Eve Sweetser
Biographic Data
| ID | 234572 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eve Sweetser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eve |
| FAMILY NAME | Sweetser |
| SIGNATURE | SWEETSER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 127 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Cognitive Linguistic Models for Analyzing Characterization in a Parable
This study employs an array of cognitive linguistic ( cl ) models to reveal some of the details in how contemporary readers understand and interpret characters in a New Testament parable, the one often tagged “The Good Samaritan.” It also uses cognitive narrative analysis to explore how Luke constructs and develops the dialog partners in the pericope and the characters in the parable. The larger goal is to use cl to reveal some of the ways in whi…
Linguistic and cognitive representation of time and viewpoint in narrative discourse
In this introduction to the special issue on time and viewpoint in narrative discourse, we highlight the central contributions of the issue concerning the relation between the linguistic construal and cognitive representation of time and viewpoint. We explain how linguistic and gestural cues guide the representation of narrative time progression and argue that this representation involves various cognitive operations regulating the alignment betw…
Metaphor and metonymy in advertising
Root and Epistemic Modals
Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1982)
From Etymology to Pragmatics
Responsible subjects and discourse causality. How mental spaces and perspective help identifying subjectivity in Dutch backward causal connectives
Early Welsh Metrics and the Indo-European Poetic Tradition
Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1985), pp. 505-518
Multi-frame Semantics, Metaphoric Extensions and Grammar
With the Future Behind Them
Cognitive research on metaphoric concepts of time has focused on differences between moving Ego and moving time models, but even more basic is the contrast between Ego‐ and temporal‐reference‐point models. Dynamic models appear to be quasi‐universal cross‐culturally, as does the generalization that in Ego‐reference‐point models, FUTURE IS IN FRONT OF EGO and PAST IS IN BACK OF EGO. The Aymara language instead has a major static model of time wher…
Whose rhyme is whose reason? Sound and sense in Cyrano de Bergerac
This article proposes a new interpretation of the relationship between poetic form and literary interpretation in Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, focusing on the special affordances of rhyme and meter in dramatic verse and on Rostand's virtuosic exploitation of poetic blending possibilities in Cyrano. I claim that poetic blends play a thematically essential role in this work, at a level far beyond their thematic contribution to most verse drama. Su…
Mental Spaces in Grammar
Conditional constructions have long fascinated linguists, grammarians and philosophers. In this pioneering new study, Barbara Dancygier and Eve Sweetser offer a new descriptive framework for the study of conditionality, broadening the range of richly described conditional constructions. They explore theoretical issues such as the mental-space-building processes underlying conditional thinking and the form-meaning relationship involved in expressi…
What we mean by meaning
Determining what a gesture “means” is an intuitive inferential process, which can profit from the application of a formalism which guides analysis. This paper uses a detailed exploration of a single example to illustrate the efficacy of the conceptual integration framework (Fauconnier & Turner, 2002) in organizing and understanding the process of meaning construction, and particularly in helping the analyst to understand the relationship between …
Metaphors for God
Blended spaces and performativity
Mental Spaces theory, with its sophisticated mechanisms for representing the contents of speech, thought, and perception, opens routes for the exploration of relations between these domains and the ''real'' world. One of the most intriguing of these relations isperformativity, defined by Searle (1989) as the ability of some descriptions to bring about the described situations in reality. My broader definition of performativity treats it as mental…
Constructions with if, since, and because. Causality, epistemic stance, and clause order
Constructions with if, since, and because
Lexical and Syntactical Constructions and the Construction of Meaning
The basic tenet of cognitive linguistics is that every linguistic expression is a construal relation. The first section of this volume focuses on issues of such construal and presentation of information, including figure-ground relations, image-schematic structures, and the role of syntactic constructions in information structure. In sections two and three papers are presented on cross-categorial polysemy between lexical and grammatical uses of a…
Then in conditional constructions
Metaphor, mythology, and everyday language
English Metaphors for Language
Grammaticalization and Semantic Bleaching
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1988), pp. 389-405
Linguistic Anthropology
Metaphorical Models of Thought and Speech
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1987), pp. 446-459
Ambiguity-Avoidance
Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1977), pp. 440-453
From Etymology to Pragmatics
Responsible subjects and discourse causality. How mental spaces and perspective help identifying subjectivity in Dutch backward causal connectives
Blended spaces and performativity
Mental Spaces theory, with its sophisticated mechanisms for representing the contents of speech, thought, and perception, opens routes for the exploration of relations between these domains and the ''real'' world. One of the most intriguing of these relations isperformativity, defined by Searle (1989) as the ability of some descriptions to bring about the described situations in reality. My broader definition of performativity treats it as mental…
Then in conditional constructions
Metaphor and metonymy in advertising
What we mean by meaning
