Essays about: "Cognitive semantics"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 essays containing the words Cognitive semantics.

  1. 1. The Semantics of Old Irish Landscape Vocabulary : Differentiation and Cognitive Linguistic Categorization

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Rebecca Madlener; [2022]
    Keywords : Old Irish; Historical Semantics; Landscape Semantics; Semantic Differentiation; Cognitive Semantic Categorization;

    Abstract : This project investigates the cognitive linguistic categories that structure the Old Irish landscape lexicon. The semantics of basic landscape vocabulary are differentiated based on collocate analysis and close reading of relevant text passages. READ MORE

  3. 2. “Harsh realities” and “tender gazes”: Do perceptual extensions function metaphorically or literally? : A corpus-based investigation of haptic adjectives and the “extent of the literal”

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Esme Richardson-Owen; [2022]
    Keywords : cognitive linguistics; cognitive semantics; perceptual metaphor; lexical metaphor; double-function adjectives;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates how perceptual adjectives are used to convey non-perceptual experience. The study is corpus-based, and the material consists of adjective-noun pairs in which the premodifying adjective is derived from the haptic modality. READ MORE

  4. 3. All You Need Is LOVE: Applying Conceptual Metaphor Theory to the Beatles' Song Lyrics - A Comparative Study

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Simon Christensson; [2021]
    Keywords : CMT; Conceptual Metaphor Theory; Cognitive Linguistics; semantics; metaphors; metaphorical concepts; conduit metaphors; orientational metaphors; ontological metaphors; The Beatles; Lennon; McCartney; song lyrics; love; the mind; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This essay analyses conceptual metaphors in the Beatles’ song lyrics and observes how Lennon and McCartney’s use of metaphorical concepts evolved in the 1960’s. The study has an empirical and qualitative approach with quantitative elements, and employs the framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT). READ MORE

  5. 4. Impoliteness in language and gesture: a cross-cultural study of impolite behaviour in Russian and Swedish

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kognitiv semiotik; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

    Author : Vladislav Zlov; [2019]
    Keywords : impoliteness; politeness; cognitive semiotics; language; gesture; conventionality; culture; mimesis; face; directness; frequency; evaluation; semantics; pragmatics; context; sign; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Impoliteness has been considered as a marginal phenomenon for scientific research for some time, although as a type of behaviour it has always been around us. The field of impoliteness studies is currently growing, but there are clear gaps in the research that concerns the conventionality of expressions, different semiotic systems through which impoliteness is expressed and cross-cultural comparisons. READ MORE

  6. 5. Grammatical Effects of Affect A contrastive corpus analysis of the use and meaning of infant and baby

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Carl-Anders Karlsson; [2017-10-12]
    Keywords : Affective meaning; expressive meaning; semantics; Cognitive grammar;

    Abstract : This thesis aims at (1) outlining a basic understanding of how affective, or expressive, meaning can be understood relative to linguistic meaning and language at large, and (2) analysing how affective meaning may relate to epistemological status and reference type in actual language use. The thesis' theoretical framework is largely situated within the paradigm of cognitive linguistics, and in particular drawing from the work of Langacker (2008). READ MORE