Cognitive Approaches to Specialist Languages

Chapter Three 72 Figure 5. Barroso, Lost in Space (2013). This is how citizen journalism site called Café Babel sees him (Figure ...

Are (Polish) Politicians Out of this World? 73 contact with the ground, which enable control of one’s environment are also disab ...

Chapter Three 74 of a sense of direction and control over their actions, looking down from afar on the seemingly minute problems ...

Are (Polish) Politicians Out of this World? 75 Fairclough, N., and A. Mauranen. 1997. “The conversationalisation of political di ...

Chapter Three 76 —. 2005. Metaphor in Culture: Universality and Variation. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. K ...

Are (Polish) Politicians Out of this World? 77 Sperber, D., and D. Wilson. 2008. “A deflationary account of metaphors.” In The C ...

CHAPTER FOUR THE SAME GENRE FOR DIFFERENT AUDIENCES: A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF AMERICAN AND BRITISH FOOTBALL MATCH REPORTS MARCI ...

The Same Genre for Different Audiences 79 linked with specific settings or contexts of use, and exhibiting distinctive linguisti ...

Chapter Four 80 newspapers. The status of football, or soccer,^4 as the game is most commonly called in North America, varies be ...

The Same Genre for Different Audiences 81 and USA Today are classified as middle-market newspapers, i.e. dailies that in terms o ...

Chapter Four 82 teams and players. One notable difference between American and British reports concerns subject-verb agreement i ...

The Same Genre for Different Audiences 83 Metaphorical expression Explanation UK US ammunition the team’s attacking potential 2 ...

Chapter Four 84 art, magic, journey, other sports (boxing, horseracing, track and field athletics, sailing and chess), and even ...

The Same Genre for Different Audiences 85 been drawn from an earlier corpus-driven study (Lewandowski 2011). Columns 1 and 2 sho ...

Chapter Four 86 in soccer games). Tables 4 and 5 present lexical units (only nouns) associated with these frames, and the number ...

The Same Genre for Different Audiences 87 The first two lexical units in each frame are in a hyperonymic relation to the remaini ...

Chapter Four 88 or i-continuum (Yus 1999: 492-499). Krüger (ibid.) locates explicitness and implicitness within the cognitive li ...

The Same Genre for Different Audiences 89 for verb). The lexical items belong to the frames: DEFEAT, DRAW, ELIMINATION, PROGRESS ...

Chapter Four 90 occasions. Example 8 rests on the interplay between the literal and figurative meaning: the verb form squeezed o ...

The Same Genre for Different Audiences 91 Such additional information is also provided by relative clauses. Neymar, 22, who pla ...