Cognitive Linguistics Dr. Beatrix Weber Professorship for English Linguistics SS 2012 The Spatial Schema and its Figurative Meaning Extensions A Conceptual Analysis presented by Oliver Sicker Date of Submission: Mat. Number: E-Mail: 01 November 2012 3203947 oliver.sicker@mailbox.tu-dresden.de Table of Contents 1. Introduction ..................................................................................................2 2. Spatial Relations and their Metaphorical Meaning
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Barber‚ C. 2000. The English Language. A Historical Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Baugh‚ A. and T. Cable. 2002. A History of the English Language‚ 5th edition. London: Routledge. Bejan‚ N. and Elena Asandei. 1981. Contemporary English Language: Syntax and Lexicology. Galaţi: Editura Universităţii din Galaţi. Brook‚ G. L. 1981. Words in Everyday Life. London: The Macmillan Press. Cannon‚ G. 1987. Historical Change and English
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inflectional endings or derivational suffixes. On the other hand‚ some words belong to more than one word class. For example run can serve as either a verb or a noun (these are regarded as two different lexemes).[2] Lexemes may be inflected to express different grammatical categories. The lexeme run has the forms runs‚ ran‚ and running.[2] Words in one class can sometimes be derived from those in another. This has the potential to give rise to new words. The noun aerobics has recently given rise
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What is a morpheme? | | | * A morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit in the grammar of a language. * a morpheme is the smallest semantic unit in a language. The field of study dedicated to morphemes is called morphology. A morpheme is not identical to a word‚ and the principal difference between the two is that a morpheme may or may not stand alone‚ whereas a word‚ by definition‚ is a freestanding unit of meaning. Every word comprises one or more morphemes. * any of the minimal grammatical
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The Victorian era is considered by many to be a period of intense sexual repression‚ as expressed in Sexualities in Victorian Britain: ’the Victorians were notorious as the great enemies of sexuality; indeed‚ in Freud’s representative account‚ sexuality sometimes seems to be whatever it was that the middle-class Victorian mind attempted to hide‚ evade‚ repress‚ deny’ (Miller and Adams‚ 1996). Modern critics such as Michal Foucault have recognised that Victorian prudery is no more than a ‘repressive
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SYNTACTICAL CLASSIFICATION OF PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS Phraseological units can be clasified as parts of speech. This classification was suggested by I.V. Arnold. Here we have the following groups: a. noun phraseologisms denoting an object‚ a person‚ a living being‚ e.g. bullet train‚ latchkey child‚ redbrick university‚ Green Berets‚ b. verb phraseologisms denoting an action‚ a state‚ a feeling‚ e.g. to break the log-jam‚ to get on somebody’s coattails‚ to be on the beam‚ to nose out‚ to
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Unknown Language Journal Journal Entry 1 Before the lesson From this‚ my first lesson of Korean‚ I expect to gain‚ most of all‚ first hand insight into the experience a second language learner has during the first lesson of a language he or her has never before encountered. As I believe the class will be one of immersion‚ where the teacher will only speak Korean‚ I expect to be confused and to struggle to grasp the relation between sounds and their referents as well as understanding
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Sagum‚ Eilen Rosch R. AB-FS Section 2BF NEU-CAS June 13‚2014-Assignment No.1 in English 3 1.) What is communication? Communication (from Latin commūnicāre‚ meaning "to share" ) is the activity of conveying information through the exchange of ideas‚ feelings‚ intentions‚ attitudes‚ expectations‚ perceptions or commands‚ as by speech‚ gestures‚ writings‚ behavior and possibly by other means such as electromagnetic‚ chemical or physical phenomena. It is the meaningful exchange of information between
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Basic elements of building a bilingual dictionary. Dictionaries may be classified by many criteria‚ some of these obvious to everyone‚ for example size‚ language‚ others may more complex and field based. Perspective is based on how the compiler views the work and what approach is taken. Firstly is the work diachronic (covering an extended time) or synchronic. Secondly- how it is organized- alphabetically‚ by sound‚ by concept or by some other criteria. (Jarošová 2000: 12-28) And thirdly‚ is
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Contain Introduction 3 Chapter I. Characteristic features of Cognitive Metaphor and Slang 5 1.Feature Articles: Conceptual Metaphor in Everyday Language‚ Metaphors We Live By 5 2. Feature Articles: Magical Slang: Ritual‚ Language and Trench Slang of the Western front 6 Chapter II. Cognitive Metaphor and Slang 9 1. Lakoff & Johnson’s Theory of Metaphor 9 2. What is slang? 12 3. Cognitive Metaphor in New English Slang 13 4. Examples of slang‚ it’s characteristics and analysis 17 Conclusion 29 Literature
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