolve cognitive incongruities and are inherently connected with knowledge-making. Limited research has, however, examined how they partake in knowledge construction and dissemination in academic writing. Drawing on a frame-based analytical approach, this study investigated how an academic author's disciplinary background and time of publication may mediate the use of confusion markers in 640 research articles sampled from four disciplines. The corpus-based analyses were complemented by insights from 16 specialists to explore how considerations underlying their use of confusion markers shaped their academic writing. The findings indicated that the overall use of confusion markers changed over time and that disciplinary background and time of publication were significant predictors of several frame elements. The observed disciplinary and diachronic patterns of use can be explained in terms of epistemological orientations, developments in the academic world such as increasing disciplinary specialization and growing interdisciplinary research leading to a broadening of readership, and stiff competition in scholarly publication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to bridge the gap between spatial approaches to biblical texts and lexical semantics. It introduces frame semantics to the discussion, a cognitive linguistic theory which has already been used to investigate the meaning of biblical Hebrew lexemes. As a test case, verbs of the roots פרד and בדל (“separate”) are examined. The different meanings of these verbs are then assigned to the different “spaces” as defined by Lefebvre and Soja. The paper argues for a combination of established spatial approaches and methods from cognitive linguistics.

In this research, semantic frames and construction schemes of compound verbs with "dɑdæn" (to give) light verb has been studied to consider their polysemy. The data includes 382 compound verbs with "dɑdæn" as a light verb, collected from the sources such as Zansu Dictionary (Keshani, 1993), Farhang-e Bozorg-e Sokhan (Anvari, 2002), Syntactic Valency Lexicon for Persian Verbs (Rasooli et al., 2011), and Persian Orthographic Dictionary (Sadeghi and Zendi Moghadam, 2015). The semantic categorization of data is based on Farhang-e Bozorg-e Sokhan (Anvari, 2002). The semantic frames included syntactic valency, grammatical structure, and grammatical functions related to sentences with compound verbs in each semantic category, while the constructional schemas provided templates for making new compound verbs. The findings indicated that by using concepts presented in Frame Semantics (Fillmore, 1982) and Constructional Morphology (Booij, 2010a, 2010b, 2018), the relationship between constructional schemas and semantic frames can be established, and the existing polysemy among compound verbs with the light verb "dɑdæn" can be identified and explained. This analysis leads to a hierarchical and network-like structure of constructional schemes, providing a clear picture of abstract polysemy at the level of construction patterns.

In this article, the author applies the theory of frame semantics, a usage-based model of construction grammar, and quantitative corpus-based methodology to investigate the nature of the ADV speaking-construction in American English, an adverbial participle construction that has not been previously explored using quantitative corpus-based methods. To investigate this construction, the author extracted its occurrences from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), analysed its structural, semantic, distributional and discourse-functional properties, and identified adverbs that frequently appear in the construction. The investigation reveals that the construction tends to combine with speech-functional adverbs, which evoke different semantic frames. It commonly occurs in spoken and written registers and serves various functions in discourse. In particular, it is used frequently in spoken discourse and academic prose to comment on the manner of conveying a message and to express speakers’ stances and attitudes toward various topics.

This study aims to comparatively investigate the semantic frames of motion directional verbs in Persian and English within the framework of the frame semantics theory (Fillmore 1977; 1982; 1985). Motion event is analyzed from different realizations in linguistics. On the one hand, in discussion regarding the meaning of word, verbs have an important function in interpreting the meaning. The different syntactic realizations and different coding of direction in Persian motion directional verbs show that FrameNet should take into account the differences among languages. However, direction in Persian language is encoded as prefix or satellite. Furthermore, this type of investigation also shows us that figurative relations and fictive motions and polysemy should be analyzed in detail by FrameNet. These problems indicate that the language specific features have an important role in frame- to- frame relations. Our discussion of culture and language specific words has shown that not all semantic frames derived on the basis of English are good candidates for universal frame-hood. The case of Persian motion directional verbs has shown that that there are cases in which it is necessary to define more fine-grained semantic sub-frames and augment these with more specific cultural information. Direction is represented as prepositional phrase in verb argument. As far as motion verbs are concerned, direction is considered as one of the motion components expressed by either the verb or any element other than the verb. In English — a satellite-framed language (Talmy 2000b) — direction is shown by motion verbs, whereas in Persian it is typically indicated by non-verbal elements, although there are also some verbs via which direction is encoded. Within this study, 117 Persian verbs of direction were selected from Soxan Dictionary based on 10 verbs which was introduced in motion directional frame in FrameNet and then looked up through the Persian Corpus of Bijankhan to achieve their contexts of use. Next, FrameNet was asked for the semantic frame each verb evoked. Thereafter, comparing the semantic frames in the two languages, it was revealed that not every verb of direction does exist as a Lexical Unit in FrameNet. Likewise, not for every verb was a specified semantic frame either. Moreover, the frames for some other verbs have been defined in such a way that they cannot semantically distinguish those verbs from each other, whereas such distinctions are prominent in both directional verbs and the frames they evoke especially in Persian.

