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Looking at Viewpoint in ASL Through a Cognitive Linguistics Lens
WIREs Cognitive Science, Volume 16, Issue 2, March/April 2025.ABSTRACT Central to how signed languages such as American Sign Language (ASL) express the viewpoint of a signer is the space surrounding the signer's body, and primarily that in front of the signer. Perspective‐taking, in its most basic form, is physical and perceptual in nature, where signers might map a scene experienced in the past onto their ...
Terry Janzen
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Two metonymies of Serbian material culture in translation [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u PrištiniOver the past decades, metonymy has evolved from a poetic device to a conceptual system grounded in human experience. The aim of the paper is to investigate translation strategies which may be applied to the translation of popular Serbian cultural ...
Daničić Mirjana M.
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Neorealism, Contingency and the Linguistic Turn
Humanities, 2019 Since the publication of Roman Jakobson’s famous 1956 essay “Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasic Disturbances”, we have tended to read the relationship between metaphor and metonymy as a dialectical one.
Thomas Claviez
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Ontology and Formal Semantics - Integration Overdue [PDF]
, 2007 In this note we suggest that difficulties encountered in natural language semantics are, for the most part, due to the use of mere symbol manipulation systems that are devoid of any content. In such systems, where there is hardly any link with our common-
Saba, Walid
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A Comparative Study of Conceptual Structures of Metaphor and Metonymy from a Cognitive Perspective
, 2021 ZHOU Li, LI Man-yu
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On the regularity of metonymy across languages (exemplified on some metonymies in medical discourse
ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics)The topic of metonymy regularity has cropped up in several recent articles, a welcome sign of growing interest in this phenomenon, which may eventually contribute towards shedding more light on the phenomenon of metonymic competence, paralleling ...
Mario Brdar
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The use of metonymy and metaphor in descriptive essays by intermediate and advanced EFL students
LingBaW, 2017 This article involves an empirical linguistic study aimed at elucidating the use of metonymy and metaphor in descriptive essays written by a group of intermediate EFL students (further referred to as ‘participants’).
Oleksandr Kapranov
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Topics in Linguistics, 2020 This study aims to examine the comprehension of L2 metonymies by Arabic-speaking EFL learners and to investigate the extent to which the participants’ L1 conceptual and linguistic knowledge of metonymies can affect the processing of L2 metonymies.
Zibin Aseel +2 more
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A metaphor-metonymy continuum? Evidence from cross-field L2 set texts [PDF]
Ibérica, 2017 While the typology of metonymy has remained relatively stable in the literature, there is still ongoing discussion about metaphor varieties and their distinction from the former.
Antonio Jimenez-Munoz +1 more
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LACANIAN UNCONSIOUS IN DYLAN THOMAS \"ELEGY\" AND \"IN MY CRAFT OR SULLEN ART\" [PDF]
, 2012 LACANIAN UNCONSIOUS IN DYLAN THOMAS \"ELEGY\" AND \"IN MY CRAFT OR SULLEN ART\" - Psychoanalysis, Unconscious, Dylan Thomas, Metaphor ...
KRISTIANTI, YOAN, Retnowati, Retnowati
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