Semantic-cognitive aspects of intensification

Authors

  • José Romerito Silva UnP

Keywords:

intensity – cognitive semantics – metaphor

Abstract

The present paper aims to focuse the semantic and cognitive aspects of the intensity processes. Thus takes the theoretic accounts of Cognitive Semantics, to which language encodes the cognitive schemas structured from our experience with reality. Linguistic symbols reflect the metaphorical combinations between more “concrete” domains, acquired from the way how we conceptualize our relation with the world, and those of more abstract nature. From this point of view, we claim that intensifiers are mostly metaphorical constructions based on analogical relations with some more “concrete” concepts such as quantity, size/dimension, localization (horizontal or vertical), weight/strength and so on.

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Author Biography

José Romerito Silva, UnP

Mestre em Letras pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte e doutorando em Lingüística Aplicada pela mesma universidade. É professor do curso de Letras da Universidade Potiguar, em Natal e coordenador pedagógico da Escola Estadual Dr. Antônio de Souza, em Parnamirim, RN. Publicou: Comunicação e expressão I. Natal, RN:NAD/UnP, 2006, v. 1. e Comunicação e expressão II. Natal, RN: ENAD/UnP,2006, v.2.

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Published

2006-12-30

How to Cite

Silva, J. R. (2006). Semantic-cognitive aspects of intensification. Gragoatá, 11(21). Retrieved from https://periodicos.uff.br/gragoata/article/view/33223

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 21 (2006): Linguistic usage

Section

Language Articles

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