This paper examines the tragic sense permeating ancient Greek drama as a product of a special type of conceptual integration between two antithetic mental spaces, which prompts the simultaneous generation of two mutually ...

Functional grammar currently has a great acceptance in linguistics, mainly because it can enlighten grammatical facts' motivation in the structure of a text. From its emergence, the tradition of studying grammar by grammar ...

Esse trabalho tem como objetivo analisar algumas crônicas do escritor Rubem Alves à luz da Moderna Linguística Cognitiva. Para tanto, será utilizado, em termos funcionais, o princípio da “presença” da Nova Retórica e, em ...

This is a theoretical and methodological exploration into the phenomenon of diachronic polysemy from a conceptual onomasiological perspective, where the notion of 'bridging context' is reinterpreted as an integration process ...

One of the mechanisms for managing complex ideas is by blending [1] two types of knowledge: Knowledge from the domain that is the object of comprehension, and knowledge from another distinct domain that one uses to construe ...