javad asghari; Fateme Jafari
Abstract
The present study investigated the novel Druze of Belgrade in the shadow of cognitive semantics. This research aims at determining how cognitive semantics functions in polysemic analysis ...
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The present study investigated the novel Druze of Belgrade in the shadow of cognitive semantics. This research aims at determining how cognitive semantics functions in polysemic analysis through investigating the meanings of some polysemic words in Arabic. Accordingly, ten words used in the novel with various meanings, were selected and after analysis of their meanings based on the Lakoff and Brugman’s theory survaing the validity of this theory were proved. This theory claims that polysemy is one of the fundamental features of the word and is the result of metaphorical extension of the prototype meaning of the word and is not the production of using word in a particular context. Moreover, it states that the metaphorical extension is the meaning of root prototype in the nature of man's relationship with the outside world and it has an experimental basis. The efficacy of considering the elements of this approach including visual schema, radial category and prototype was proved in finding the correct meaning of polysemic words in Arabic language that is a new step to further improve quality of translation.
