There is broad agreement among evolutionary linguists that the emergence of human language, as opposed to other primate communication systems, is characterised by two key phenomena: the use of symbols, and the use of grammatical structure (Tomasello 2003). In this paper, we show that these two defining aspects of language actually emerge from the same set of underlying cognitive mechanisms with...

The paper focuses on wordplay in the ergonymic names of Madrid, Malaga, Cadiz, Salamanca, Kyiv, Chernihiv and Odesa. aim research is to study ways creation ergonyms. author suggests term словогра / Ukrainian analyses lexico-semantic, grammatical, phonetic, graphic Spanish material (names restaurants, cafés, shops, hairdressing salons barbershops) Chernihiv, Odesa, Malaga Cadiz. methods applied ...

The Tamil language has a long literary history, grammatical richness, and cultural richness. is considered to be the oldest in world with grammar books like Tolkappiyam, Nannool, Agam, Puram Moral literature Patinenmelkanakku, Patinenkilkanakku, devotional Panniru Thirumaraikal Nalayiram Thiruppadalkal. twelve Saiva are prominent of language. Out these Thirumaraikal, eighth Thirumarai composed ...

Grammatical Metaphor (GM) is one of the fresh language phenomena introduced by Halliday (1985) in the framework of functional grammar. Thompson (2004) states that the salient source of GM would be ‘Nominalization’ where a noun form attempts to represent a verb form or in other words, a verb form with its different process is represented in a noun form. He continues that any wording is ought to ...

This study discusses the translation of aspects physical image related to women in Eka Kurniawan’s “Lelaki Harimau” novel into German, and describes types attitude associated with women. Using Martin & Rose’s theory appraisal (2007) Molina Hurtado Albir’s techniques (2002), compiled grammatical items, lexical items or metaphors domains classify used translate image. From results initial ear...

Interpersonal metaphor, as one constituent of grammatical metaphor in systemic-functional grammar, is mainly represented by mood and modality. The language the movie Carnage abound with interpersonal metaphors diverse context “communication” “conflict” respectively. By summarizing application two types specific contexts “conflict”, int...

This study was conducted as an attempt to show that the Qur'an revealed by using a high, charming, and touching language style through one of grammatical elements, namely metaphorical style. uses library research. The analysis is carried out referring sciences Indonesian grammar, Arabic, Arabic-English Dictionary Quranic Usage: Handbook Oriental Studies Elsaid M. Badawi Muhammad Abdel Haleem. T...