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Key words: complimenting strategies, complimenting behaviour, macro and micro level CRs ABSTRACT Since complimenting strategies are associated with social as well as cognitive factors, the aim of this paper is to analyze gender-based differences in…

Research activities have been taking on place for new construction materials in order to produce more effective constructions. One of the new technological materials is Pultruded Glass Fibre Reinforced Plastic (GFRP) materials. High tensile …

In creating textbooks and course books for foreign language education, the starting point is the goal of learning the language – language acquisition either on the level of communication skills for specific purposes (business or daily), or as part of…

Since the Chernobyl disaster in the Black Sea region, it has been understood that environmental problems are not restricted to the countries of their origin. Research has shown that international attention given to the Mediterranean Sea has…

Keywords: Environment, Renewable Energy, Chernobyl Disaster ABSTRACT Since the Chernobyl disaster in the Black Sea region, it has been understood that environmental problems are not restricted to the countries of their origin. Research has shown…

Key words: language acquisition, conceptual categories, lexical classification ABSTRACT One cannot deny the fact that words and concepts are inseperable components of language acquisition. Examining words and conceptual categories gives information…

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 lives. Their detailed…

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…

Conceptual integration theory, proposed by Fauconnier and Turner in 1993, has been successfully used in the study a wide range of phenomena of human thought and action, from counterfactuals to metaphors, proving blending to be present in the simplest…

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…