Browsing by Subject "nominal compounds"
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CONCEPTUAL METONYMY IN THE MEANING OF ENGLISH AND BULGARIAN NOMINAL COMPOUNDS
(УИ "Паисий Хилендарски", 2012)Cognitive linguists regard metonymy as a conceptual phenomenon, a mechanism which shapes both language and thought and plays a central role in ordinary meaning construction. This paper rests on the assumption that the ... -
ON THE SEMANTICS OF SOME ENGLISH NOMINAL COMPOUNDS DENOTING OCCUPATIONS IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY
(УИ "Паисий Хилендарски", 2013)The semantics of linguistic expressions is frequently explained through conceptual/semantic frames. The word formation process involved in the creation of nominal compounds can be viewed as one guided by contiguous conceptual ...