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The grammar and semantics of near
CogniTextes, 2016 The cognitive linguistic interest in spatial prepositions is a relatively new research path. The question of their categorical status has not been resolved yet — linguists underline either their purely grammatical or lexical nature.
Maria Brenda
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The Container Image Schema as the Conceptual Basis of English Adjectives’ Semantics
Journal of Language and Education, 2020 This paper focuses on the cognitive foundation of the semantics of English adjectives that denote mental and moral characteristics of human beings. Research into these adjectives seems a challenging task because they denote abstract qualities that cannot
Marina Antonova
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, 2017 This paper introduces my concept of cognitive equivalence (cf. Mandelblit, 1997), an attempt to reconcile elements of Nida’s dynamic equivalence with recent innovations in cognitive linguistics and cognitive psychology, and building on the current focus ...
Pawel Sickinger
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Cognitive semantics as a reading comprehension tool
Iztapalapa, 2015 This work presents some ways in which semantics theory tools can be applied to enhance content comprehension in reading practices when teaching reading and writing courses.
María del Refugio Pérez Paredes
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Cognitive-Semantic Mechanisms of Poverty Euphemization in Russian and Uzbek Media Discourse
Научный диалогThis article focuses on identifying and describing the cognitive-semantic mechanisms of euphemization and the frame models representing poverty. The study is based on a bilingual corpus of 800 media texts (420 in Russian and 380 in Uzbek) from central ...
T. E. Alimov, R. A. Safina
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Semantics of Sanskrit Eva: A Cognitive Linguistics Approach
BhashaThis paper delves into the semantic analysis of the Sanskrit emphatic particle eva using the framework of Cognitive Grammar. Traditionally, grammarians have provided a definition of eva that is concise and lacks clarity, while logicians offered a ...
Zhou, Yuliang
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Adaptive Variability of Cognitive Modelling of Lexical Semantics
Научный диалог, 2018 The article is devoted to the issues of cognitive modelling of the semantics of English nouns denoting a criminal. The article deals with the question of the variable representation of cognitive information due to adaptive potential of knowledge ...
O. V. Valko
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A Pupillometric Examination of Cognitive Control in Taxonomic and Thematic Semantic Memory
Journal of Cognition, 2019 Semantic cognition includes taxonomic and thematic relationships, as well as control systems to retrieve and manipulate semantic knowledge to suit specific tasks or contexts.
Jason Geller +2 more
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Possessive genitive in Portuguese: a cognitive-semantics analysis
Revista Linguística, 2019 The present study is dedicated to the analysis of the semantic structure and polysemy of the possessive genitive in Portuguese. Considering analyzes of possessive genitive in terms of conceptual metaphor (NIKIFORIDOU, 1991; LANGACKER, 1991) and ...
Jorge Luiz Ferreira Lisboa Júnior
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Unidirectionality of conceptual metaphors: A criticism based on Persian metaphors [PDF]
̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2019 Conceptual Metaphor Theory was first proposed by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson in 1980 as one of the earliest theoretical frameworks of the cognitive semantics.
Raheleh Gandomkar
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