English Language & Literature Teaching (영어어문교육)
- Volume 11 Issue 1
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- Pages.245-260
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- 2005
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- 1226-2889(pISSN)
Transitivity and cognitive interpretations
전이성과 인지적 이해
Abstract
Various kinds of cognitive aspects must be inclusively considered for understanding to transitivity. Basically, transitivity is not a notion of pure lexical items, pure syntactic dimensions and only semantic interpretation. That is, transitivity is affected by the extralinguistic phenomena which contain speakers psychological and cognitive interpretations. It is based on human cognitive abilities to interpret the exact meaning of language expressions. To sum up, transitivity has a relation with the observer's (speaker's) cognitive interpretation within the entire contexts.