This paper investigates the conceptualization of emotional release from a cognitive linguistics perspective (Cognitive Metaphor Theory). The metaphor weeping is a means of liberating contained emotions is grounded in universal embodied cognition and is reflected in linguistic expressions in English and Spanish. Lexicalization patterns which encapsulate this conceptualization i...

The point of departure this paper is the hypothesis that, by examining various labels used for verbal expressions (also) known as light verb constructions (e.g., periphrastic constructions, pleonastic expressions, semi-compositional constructions), it possible to pinpoint features that approaches dealing with particular category and phenomenon interpret definitive, essential specificities lingu...

Approaches to natural language processing that use a phrasal lexicon have the advantage of easily handling linguistic constructions that might otherwise be extragrammatical. However, current phrasal lexicons are often too rigid: their phrasal entries fail to cover the more flexible constructions. FLUSH, for Flexible Lexicon Utilizing Specialized and Hierarchical knowledge, is a knowledge-based ...

objectives: auditory perception or hearing ability is critical for children in acquisition of language and speech hence hearing loss has different effects on individuals’ linguistic perception, and also on their functions. it seems that deaf people suffer from language and speech impairments such as in perception of complex linguistic constructions. this research was aimed to study the percepti...

Constructions of Intersubjectivity by Arie Verhagen is very much an intellectual product of our times. Combining current concerns in cognitive and evolutionary linguistics, and capitalizing—more, or less, explicitly—on a pragmatic lineage that goes back to H.P. Grice’s (1957) notion of reflexive intentions (i.e., intentions whose fulfillment consists in their recognition) and Anscombre and Ducr...

This article tackles the tricky problem of identifying metaphors in language that includes prepositions. We demonstrate how Procedure for Identifying Metaphorical Scenes (PIMS) reflected and evoked by linguistic expressions discourse, Johansson Falck & Okonski, accepted) can be used to identify metaphorical relations language. The scenes correspond conceptualizations are directly attested speci...