Polysemy and Metaphor in the Verbs of Perception

Mihaela Georgiana Manasia ()
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Mihaela Georgiana Manasia: Constantin Brancusi University of Targu-Jiu

No 103, Proceedings of Harvard Square Symposium, The Future of Knowledge, April 29-30, 2016 from Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies

Abstract: This paper addresses the idea that has been recently put forward by several studies in the field of cognitive linguistics that perception verbs have a polysemous structure motivated by our experience and understanding of the world. Metaphor is not only characteristic of poetic language, but on the contrary, it can be found everywhere in everyday language and the polysemous character of perception verbs reflected into a wide range of syntactic and constructional alternatives makes them a motivating semantic field to approach in this respect.

Keywords: polysemy; metaphor; perception verbs; prototypical meaning; metaphorical meaning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 10 pages
Date: 2016-01
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Published in Conference proceedings The Future of Knowledge, 29-30 April 2016, pages 55-64

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