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| MATELA, Jiří. Dajare – Its types and cognitive mechanisms for its understanding. In Iaponica Brunensia 2021. 2021. |
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| Original name | Dajare – Its types and cognitive mechanisms for its understanding |
| Name in Czech | Dadžare – Jeho typy a kognitivní mechanismy pro porozumění |
| Name (in English) | Dajare – Its types and cognitive mechanisms for its understanding |
| Authors | MATELA, Jiří. |
| Edition | Iaponica Brunensia 2021, 2021. |
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| Original language | Japanese |
| Type of outcome | Presentations at conferences |
| Country of publisher | Czech Republic |
| Confidentiality degree | is not subject to a state or trade secret |
| WWW | URL |
| Organization | Filozofická fakulta – Repository – Repository |
| Keywords (in Czech) | dadžare;slovní hříčka;japonština;kognice;teorie lexikálních konceptů a kognitivních modelů |
| Keywords in English | dajare;pun;wordplay;Japanese;cognition;LCCM Theory |
| Changed by | Changed by: RNDr. Daniel Jakubík, učo 139797. Changed: 20/9/2021 01:55. |
| Abstract |
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| Puns are generally associated with humorous effects spawned by linguistic creativity. Understanding verbal humor involves not only mechanisms of humor per se, but also – and actually in the first place – understanding of a linguistic production as such. Discovering mechanisms of verbal humor, such as puns, therefore opens a door to the principles of meaning that are at the very core of our linguistic capacities. As Vyvyan Evans (2016) puts it, “puns are incredibly complex requiring your brain to perform exquisite gymnastics in putting together carefully choreographed aspects of word sounds and meanings in novel ways.” The focus of the present talk is on Japanese puns, dajare, and its objective is twofold. First, it aims at introducing dajare as a product of centuries long tradition of meta-linguistic work with the linguistic system of Japanese language and its intertwining with the Japanese culture. Second, after presenting some most common forms of Japanese dajare, I will attempt to introduce a model of cognitive mechanisms related to understanding dajare, with an ambition to map to other kinds of linguistic production as well. The model will be presented from a hearer’s (not a speaker’s) perspective with focus on the process of interpretation, rather than creativity. It is grounded in the theory of Lexical Concepts and Cognitive Models (LCCM) as a part of a broader cognitive linguistics movement. |
| Abstract (in Czech) |
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| Slovní hříčky jsou obecně spojovány s efektem humoru, jenž je vyvoláván jazykovou kreativitou. Pochopení slovního humoru zahrnuje nejen mechanismy humoru samotného, ale také (a to na prvním místě) porozumění jazykové produkci jako takové. Odhalení mechanismů verbálního humoru, jako jsou slovní hříčky, proto otvírá dveře k pochopení mechanismů významu, jež jsou v samém jádru našich jazykových schopností. Jak zmiňuje Vyvyan Evans (2016), "slovní hříčky jsou nesmírně komplexní jevy, které vyžadují po našem mozku nezkutečné gymnastické výkony, aby mohly být pečlivě propojeny aspekty slovních zvuků a významů novými způsoby." Tento příspěvek se zaměřuje na japonské slovní hříčky, tzv. dadžare, a má dvojí cíl: 1. Snaží se představit dadžare jako produkt několikaset leté tradice metajazykové práce se systémem japonského jazyka a jeho provázáním s japonskou kulturou. 2. Po představení vybraných základních forem dadžare navrhne model kognitivních mechanismů souvisejících s porozuměním dadžare, jež mají ambici být aplikovatelné i na další jazykovou produkci. Model bude prezentován z perspektivy posluchače (ne mluvčího) se zaměřením spíše na porozumění než na kreativitu. Je ukotven v teorii lexikálních konceptů a kognitivních modelů (LCCM) jako součásti širšího spektra kognitivní sémantiky. |
| Abstract (in English) |
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| Puns are generally associated with humorous effects spawned by linguistic creativity. Understanding verbal humor involves not only mechanisms of humor per se, but also – and actually in the first place – understanding of a linguistic production as such. Discovering mechanisms of verbal humor, such as puns, therefore opens a door to the principles of meaning that are at the very core of our linguistic capacities. As Vyvyan Evans (2016) puts it, “puns are incredibly complex requiring your brain to perform exquisite gymnastics in putting together carefully choreographed aspects of word sounds and meanings in novel ways.” The focus of the present talk is on Japanese puns, dajare, and its objective is twofold. First, it aims at introducing dajare as a product of centuries long tradition of meta-linguistic work with the linguistic system of Japanese language and its intertwining with the Japanese culture. Second, after presenting some most common forms of Japanese dajare, I will attempt to introduce a model of cognitive mechanisms related to understanding dajare, with an ambition to map to other kinds of linguistic production as well. The model will be presented from a hearer’s (not a speaker’s) perspective with focus on the process of interpretation, rather than creativity. It is grounded in the theory of Lexical Concepts and Cognitive Models (LCCM) as a part of a broader cognitive linguistics movement. |
