Sökning: "Polysemy"

Visar resultat 21 - 23 av 23 uppsatser innehållade ordet Polysemy.

  1. 21. En kognitiv semantisk analys av partikelverbet gå upp: : Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) kontra Principled Polysemy Approach to Meaning Analysis (PPAMA)

    Magister-uppsats, Örebro universitet/Humanistiska institutionen

    Författare :Malin Olofsson; [2008]
    Nyckelord :metaphor; image schema; Cognitive Semantics; polysemy;

    Sammanfattning : This essay examines the differences and similarities, weaknesses and strengths of the two Cognitive Semantic theories Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Principled Polysemy Approach to Meaning Analysis. To illustrate the two theories, the Swedish verb-particle construction "gå upp" is examined and analyzed accordingly. LÄS MER

  3. 22. Punning Exploiting External and Internal Metaphors : A Study of Groucho Marx's Use of Metaphor Reversal

    Magister-uppsats, Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Kalle Larsson; [2007]
    Nyckelord :polysemy; punning; metaphor reversal; figurative meaning; literal meaning; internal metaphor; external metaphor; idiom; continuum; universe of discourse;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this study has been to analyse metaphorical strings which have been interpreted literally, a process referred to as metaphor reversal. This was first described by Löflund (1999:18) and the specific term was later coined by Alm-Arvius (2006:6). Metaphor reversal is basically a subcategory of the broader term polysemy punning. LÄS MER

  4. 23. Five English Verbs : A Comparison between Dictionary meanings and Meanings in Corpus collocations

    Magister-uppsats, Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)

    Författare :Susanne Sörensen; [2006]
    Nyckelord :word convention; verbum; utterance; polysemy; polysemous verb; lexical item; prototypical semantics; computational linguistics; monosemous units of meaning; principle of lexical contrast; valency pattern; selectional restrictions; collocational string; collocational profile; disambiguation;

    Sammanfattning : In Norstedts Comprehensive English-Swedish Dictionary (2000) it is said that the numbered list of senses under each headword is frequency ordered. Thus, the aim of this study is to see whether this frequency order of senses agrees with the frequencies appearing in the British National Corpus (BNC). Five English, polysemous verbs were studied. LÄS MER