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Nickels, Edelmira L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Linguistics research has demonstrated the commonness and functions of metaphors to carry cognitive frames, which influence the way people understand and act on information. This work conveys the results of three analyses employed to describe cognitive frames: forms of linguistic metaphors used, functions of systematic metaphors that emerged, and…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Figurative Language, Language Usage, Politics
Lai, Vicky Tzuyin – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Metaphorical expressions appear once every twenty words in everyday language, and play a central role in communication. Some cognitive linguistic theories propose that understanding metaphorical expressions requires mappings from one conceptual domain to the other. My research uses Event-Related Potentials to examine the processing, the…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Role, Communication (Thought Transfer), Linguistic Theory
Koralus, Philipp Elias – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The dissertation presents a theory of semantics and pragmatics for both language and vision. I focus on sentences including proper names, descriptions, and attitude report verbs, and on the Necker cube. I propose the Open Instruction Theory (OIT), according to which the linguistic meaning of a sentence and the semantic contribution of visual…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Semantics, Pragmatics, Language