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Space-to-time mappings and temporal concepts

Most research on metaphors that construe time as motion (motion metaphors of time) has focused on the question of whether it is the times or the person experiencing them (ego) that moves...

Keywords: space, time, semantics, frames, polysemy, typology, metaphor, metonymy, deixis, perspective, psychology, Wolof, Japanese

07/2006 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de Gruyter

Humor enhancers in the study of humorous literature

This paper examines the treatment of literary humor. Attardo has extended the SSTH/GTVH (Raskin 1985; Attardo and Raskin 1991) to longer humorous literary texts, not simply sequences of jokes (Attardo 2001; Attardo et al...

Keywords: Linguistics, literature, literary studies, literary theory, philology, semantics, script opposition, humor, humor theory, SSTH, GTVH

09/2004 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de Gruyter

A metaphor in search of a source domain: The categories of Slavic aspect

I propose that human experience of matter provides the source domain for the metaphor that motivates the grammatical category of aspect in Russian...

Keywords: aspect, metaphor, embodiment, semantics, discourse, pragmatics, Russian, Slavic languages

09/2004 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de Gruyter

Ambiguity and metaphor

We often consider semantic-pragmatic properties of language independently of each other...

Keywords: metaphor, ambiguity, semantics, stylistics, Cognitive linguistics, semiotics

01/2008 | Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter

Tense and cognitive space: On the organization of tense/aspect systems in Bantu languages and beyond

Bantu languages are well-known for their complex tense systems encoding multiple degrees of remoteness...

Keywords: Bantu, cognitive domains, dissociation, semantics, tense

01/2008 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de Gruyter

Ricur and Saussure: On meaning and time

This paper attempts to arrange a meeting between Ricur and Saussure through their texts...

Keywords: hermeneutics, semantics, meaning, time, Context, polysemy

01/2008 | Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter

Lexico-semantic universals: A critical overview

Are there any word-meanings which are absolute and precise lexico-semantic universals, and if so, what kind of meanings are they? This paper assesses the status, in a diverse range of languages, of about 100 meanings which have been proposed by various scholars (linguists, anthropologists, psychologists) as potential universals...

Keywords: basic vocabulary, lexical universals, Lexicon, Natural Semantic Metalanguage, polysemy, semantic primes, semantics

07/2001 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter

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