Essays about: "English cognitive semantics"
Found 5 essays containing the words English cognitive semantics.
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1. 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 litteraturerAbstract : 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
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2. To make a mountain out of a molehill : A comparative study of the metonymical and metaphorical structures of three semantically identical, but lexically different, idioms in English, Swedish and German
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudierAbstract : This study revolves around the different underlying metaphorical or metonymical structures of three specific idioms, one English, one Swedish and one German, but with equivalent semantics. The structure of the source and target domains was analysed, as well as the mapping from source to target. READ MORE
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3. See how far we’ve come : A corpus study of the source metaphor JOURNEY
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkulturAbstract : The present study is based on conceptual metaphor theory (CMT), which Lakoff and Johnson introduced in 1980. Data were taken from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), and three phrases (a long road, bumpy road and fork in the road) were investigated, in order to see how far the conceptual metaphor theory can be corroborated using authentic data. READ MORE
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4. Semantic Change in Words Loaned to Swedish
University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskapAbstract : This thesis examines the diachronic semantic development in terms of metonymization and metaphorization for 30 nouns loaned into the Swedish language between the 13th and 20th centuries from a cognitive-semantic point of view. Through the framework of Lexical Meaning as Ontologies and Construals (LOC) combined with a study of the occurrence of metaphorization, metonymization, widening and narrowing in semantic development, it examines to what extent metonymization can be said to be a more common mechanism of lexical semantic change than metaphorization, and to what extent words lose semantic width initially after the loaning period and then regain it over time. READ MORE
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5. A thorn in the side and its equivalents in French and Swedish : One sense realized as three different idioms
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudierAbstract : The purpose of this study is to analyse how three idioms, in English, French and Swedish, despite different lexical compositions are capable of conveying the same meaning. The idioms in question are a thorn in the side, une épine au pied/dans le pied and en nagel i ögat. READ MORE
