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Papers by Ewa Konieczna

Lege Artis , 2020

This paper presents the analysis of blends based on metaphorical and metonymic conceptualisations... more This paper presents the analysis of blends based on metaphorical and metonymic conceptualisations. Metaphor and metonymy reduce the semantic transparency of blends and necessitate a greater processing effort for their interpretation. Since, according to the principle of Optimal Relevance, extra processing effort is offset by extra effects, it is proposed here that the interpretation of metaphorical, metonymic, and metaphtonymic blends entails a pragmatic effect.

Die Welt der Slaven , 2023

The aim ascribed to this paper is to investigate the effect of fake news on the conceptualisation... more The aim ascribed to this paper is to investigate the effect of fake news on the conceptualisation of the role of the face mask and the distinguishing features of its wearers during the Covid-19 pandemic in Poland. The analysis is couched in the cognitive linguistics paradigm in which meaning is dynamic, negotiated in context (Langacker 2008) and may be influenced by the mental process of subjectification, as a result of which the conceptualiser expresses explicitly their attitude towards (an) element/(s) of the perceived scene. The main objective is to demonstrate how being enclosed in the Covid-19 fake news filter bubble (in the sense of Pariser 2011) subjectifies the conceptualisation of the pandemic reality.......

In: Derivational Networks Across Languages. De Gruyter Mouton. 65-74, 2020

Polish is a West Slavic language with a profusion of derivational and inflectional morphemes. Pol... more Polish is a West Slavic language with a profusion of derivational and inflectional morphemes. Polish word-formation provides a wide range of morphological instruments aimed at forming new words, the commonest of which is affixation (Szymanek 2010). The principal derivational processes are prefixation and suffixation. Additionally, other techniques can be employed, such as prefixal-suffixal derivation and postfixation. A remarkable feature of Polish affixation is affix stacking, ie “the occurrence of several distinct formatives in a particular derivative”(Szymanek 2010: 21), as well as the repetition of a single suffix, frequently employed in the formation of DIMINUTIVES. Double motivation is another characteristic of the Polish derivational system. For example, the formation of adjectives can be motivated by two nouns that are derivationally related: górniczy< górnik ‘miner’/górnictwo ‘mining’can be taken to refer either to …

Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 57(1), 2021, pp. 139–163

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that English spatial particles which have grammatic... more The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that English spatial particles which have
grammaticalised into telic aspectualisers are not devoid of the image schematic content, which motivates their use in specific contexts. Because aspectual meaning, including telicity, is compositional in nature, which means that it frequently results from the interaction of several linguistic features, it is vital to single out those predicates in which the telicity effect can be attributed solely to the particle, not any other elements of the construction. This can be implemented by adopting the scalar approach, which shows that telicity is entailed by the particle exclusively in a predicate containing an incremental theme verb. Accordingly, the incremental theme verb burn and its five telic particles (up, down, out, off and away) constitute the subject of investigation. The analysis demonstrates that each particle encodes telicity in terms of reaching the GOAL in the SOURCE-PATH-GOAL schema. Conceptual differences in encoding the termination of the burning process result from topological properties of the path construed by each particle under study.

KEYWORDS: q-boundedness; EVENT STRUCTURE metaphor; scalarity; grammaticalisation; result state

ODISEA. Revista de estudios ingleses

El objetivo de este artículo es demostrar de forma parcial que muchos de los neologismos en el ha... more El objetivo de este artículo es demostrar de forma parcial que muchos de los neologismos en el habla de los niños se deben a una motivación metonímica. Para ello nos basaremos básicamente en un corpus del lenguaje recogido a través de una serie de estudios longitudinales llevados a cabo durante los años 2000-2002, centrados en sustantivos innovadores utilizados por niños de habla inglesa y polaca. Además, ofreceremos ejemplos seleccionados de innovaciones léxicas extraídos de datos lingüísticos utilizados por Eve V. Clark (Clark, 1993). También haremos un resumen acerca de la motivación relacionada con el aprendizaje de una lengua para contribuir a ampliar el estado de la cuestión de cara a investigaciones futuras.:The aim of this paper is to provide partial evidence that a great many neologisms in children’s speech are metonymically motivated. For our purposes we shall rely basically on the language corpus gathered in the course of longitudinal studies carried out during the years ...

Analogical modelling and paradigmatic word formation as attention--seeking devices

The aim ascribed to this paper is to analyse the phenomenon of a politically correct language fro... more The aim ascribed to this paper is to analyse the phenomenon of a politically correct language from a morphological perspective. It is argued that productive morphological processes, such as suffixation, compounding and prefixation as well as creative ones, for example blending, alienation, analogical extension, etc. are amply relied on to tackle the phenomenon of a negative semantic change, being an underlying reason for generating politically correct terms. It appears that morphological creativity is more prevalent in the PC language than morphological productivity due to its greater attention-grabbing potential.

