This paper argues that recent advances in cognitive linguistics could shed more light onto solving a particular historical semantics problem, namely the semantics of kennings in Beowulf. The well-known figures of speech are very difficult to understand because of a rather enigmatic way of making reference to people or things (Brodeur 1960; Wehlau 1997). The first part of the paper aims to define the kenning as a particular type of compound to set it apart from ordinary compounds. The second and third parts of the paper apply recent cognitive linguistic approaches to semantic compositionality, treating kennings as composite expressions whose meaning is derived from an intricate interaction of metonymy and metaphor. For the purpose of a seman...
Ever since the Chomskyan views revolutionised the scientific study of language, we have been expecti...
As human beings, we live profoundly meaning-centred lives. But the words and meanings we live by, an...
Modern comparative linguistics that is anthropologically oriented (as well as cognitive linguistics ...
This paper argues that recent advances in cognitive linguistics could shed more light onto solving a...
The paper makes the following novel claims: (1) the semantics of noun--noun compounds which is activ...
In the past two decades, numerous studies have been written on the successful application of metapho...
Primarily focused on idioms and other figurative phraseology, Colouring Meaning describes how the me...
Taking an onomasiological approach as simply the starting point in selecting linguistic material emb...
The present paper provides a detailed description and analysis of the meaning of the BE NAA…LA form ...
Although the phenomenon of metonymy has been attracting the attention of scientists for many centuri...
‘Metonymic processing’, the ability to recognize relatedness through shared features, associations o...
The paper is meant to be a contribution to the discussion on the nature of novel linguistic meaning ...
The aim of the article is to examine the applicability of three theoretical frameworks developed wit...
Within the so-called methodological “migration of ideas”, the paper analyses three dilemmas of conte...
Enigmas and riddles have been used in learning as a means for developing understanding and memory, b...
Ever since the Chomskyan views revolutionised the scientific study of language, we have been expecti...
As human beings, we live profoundly meaning-centred lives. But the words and meanings we live by, an...
Modern comparative linguistics that is anthropologically oriented (as well as cognitive linguistics ...
This paper argues that recent advances in cognitive linguistics could shed more light onto solving a...
The paper makes the following novel claims: (1) the semantics of noun--noun compounds which is activ...
In the past two decades, numerous studies have been written on the successful application of metapho...
Primarily focused on idioms and other figurative phraseology, Colouring Meaning describes how the me...
Taking an onomasiological approach as simply the starting point in selecting linguistic material emb...
The present paper provides a detailed description and analysis of the meaning of the BE NAA…LA form ...
Although the phenomenon of metonymy has been attracting the attention of scientists for many centuri...
‘Metonymic processing’, the ability to recognize relatedness through shared features, associations o...
The paper is meant to be a contribution to the discussion on the nature of novel linguistic meaning ...
The aim of the article is to examine the applicability of three theoretical frameworks developed wit...
Within the so-called methodological “migration of ideas”, the paper analyses three dilemmas of conte...
Enigmas and riddles have been used in learning as a means for developing understanding and memory, b...
Ever since the Chomskyan views revolutionised the scientific study of language, we have been expecti...
As human beings, we live profoundly meaning-centred lives. But the words and meanings we live by, an...
Modern comparative linguistics that is anthropologically oriented (as well as cognitive linguistics ...