Elements in the cognitive space of Vietnamese perception verbs
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In this paper, theories of mental spaces of Fauconniere, G. and frame semantics of Fillmore, C. J. are applied into investigating the components within the cognition space of Vietnamese verbs of perception. A data of 3,946 sentences containing verbs of perception had been collected from two Vietnamese and English bilingual works, namely, Love after war and The adventures of Sherlock Holmes. It was then investigated with approaches of statistics, description contrastive linguistics. Findings obtained show that those elements are both tangible and intangible. The first group consists of the stimulus / perceived, the agent / perceiver / preceptor / experiencer, and the organs of perception. In the second group, there are three sets of ontological elements, spatial elements and information elements. From the results, the conceptualization of Vietnamese perception verbs can be understood and explained. The way their cognitive models formed, communicated, interpreted and comprehended are made clear. These are useful for Vietnamese language learners and researchers.
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