The study of sign language developed into a separate linguistic science in the 20th century. Sign contains many gestures, as well metaphors and metonymies. Hearing-impaired children our environment played major role examination gestures. Furthermore, it is common for scientists to draw parallel between gestural components phonemes spoken language. Metaphors metonymies play not only language, bu...

“Dialectics” and “contradiction theory” from philosophy are almost the only theoretical resource that can be cited to explain reason for formation of Chinese antonymous cognate words. However, this paradigm does not come law thinking, therefore cannot display dynamic process phenomenon fundamentally. Metonymy metaphor could applied as thinking mechanisms reveal rules generation Briefly, mechani...

This study explores Arabic and English metonymy’s literary, semantic, lexical, aesthetic aspects. It investigates metonymy as a figure of speech compares its types functions in the two languages. The confirms that is culture-bound – meanings metonymies derive from socio-cultural values societies can’t be separated contexts which they occur. stresses significance considering relationship between...

China has the biggest population of netizens in world and more cybernauts often use cyber-expressions their Internet communication some are even used our daily life offline. With increasing popularity these cyber-expressions, they have caught eyes scholars expressions’ formation meaning construction analyzed from many perspectives. From perspective Cognitive Linguistics, Chinese formed with hel...

During language understanding, people do not only rely on what they read or hear, but they also exploit implicit information. For example, when they process the expression begin the book, they understand it involves an event which is not explicitly mentioned (e.g. begin reading the book). This thesis looks at these constructions, known as logical metonymies, which combine an event-selecting ver...