We present a new frame semantics for positive relevant and substructural propositional logics. This frame semantics is both a generalisation of Routley–Meyer ternary frames and a simplification of them. The key innovation of this semantics is the use of a single accessibility relation to relate collections of points to points. Different logics are modeled by varying the kinds of collections used: they can be sets, multisets, lists or trees. We show that collection frames on trees are sound and complete for the basic positive distributive substructural logic $\mathsf {B}^+$ , that collection frames on multisets are sound and complete for $\mathsf {RW}^+$ (the relevant logic $\mathsf {R}^+$ , without contraction, or equivalently, positive multiplicative and additive linear logic with distribution for the additive connectives), and that collection frames on sets are sound for the positive relevant logic $\mathsf {R}^+$. The completeness of set frames for $\mathsf {R}^+$ is, currently, an open question. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The goal of this paper is to offer an analysis of cyberpunk, steampunk, and other genre names related via the punk element. We study the emergence and popularity of these names among science fiction fans and scholars, comparing them with "mainstream" appreciators. We carry out a corpus study that analyses data extracted from textual corpora in four languages (English, German, French, and Italian) and encyclopedias (fandom communities, e.g., Aesthetics Wiki). We show that the proliferation of punk genre names tends to be closely related to science fiction and other (fan-)fiction communities, who display an emotive and intellectual investment in punk subgenres. We propose an analysis via a frame-theoretical model that shows how cyberpunk and related genre names can describe the core narrative themes of each subgenre. We then propose that punk genre names form sets of near-synonym words via their ability to describe fictional narratives featuring anti-authoritarian protagonists across different world settings and technologies. We conclude by discussing the consequences of our account for possible theories of genres, genre names, and linguistic studies focusing on science fiction and other fictional genres. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article extends the study of frames in verbal media discourse. We mobilize insights from linguistic semantics and research in the related fields of cognitive science in order to formulate a frame-semantic understanding of frames as adaptive networks of meaning. It allows us to see frames as flexible scaffoldings whose elements are controlled by contextual configurations. This extension is helpful, we argue, because analyses of public discourse have, to date, mainly operated with a model of frames as fixed ensembles. Understanding frames not as invariant clusters but as adaptive networks has implications for empirical studies, too. Consequently, we outline the applicability of our proposition in an analytical scenario. • Frame-semantic understanding of frames as adaptive networks of meaning. • Frames are flexible scaffoldings whose elements are controlled by contextual configurations. • Data-driven elaboration of frame structures whose analysis can follow different procedures. • Main value for empirical analyses is the compilation of context-sensitive frame clusters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study conducts a cognitive-semantic analysis of etymologically-related lexical pairs in the language of the Qur’an. Based on objective selection criteria, the lexical pair rīĥ (a singular form literally meaning wind) and riyāĥ (a plural form literally meaning winds) has been claimed to be representative of the final data set, which includes 20 lexical pairs. Building on the theoretical underpinnings of descriptive semantics and frame semantics, the analysis sought to fulfill three main objectives: (a) identifying the referential range of the pair rīĥ and riyāĥ and its central reference point; (b) explaining the way the historical and theological context helps to mark the connotations associated with each sense in the referential range; and (c) sorting the discourse functions communicated through the cognitive frame(s) evoked by such a lexical pair. Findings showed that the central cognitive frame of both lexical items is that of moving air. However, rīĥ has developed, through metaphorical extension, two other senses that are not applicable to riyāĥ: power/predominance and smell. Finally, both lexical items have been proven to have positive, negative, and neutral connotations that have been divinely manipulated to perform various discourse functions.

