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Hussein, Khalid Shakir; Ameer, May Ali Abdul – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
This paper represents an attempt to conduct a corpus-based stylistic analysis of two conceptual metaphors in "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," which is a novel written by Milan Kundera. "Soul-body" and "lightness-heaviness" metaphors are foregrounded as being central themes all through the novel. The way such…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Novels, Semantics, Figurative Language
Soja, Nancy N. – 1986
A study investigated children's difficulty in learning color words and attempted to determine whether the difficulty was perceptual, conceptual, or linguistic. The subjects were 24 two-year-olds, half with knowledge of color words and half without, and a similar control group. The experimental subjects were given conceptual and comprehension tasks…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classification, Cognitive Mapping, Color