Semantic transformation of the noun mamochka: from ‘wife’ to ‘cannon’
... by the connection between the meaning and a set of subjective perceptions that form the meaning. Our study aims to reveal the influence of individual perceptions of the meaning on the extension of the semantic structure of a word, using the kinship term ‘mamochka’ as an example. The article focuses on instances where the word ‘mamochka’ is used in fiction and, to some extent, Internet texts. The article examines cases spanning from the 1840s to the 2010s to explore the secondary usage ...
Functioning of the frame environment in various conceptual knowledge domains in the English language
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Kratkii slovar' kognitivnykh terminov
[A Concise Dictionary of Cognitive Terms]. Moscow, pp. 187—189 (in Russ.).
DEWDO
— A Dictionary of the English Language, in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers to which are prefixed,...
