Bc. Pavla Kramářová

Master's thesis

On Cognitive Synonymy (A Case Study)

On Cognitive Synonymy (A Case Study)
Abstract:
Práce pojednává o kognitivní synonymii studované na příkladu tří synonymních sloves: acquire, gain a obtain. Práce se snaží zjistit, jaké rozdíly existují mezi těmito slovesy. Práce porovnává definice sloves ve slovnících anglického jazyka, synonymních slovnících a tesaurusech. Zvláštní pozornost je věnována kolokačním rozdílům (studované za pomocí Britského národního korpusu).
Abstract:
The thesis deals with cognitive synonymy studied on the example of three synonymous verbs: acquire, gain and obtain. The main aim is to find what differences there exist between these verbs. It studies and compares the definitions of the verbs in standard dictionaries of the English language, in dictionaries of synonyms and thesauruses. Particular attention is paid to collocational differences (using …more
 

Keywords

cognitive synonymy acquire gain obtain object collocates modifiers British National Corpus
 
Language used: English
Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 17. 12. 2008
Identifier: https://is.muni.cz/th/rjwm4/

Thesis defence

  • Date of defence: 28. 1. 2009
  • Supervisor: doc. PhDr. Naděžda Kudrnáčová, CSc.

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