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Title: Phrasal verbs with off may not be hard to pull off
Vol. 1, 2016, pp. 42-56
DOI: 10.46687/SILC.2017.v02.004
Author: Svetlana Nedelcheva
About the author: Svetlana Nedelcheva is an Associate professor of English linguistics at Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen, Department of English Studies. She has published two monographs Cognitive Interpretation of the English Preposition ON and Space, Time and Human Experience: A Cognitive View on English and Bulgarian Prepositions, two course books English Morphology – Traditional and Cognitive Perspective and Essential English Syntax for University Students, and research articles in the field of cognitive linguistics, contrastive linguistics, translation studies and foreign language teaching. She has specialized in a number of universities, e.g., the University of Bangor, UK (Post-Doctoral Research Program) and Georgetown University, USA (as a Fulbright researcher).
e-mail: s.nedelcheva@shu.bg
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1614-8758
Citation (APA style): Nedelcheva, S. (2016). Phrasal verbs with off may not be hard to pull off. Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT, 1, 42-56. doi: 10.46687/SILC.2017.v02.004
Link:
https://silc.fhn-shu.com/images/issues/2016/SILC_2016_1_042-056_15_EN.pdf
Abstract: This article studies the phrasal verbs (PV) widely used in contemporary English. They are challenging to foreign language learners not only because they are numerous but also with their multiple meanings. Polysemous phrasal verbs are seen from a new perspective with the development of cognitive linguistics. Researchers apply the cognitive principles to arrange them in systematic groups and to prove that their meanings are not randomly chosen but motivated. The present study focuses on phrasal verbs with OFF and organizes their meanings in a radial network related to one core, invariant meaning. The particle encodes specific conceptualizations of spatial relations non-native speakers of English are unaware of. The article provides some suggestions to teaching PVs using a cognitive-based approach to help EFL learners memorize phrasal verbs more efficiently.
Key words: Cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, phrasal verbs, semantic networks, second language acquisition
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