Cognitive Semantics
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Scientific and Technical Translation (STT) is a highly complex and knowledge-intensive field of translation and cognitive linguistics is a usage-based linguistic framework which provides powerful theoretical tools for modelling knowledge... more
Suspendus aux lèvres d’un conteur, incapables d’interrompre la lecture d’un roman, captivés par un film haletant, nous faisons tous l’expérience quotidienne de ce plaisir apparemment paradoxal que nous tirons de notre insatisfaction... more
This paper investigates how large multinational corporations use multimodal meaning-making resources to communicate a trustworthy corporate identity. It combines insights from Forceville’s work on pictorial and multimodal metaphor... more
В настоящей статье, основываясь на принципе формально-семантического единства языковых элементов, мы попытались представить 34 значения двух разновидностей предлога ЗА как единую систему, развившуюся из генетически первичного... more
The mass-count distinction is a morpho-syntactic distinction among nouns that is generally taken to reflect a semantic distinction. There are three approaches to what such a semantic distinction may consist in: an extension-based... more
Abstract: This paper examines words and constructions that Koromu speakers in Papua New Guinea (PNG) use to talk about tare ‘hurt/pain’ and other painful sensations. It also reflects on links to cultural and environmental influences in... more
Introduction. Current demand for practicing intercultural dialogue in the educational space is of strategic importance for the future professional in today's convivial world. Purpose: This article describes psychological and pedagogical... more
a presente comunicación constituye una propuesta metodológica y didáctica sobre el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje de las unidades fraseológicas (UFs) en las segundas lenguas. Las características formales y semánticas de estas... more
This study adopts a lexicon-based approach to address violence on social media. It uses FrameNet 1.7 (fn) and WordNet 3.1 (wn) to build a hierarchical domain-specific language resource of violence. The proposed lexicon tethers fn’s... more
Finnish existential clauses are known for the case marking of their S arguments, which alternates between the nominative and the partitive. Existential S arguments introduce a discourse-new referent, and, if headed by a mass noun or a... more
В статье затрагивается проблема грамматического (системного) значения английского инфинитива, которое остается неопределенным как в теоретических, так и в практических грамматиках. Делается предположение, что когнитивный подход в рамках... more
This paper is based on the author's Master's thesis in Linguistics, which was conducted at the University of Pisa. The study employs corpus linguistics methods, specifically a distributional approach based on the Vector Space Model (VSM)... more
The current research presents an attempt to identify the influence of Slavic languages (Russian, Belarusian, Polish) on Vilnius County toponymy at the name formation level. The following toponym formation features were identified: Slavic... more
Koncept EUROPA jest jednym z centralnych pojec ukrainskiego dyskursu społeczno-politycznego. Ten aksjologiczny koncept jest wrazliwy na oddziaływanie kontekstu socjokulturowego, zwłaszcza w okresach gwałtownych zmian społecznych.... more
This paper is a multifactorial usage-feature case study in the polysemy of /annoy/. The study demonstrates that, according to the usage-based model of language propounded by Cognitive Linguistics, neither semnatic structure or... more
Sous la forte influence de l'école de Vienne, (Wüster 1993; Felber 1984) la discipline de la terminologie a été réduite à un ensemble de principes de normalisation. L'étude de la terminologie des sciences de la vie... more
Autotradução inédita do artigo escrito em francês: "À propos de la motivation phraséologique". que foi publicada em 2011 dentro do livro de Pamies, A. & Dobrovol'skij (eds.) Linguo-cultural competence and phraseological motivation.... more
Something has meaning when it has the property of "information about" some part of the world with respect to an end or ends of some intentional system or agent. Intentional systems are end-directed systems, but not all end-directed... more
Previous literature on the classification of metonymy has mainly concentrated on the relationship between source and target (e.g. Radden & Kövecses 1999, Peirsman & Geeraerts 2006a). More recent, pragmatically oriented classifications are... more
В статье, в опоре на анализ Н.А. Бернштейна, приводится трехуровневая структура основных человеческих локомоций – ходьбы и бега: (1) главная цель движения => динамика (координационно-силовая схема движения) =>... more
The Collection of Conference Proceedings “The Problems of Linguistic Semantics” focuses on the topical issues of Linguistic Semantics: Cognitive and Cultural Semantics, Contrastive Semantics, Phonetic, Lexical and Grammatical Semantics,... more
На правах рукописи АЛПАТОВ Владислав Викторович КОНЦЕПТУАЛЬНЫЕ ОСНОВЫ ФОРМИРОВАНИЯ АНГЛИЙСКИХ ХРИСТИАНСКИХ ТОПОНИМОВ 10.02.04-германские языки Автореферат диссертации на соискание ученой степени кандидата филологических наук Тамбов-2007
For the past five years I’ve been doing research on the cognitive abilities of African Grey parrots (Psittacus erithacus), attempting to document not only their remark-able linguistic abilities but also examining the way that they interact... more
Sobre las investigaciones más recientes sobre la polisemia semántica y sus aplicaciones al enstudio de la lengua española.
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I use the Conceptual Blending Theory to discuss the application of familiar music themes in unexpected contexts, where the music assists the image and text in swaying viewers’ opinion. A new interpretation emerges in such examples after... more
Vibram's FiveFingers shoes may provide clues to the bodily origins of double-scope conceptual blending, one of the pillars of contemporary cognitive linguistics.
The objective of this article is to investigate the contextual meanings of the preposition /kὲː/ in the Sukhothai period within the cognitive semantics approach. The 61 data were collected from the book “The Inscription Collection Vol. 8:... more