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25 lip 2024 · The cognitive awareness of oppositeness assists in introducing diversity and preventing predictability in writing. By employing oppositeness, one can enhance the reader's comprehension of...
Antonyms are words that have a directly opposite meaning as mentioned previously [8]. There are several types of antonyms: (1) Gradable Antonyms: these are pairs where there's a spectrum of meaning between the two words, such as “rich” and “poor.
This article offers a Cognitive Semantic approach to antonymy in language and thought. Based on a series of recent empirical investigations using different observational techniques, we analyze (i) the nature of the category of antonymy, and (ii) the status of its members in terms of goodness of opposition.
From the corpus including the above examples, we discover that speakers tend to use a relative antonym denoting a higher scale rather than one denoting a lower scale when they describe the properties (height, size, weight, etc.) of an object.
the study of antonyms, moving from Aristotle to present-day perspectives, such as Relation by Contrast (Murphy 2003) and the Cognitive Construal Approach (Croft and Cruse 2004, Paradis 2010a). As we discuss each of these, we highlight unanswered questions and unsolved problems that
The study of antonyms (or ‘opposites’) in a language can provide important insights into word meaning and discourse structures. This book provides an extensive investigation of antonyms in English and offers an innovative model of how we mentally organize concepts and how we perceive con-trasts between them.
1 sty 2009 · Article PDF Available. A cognitive approach to opposites: January 2009. Authors: Anna Vogel. Stockholm University. References (45) Figures (6) Abstract and Figures. In the present paper,...
