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Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleWhy Construction Grammar Catches the Worm and Corpus Data can Drive you Crazy: Accounting for Idiomatic and Non-Idiomatic IdiomaticityThomas HerbstThis article outlines why the treatment of idiomatic elements in language in terms of constructions can be considered a real step forward in the understanding of the character of language. It is argued that construction grammar provides a theoretical basis for accommodating insights into the phraseological character of language that were gained in a number of fields such as corpus … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 3 · 11 Sep 2015 · 8,794 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleOn the Systematic Variation of German Idioms: Converse Pairs as a Constructional PhenomenonDmitrij Dobrovol′skijThis paper presents some findings of my research on the systematic variation of German idioms, with attention focused on converse transformations such as (jmdm.) eins/eine/einen aufs Dach geben literally "to give someone <let someone have> one on the roof", meaning 'to strike <beat> someone' or 'to punish someone' – eins/eine/einen aufs Dach bekommen (von jmdm.) literally "to get one on … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 3 · 13 Aug 2015 · 8,214 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleAntiphrasis-Based Comparative Constructional Idioms in SpanishCarmen Mellado BlancoThe aim of this study is to show the constructional character of the antiphrasis-based comparative structures in Spanish [SUBJ[anaph] VTENER de S1 como/lo que yo de S2] and [SUBJ[anaph] V[COGN] de S1 como/lo que yo de S2], respectively with the referential meaning 'not to be S1' and 'to not know/understand absolutely anything about S1' and the pragmatic meaning disagreement/criticism. These … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 3 · 14 Aug 2015 · 8,120 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsItalian Phrasemes as Constructions: How to Understand and Use ThemElmar SchafrothThe present article describes the objectives and methods for a learner-centered description of Italian idioms based on the theoretical principles of Construction Grammar (CxG). The aim of the underlying research project is to develop a new way of looking at idioms, taking into account all linguistic aspects that could help to fully understand and usethem in a formally and functionally … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 3 · 3 Sep 2015 · 9,094 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsCAUSAL CONSTRUCTIONS WITH AN ADJECTIVE IN GERMAN AND FRENCH: TYPOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL CONSIDERATIONSSabine De KnopThe study explores the variety of causal constructions with an adjective in French and German, as they are realized in French Pierre est rouge de colère (‘Peter is red with anger’), German Maria ist gelb vor Eifersucht (‘Maria is yellow with jealousy’), French Il est fou d’amour (lit. ‘He is crazy of love’), or French Anne est morte de faim … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 3 · 23 Aug 2015 · 7,986 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsHow to Apply CxG to Phraseology: A Multilingual Research ProjectValentina Benigni, Paola Cotta Ramusino, Fabio Mollica, Elmar SchafrothIn the present research project, we will set out to design and populate a multilingual database which lists and describes Italian, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Russian and Spanish phraseologisms. We firmly believe that the multilingual database will prove particularly useful in second language teaching. We will endorse the holistic perspective of Construction Grammar as our theoretical and applied framework … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 3 · 20 Aug 2015 · 9,499 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractTranslation Quality Assessment of Online Translation Systems in Translating English to Thai on Phuket TourismKitsiri Chochiang, Thanakrit Thongkhamdee, Lalita SathansatThis research aims to compare four English-to-Thai translator applications on translating the comments posted on social media. Four translator applications include Google Translate, Baidu Translate, Yandex.Translate and Microsoft/Bing Translate. The comments in this study are on three main popular attractions in Phuket, Thailand. The attractions include a temple (Wat Chalong), a viewpoint spot (Promthep Cape) and a beach (Patong beach). … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 16, Issue 11 · 10 Nov 2020 · 7,506 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstract‘Someone to Open Each and Every Door’: Construction Grammar as a Learner Grammar: The Case of English Indefinite PronounsRandal HolmeThis paper sets out an applied model of Cognitive Construction Grammar along three dimensions: Compositionality, form as a vehicle for promoting the emergence of grammatical meaning from lexical meaning and construal. The model of Cognitive Construction Grammar put forward here implies that the Applied Linguist may have to collect and explain a wider repertoire of grammatical forms than were considered … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 3 · 12 Sep 2015 · 7,860 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractEntrenching Inferences in Implicational and Illocutionary ConstructionsFrancisco José Ruiz de Mendoza IbáñezThe starting point for the present paper is the classification of constructions, understood as fixed pairings of form and meaning, into four levels of meaning representation, i.e., the argument-structure, implicational, illocutionary and discourse levels. The meaning part of constructions contains fixed and variable elements. In argument-structure constructions the fixed elements are generic and, as such, they are open to parameterization … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 3 · 14 Aug 2015 · 8,203 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstract"Fruits are Results": On the Interaction between Universal Archi-Metaphors, Ethno-Specific Culturemes and PhraseologyAntonio Pamies, Lei Chunyi, Margaret CraigThis paper deals with the relation between language, culture and reality, as it manifests itself in figurative words, idioms and proverbs involving the concept of fruit in several language families. Some productive metaphoric macro-models are identified and analysed, archi-metaphors as well as culturemes, analysing how the "experiential" and "cultural" motivational backgrounds can interact. We also investigate how grammatical metaphors depend … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 3 · 10 Aug 2015 · 8,452 accessesView PDFCite