Essays about: "semantics and linguistics"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 29 essays containing the words semantics and linguistics.

  1. 11. 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

  3. 12. 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 språkstudier

    Author : Anna Lodén; [2017]
    Keywords : Conceptual metaphor; conceptual metonymy; mapping; source domain; linguistics;

    Abstract : 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

  4. 13. ‘How great!’ : A morpho-syntactic and semantic study on the two roots aA and wr

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Josefin Törnqvist; [2017]
    Keywords : Morpho-syntax; semantics; greatness; homonyms; synonyms; linguistics; roots;

    Abstract : Egyptology is a discipline in which new research and new approaches are continuously necessary and – in most cases – provided. In this constant flow of new research, some subject areas are left untouched. READ MORE

  5. 14. Sex, communism, and dangerous red things - On the semantics of the Hungarian words piros and vörös

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Jessica Presits; [2017]
    Keywords : linguistics; colour semantics; basic colour terms; linguistic relativity; Sapir-Whorf hypothesis; piros; vörös; Hungarian; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The topic of Basic Colour Terms (BCT) and their proposed universality has long been a source of debate within linguistics. Whether colour terms (as symbols) fill lexical gaps of presumed universal colour categories (as senses) or not is relevant for the debate regarding linguistic relativity: the hypothesis about the influence of language on the way we think. READ MORE

  6. 15. You Call me a Bitch Like It's a Bad Thing : A Study into the Current Use and Semantic Properties of the Noun Bitch

    University essay from Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

    Author : Vanja Elizabeth Liv Vinter; [2017]
    Keywords : lexical semantics; semantic prosody; semantic change; corpus linguistics; reappropriation;

    Abstract : This paper analyses and discusses the present-day use of the noun bitch, as the term in contemporary usage seems to have started to deviate from the lexical definition. Traditionally considered an insult when applied to a woman, bitch has recently started being used as a self-imposed label rather than an applied one. READ MORE