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Publication Date: 2018
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The Dynamicity of the Perceptive Verb "Look": A Cognitive Linguistics Study
Prayudha, P.
English Language Teaching Educational Journal, v1 n2 p97-105 2018
Perceptive verbs have important function, especially in Cognitive Linguistics perspective, because these verbs are directly related to real experience. Cognitive linguistics focuses on the study of the relationship between language, mind, and socio-physical experience. Thus, this paper discusses how the lexical semantic characteristics particularly the dynamicity or "aktionsarten" of the verb "look." The verb "look" itself consists agentive and perceptive verb class. The dynamicity of agentive and the perceptive verb "look" were analyzed using distributional method combined with several techniques. Most of the verb "look" constructions appear as phrasal verbs. At least, there are 17 phrasal verbs with "look" as the root and the constructions consist of at least 20 different meanings. The dynamicity test is also applicated for the phrasal verbs. The results of the research show unique lexical characteristics of the perceptive verb "look" and it influence the meaning as well as the construction of the verb. The relationship between lexical characteristic with its construction shows the schema of cognition processing language.
Descriptors: Verbs, Psycholinguistics, Language Processing, Correlation, Schemata (Cognition), Semantics, Phrase Structure, Language Research, English, Dictionaries, Computational Linguistics
Universitas Ahmad Dahlan. Kampus 4 UAD, Jl. Ringroad Selatan, Tamanan, Bantul Yogyakarta, 55166 Indonesia. e-mail: eltej@pbi.uad.ac.id; Web site: http://journal2.uad.ac.id/index.php/eltej/index
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