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• Title:
  The Norwegian lexical item akkurat and the Polish akurat: a cognitive semantic analysis
• Creator:
  Data-Bukowska, Ewa
• Description:
  The Norwegian lexical item akkurat and the Polish akurat: a cognitive semantic analysisThe aim of the article is to demonstrate to what extent the Norwegian akkurat and the Polish akurat show similarities and differences in their conceptual content (meaning). Adopting the perspective of cognitive semantics (CS), as described in Langacker (1987) and Lakoff (1987), I shall try to show that the meanings ascribed to these etymologically and formally related words constitute complex networks of senses, rooted in a prototypical centre in each of the languages under discussion. In addition to this, the findings will be interpreted with reference to the process of pragmaticalization (a language unit’s development of increasing pragmatic functions). Within this theoretical framework I shall demonstrate that subjectification/intersubjectification and pejoration/melioration motivate the main semantic difference between akkurat and akurat. The analysis is based on Norwegian and Polish monolingual corpus data.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Copyright (c) 2014 Ewa Data-Bukowska;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/pl
• Date:
  2014.09.04
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English;
  eng
• Source:
  Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives; No 14 (2014); 219-235;
  2392-2397
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Relation: https://ispan.waw.pl/journals/index.php/cs-ec/article/view/cs.2014.018/184
• Subject:
  contrastive linguistics; cognitive semantics; semantic network; intensifying/discoursive operators; Norwegian/Polish
• Identifier: https://ispan.waw.pl/journals/index.php/cs-ec/article/view/cs.2014.018 ;
  10.11649/cs.2014.018
• Data provider:
  ISS PAS Journals
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text