A sociologist and a linguist, unaware of each other's work, each assigned a technical meaning to the term frame around 1970, based on separate usages of the word frame from the 1950s. Each researcher instigated a theory of frame analysis. Over the following decades, the two approaches to framing became intertwined as followers of both Goffman and Fillmore studied metaphoric framing, examined factors affecting the communication of frames, and became particularly interested in politics and the mass media. Years later, many theorists complain about the fragmented field of frame studies. The paper suggests that some of the fragmentation can be resolved by recognizing the dual origins of framing studies, and classifying instances of framing in either the Goffman or the Fillmore tradition as occurring at the level of language, thought, or communication. These three levels are termed semantic framing, cognitive framing, and communicative framing. This article is categorized under: Linguistics > CognitiveLinguistics > Linguistic TheoryComputer Science and Robotics > Natural Language Processing [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Research articles generate and disseminate disciplinary knowledge in a specific field of study. They are expected to be objective, faceless, and free from expressions of emotion. However, linguistic expressions of confusion that signal authors' affective attitude toward the propositional information are not uncommon in research articles. To determine and describe the dynamic changes that occurred in the deployment of such expressions in communicating disciplinary knowledge, this study examined linguistically expressed confusion in a corpus of 160 research articles in applied linguistics that were published in two periods separated by 30 years. Drawing on a frame-based analytical approach, this study revealed that time of publication was a robust predictor of academic authors' overall use of confusion markers and the presence of some subcategories across the four frame elements of the Confusion frame. This study sheds new light on the possibilities of applying frame semantics to academic discourse analysis. More importantly, it has pedagogical implications in terms of helping raise the awareness of novice writers about the necessity of acquiring a time-sensitive repertoire of discursive resources to convey an appropriate authorial identity for effective academic communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The English verbal prefix out- gives rise to at least two semantic categories: comparative forms as in to outplay someone and locative forms as in to outstream from somewhere. While most available studies on the comparative sense rely on insufficient databases, systematic studies on the actual behavior of locative verbal out-forms are lacking altogether. Building on a set of more than 1,500 tokens culled from corpora, this study is the first to systematically analyze, formalize, and contrast the two senses. The formal analysis will be couched in frame semantics and model both individual attested examples as well as lexeme-formation rules based on generalizations. Formalizations of the two prefixes, and their implications, are shown to speak against an analysis of one underlying, underspecified prefix. Locative out- essentially functions as a morphologically bound, and highly restricted, version of out- as a particle, while comparative out- is a highly specialized, idiosynchratic construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Linguistic expressions of interest as emotive responses are not uncommon in academic discourse but have hardly attracted any research attention. This paper reports on a study designed to examine how the deployment of such expressions in academic writing is mediated by an academic author's disciplinary background and gender. Drawing on a semantic frame developed for interest markers found in a corpus of 640 research articles sampled from four disciplines, corpus-based quantitative analyses were conducted on the incidence of the various elements of the Interest frame. Text-based interviews were also conducted with 16 disciplinary informants to explore considerations behind their use of interest markers. The corpus analyses found that although discipline and gender did not reliably predict academic authors' overall use of interest markers, they were robust predictors of several frame elements. The analyses of the interview data revealed that the observed quantitative differences were related to disciplinary knowledge-making practices, knowledge/knower epistemological orientations prevailing in the disciplines, gender-preferential discursive practices and an author's relative status in academia. • We examined linguistic expressions of interest in 640 research articles. • These articles were authored by male and female academics from four disciplines. • We developed a semantic frame with four frame elements to study these expressions. • Disciplinary background influenced the use of Trigger, Explanation and Degree. • Gender differences were found in the use of Explanation, Degree and Experiencer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Применение когнитивного подхода в медиалингвистике позволяет описать процессы (ре)конструирования смыслов в массовой коммуникации через фреймы. Данный метод особенно актуален для исследования процесса формирования стереотипных знаний о новых социальных практиках, транслируемых через средства массовой коммуникации. Впервые упоминаемые в русскоязычных СМИ ещё в 1980-х годах, феномены из сферы кибертехнологий к настоящему моменту прочно вошли в глобальную новостную повестку. Построение фреймовой модели «Киберпространство» на базе текстов русскоязычных СМИ и анализ наиболее частотных вариантов заполнения её слотов позволяет выявить универсальные и лингвоспецифические черты этого медиафрейма. К последним относится развитая субъектная семантика, получившая языковое выражение через специфические лексические единицы, называющие различные типы субъектов в поле киберпространства.

The present article aims at investigating the discursive pressures at the phrasal and textual levels for a text genre, here wine advertisements from Austrian supermarket leaflets. After having developed the theoretical framework of Germanic inspiration, a case study is conducted to highlight these discursive pressures.

