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BAAL Conference 2004 37 th Annual BAAL Meeting would quickly disappear. However, it seems that many of the divisions that were in place before 1989 continued to persist in unified Germany. This became clear once the initial euphoria of unification had worn off. The further changes in the German language which occurred as a direct result of unification, particularly from the side of the former East German citizens, allowed the continuation of separate identities to live on. Particularly for the former East Germans new concepts for almost all aspects of life had to be learned, with the accompanying vocabulary. This paper will examine how language divisions exemplify social, political and economic differences that were taking place simultaneously, and how these divisions are slowly overcome. The paper concentrates on linguistic forms used by East and West Germans, as well as other aspects such as modal particles, as an example of applied linguistics making a contribution to language study. This research brings out changes in the German language which illustrate how the concept of German identity is constantly evolving in an evolving Europe. Cognitive-Linguistic Analysis of Conceptual Change: The New Monetary European Union for Spanish speakers Carmen M. Bretones-Callejas University of Almeria cbreton@ual.es cbretones@hotmail.com This paper will analyze how individuals in society face a new conceptual reality. and, more specifically, the conceptual frame that Spanish speakers establish given their new currency (the Euro). The aim is to show the cognitive mechanisms activated for facing such reality and making communication successful. As we will see, Conceptual Metaphor (Lakoff & Johnson 1999, Lakoff &Núñez 2000) and Conceptual Integration (Turner & Fauconnier 2002) are basic in this process (Bretones 2002). The main hypothesis of this research is the following: after the change of currency certain cognitive structures and mental operations arise. To test this we will study utterances produced by 50 subjects between the ages of 30 and 60. The analysis is still in progress, but on a first approach to the data the results vary and depend on age and other factors. The preliminary conclusion is that speakers solve the situation when it comes to deal with a somehow imposed new conceptual reality, going through “conflict” and “epistemic impasse” (Bretones & Martín-Morillas 2000). More specifically, in the use of words such as “peseta” 1 or “money”, or idiomatic expressions such as “nadie da duros por pesetas” („no-one gives dimes for pennies‟ meaning “nobody gives money away”) or “no vale un duro” („it is not worth a penny‟). Finally, we will see how speakers must become aware of the blend (Faucconier & Turner 2002) and keep it active (the blend was entrenched before, but on-line now). If we are conscious of the blend we are able to access on-line structures that reflect it, for instance, the resulting mapping „money are euros‟(see Figure 1 below for a schematic representation of the blend). 1 Notice that definitions such as “The peseta is the unit of money that is used in Spain” (Collins Cobuild Dictionary 1987) are no longer associated to the concept „peseta‟ by speakers (more specifically, since January 2002). References Bretones Callejas, C. M. 2002. “Conceptual Integration, Categorization, Metaphor and Idiomaticity in the New European Monetary Union: The Euro.” LAUD. Vol. 566:1-10. Essen: Universität GH Essen. Bretones Callejas, C. M. and Martín Morillas, J. M. 1999. “El Procesamiento léxico-discursivo en la comprensión textual poética”. In Luque Durán, JD. and Manjón Pozas, FJ. (eds). Investigación y didáctica del léxico. Granada: Método Ediciones. Pp. 265-276. Faucconier, G. and Turner, M. Forthcoming. The Way We Think. New York: A Member of the Perseus Books Group. Fillmore, C.J. 1982. “Frame Semantics”. In Linguistic Society of Korea (ed). Linguistics in the Morning Calm. Seoul: Hanshin, pp. 111-138. Gibbs, R. 1990. “Psycholinguistic studies on the conceptual basis of idiomaticity.” Cognitive Linguistics 1-4, 417-451. Gibbs, R. 1994. “Idiomaticity”. Chapter 6 from The Poetics of Mind. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 265-318. Lakoff, G. and Johnson, M.. 1999. Philosophy in the Flesh. The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought. New York: Basic Books. Lakoff, G. and Núñez, R. 2000. Where Mathematics Comes From? A Member of Perseus Books Group. Tomasello, M. 2003. "On the different origins of symbol and grammar." In Christiansen, M. H. Name and Kirby, S. (eds). Language Evolution. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. King‟s College, London 9 – 11 th - 4 - September, 2004
BAAL Conference 2004 37 th Annual BAAL Meeting GENERIC INPUT A INPUT B PESETA � Things (what is use for the transactions) � Value (1) � Until February 2002 � Spain EXCHANGE ACT (world interaction and sensory-motor experience) MONEY � Euro, $,... � Value (166.386 or others) � Cents � Nowadays � EU (Sp), USA,... BLEND MONEY � Goods (what has commercial value) � Values (?) � Time (?) � Anywhere FRAME: „Commercial Transaction‟ Figure 1: Blend for the concept „money‟ in Spain. In this figure we also see how the process of Conceptual Integration makes possible the birth of the concept „euro‟ as part of the blend. The research article abstract as a site of linguistic colonization: English in Spanish social sciences journals Sally Burgess and Pedro Martín Martín Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain sburgess@ull.es pamartin@ull.es Spanish researchers, like their colleagues elsewhere in the world, find themselves under increasing pressure to publish in English. Even Spanish publications in some disciplines accept and privilege papers presented in this language. The abstract plays a crucial role in what we regard as a process of linguistic colonization The inclusion of an abstract, a relatively recent import from publications produced by international discourse communities, marks the first stage in the process. While initially these abstracts may be in Spanish and/or other languages, at a later stage English becomes an alternative or even dominant language, first of the abstract and then of whole articles and journals. In this study we chart the incidence of abstracts accompanying Spanish research articles in two social science disciplines (psychology and linguistics) and examine! writers‟ representations (see Riley 1996) of research paper abstract writing in the two languages. We begin by presenting the results of our analysis of a corpus made up of 80 abstracts from major Spanish psychology and linguistics journals published in 1975, 1985, 1995 and 2003. We then present an account of Spanish-speaking social scientists‟ metalinguistic ideas about the function of the abstract in the two disciplines, its structure and its relationship to the paper as a whole, drawing on interview data. We conclude that a heightened awareness of the role of the research article abstract in attracting and informing an international readership has benefits for abstract writing, but suggest that there may also be good reasons for Spanish academics to offer resistance to this process of linguistic colonization. References King‟s College, London 9 – 11 th - 5 - September, 2004
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