Sognitive Models of Semantic Group ‘Expanse of Water’ Within The English Language World Picture Cover Image

Когнитивные модели восприятия водного пространства в английской языковой картине мира
Sognitive Models of Semantic Group ‘Expanse of Water’ Within The English Language World Picture

Author(s): Irina Iwaszkiewicz
Subject(s): Language studies, Semantics, Cognitive linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: Cognitive linguistics; conceptosphere; cognitive models; semantic shift;

Summary/Abstract: The article highlights the role of perceptual features within the meaning of polysemous English nouns, naming expanse of water in the processes of both direct and indirect nomination. The author presents classification of regular metaphorical shifts types within the semantic group ‘Expanse of Water’ marking them as cognitive models. Much attention is paid to the most productive cognitive metaphorical model ‘EXPANSE OF WATER → QUANTITY’.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 247-257
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Russian