- I'm a highly renowned scholar in general and Romance linguistics. At age 83 I'm naturally retired (professor emeritu... moreI'm a highly renowned scholar in general and Romance linguistics. At age 83 I'm naturally retired (professor emeritus) but still active above all in the academy of humanities and sciences at Heidelbergedit
L’etymologie est une des branches les plus anciennes des Sciences du Langage et elle a connu un developpement exceptionnel en romanistique grâce a la bonne documentation diachronique et variationnelle des langues latine et neolatines. Le... more
L’etymologie est une des branches les plus anciennes des Sciences du Langage et elle a connu un developpement exceptionnel en romanistique grâce a la bonne documentation diachronique et variationnelle des langues latine et neolatines. Le volume, issu d’un colloque zurichois sur l’Etymologie romane en l’honneur du 80e anniversaire de Max Pfister entend mettre en relief les methodes constitutives et les buts de la recherche etymologique a l’heure actuelle et montrer la richesse de ses perspectives pour la recherche future. La discussion s’articule autour de deux axes de reflexion principaux: (i) l’identification des etymons permettant de construire des trajectoires de dependance et de parente, (ii) l’utilisation des trajectoires etymologiques ainsi constituees a d’autres fins linguistiques. Le volume reunit parmi les meilleurs specialistes de l’etymologie a l’heure d’aujourd’hui.
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The relation between language and consciousness is at least threefold. First it should be stated more precisely what is meant by the term ‘consciousness’: since it is polysemous, its different meanings should be kept distinct in order to... more
The relation between language and consciousness is at least threefold. First it should be stated more precisely what is meant by the term ‘consciousness’: since it is polysemous, its different meanings should be kept distinct in order to avoid misunderstandings. The essential result of some initial considerations about the linguistic sign ‘consciousness’ is a fourfold relativity of this concept. In a following step, the ‘classical’ triangular model of the linguistic sign, suggesting an identiy between thought and language, is replaced by a tetradic one. There is good evidence that our conceptual apparatus – and also part of our consciousness – should be seen as being independent of language. Before this background, the next step shows that, whereas language is not necessary for us to cope with and to handle basic concepts, a second relation between consciousness and language has to do with the formation of complex concepts. The third relation between consciousness and language highl...
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Gülich E, Raible W. Linguistische Textmodelle. Grundlagen und Möglichkeiten. München: Fink; 1977
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states show up in the role of containers, too. The content can be inside them, but also move in and out of these containers. Consequently, such metaphors can be subsumed under the global event structure metaphor, in particular, the... more
states show up in the role of containers, too. The content can be inside them, but also move in and out of these containers. Consequently, such metaphors can be subsumed under the global event structure metaphor, in particular, the subcases state is location, change is motion, and causation is control over an entity relative to a location, as illustrated in (22)–(24):
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Our cognitive ability to interpret the world around us is largely based on metaphor and metonymy. Both of them let us see relations between unknown and known, remote and near, invisible and visible, based essentially on similarity and... more
Our cognitive ability to interpret the world around us is largely based on metaphor and metonymy. Both of them let us see relations between unknown and known, remote and near, invisible and visible, based essentially on similarity and contiguity between concepts. The atomists created such a similarity or analogy between visible Greek alphabetic script and the invisible world of atoms. Contemporaneous biologists continue to use this model of thinking in molecular biology. By various examples – from biblical interpretation to the world of science and technology – the pervasiveness of such models of thinking (and partially their time-bound character) is shown. In the past, a big problem was European mainstream thinking, insisting on relations between words instead of concepts in the case of metaphor.
Unsere kognitive Fähigkeit, die Welt um uns zu interpretieren, beruht weitgehend auf Metapher und Metonymie. Beide erlauben es uns, ausgehend von den Prinzipien von Ähnlichkeit und Kontiguität zwischen Konzepten, Beziehungen zwischen... more
Unsere kognitive Fähigkeit, die Welt um uns zu interpretieren, beruht weitgehend auf Metapher und Metonymie. Beide erlauben es uns, ausgehend von den Prinzipien von Ähnlichkeit und Kontiguität zwischen Konzepten, Beziehungen zwischen Unbekanntem und Bekanntem, Entlegenem und Naheliegendem, Unsichtbarem und Sichtbarem zu sehen. Die Atomisten schufen solch eine Ähnlichkeit oder Analogie zwischen der sichtbaren griechischen Schrift und der unsichtbaren Welt der Atome. Zeitgenössische Biologen nutzen dieses Denkmodell weiterhin in Bezug auf molekulare Biologie. Durch vielfältige Beispiele von der Bibelexegese bis zur Welt der Naturwissenschaft und Technik wird die weite Verbreitung solcher Denkmodelle (und teilweise auch ihre Zeitgebundenheit) aufgezeigt. In der Vergangenheit bestand ein großes Problem in der Hauptströmung europäischen Denkens, die auf Beziehungen zwischen Wörten statt zwischen Konzepten, wie im Fall der Metapher, beharrte.