Browsing by Author "Ioannou, Georgios"

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    • Cognitive mechanisms in the interpretation and meaning of idioms 
      Canales Martínez, Francia; Flores Mella, Natalia; Garrido Jara, Macarena; Guzmán Peña, Rubén; Sanhueza Pérez, Daniel; Sepúlveda Riquelme, Stephanie; Tobar Núñez, Ana; Valdés Valdés, Gloria (Universidad de Chile, 2014)
      The focus of the following thesis is the cognitive mechanisms relevant to the interpretation of English idiomatic expressions by native speakers of Spanish. It does so through a quantitative and qualitative analysis of ...
    • Conceptual makeup of metaphors: metaphoric sources and targets in their bidirectional interplay 
      Araya Sanhueza, Stephanie; Barrera Bustos, Javier; Del Valle Maltton, Romanet; Larenas Moyano, René; Pizarro Jorquera, Brian; Quilodrán Jara, María; Vergara Acevedo, Winston (Universidad de Chile, 2015)
      Metaphor has been widely researched within the realm of Cognitive Linguistics, having as major landmarks Lakoff’s Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Fauconnier and Turner’s Mental Space based analysis. Nevertheless, specific ...
    • Dimensions in the conceptual integration of jokes: or how a dissertation got lost in generic space 
      Bernales Albornoz, Héctor; Castillo, Karla; Cuadra, César; Gómez, Lorenzo; Martínez, Alan; Michea, Bárbara; Ramos, Margarita; Rojas, Javiera; Silva, Paloma (Universidad de Chile, 2017)
      Conceptual Integration addresses the dynamicity of language as an interactive and situated phenomenon. This theory accounts for the productivity of new emergent structures in language. Taking into account that jokes are a ...
    • Frankenwords: a cognitive perspective on the interpretation of NOUN-NOUN compounds in English 
      Arenas, Juan José; Carrasco, Cristina; Kim, Jihyun; Ramírez, Jose; Salas, Maria José; Valdés, Francisca; Varela, Valentina (Universidad de Chile, 2017)
      NOUN - NOUN compounds have been extensively studied in the past, not only for the reason that they possess a remarkable degree of diversity regarding semantic relationships between their constituents but also because of ...
    • “Release a chocolate hostage”: how to speak about the body without referring to it. Taboo expressions as ... 
      Díaz González, Daniela; Méndez Bustos, Cynthia; Navea López, Melissa; Olea Fazzini, Fernanda; Ponce Álvarez, Génesis; Quiroz Inostroza, Pascuala; Tapia Urbina, Marjorie; Zapata Henríquez, Javiera (Universidad de Chile, 2019)
      Taboo expressions have been the focus of various linguistic studies and from various theoretical standpoints. Past research in cognitive semantics has addressed taboos in language as a way of accessing a significant spectrum ...
    • Rule-based and cognitively-oriented grammar teaching: a comparative research applied to English conditional ... 
      Azócar Plaza, Natalia (Universidad de Chile, 2018)
      Grammar teaching has been an area of considerable debate in the fields of Applied Linguistics and SLA research, fact that is reflected in the different choices EFL teachers have to make regarding methodologies and techniques ...