A cognitive approach to some phrasal verbs in English for Specific Purposes

The purpose of this paper is to apply some recent findings about the meaning of prepositions in Cognitive Linguistics to some phrasal verbs in ESP, namely Medical and Computer English. We analyse the meaning of some phrasal verbs by applying the cognitive model of prepositions as large networks of r...

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Main Authors: Mª Dolores Porto Requejo, Carmen Pena Díaz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos 2008-10-01
Series:Ibérica
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Online Access:http://www.aelfe.org/documents/07_16_Porto.pdf