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Ilmastikunähtustega seotud keeleassotsiatsioonid
Weather-related Language Associations

Author(s): Erik Mikkus, Raido Remmel, Triin Õismaa, Merilyn Meristo, Mari Uusküla
Subject(s): Lexis, Semantics, Cognitive linguistics, Finno-Ugrian studies
Published by: Tallinna Ülikooli Kirjastus
Keywords: weather; word associations; semantics; cognitive linguistics; English; Estonian;

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with language associations related to weather phenomena. The article’s literature review provides an overview of previous research that has focused on meteorological phenomena and their relationship to emotional, linguistic and psychological matters. The literatutre section is followed by an overview of the study underlying the paper, in which 59 participants completed a weather-based stimulus questionnaire. The rest of the article presents the results of the study, namely that the vast majority of weather-related language associations were of syntagmatic type, whilst sound-based associations were not detected. Adjective associations also prevailed over nouns.

  • Issue Year: 5/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 268-282
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Estonian