A cognitive semantic analysis of english and arabic verbs of visual perception ‘see’ and ‘ra’a’ in fiction writing
Sweetser (1990) claims that vision is the prime sense organ that motivates metaphors of intellect, such as ‘knowing’, ‘understanding’ and ‘thinking’. She also asserts that these metaphors are cross-cultural phenomena, possibly universal in human thoughts and speech. In the light of this claim,...
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Language: | English |
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2019
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Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/85363/1/FBMK%202020%201%20-%20ir.pdf |