The Conceptualization of ‘Beautiful’ and ‘Ugly’ across Languages and Cultures
Edited by Anna Gladkova and Jesús Romero-Trillo
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 8:1 (2021) vii, 168 pp.
Jesús Romero-Trillo
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jesús Romero-Trillo plays a role.
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Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Communication Studies | Pragmatics
Articles
2024 Gradience in iconicity: Evidence from total reduplicative constructions in Nigerian Pidgin Review of Cognitive Linguistics 22:1, pp. 124–150 | Article
While it has largely been taken for granted by most linguists that the relationship between linguistic signifier and signified is arbitrary in nature, a growing number of studies suggest otherwise. In this article, we demonstrate that iconicity in total reduplicative constructions in Nigerian… read more
2023 Morphopragmatic analysis of reduplication in Nigerian Pidgin (Naija) Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 38:2, pp. 263–289 | Article
Reduplication has a strong presence in creoles and expanded Pidgins. It has been studied for the several grammatical functions it performs in these languages. The present study is based on morphopragmatics theory, and explores reduplication in Nigerian Pidgin with the goal of identifying the… read more
2021 Is ugliness in the mind of the beholder? The conceptualization of ‘ugly’ in English The Conceptualization of ‘Beautiful’ and ‘Ugly’ across Languages and Cultures, Gladkova, Anna and Jesús Romero-Trillo (eds.), pp. 106–127 | Article
The paper explores the meaning and use of ugly in English. The study is based on corpus data from Cobuild Wordbanks Online and investigates the polysemy and the spheres of application of the concept. Through corpus analysis methodology, we investigate the most common collocations and the… read more
2021 The linguistic conceptualization in folk aesthetics: Past, present and future The Conceptualization of ‘Beautiful’ and ‘Ugly’ across Languages and Cultures, Gladkova, Anna and Jesús Romero-Trillo (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Introduction
This Special Issue is dedicated to the analysis of the linguistic conceptualization of “beautiful” and “ugly” as the key concepts that are basic to aesthetic appreciation across languages and cultures within the framework of folk aesthetics. For this purpose, we present a collection of original… read more
2021 Chapter 11. Expressing opinions and emotions while travelling on-line: A corpus-pragmatic approach The Pragmatics of Adaptability, Silva, Daniel N. and Jacob L. Mey (eds.), pp. 235–258 | Chapter
New technologies are developed to facilitate our daily lives, and as a result, they also transform our reality and create new communication contexts between humans and machines. Mey (2006) insists on the two-way directivity of adaptation: humans need to adapt to the machine as well as machines… read more
2021 The good, the bad… and the ugly? The conceptualization of aesthetics in Spanish The Conceptualization of ‘Beautiful’ and ‘Ugly’ across Languages and Cultures, Gladkova, Anna and Jesús Romero-Trillo (eds.), pp. 147–168 | Article
The present article describes the conceptualization of aesthetics in Spanish through the analysis of the two prototypical terms that describe positive and negative sensory appreciation, i.e., “bonito” (beautiful) and “feo” (ugly). Following a mixed-approach methodology combining Natural Semantic… read more
2020 “They cowardly attack US, so we nobly eliminate them…”: The emergence of the translocal group in the propaganda of the Islamic State Hate speech: Definitions, interpretations and practices, Baider, Fabienne H., Sharon Millar and Stavros Assimakopoulos (eds.), pp. 292–315 | Article
The threat of the Islamic State is realised both in its attacks and its discourse. To illustrate the role of linguistic threats, the present study investigates the ISIS online propaganda magazine Dabiq by combining Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics (Romero-Trillo 2008; Baker… read more
2018 Musolff, A., MacArthur, F., & Pagani, G. (Eds.). (2004). Metaphor and intercultural communication Issues in Humour Cognition, Dynel, Marta (ed.), pp. 299–304 | Review
2017 Chapter 15. Adaptive management and bilingual education: A longitudinal corpus-based analysis of pragmatic markers in teacher talk Current Issues in Intercultural Pragmatics, Kecskés, István and Stavros Assimakopoulos (eds.), pp. 347–365 | Chapter
This article investigates the presence of adaptive management in a bilingual school setting in Madrid, Spain. The data supporting the research was obtained from a longitudinal corpus of classroom interaction over 6 years. The purpose of the study is to investigate the effect of pragmatic markers in… read more
2015 ‘It is a truth universally acknowledged’…, you know? The role of adaptive management and prosody to start a turn in conversation Pragmatics and Society 6:1, pp. 117–145 | Article
This article describes the prosodic features of the most frequent pragmatic markers in English conversations that contribute to the management of context in interaction. Often, turn-taking has been analyzed either from a structural perspective, in which the participants are treated as subjects… read more
2014 ‘Pragmatic punting’ and prosody: Evidence from corpora The Functional Perspective on Language and Discourse: Applications and implications, Gómez González, María de los Ángeles, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco Gonzálvez-García and Angela Downing (eds.), pp. 209–222 | Article
The aim of this chapter is to present the notion of “pragmatic punting” as the
cognitive process that confirms that communication in interaction has achieved
its goal. The theoretical tenets of this mechanism are based on the principles
of communicative context and on the Dynamic Model of Meaning.… read more
2012 Review of Jucker, Schreier & Hundt (2009): Corpora: Pragmatics and Discourse Functions of Language 19:1, pp. 96–104 | Review
2012 The cognitive representation of nature in language: A taxonomy Pragmatics & Cognition 20:1, pp. 168–185 | Article
The present article proposes a taxonomy of features to describe the grammar of natural landscapes with the parameters that can account for the preferences of speakers in the description of nature. The taxonomy is the theoretical foundation designed for the Corpus of Language and Nature (CLAN… read more
2001 Communicative Constraints in EFL Pre-School Settings: A Corpus-Driven Approach International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 6:1, pp. 27–46 | Article
The present article investigates the use of interrogatives made by teachers and the responses given by learners in two different (bilingual and non-bilingual) English language classroom contexts in two Spanish nursery schools.
The analysis shows the relevance of the type of functions made by the… read more