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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Talmy"”.
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The bones of the book: schematic structure and meaning made from books.
… using a conceptual framework developed by Talmy (2000) and through the diagramming of conceptual integration networks (Fauconnier and Turner 2002; Turner 2014). Additional evidence was sought through the identification of conventional and conceptual metaphors in texts about books. The …
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A construction grammar approach to spatial prepositions in modern standard Arabic
… George Lakoff, Ronald Langackerand Leonard Talmy on grammatical theory and lexical categories; George Lakoff, MarkJohnson and others on conceptual metaphor; and Gilles Fauconnier and others onconceptual blending. The study attempts not just to address the limitations of formalistapproaches, …
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The history of the concept of grammaticalisation
… in some way ‘revived’ during the 1970s, and that Talmy Givón had an important role in this, as demonstrated by the popularity of the saying “Today’s morphology is yesterday’s syntax” (taken from one of his articles). I show that Meillet wrote little about grammaticalisation and that he hardly ever …
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Les verbes de mouvement et l’expression du lieu en kirundi (bantou, JD62) : une étude linguistique basée sur un corpus
… typiquement le But ou le Source du mouvement) (Talmy 1975; Talmy 1985; Wilkins & Hill 1995; Botne 2005). A base d’une étude détaillée et systématique de 17 verbes de mouvement, qui dénotent un déplacement total de l’objet, il est testé dans l’actuelle thèse si, en kirundi, les verbes de …
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Análisis crítico cognitivo del discurso histórico sobre el pueblo mapuche en textos escolares de historia
… los de movimiento y los de din´amica de fuerzas (Talmy, 2000). Como resultado de nuestra investigaci´on se observa que la ideolog´ıa colonial del multiculturalismo neoliberal subyace la construcci´on de distintas representaciones en los textos escolares que son generadas a trav´es de determinadas …
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Motion Event Expression in Bilingual First Language Acquisition
The thesis explores the implications of Talmy’s typology of motion expression (Talmy 1985, 2000a,b) for bilingual first language acquisition of English (satellite-framing) and French (verb-framing), addressing the following question: How does the expression of motion develop in simultaneous …
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Participant reference in narrative discourse: A comparison of three methodologies
… discourse. One of the first of these was Talmy Givon, whose method (referred to by some as the Recency/Distance method) measured three factors in participant reference: referential distance, potential interference, and persistence. A few years later, Russell Tomlin proposed an alternative …
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Describing and Remembering Motion Events in British Sign Language
Motion events are ubiquitous in conversation, from describing a tiresome commute to recounting a burglary. These situations, where an entity changes location, consist of four main semantic components: Motion (the movement), Figure (the entity moving), Ground (the object or objects with respect to …
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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 …