Books by Agata Kochanska
Cognitive Paths into the Slavic Domain
"The volume presents an overview of recent cognitive linguistic research on Slavic languages. Sla... more "The volume presents an overview of recent cognitive linguistic research on Slavic languages. Slavic languages, with their rich inflectional morphology in both the nominal and the verbal system, provide an important testing ground for a linguistic theory that seeks to motivate linguistic structure.
Therefore, the volume touches upon a wide range of phenomena: it addresses issues related to the semantics of grammatical case, tense, aspect, voice and word order, it looks into grammaticalization and language change and discusses sound symbolism. At the same time, the analyses presented address a variety of theoretically important issues. Take for example the role of virtual entities in language or that of iconic motivation in grammar, the importance of metaphor for grammaticalization or that of subjectification for motivating synchronic polysemy and diachronic language change, as well as the myriad of patterns available to encode events in a non-canonical way or to convey the speaker's epistemic stance with respect to the communicated content. In addition, the analyses are couched in a variety of cognitive linguistic frameworks, such as cognitive grammar, mental space theory, construction grammar, frame semantics, grammaticalization theory, as well as prototype semantics.
All in all, the analyses presented in this volume enrich the understanding of established aspects of the cognitive model of language and may serve as catalysts for their further development and refinement, making the volume a worthwhile read for Slavic and cognitive linguists alike."
Papers by Agata Kochanska
Conflicting epistemic meanings of the Polish aspectual variants in past and in future uses: are they a vagary of grammar?
Cognitive linguistics research, Dec 14, 2007
Vilnius University open series, Jul 26, 2021
The paper offers an analysis of selected uses of the Polish perfective and imperfective in the no... more The paper offers an analysis of selected uses of the Polish perfective and imperfective in the non-past indicative and in the imperative construction. In uses under consideration, both the perfective and the imperfective refer to a single complete occurrence of a telic process and, hence, the semantic contrast between them is not a matter of distinctions such as boundedness/unboundedness, completion/non-completion, telicity/atelicity, punctuality/durativity, etc. The paper presents a qualitative analysis of selected corpus examples which is aimed at elucidating the nature of the relevant contrast. The claim advocated in the course of the discussion is that the perfective/imperfective contrast may play a role in the system of clausal grounding in Polish, as it may convey the idea of, respectively, epistemic and/or effective non-immediacy/immediacy of the profiled process relative to the ground.
Przestrzenie kognitywnych poszukiwań
Niniejszy artykuł Autorka radzi traktować jako krótki rekonesans obszaru, w którym teoria aktów m... more Niniejszy artykuł Autorka radzi traktować jako krótki rekonesans obszaru, w którym teoria aktów mowy spotyka się z teorią gramatyki. Jego celem jest próba bliższego przyjrzenia się temu, jak rodzaj realizowanego poprzez wypowiedź aktu mowy wpływa na wybór konkretnych struktur gramatycznych użytych w tej wypowiedzi. Konkretnym obszarem, którego dotyczy niniejszy artykuł, są polecenia i prośby (należące do szerszej grupy dyrektywnych aktów mowy) realizowane za pomocą trzech typów zdań w języku polskim: zdań rozkazujących, zdań oznajmujących w czasie nieprzeszłym z czasownikiem dokonanym, oraz zdań oznajmujących w czasie nieprzeszłym z czasownikiem niedokonanym.
Journal of Pragmatics, 2018
The paper considers the issue of how speakers use different grammatical resources to achieve diff... more The paper considers the issue of how speakers use different grammatical resources to achieve different interactive and interpersonal effects in specific contexts. More specifically, the paper analyzes the pragmatic effects of a particular directive construction from Polish, which, on the one hand, exhibits a certain degree of grammatical incongruity and is not acceptable in Polish at large, but which, at the same time, was not only an attested but probably also a preferred means of performing a particular kind of directive in a specific context. In the analysis, the conventional values of the construction's components are first analyzed via considering their selected uses in other constructions and the pragmatic effects they bring about in other contexts. The next issue under consideration is how the conventional values of the construction's components interact with one another, as well as with contextual factors to produce particular interactive and interpersonal effects. The general claim made in the study is that a single grammatical structure may bring about diverse pragmatic effects in different circumstances. At the same time, speech act participants can easily produce and interpret the intended effects via establishing appropriate categorizing relationships between the conventional meanings of the constructional components and the relevant aspects of the specific context-bound conceptualization constituting the interlocutors' understanding of their speech interaction.
A cognitive grammar analysis of Polish nonpast perfectives and imperfectives: How virtual events differ from actual ones
Grounding, 2002
Verbal Aspect and Construal
Constructions in Cognitive Linguistics, 2000
Conflicting epistemic meanings of the Polish aspectual variants in past and in future uses: are they a vagary of grammar?
