Sökning: "figurative meaning"

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  1. 6. Folkligt bildspråk : En studie över djurbenämningar i metaforisk användning i svenska dialekter : a study of animal designations in metaphoric usage in Swedish dialects

    Författare :Annika Karlholm; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Scandinavian languages - general; Wörter und Sachen; animal designation; subject word; special designation; semiotics; cognitive semantics; metaphor; abstract similarity metaphor; correlational metaphor; image metaphor; linguistic metaphor; conceptual metaphor; tools; utility goods; culture; cognition; categorization; polysemy; homonymy; meaning development; Nordiska språk - allmänt; Scandinavian languages; Nordiska språk; nordiska språk; Scandinavian Languages;

    Sammanfattning : The main object of this thesis on popular figurative language is to try to explain the relationshipbetween an artifact and its designation, i.e., to try to explain why a certain object has been namedfor an animal and what the people who used the word were attempting to describe with the help ofthis animal designation. LÄS MER

  3. 7. Folkligt bildspråk : En studie över djurbenämningar i metaforisk användning i svenska dialekter

    Författare :Annika Karlholm; Institutionen för nordiska språk Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Scandinavian languages - general; Wörter und Sachen; animal designation; subject word; special designation; semiotics; cognitive semantics; metaphor; abstract similarity metaphor; correlational metaphor; image metaphor; linguistic metaphor; conceptual metaphor; tools; utility goods; culture; cognition; categorization; polysemy; homonymy; meaning development; Nordiska språk; svenska språket; svenska dialekter; djurbeteckning; ämnesord; specialbeteckning; metaforer; Scandinavian languages; Nordiska språk; Scandinavian Languages; Nordiska språk; Dialectology; Dialektforskning;

    Sammanfattning : The main object of this thesis on popular figurative language is to try to explain the relationshipbetween an artifact and its designation, i.e., to try to explain why a certain object has been namedfor an animal and what the people who used the word were attempting to describe with the help ofthis animal designation. LÄS MER

  4. 8. Nicht auf Sand gebaut : Diachrone und kognitive Studien zu Bibelidiomen

    Författare :Birgitta Forslund-Brondén; Dieter Krohn; Sigrid Dentler; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; German language; Bible translations; Bible texts; idioms; cognitive synchronic–diachronic phraseology; literal–idiomatic meaning; left-hand–right-hand directed propositions; primary; secondary; tertiary etc. presuppositions; inference procedures; socio-cultural conditions; religious ideas; Tyska; German language; Tyska språket;

    Sammanfattning : In this dissertation, 80 biblical idioms from German translations are analysed and compared. No comparison with the original languages is made. Luther’s 1534 translation forms the basis of the examination. LÄS MER

  5. 9. Development of Adjectival Use and Meaning Structures in Swedish Students' Written production

    Författare :Simone Löhndorf; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Later language development; semantic development; conceptual development; Conceptual combinations; adjective meanings; nominal meanings; Cognitive Linguistics;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is about the development of adjective use and meaning structures examined from a cognitive linguistic perspective. Adjectives modify nominal meanings and it is in context, in the interaction with the noun that the adjective meaning and configuration is determined. LÄS MER

  7. 10. Korten på bordet. Innehålls- och uttrycksmässig variation hos svenska idiom

    Författare :Emma Sköldberg; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Swedish; idioms; fixed expressions; phraseology; lexicology; semantic roles; variation; corpus; metaphor; compositionality; lexicography;

    Sammanfattning : The dissertation recounts how thirty-six Swedish idioms consisting of a verb and complement are used in contemporary newspaper material found in the Bank of Swedish Linguistic Reference Databank of Göteborg University. All the expressions occur at least once per million running words in my corpus of almost 33.7 million running words. LÄS MER