Determining what a gesture “means” is an intuitive inferential process, which can profit from the application of a formalism which guides analysis. This paper uses a detailed exploration of a single example to illustrate the efficacy of the conceptual integration framework (Fauconnier & Turner, 2002) in organizing and understanding the process of meaning construction, and particularly in helping the analyst to understand the relationship between …
Metaphors for God
English Metaphors for Language
Metaphor, mythology, and everyday language
Linguistic and cognitive representation of time and viewpoint in narrative discourse
In this introduction to the special issue on time and viewpoint in narrative discourse, we highlight the central contributions of the issue concerning the relation between the linguistic construal and cognitive representation of time and viewpoint. We explain how linguistic and gestural cues guide the representation of narrative time progression and argue that this representation involves various cognitive operations regulating the alignment betw…
Ambiguity-Avoidance
Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1977), pp. 440-453
Metaphorical Models of Thought and Speech
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1987), pp. 446-459
Grammaticalization and Semantic Bleaching
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1988), pp. 389-405
Linguistic Anthropology
English Metaphors for Language
Metaphor, mythology, and everyday language
Lexical and Syntactical Constructions and the Construction of Meaning
The basic tenet of cognitive linguistics is that every linguistic expression is a construal relation. The first section of this volume focuses on issues of such construal and presentation of information, including figure-ground relations, image-schematic structures, and the role of syntactic constructions in information structure. In sections two and three papers are presented on cross-categorial polysemy between lexical and grammatical uses of a…
Then in conditional constructions
Constructions with if, since, and because. Causality, epistemic stance, and clause order
Constructions with if, since, and because
Blended spaces and performativity
Mental Spaces theory, with its sophisticated mechanisms for representing the contents of speech, thought, and perception, opens routes for the exploration of relations between these domains and the ''real'' world. One of the most intriguing of these relations isperformativity, defined by Searle (1989) as the ability of some descriptions to bring about the described situations in reality. My broader definition of performativity treats it as mental…
Mental Spaces in Grammar
Conditional constructions have long fascinated linguists, grammarians and philosophers. In this pioneering new study, Barbara Dancygier and Eve Sweetser offer a new descriptive framework for the study of conditionality, broadening the range of richly described conditional constructions. They explore theoretical issues such as the mental-space-building processes underlying conditional thinking and the form-meaning relationship involved in expressi…
What we mean by meaning
Determining what a gesture “means” is an intuitive inferential process, which can profit from the application of a formalism which guides analysis. This paper uses a detailed exploration of a single example to illustrate the efficacy of the conceptual integration framework (Fauconnier & Turner, 2002) in organizing and understanding the process of meaning construction, and particularly in helping the analyst to understand the relationship between …
Metaphors for God
With the Future Behind Them
Cognitive research on metaphoric concepts of time has focused on differences between moving Ego and moving time models, but even more basic is the contrast between Ego‐ and temporal‐reference‐point models. Dynamic models appear to be quasi‐universal cross‐culturally, as does the generalization that in Ego‐reference‐point models, FUTURE IS IN FRONT OF EGO and PAST IS IN BACK OF EGO. The Aymara language instead has a major static model of time wher…
Whose rhyme is whose reason? Sound and sense in Cyrano de Bergerac
This article proposes a new interpretation of the relationship between poetic form and literary interpretation in Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, focusing on the special affordances of rhyme and meter in dramatic verse and on Rostand's virtuosic exploitation of poetic blending possibilities in Cyrano. I claim that poetic blends play a thematically essential role in this work, at a level far beyond their thematic contribution to most verse drama. Su…
Multi-frame Semantics, Metaphoric Extensions and Grammar
Early Welsh Metrics and the Indo-European Poetic Tradition
Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1985), pp. 505-518
From Etymology to Pragmatics
Responsible subjects and discourse causality. How mental spaces and perspective help identifying subjectivity in Dutch backward causal connectives
Root and Epistemic Modals
Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1982)
Metaphor and metonymy in advertising
Linguistic and cognitive representation of time and viewpoint in narrative discourse
In this introduction to the special issue on time and viewpoint in narrative discourse, we highlight the central contributions of the issue concerning the relation between the linguistic construal and cognitive representation of time and viewpoint. We explain how linguistic and gestural cues guide the representation of narrative time progression and argue that this representation involves various cognitive operations regulating the alignment betw…
Cognitive Linguistic Models for Analyzing Characterization in a Parable
This study employs an array of cognitive linguistic ( cl ) models to reveal some of the details in how contemporary readers understand and interpret characters in a New Testament parable, the one often tagged “The Good Samaritan.” It also uses cognitive narrative analysis to explore how Luke constructs and develops the dialog partners in the pericope and the characters in the parable. The larger goal is to use cl to reveal some of the ways in whi…
Linguistics (21 works) · Philosophy (21 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (15 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (6 works) · Cognition (6 works)