A longitudinal study of one child aged 2;5 documents an invented language game consisting of suffixal reduplication and onset replacement. Initially, reduplication is partial: the reduplicant enlarges in discrete increments over the five stages of the game until by the last stage reduplication is total. Reduplication is accompanied by a process of onset replacement, in which the reduplicant alw...

In this article it is argued that feelings are all important to the function of literature. In contradiction to music that is concerned with the inwardness of humankind, literature has, because of language, the capacity to create fictional worlds that in many respects are similar to and related to the life world within which we live. One of the most important reasons for our emotional engagemen...

The article analyzes a fragment of the metaphorical system in language Russian poetry from 19th to 21st centuries. Specifically, analysis focuses on personifying metaphors related semantic class ‘Language and speech’ lexical-semantic group Information search receipt’. study aims determine functioning these lexical units poetry, identify classes objects personification they are combined with, es...

this paper closely examines the persian new year's opening prayer as a literary text. regarding different communicative models, including the jacobson model, it shows that these models have never considered a place for religious communicative discourse. this paper endeavors to be a threshold for religious discourse, especially prayers. in doing so, it, first of all deals with the backgroun...

The Reduplications are made by repeating part of the base. The repeated part does not make sense and will never be used alone and is just popular in spoken language. In recent times, they have been used in some texts of poetry and prose, in particular, in stories written in vernacular. This research, with a historical approach, and with an analytical-explanatory method, examines the information...

This study examines the application of Cognitive Constraint Theory (CCT) to Malay poetic similes. Based on this theory, poetic structures like simile, zeugma and synaesthesia are in fact, governed by certain cognitive principles. These principles or “cognitive constraints”, as they are better known within this approach, ensure the interpretability of the poetic structures on the part of the rea...