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The cognitive abilities explained by cognitive science and cognitive semantics can inform us concerning the use of metaphors in science. The thesis is that abstract ideas rest on experiences of the concrete world. In this paper I will explain the use…

Fauconnier and Turner (2002, pp. 389-396) provide an overview of how blending affects the course of a human life, and more specifically, how young children are engaged in building complex blends in very early stages of their life. Their detailed…

This article aims to study emotion metaphors found in selected Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and compare them with conventional modern metaphors from current dictionaries and other sources, in order to find out whether medieval emotional metaphorical…

Learning a language always means learning not only grammar and vocabulary but specific terms and phrases as well, characteristic for the target language and very different from the mother tongue of the learner. This is even more true of the language…

In this paper certain lexical fields of colour naming lexemes from Tennyson’s poem The Lady of Shalott and their translational equivalents in Serbian are chosen in order to determine the internal system of mutual references concerning the…

Native Arabic speaking students of the Gulf Middle East region are descendants of tribes and nomadic families which may be a possible reason why they are social constructivists when it comes to learning. Most prefer a learning environment in which…

This article deals with the peculiarities of mechanisms providing formation of semantics of compound words from the perspective of the cognitive approach. More to the point, it is a question of conceptual derivation, where meaning formation of…

This paper introduces assessment in general terms, its main function and methods used in schools, as well as new alternative evaluating methods (self and peer assessment, project assessment and portfolio) that are advised to be used in classroom…

In last couple of decades in contemporary societies, educators and educational institutions have required their students to participate actively and devotedly in their educational process in order to prepare them for the future employment which…

The article is a brief information presenting a new view on the “doctrine of situationism” in the linguistics aspects and an attempt to introduce a new concept and define it as it is, in our opinion, a basic, fundamental, essential in the process of…