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<br /><hr /><b>Tesis doctoral: </b><br />Castaño Castaño, Emilia.
2012. The Embodied Basis of Discourse Coherence. Universidad de
Barcelona (España), Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana.<br
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/><b>Información de:</b> Emilia Castaño Castaño
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/><b>Director/a de tesis: </b>Isabel Verdaguer Clavera<br
/><b>Codirector/a: </b>Joseph Hilferty <br /><br
/><b>Descripción</b><br /><p>Esta tesis estudia la posible influencia
que la metáfora conceptual, entendida como un proceso cognitivo,
puede ejercer en la producción y comprensión del discurso, en
particular en el modo en que las relaciones de coherencia global y
local emergen y se sustentan. Mediante un análisis cualitativo, esta
tesis muestra que la metáfora conceptual UN DISCURSO ES UNA FORMA DE
MOVIMIENTO INFLUENCIADA POR DINÁMICAS DE FUERZA y sus esquemas de
imagen subyacentes son recursos estructurales básicos. Dichos
elementos dan forma a la organización del discurso, contribuyen a
realzar las relaciones de coherencia del texto y facilitan la
comprensión lectora al activar inferencias o expectativas que pueden
ayudar a predecir el comportamiento del discurso. En el caso de a
coherencia local, cuatro estudios experimentales proporcionan
evidencias empíricas, a través de una análisis comparativo del
inglés y del castellano, que apoyan la tesis de que las relaciones de
coherencia causales y concesivas tienen una naturaleza corpórea ya
que parecen estar basadas en conceptos más concretos: interacciones
de fuerza. Además este trabajo también ofrece datos que permiten
afirmar que dichos patrones de fuerza no sólo son codificados en
términos lingüísticos mediante verbos sino también mediante
marcadores del discurso causales y concesivos. Todos estos datos
llevan a pensar que los esquemas de imagen y la metáfora conceptual
son cruciales en la conceptualización de las nociones de causalidad y
concesión, ya que comprimen nuestra experiencia y la extienden a
nociones mucho más abstractas tales como la causalidad y la
concesión para hacer estas nociones comprensibles. En definitiva,
esta tesis proporciona evidencias que apoyan la premisa de que no
sólo la estructura general del texto sino también las relaciones de
coherencia local emergen de nuestra interacción corpórea con el
mundo que nos rodea.<br /><br />---------------<br /><br />The
<i>Embodied Basis of Discourse Coherence</i> investigates the
corporeal basis of global and local coherence. As far as global
coherence is concerned, the main argument of this thesis is that the
search for global coherence is often guided by means of metaphorical
mappings, particularly those having to do with the conceptual metaphor
DISCOURSE IS A FORM OF MOTION ALONG A PATH INFLUENCED BY FORCE
DYNAMICS. In the case of local coherence, the analysis presented
focuses only on a subset of interclausal connections: cause-effect and
cause-concession relations, when explicitly marked by means of
discourse markers. This thesis successfully assesses the hypothesis
that Talmy’s force-dynamic model, along with conceptual metaphor,
may account for the semantic content and the type of inferences that
said subset of connectives generate during language processing. More
broadly, this thesis provides evidence to support the premise that
not only the general structure of discourse, but also the coherence
relations on which it relies, emerge from our embodied interaction
with the world.</p><br /><b>Área temática:</b> Análisis del
discurso, Lingüística cognitiva, Psicolingüística, Semántica<br
/><br /><b>Índice</b><br /><p>PART I <br /><br />1. INTRODUCTION <br
/><br />2. THE TENETS OF TEXT MEANING <br />2.1 Global coherence: the
outline of a journey<br />2.2 Local coherence: the scaffolding of text
macrostructure <br />2.2.1 Meaning beyond the text: the unsaid
information that coherence reveals <br />2.2.2 Coherence relations: a
cognitive account<br />2.2.3 The role of experience in coherence
relations<br />2.2.4 The special status of causal relations <br />2.3
Coherence relations and discourse comprehension: an overview of recent
studies on connectives <br /><br />3. GROUNDING LANGUAGE IN BODILY
EXPERIENCE: THE EMBODIMENT HYPOTHESIS <br />3.1 The bodily basis of
language and thought: image schemas <br />3.1.1 The cross-sensory
character of perception: the example of vision <br />3.1.2 Some
examples of bodily-derived image schemas <br />3.2. The psychological
status of image schemas <br />3.2.1 Image schemas in cognitive
psychology <br />3.2.2 Image schemas in developmental psychology <br
/>3.2.3. Image schemas in psycholinguistics <br />3.2.4 Image schemas
in neuroscience <br />3.2.5 Image schemas in artificial intelligence
<br />3.2.6 Image schemas in spontaneous gestures <br />3.3 What
experimental evidence tells us about image schemas <br /><br />4. THE
COGNITIVE THEORY OF METAPHOR <br />4.1 The metaphorical
conceptualization of discourse <br />4.2 An insight into
source-path-goal, force-dynamics and link image schemas <br />4.3.
