the body-part term dast ‘hand’ is investigated in this article as used in the first part of 160 farsi compound nouns. the questions are: how is the semantic change pattern of hand used in persian compound nouns? also how the collective mind and social/ cultural memory of persian linguistic society can be accounted for and compared with chinese and english? the aim is investigation of semantic c...

The purpose of the article is to analyze structural and semantic features metaphor in Olga Kobylyanska’s artistic discourse. relevance determined by need further in-depth study Kobylyanskaya idiostyle order form a cognitive-pragmatic conception writer's novelty scientific work due fact that cognitive nature language O. works studied for first time. Research methods. In as main general methods a...

This research extends previous studies regarding the metaphoric competence of autistic and learning disable children on different measures of visual and verbal non-literal language comprehension, as well as cognitive abilities that include semantic knowledge, executive functions, similarities, and reading fluency. Thirty seven children with autism (ASD), 20 children with learning disabilities (...

Many noteworthy studies have been done to examine the discursive relationship between gender and metaphor in the context of politics, media and literature. In this research, however, I try to investigate the relationship between gender and metaphor specifically in poetical discourse. The main questions of this research are as follows: What is the role of gender in the production and selection o...

The comprehension of metaphors involves the ability to activate a broader, more flexible set of semantic associations in order to integrate the meanings of the weakly related parts of the metaphor into a meaningful linguistic expression. Previous findings point to a relation between levels of creativity and efficiency in processing metaphoric expressions, as measured by reaction times (RTs) and...

Recent research in cognitive linguistics has shown that idiomatic phrases are decomposable and analyzable and that the individual words in idiomatic phrases systematically contribute to the overall figurative interpretations. This cognitive linguistic view suggests that enhancing awareness of conceptual metaphors embedded in the individual words may help second language students to learn idioms...

Metaphor in the local language plays daily life besides their role rhetoric and poetry. This work shall focus on positives negatives of using metaphor animals Al Ghaddafi’s used animal metaphors his speeches, under Cognitive Linguistics Critical Analysis (CMA). Studies conducted Classical Arabic but this study be concealed meaning. Study objectives are: (1) to unravel meanings underlying metaph...

This article employs a cognitive semantic analysis with the aim to describe types of metaphors and conceptual meanings based on metaphor theory by Lakoff Johnson (1980), image schemes scheme Cruse Croft (2004) electronic newspaper Kompas. Data source in this research are taken from technology rubric Kompas March 2020 edition. We use descriptive qualitative method conduct reseach. The result sho...