scholarly journals A Comparative Study of Conceptual Structures of Metaphor and Metonymy from a Cognitive Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
ZHOU Li ◽  
LI Man-yu
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Cognitive Perspective ◽  
Conceptual Structures ◽  
Metaphor And Metonymy

SECONDARY PHENOMENA IN THE LINGUISTIC WORLDVIEW (COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE)

2021 ◽  
pp. 47-54
Author(s):  
S.G. Vinogradova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
English Language ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Cognitive Perspective ◽  
Conceptual Structures ◽  
Secondary Meaning ◽  
Human Thinking

The article opens with a brief overview of approaches to the study of secondary phenomena in the linguistic worldview. In particular, the author indicates the main reasons for secondary meaning formation including linguistic economy based on minimum of efforts aspiration and the associative and creative nature of human thinking. The author argues that in the framework of cognitive linguistics secondary meanings result from interpretation and the accompanying conceptual derivation and metarepresentation as processes of cognition. Such processes reflect a new understanding of the previously acquired knowledge, generating secondary conceptual structures, and choosing best ways of their anchoring in language considering cognitive dominants of linguistic consciousness as certain templates for construing reality through language. In the context of the above processes, the author examines secondary phenomena of the linguistic worldview analysing the examples of lexical and grammatical units of the English language. The discussion is focused on the outcomes of word formation in lexis, secondary interjections, secondary predicative structures, composite sentences.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study of Political Discourse Features in English and Arabic

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 148
Author(s):  
Asmaa Alduhaim
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Speeches ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Metaphor And Metonymy

This article is devoted to examine political discourse, in particular features of political speeches in English and Arabic Language. Political speeches are often shaped in a specific cultural and social context, using various linguistic features to persuade the public of the speaker’s goals. The study has two aims: firstly, it intends to highlight the prominent features of political discourse in English and Arabic. For example, the use of metaphor and metonymy, pronouns, intertextuality, repetition, style and code-switching. In addition, the study examines the way these features were employed by the speakers. Secondly, the comparison across English and Arabic language establishes similarities and differences between the features of political discourse in English and Arabic, and understands to what extent are the features of political discourse universal and shared between languages, and to further examine in which ways they differ. Three main features were identified as shared between the two languages: pronouns, repetition, and intertextuality. Even though there were shared features, it emerges from the study that these features, as well as others, are employed differently based on the language convention and the culture it exists in.

A cognitive perspective on the semantics of near

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Brenda
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Network ◽  
Semantic Structure ◽  
Conceptual Blending ◽  
Cognitive Perspective ◽  
Spatial Prepositions ◽  
Spatial Sense ◽  
Image Schema ◽  
Schema Transformation ◽  
Metaphor And Metonymy

Abstract The present study investigates the semantic structure of the word near assuming that its distinct senses form a semantic network with a prototypical spatial sense at the center and various extended senses at different distances away from the prototype. In order to explain the extensions of near, the cognitive notions of construal, image schema transformation, metaphor and metonymy are taken into consideration. The conceptual blending theory is used to explain the semantic structure of the complex preposition near to. The research reveals that the word near functions as a preposition (also a part of the complex preposition near to), an adverb, an adjective and a verb, and that its semantic structure is best viewed as a continuum encoding both lexical and grammatical information. At the same time, the analysis shows that the polysemy of near is rather impoverished when compared to the polysemies of other spatial prepositions, such as in, on, at or over.

scholarly journals The impact of technology on external architectural appearance

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aako Noory M. Shari ◽  
◽  
Amjad Muhammed Ali ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Great Part ◽  
Conceptual Structure ◽  
Conceptual Structures ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Building Facades ◽  
Characteristics Of Image ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
The Impact

Losing the ability to remember certain images of a specific building in the human’s mind is one of the problems these days, as this may make him feel the loss of its coordinates and lack of familiarity with his surroundings, and this happens when the architectural facades change and appear in more than one image. This paper focuses on new concepts of building façades, far from image constancy, which has been a great part of its conceptual structure. The study aims to discover the changes introduced by technology to the concepts of building façades, as it is important to deal with them in their new scope and adapt them to other parts of the components of the architectural forms of buildings. To achieve that, the study discusses the conceptual structures of building façades designed by new and old architecture pioneers. The paper is based on a comparative study to examine whether the facades of buildings for new architects have lost parts of their concepts and appear in a new and different way, compared to the basic components of the concept of architectural facades, depending on the characteristics of image constancy.

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