Discourse is a form of motion along a path influenced by force
dynamics: ontological and epistemic correspondences <br /><br />PART
II <br /><br />5. CASE STUDIES <br />5.1 Hypotheses and methodology
<br />6 A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE MACROSTRUCTURE OF RESEARCH
ABSTRACT <br />6.1 Research articles on biology <br />6.2 Cognitive
science abstracts <br />6.2.1 Source-path-goal and blockage image
schemas as structural devices <br />6.2.2 Source-path-goal image
schema as structural device of discourse <br />6.2.3 Convergent paths
as structural devices of discourse <br />6.2.4 Convergent and
divergent paths as structural devices <br />6.3 Literary abstracts <br
/>6.3.1. Cycle image schema as structural device <br />6.3.2
Counterforce, diversion and link image schemas as structural devices
<br />6.3.3 Path and blockage image schemas as structural devices <br
/>6.3.4 Source-path-goal image schema as structural device of
discourse <br />6.4 Results and discussion <br />6.4.1 Abstracts on
biology <br />6.4.2 Abstracts on cognitive-science <br />6.4.3
Literary abstracts <br /><br />7. EMBODIMENT, CONNECTIVES AND LOCAL
COHERENCE <br />7.1 How do we conceptualize causation? <br />7.2
Causation from perception and action <br />7.2.1 What do we exactly
activate when we perceive causality? <br /><br />8. AN INSIGHT INTO
THE FORCE DYNAMICS THEORY <br />8.1 Force dynamics in language:
empirical evidence <br /><br />9. AN EMBODIED APPROACH TO COHERENCE:
EXPERIMENTALWORK <br />9.1 CAUSES ARE SOURCES: Experiment 1 <br
/>9.1.1 Method <br />9.1.2 Procedure <br />9.1.3 Results <br />9.2
CAUSES ARE FORCES: Experiments 2 and 3 <br />9.2.1 Method <br />9.2.2
Procedure <br />9.2.3 Results and Discussion <br />9.3 DO CONNECTIVES
ENCODE FORCE THEMSELVES? Experiment 4 <br />9.3.1 Method <br />9.3.2
Procedure <br />9.3.3 Results and discussion <br /><br />10. GENERAL
CONCLUSIONS <br />10.1 Main contributions <br />10.2. Further research
<br /><br />REFERENCES <br /><br />APPENDIX A: Swales’s model for
introductions <br />APPENDIX B: Abstracts on biology <br />APPENDIX
C: Abstracts on cognitive science <br />APPENDIX D: Abstracts on
literature <br />APPENDIX E: Linguistic stimuli for experiment 1 <br
/>APPENDIX F: Linguistic stimuli for experiment 2 <br />APPENDIX G:
Linguistic stimuli for experiment 3 <br />APPENDIX H: Linguistic
stimuli for experiment 4</p><br /><b>Fecha de lectura o defensa:</b>
12 de noviembre de 2012<br /><br /><b>Número de págs.:</b> 299<br
/><br /><b>Correo-e del autor/a:</b> <e.castano@ub.edu><br /><br
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