The media have an important persuasive power over the audience. One of the most relevant media phenomena in recent years was Brexit. The objective of this study is to find out the editorial position of the Spanish press in relation to the actors of Brexit (European Union and United Kingdom). To do this, a lexical analysis based on the Frame Semantics was carried out. The results of the investigation shown that Spanish newspapers maintained a pro-European stance throughout the entire Brexit process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article addresses the study of the theory of frame semantics applied to heritage access. Based on the conception proposed by cognitive linguistics of the semantic framework as a tool for understanding, we present a study that explores the possibilities of this instrument as a catalyst for processes of teaching-learning of heritage. Taking into account the features of the a/r/tographic approach, the study is organized as a visual art practice in which research, education, and artistic creation are presented as simultaneous actions that feed back on each other. In such a way that the process and the resulting images are themselves an object of analysis, a research instrument and an educational proposal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a case study on German compounds which have -stoff ('stuff /material/matter') as their head. The basic claim is that the head noun narrows down the range of interpretations by introducing a pragmatic scaffold which we pin down as a conceptual script. We obtained a data set by querying a large corpus selecting 4,026 nominal Stoff-compound lemmas. Using the 100 most frequent compounds as our development set, we observed 72 substance-denoting, five fabric-denoting and 11 knowledge-denoting compounds (corresponding to the basic meanings of Stoff in isolation according to standard dictionaries). From the observation that substance compounds (e.g. Farbstoff 'colouring agent'; Impfstoff 'vaccine') cluster around two events, synthesis and application, we induce a script consisting of these two event frames connecting three kinds of states. A Stoff-compound may thus be expected to denote an entity which is either the starting material of a synthesis (Rohstoff 'raw material'), an addendum in synthesis (Süßstoff 'sweetening agent'), the product of synthesis and, at the same time, an occasion for application (Kunststoff 'synthetic material'), or the instrument of application (Sprengstoff 'explosive'). As for fabric compounds (e.g. Seidenstoff 'silk fabric'), we argue that fabrication is a special kind of synthesis. Knowledge compounds (e.g. Lesestoff 'reading material') arguably result from a metaphoric transfer to the immaterial domain, with the two events acquisition (counterpart of synthesis) and contribution (counterpart of application). In this article, we test the obtained model against two test sets comprising 50 compounds with medium and low frequencies, respectively. Since it turns out that almost all test items successfully integrate into the script, our study provides support for pragmatic theories of compounding, according to which the interpretation of a compound is crucially guided by stereotype knowledge associated with the given compound's constituents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While most work in diachronic construction grammar considers individual constructional changes, these changes share an understudied relationship with broader changes at the level of the semantic frame. Literary corpus data shows that in the Spending frame in French, between the 12th and 20th centuries, the selection rates of four alternating frame elements shifted: Purpose, Cause of expense, Goods, and Seller. This frame-level shift is examined alongside related constructional changes including lexicalization, pejoration, and constructional loss. The analysis suggests that constructional change does not proceed independently but is driven by shifts in framing due in part to sociocultural changes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Employing Frame Semantics as implemented in the Berkeley FrameNet database, this paper analyzes English sentences expressing concerns of risk derived from the British National Corpus and their Japanese translations (created for the purposes of the current study). It introduces the ideas of content and interpretation predicates, frame integration, and head-switching as effectual devices for recognizing obscure constructional equivalences across languages. Our findings shed light on the development of a new contrastive framework for verbal predicativity: that is, a framework based on the recognition of content and interpretation predicates and how it intersects with the categorical distinction in lexicalization patterns between verbs and adverbs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As is often claimed, "the central problem of translation practice is that of finding target language translation equivalents" (Catford 1965, 21). Translation equivalence occurs when a source language (SL) and a target language (TL) text can be related to the same substance. Therefore, translation failure occurs when a concept in SL cannot be related to the equivalent in TL. Translation failures can be classified into two cases: those where it is impossible to find linguistic equivalence in TL, and those where it is impossible to secure cultural equivalence in TL. This study focuses on the latter, especially how to establish the equivalence of culturally specific concepts from SL to TL. Nobody can understand the meanings of words in a certain culturally specific domain if they do not understand some social institutions, and some history of social practices, in which these words are interpreted. Japanese words sontaku (roughly, surmise) and haragei, (literally, belly art) are examples of those culturally specific concepts. Translating these concepts into a TL text includes the identification of their semantic representation. For this purpose, using frame semantics paves the way. By defining frame elements and relations between them and also by identifying cultural practices, we can have a clear understanding of the concepts, which in turn can be related to the TL terms. It is also worth noting that culture-specific words have varying