The cognitive space of the Vietnamese perception verbs

Nguyen Hoang Phuong *

* Correspondence: Nguyen Hoang Phuong (email: nguyenhoangphuong@hcmussh.edu.vn)

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Received: 17 Sep 2018
Revised: 02 Nov 2018
Accepted: 17 Dec 2018
Published: 15 Jan 2019
DOI: 10.58810/vhujs.6.3.2019.6336
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Nguyễn, P. . H. (2019). The cognitive space of the Vietnamese perception verbs. Van Hien University Journal of Science 6(3), 17-25.
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In this article, we examine the cognitive space elements of the Vietnamese and English perception verbs, based on the research data of 3,946 surveyed statements with perception verbs from two sets of English-Vietnamese, Vietnamese-English novels: The adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Love after war. Through this research, the cognitive space elements of the perception verbs including internal and external factors are recognized. Based on the perceived characteristics drawn from this study, many linguistic problems such as metaphor, metonymy, conceptualization are explained and how language is formed in our mind and how it is understood between speakers and listeners, and how perceive language is created.
Keywords: mental space, cognitive space, perception verbs, mental process, dominant factors

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