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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Cognitive semantics"”.
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Implementing Cognitive Semantics
… and processed. It is based on the findings in cognitive linguistics over the last decade, where thorough studies have been made about how concepts function. Concepts appear as image schemata, a spatial form of representation with very powerful properties. It embodies prototypicality, …
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A epidemia de HIV/AIDS no Brasil: um estudo semântico cognitivo sócio-histórico-cultural da conceptualização da morte no século XX.
… of Brazil HIV/AIDS epidemic, exploring how cognitive, social, historical, and cultural aspects are bounded to the signification process. The ideas and discussions were based on the theoretical assumptions of Cognitive Linguistics, more specifically, of Socio-Historical-Cultural Cognitive …
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Acquisition of metaphorical expressions by Chinese learners of English
… expression, following the definition of cognitive semantics, refers to the use of a conventionalised non-literal meaning of a lexical item in a multi-word phrase. For example, the word ‘attack’ in the phrase ‘attack one’s idea’, which should be interpreted as ‘to criticise somebody or …
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The Semantics of צרר Lexemes in the Hebrew Psalter
… particularly with respect to the structural and cognitive linguistic principles used throughout the study. Part of chapter 1 discusses the concept of “genre,” incorporating both Louis Hjelmslev’s mid-20th century discussion of genre as a multi-axis<br/>matrix, as well as drawing upon recent …
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Epäilemisen merkitys : Epäillä-sanueen polaarinen kaksihahmotteisuus kiellon ja kielteisyyden semantiikan peilinä
… the ideas of meaning construal developed in Cognitive Linguistics. Following the methodological interpretation of the usage-based model, the analysis is based on corpus data. The examination of the verb epäillä relies on a data set compiled from several corpora and divided into three periods: …
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In ruimtes vasgekeer: 'n Kognitiewe benadering tot metafore in dekoloniale diskoers
Afrikaans: Die kognitiewe linguistiek voer aan dat meeste abstrakte konsepte slegs in terme van metafore bedink en verstaan kan word. Dekolonialiteit as abstrakte konsep is steeds ’n vurige besprekingspunt in die konteks van hoër onderwys in Suid-Afrika. Hierdie verhandeling beoog om die verband …