Interesting Cognitive Logic of Vietnamese and English Perception Verbs

Interesting Cognitive Logic of Vietnamese and English Perception Verbs

Each of the phenomena is perceived by human in certain specific ways from perception to cognition. The next step is the convert of cognitive information into language codes so that these information can be released to the object of communication, the receiver or the listener. Then, the listener receives codes and decodes them in order to understand the information from which he can perform a re...

Evaluating the Intonation Perception Ability of Vietnamese Learners of English

This paper investigates the ability of Vietnamese learners of English to perceive features of English intonation, more specifically, tonicity and tone. An action research paradigm is adopted which takes into account individual language learning strategies (LLS). The performance of three groups of learners, cycle one (C1), cycle two (C2) and a control group (CG), is examined on pre-test, midtest...

conceptual metaphor and the acquisition of english metaphorical competence by persian english majors: a cognitive linguistic approach

بنا براستدلال زبانشناسان شناختی ، اندیشه آدمی تا حدّ زیادی استعاری است: ما اندیشه ای را، و یا قلمرو مفهومی معیّنی را، بر حسب اندیشه و یا قلمرو مفهومی معیّن دیگری درک ویا تجربه می کنیم. موارد این نوع اندیشیدن ، که استعارات مفهومی خوانده می شوند، در زبان های گوناگون به صورت تعبیرات استعاری واقعیّت می یابند. به گمان بعضی از پزوهشگران زبان دوم، آموزش وفراگیری این گونه تعبیرات باید بخشی لازم از برنامه ه...

Some Interesting Differences between Verbs and Nouns

Verbs are different from;nouns in ways that go beyond chair syntactic privileges . Verbs are harder to remember, more broadly defined, more prone to be altered in meaning when conflict of meaning occurs, less stable in translation between languages, and slower to be acquired by children than nouns . In this paper I argue that the differences stem in part from a basic cognitive distinction that,...

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