Whence the Unicorn? A Frame-Semantic and Corpus Linguistic Interpretation of the Notion of Unicornhood in the Characterology of Iris Murdoch’s Novel: The Unicorn
The notion of unicornhood in the characterology of Iris Murdoch’s Gothic fiction titled The Unicorn has been interpreted variously by literary critics since the publication of the novel.The present paper provides a linguistically and cultural philosophically grounded, frame-semantic analysis, interp...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:corela_4496 https://doi.org/10.4000/corela.4496 urn:doi:10.4000/corela.4496 https://journals.openedition.org/corela/4496 2016-06-22T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/ef3h https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Whence the Unicorn? A Frame-Semantic and Corpus Linguistic Interpretation of the Notion of Unicornhood in the Characterology of Iris Murdoch’s Novel: The Unicorn Corela Université de Poitiers info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1638-573X URI:https://journals.openedition.org/corela Andor, József stéréotypes connaissance de l’arrière-plan représentation conceptuelle évidence sur corpus Iris Murdoch : Le Château de la licorne objet non-existant stereotypes background knowledge conceptual representation corpus-based evidence Iris Murdoch: The Unicorn nonexistent object The notion of unicornhood in the characterology of Iris Murdoch’s Gothic fiction titled The Unicorn has been interpreted variously by literary critics since the publication of the novel.The present paper provides a linguistically and cultural philosophically grounded, frame-semantic analysis, interpretation as well as evidence of the concept of unicornhood, wherein behavioral and appearance-related socio-cultural stereotypes mentally stored in encyclopedically-based knowledge structures about the factually non-existent, imaginary (or, perhaps, existent) being are identified and discussed. The semantically and lexical-pragmatically based factors revealed in the analysis are supported by an empirical investigation of corpus-based evidence gained from the British National Corpus of 100 million words, by studying the dictionary-based representation of the lexical item unicorn, and also by testing the tacitly represented background knowledge of 40 native speakers of English, with the aim to provide a joint control over the corpus-based data. As a result, it is pointed out that the standard characterology offered by literary scholars requires further re-evaluation and reinterpretatrion, expectably revealing the multiple realization of unicornhood symbolism represented in the novel. La notion de licornitude caractérisant le roman gothique d’Iris Murdoch intitulé Le Château de la licorne a connu dans la critique littéraire de nombreuses interprétations. Inspirée de la sémantique des cadres, cette contribution propose une analyse linguistiquement et philosophiquement bien fondée dans la mesure où les stéréotypes socio-culturels et comportementaux mentalement stockés dans les structures de connaissances encyclopédiques concernant les êtres non-existants ou imaginaires (mais peut-être existants) seront interrogés pour être identifiés.Notre analyse tend à révéler certains facteurs d’ordre sémantique et lexico-pragmatique en prenant appui sur une investigation doublement empirique: pour obtenir des données, nous avons recours d’une part à une étude sur corpus et d’autre part, à une étude d’enquête. En examinant les représentations à base de dictionnaire de l’item licorne dans le British National Corpus de cent millons de mots, et en passant au test les connaissances de l’arrière-plan tacitement représentées chez quarante locuteurs natifs de l’anglais, il sera possible de mettre en évidence que la caractérisation générale proposée par les études littéraires ne permet pas de rendre compte de la charge symbolique multiple de la licornitude représentée dans le roman. |
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stéréotypes connaissance de l’arrière-plan représentation conceptuelle évidence sur corpus Iris Murdoch : Le Château de la licorne objet non-existant stereotypes background knowledge conceptual representation corpus-based evidence Iris Murdoch: The Unicorn nonexistent object |
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The notion of unicornhood in the characterology of Iris Murdoch’s Gothic fiction titled The Unicorn has been interpreted variously by literary critics since the publication of the novel.The present paper provides a linguistically and cultural philosophically grounded, frame-semantic analysis, interpretation as well as evidence of the concept of unicornhood, wherein behavioral and appearance-related socio-cultural stereotypes mentally stored in encyclopedically-based knowledge structures about the factually non-existent, imaginary (or, perhaps, existent) being are identified and discussed. The semantically and lexical-pragmatically based factors revealed in the analysis are supported by an empirical investigation of corpus-based evidence gained from the British National Corpus of 100 million words, by studying the dictionary-based representation of the lexical item unicorn, and also by testing the tacitly represented background knowledge of 40 native speakers of English, with the aim to provide a joint control over the corpus-based data. As a result, it is pointed out that the standard characterology offered by literary scholars requires further re-evaluation and reinterpretatrion, expectably revealing the multiple realization of unicornhood symbolism represented in the novel. |
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Andor, József |
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Whence the Unicorn? A Frame-Semantic and Corpus Linguistic Interpretation of the Notion of Unicornhood in the Characterology of Iris Murdoch’s Novel: The Unicorn |
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Whence the Unicorn? A Frame-Semantic and Corpus Linguistic Interpretation of the Notion of Unicornhood in the Characterology of Iris Murdoch’s Novel: The Unicorn |
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Whence the Unicorn? A Frame-Semantic and Corpus Linguistic Interpretation of the Notion of Unicornhood in the Characterology of Iris Murdoch’s Novel: The Unicorn |
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Whence the Unicorn? A Frame-Semantic and Corpus Linguistic Interpretation of the Notion of Unicornhood in the Characterology of Iris Murdoch’s Novel: The Unicorn |
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Whence the Unicorn? A Frame-Semantic and Corpus Linguistic Interpretation of the Notion of Unicornhood in the Characterology of Iris Murdoch’s Novel: The Unicorn |
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whence the unicorn? a frame-semantic and corpus linguistic interpretation of the notion of unicornhood in the characterology of iris murdoch’s novel: the unicorn |
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