Cognitive Linguistics Research, 2007
Cognitive Paths into the Slavic Domain
Cognitive Linguistics Research, 2007
Mouton de Gruyter (formerly Mouton, The Hague) is a Division of Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. ... more Mouton de Gruyter (formerly Mouton, The Hague) is a Division of Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin ® Printed on acid-free paper which falls within the guidelines of the ANSI to ensure permanence and durability. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cognitive ...
Vilnius University Open Series, 2021
The paper offers an analysis of selected uses of the Polish perfective and imperfective in the no... more The paper offers an analysis of selected uses of the Polish perfective and imperfective in the non-past indicative and in the imperative construction. In uses under consideration, both the perfective and the imperfective refer to a single complete occurrence of a telic process and, hence, the semantic contrast between them is not a matter of distinctions such as boundedness/unboundedness, completion/non-completion, telicity/atelicity, punctuality/durativity, etc. The paper presents a qualitative analysis of selected corpus examples which is aimed at elucidating the nature of the relevant contrast. The claim advocated in the course of the discussion is that the perfective/imperfective contrast may play a role in the system of clausal grounding in Polish, as it may convey the idea of, respectively, epistemic and/or effective non-immediacy/immediacy of the profiled process relative to the ground.
A grammatical construction in the service of interpersonal distance regulation. The case of the Polish directive infinitive construction
Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
The aim of the paper is to consider the pragmatic effects of the Polish (Proszę) ‘request1 SG. NO... more The aim of the paper is to consider the pragmatic effects of the Polish (Proszę) ‘request1 SG. NON-PAST.’ + VINF construction in different contexts. The specific research problem is how these effects are related to the conceptual make-up of the construction. The framework for the analysis is the theory of cognitive grammar (cf. e. g. Langacker 1987, 1991, 2008, 2009). The analysis starts with an account of the conceptual make-up of the construction. Then, its selected uses are considered, with emphasis on the pragmatic effects in the relevant contexts. The study offers a qualitative analysis of two kinds of data: a sample of hand-picked utterances and a corpus of utterances extracted from the National Corpus of Polish (NCP). The claim made in the study is that the construction profiles a process figuring in a directive scenario in the role of the process the speaker wishes the hearer to engage in. At the same time, it involves defocusing of the trajector of the profiled process, ide...
Temporal meanings of spatial prepositions in Polish: The case of przez and w
The Construal of Space in Language and Thought, 1996
Why cognitive linguists should care about the Slavic languages and vice versa
Cognitive Linguistics Research, 2007
Why cognitive linguists should care about the Slavic languages and vice versa Dagmar Divjak, Laur... more Why cognitive linguists should care about the Slavic languages and vice versa Dagmar Divjak, Laura A. Janda and Agata Kochanska 1. The cognitive paradigm and Slavic linguistic research From its early days, cognitive linguistics has attracted the attention of lin-guists ...
Cognitive grammar, speech acts, and interpersonal dynamics: A study of two directive constructions in Polish
Cognitive Linguistics, 2015
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Books by Agata Kochanska
Therefore, the volume touches upon a wide range of phenomena: it addresses issues related to the semantics of grammatical case, tense, aspect, voice and word order, it looks into grammaticalization and language change and discusses sound symbolism. At the same time, the analyses presented address a variety of theoretically important issues. Take for example the role of virtual entities in language or that of iconic motivation in grammar, the importance of metaphor for grammaticalization or that of subjectification for motivating synchronic polysemy and diachronic language change, as well as the myriad of patterns available to encode events in a non-canonical way or to convey the speaker's epistemic stance with respect to the communicated content. In addition, the analyses are couched in a variety of cognitive linguistic frameworks, such as cognitive grammar, mental space theory, construction grammar, frame semantics, grammaticalization theory, as well as prototype semantics.
All in all, the analyses presented in this volume enrich the understanding of established aspects of the cognitive model of language and may serve as catalysts for their further development and refinement, making the volume a worthwhile read for Slavic and cognitive linguists alike."
Papers by Agata Kochanska
Therefore, the volume touches upon a wide range of phenomena: it addresses issues related to the semantics of grammatical case, tense, aspect, voice and word order, it looks into grammaticalization and language change and discusses sound symbolism. At the same time, the analyses presented address a variety of theoretically important issues. Take for example the role of virtual entities in language or that of iconic motivation in grammar, the importance of metaphor for grammaticalization or that of subjectification for motivating synchronic polysemy and diachronic language change, as well as the myriad of patterns available to encode events in a non-canonical way or to convey the speaker's epistemic stance with respect to the communicated content. In addition, the analyses are couched in a variety of cognitive linguistic frameworks, such as cognitive grammar, mental space theory, construction grammar, frame semantics, grammaticalization theory, as well as prototype semantics.
All in all, the analyses presented in this volume enrich the understanding of established aspects of the cognitive model of language and may serve as catalysts for their further development and refinement, making the volume a worthwhile read for Slavic and cognitive linguists alike."