Word Structure, 2011

This paper constitutes an attempt to describe the early stages of morphological development of t... more This paper constitutes an attempt to describe the early stages of morphological development
of three Polish children on the basis of the language corpus collected in the form of parental
diaries and audio recordings in the course of three-year-long longitudinal studies. The onset
of morphological development is accounted for within the framework of Natural Morphology
(Galeas, 1998; Wurzel, 1994; Dressler, et al., 1987). It is suggested that the premorphological
stage is followed by the protomorphological stage which marks the beginning of
morphological productivity which is characterized by a significant degree of constructional
iconicity defined by parameters of morphological naturalness, such as diagrammaticity,
morphosemantic transparency and transparency of encoding. It is amply demonstrated that the
language of children is far more regular than the language of adults due to its tendency to
avoid alternation, which goes in line with previous research into the nature of the acquisition
of Polish (see, e.g. Smoczyńska, 1985).

Zeitschrift fur Slavistik

This paper investigates the morphological and semantic structure of Polish onomastic derivative... more This paper investigates the morphological and semantic structure of Polish onomastic derivatives, which became both a medium of journalistic expression and a weapon used in political fight after the year 1989. It is argued that the majority of these eponyms are created by means of foreign affixes, which is seen as a sign of progressing internationalization of Slavic languages, increasingly relying on non-native affixes and derivational patterns. Moreover, the role of the pragmatic context in encoding and decoding these novel coinages is highlighted.

"Cross Disciplinary Perspectives on Lexical Blending" Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

The purpose of this paper is to shed some light on lexical blending in contemporary Polish, wh... more The purpose of this paper is to shed some light on lexical blending in contemporary Polish, which started to be more productive only recently from a position of virtual non-existence several decades ago. The reason for the growing number of blends in Polish can be attributed to the tendency towards the internationalisation of Slavic languages which had its humble beginnings as early as the 1960s but which only nowadays has become very influential. This paper aims to discuss the motivation of Polish blends, the status of splinters used in them, their syntactic structure and the ratio of native to foreign lexical elements. The discussion to follow is based on a corpus of 234 journalistic and colloquial blends from contemporary Polish mass media and several dictionaries of modern Polish.

This paper constitutes an attempt to shed some light on the formation of innovative verbs by Poli... more This paper constitutes an attempt to shed some light on the formation of innovative verbs by Polish and English-speaking children. It argues that verbal innovation can be accounted for on the grounds of Natural Morphology, proposing that children opt for cognitively simple, i.e. unmarked derivational patterns. Consequently, they come up with iconic coinages that are either metaphorical (in the sense of Natural Morphology), or diagrammatic and, at the same time, morphotactically and semantically transparent. As might be easily predicted, iconicity manifests itself in the two languages in question through the use of different derivational mechanisms stemming from typological divergences between English and Polish.

The aim of this paper is to present a wide spectrum of motivational factors involved in the forma... more The aim of this paper is to present a wide spectrum of motivational factors involved in the formation of innovative nouns by Polish and English-speaking children. The paper examines both language dependent motivational factors, i.e. relationship between target and source and language independent motivational factors, such as an ecological niche, economy and perceptual salience. Consequently, it is argued that all the novel nouns are metonymically motivated irrespective of the language used, and the derivational mechanism relied on (be it deverbal nominalization or compounding). In order to show the key role of motivation in the process of innovative nouns formation the Idealised Cognitive Model proposed by has been adopted. Sprache. Lipsk: Kröner.

Books by Ewa Konieczna

Introduction The semantics of spatial particles and prefixes both in English and Slavic langu... more Introduction

The semantics of spatial particles and prefixes both in English and Slavic
languages has already been studied in the cognitive linguistic paradigm by
numerous researchers (e.g. Lindner 1983[1981]; Rudzka-Ostyn 1984, 2003;
Janda 1986, Brugman 1988[1981]; Brugman and Lakoff 1988[1981]; Dąbrowska 1996; Morgan 1997; Navarro 1999; Tyler and Evans 2001, 2003; Tabakowska 2003; Przybylska 2002, 2006; Vandeloise 2004, 2010; Lindstromberg 2010; Šarić 2012; Tchizmarova 2012; Šarić and Tchizmarova 2013; Janda
et al. 2013, to mention but a few). The frequency with which the study of the
topic of space is undertaken stems from the fact that in cognitive linguistics
“the spatio-physical properties of the world of humanly perceived experience
are fundamental to human cognition” (Tyler and Evans 2003: 23). This should
be taken to mean that our experience of space and spatial relations, mediated
and determined by our bodies, underlies much of our conceptual system.

Despite the existence of quite an impressive body of research in the field,
relatively little work has been done within the framework of principled
polysemy, which constitutes a major theoretical model relied on in the present
monograph. To the best of my knowledge, apart from the seminal book published by Tyler and Evans (2003), in which the basic tenets of this model have
been laid out, and an unpublished doctoral dissertation by Bębeniec (2010), in
which the author uses the principled polysemy model to discuss directional
prepositions in Polish and English, no other monographs have been written so
far. The number of papers employing the principled polysemy model for the
study of semantics of space is quite limited as well and it is possible to enumerate just a handful of them, e.g. Mahpeykar and Tyler (2011), Daneshvar et
al. (2016), Šeškauskienė and Žilinskaitė-Šinkūnienė (2015), Saeed (2018), and
Dehghan and Parvini (2019)....

Conference Presentations by Ewa Konieczna