Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN (Mar 2009)

Cognitive mechanisms of connotative semes formation in adjectives

  • A V Medvedeva

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 1
pp. 78 – 86

Abstract

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The article is devoted to the study of metaphor as one of a cognitive mechanisms of figurative meaning formation in adjectives. Semantic system of a language is regarded as the reflection of cognitive processes of human mind.