Polysemy and Metaphor in the Verbs of Perception
Polysemy and Metaphor in the Verbs of Perception

Author(s): Mihaela Georgiana Manasia
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Scientia Moralitas Research Institute
Keywords: polysemy; metaphor; perception verbs; prototypical meaning; metaphorical meaning
Summary/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.

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