Introduction

Abstract

After describing one of Peter Greenaway's recent efforts to move beyond the limits of the cinema, Evans proposes that Douglas Sirk had already begun to dissolve the boundaries the medium by assimilating elements of avant-garde art, architecture and design into his mise-en-scène. She goes on to assert that Sirk's importation of a high art aesthetic into the low genre of melodrama echoed the widespread European Modernist preoccupation with the creation of a synergistic Gesamtkunstwerk or "total art work" during the period in which he intellectually came of age. Finally, the director's tendency to create "pictures" of the external landscape that the characters (and the viewer) are obliged to contemplate through the window frame is interpreted in the light of the theories of Le Corbusier.

A Study of the Semantic Features of “Obtaining” Verbs in English

“…As I approach the semantics of "obtaining" verbs from the perspective of Cognitive Semantics, my study draws heavily on the four fundamental principles of Cognitive Semantics (Evans & Green 2006): ①. Language refers not to an objective reality, but to concepts: the conventional meanings associated with words and other linguistic units are seen as relating to thoughts and ideas.…”

A Cognitive Analysis of Woman Metaphors in Ekegusii Language

“…They acknowledge the existence of the metaphor as pervasive in everyday life, a tool for understanding, and that, it is a property of cognition. They argued further that in CMT, imagination to map and understand experiences metaphorically or metonymically on the basis of image schema with 2 ontological correspondences between the domains ( source or X and target or Y, where the latter is understood in terms of the former); at the level of language, entities, attributes and processes in the target domain are lexicalized using words and expressions from the source domain (Croft and Cruse, 2004; Lakoff and Johnson,1980,1991& 2003Kövecses, 2002Gibbs, 1994;Langacker, 1999;Grady, 1997;Evans and Green, 2006). Therefore, they view a metaphor as understanding one conceptual domain in terms of another (Ritchie, 2013).…”