degrees of untranslatability, which can be defined by comparing synonymous words in terms of the frame semantic approach. This research sheds new light on the method of rendering culturally specific untranslatable concepts exemplified by sontaku and haragei more transparent by drawing on frame semantics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The verb is one of the most perplexing features for learners of BIPA (Bahasa Indonesia bagi Penutur Asing "Indonesian for foreign speakers"). Indonesian verbs are particularly rich in affixes that correspond to their numerous senses. The learners find it challenging to use verbs with the appropriate affixes in a sentence structure. To function effectively as a learning tool, dictionaries must provide morphological and grammatical information. Frame semantics theory is used in this research to determine a verb's meaning based on its semantic context and frame. The verb is described by identifying the grammatical constructions in which it participates, and by characterizing all of the obligatory and optional types of companions. By doing this, we can obtain the verb valency pattern to add to a dictionary's morphological and grammatical information. This study aims to create entry models of affixed verbs with the valency pattern. The six transitive verbs for discussion comprise a variety of affixes with various senses: mempersembahkan "to present/dedicate"; membersihkan "to clean"; mencintai "to love"; memperlancar "to expedite"; memperbaiki "to fix"; and memberlakukan "to apply". These entries serve as models for the BIPA learner's dictionary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Applying frame semantics, usage-based construction grammar, and quantitative corpus-based methodology, this article seeks to explore the nature of the extraposed construction with past participles complemented by that-clauses. To this end, the author extracts the occurrences of the It BE Ven that-construction from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), determines its structural, semantic, distributional, and discourse-functional features, and identifies verbs that are strongly associated with the construction in question. The study meaningfully contributes to a growing body of research on it-extraposition by conducting a qualitative and quantitative analysis of one of its variants, a grammatical pattern with past participles that has not been hitherto investigated in much detail from a quantitative corpus-based perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this corpus-based study, we present semantic frames based on principles of FrameNet1of Urdu conjunct verb lagnā. In research studies on Urdu, while translating from Urdu to English or for grammatical analysis, lagnā is typically translated in English as ‘attach’ creating a perception that this is its prototypical meaning. However, Online Urdu Dictionary2(OUD) shows at least seven different senses in natural language. The sources for the theoretical framework of the study include frame semantics (Fillmore & Atkins, 1992), and polysemic meaning (Traugott & Dasher, 2002).This situates the study in the cognitive linguistic framework. The analysis examples are extracted from 95.4 million words Urdu monolingual corpus (Jawaid et al., 2014)which can now be accessedusingCQPweb3. The frequency of occurrence of types of lagnā and observation of concordance lines of extracted examples helps in analysing to what extent the different patterns in which the verb lagnā generates different meanings. The preliminary analysis showed that there are two overarching patterns NOUN+lagnā and VERB+ lagnā. Within these two patterns, we observed and analysed twelve semantic frames, of which BEGIN is the most frequent frame followed by TOUCH with the second-highest frequency. This analysis also helps in understanding that certain verbs in Urdu also have polysemous use and their meanings are context-dependent that can be established through a corpus-based analysis. This analysis and its findings are especially beneficial for the Urdu language scholars who have an interest in translation studies or (descriptive) grammatical analysis to look for different interpretations as well as integrate semantic frame and corpus methods rather than relying on restrictive meaning of this verb (as well as other polysemous verbs) for data analysis.

• The first word-sense-based study on academic vocabulary across disciplines. • Eighty-four semantic frames specific to research articles were identified. • Grouping of these 84 semantic frames corresponds to research articles' main social purposes. • Findings expand the conceptual scope of genre knowledge. Taking Frame Semantics as its theoretical framework, this corpus-based study addresses a lack of research on semantic knowledge in research articles at the genre level, as opposed to the discipline level, by identifying the dominant Semantic Frames in the academic portion of the Corpus of Contemporary American English. Semantic Frames in the corpus were first automatically identified with a pre-trained large language model fine-tuned with data from FrameNet, a large database built on the principles of Frame Semantics. Subsequently, 84 dominant Semantic Frames in research articles were extracted based on the frequency distributions of identified semantic frames, constituting a Research Article-specific Semantic Frame List. Based on their definitions and detailed analyses of typical example sentences, these 84 Research Article-specific Semantic Frames were classified into three groups: Academic Activity Frames, which describe typical activities for creating knowledge, Academic Communication Frames, which relate to typical ways for disseminating knowledge, and Academic Interest Frames, which include typical entities or attributes that interest researchers across disciplines. The Research Article-specific Semantic Frame List sheds light on the semantic knowledge that is characteristic of the research article genre and shared across disciplines, thereby paving the way for compiling a research article-specific framenet. Further research is encouraged to explore the Frame Element distribution patterns of Research Article-specific Semantic Frames and Semantic Frames specific to other academic genres. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]