Is ugliness in the mind of the beholder? The conceptualization of ‘ugly’ in English

dc.contributor.authorGladkova, Anna
dc.contributor.authorRomero-Trillo, Jesus
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-09T22:32:57Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.date.updated2021-11-28T07:27:00Z
dc.description.abstractThe paper explores the meaning and use of ugly in English. The study is based on corpus data from Cobuild Wordbanks Online and investigates the polysemy and the spheres of application of the concept. Through corpus analysis methodology, we investigate the most common collocations and the pragmatic and contextual uses of the term. Based on this analysis, our study proposes semantic explications of ugly in universal human concepts within the theoretical framework of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM). We also analyze the most common collocations with the word ugly and classify them into several meaning-based categories. A comparison between beautiful and ugly reveals that they are not identical in their distribution, which suggests different cognitive salience of the concepts. We also note the special role of ‘people’ and ‘nature’ in conceptualization and use of beautiful and that of ‘human actions’ in ugly.en_AU
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Spain) under Grant FFI2016-75160-R.en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn2214-3157en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/278381
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Companyen_AU
dc.rights© John Benjamins Publishing Companyen_AU
dc.sourceInternational Journal of Language and Cultureen_AU
dc.subjectcorpus pragmatics,en_AU
dc.subjectfolk aesthetics,en_AU
dc.subjectEnglish,en_AU
dc.subjectnatural semantic metalanguage (NSM)en_AU
dc.subjectuglyen_AU
dc.subjectpolysemyen_AU
dc.titleIs ugliness in the mind of the beholder? The conceptualization of ‘ugly’ in Englishen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage127en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage106en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationGladkova, Anna, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationRomero-Trillo, Jesus, Universidad Autonoma de Madriden_AU
local.contributor.authoremailu4044867@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidGladkova, Anna, u4044867en_AU
local.description.embargo2099-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor470404 - Corpus linguisticsen_AU
local.identifier.absfor470408 - Lexicography and semanticsen_AU
local.identifier.absfor470307 - English languageen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationa383154xPUB21395en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume8en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1075/ijolc.00037.glaen_AU
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-85108325675
local.identifier.uidSubmittedBya383154en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.jbe-platform.com/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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