On Cognitive Synonymy (A Case Study)

Mgr. Bc. Martina Krůpová

Bakalářská práce

Abstract:

The aim of this thesis is to examine two adjectives difficult and hard, which are generally regarded as synonyms. The thesis concentrates on the nouns the given adjectives co-occur with and form the noun phrases with. Although difficult and hard can be interchangeable in some contexts, there are many examples where it is not possible. This thesis thus tries to show in what aspects these so-called synonyms differ and what their collocational restrictions are. The research is based on the British National Corpus (BNC).

Keywords

cognitive synonymy, descriptive synonymy, partial synonymy, absolute synonymy, plesionymy, near synonymy, collocation, corpus

Jazyk práce: angličtina

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 25. 6. 2007

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Obhajoba proběhla 15. 6. 2007
• Vedoucí: doc. PhDr. Naděžda Kudrnáčová, CSc.

Masarykova univerzita

Filozofická fakulta

Bakalářský studijní program / obor:
Filologie / Anglický jazyk a literatura