Pregled bibliografske jedinice broj: 338734
English, Croatian and Italian Preposition from a Cognitive Perspective. When ‘ at’ is ‘ on’ and ‘ on’ is ‘ in’
English, Croatian and Italian Preposition from a Cognitive Perspective. When ‘ at’ is ‘ on’ and ‘ on’ is ‘ in’, 2000., doktorska disertacija, Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, Cambridge, U.K.
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Naslov
English, Croatian and Italian Preposition from a Cognitive Perspective. When ‘ at’ is ‘ on’ and ‘ on’ is ‘ in’
Autori
Brala, Marija
Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Ocjenski radovi, doktorska disertacija
Fakultet
Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics
Mjesto
Cambridge, U.K.
Datum
01.06
Godina
2000
Stranica
277
Mentor
Brown, Keith ; Hendriks, Henriette
Ključne riječi
prepositions; language; space; cognition; universality vs. relativity
Sažetak
This dissertation is premised on the idea that words do not represent atomic units of meaning but could, and should, rather, be seen as made out of smaller, more elementary, semantic components. This premise is explored on the case of three basic spatial prepositions (or rather the semantics of the spatial relations expressed by the English 'at', 'on' and 'in'), which are analysed in 34 world languages. The apparent crosslinguistic diversities in the portioning of these semantic fields are systematized and explained in terms of a small number of conceptual domains.
Izvorni jezik
Engleski
Znanstvena područja
Filologija
