Els verbs de percepció visual en català: classificació semàntica i distribució en gèneres escrits
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This work focuses on the study of the meanings conveyed by two visual perception verbs
(mirar and veure) in Central Catalan within the theoretical framework of cognitive semantics.
Our objective is twofold: (i) to analyze and describe them in order to establish metaphorical and
metonymic semantic projections; and (ii) to determine the intralinguistic distribution of the non-prototypical meanings of these verbs. We have analyzed examples extracted from dictionaries
(mostly DIEC2) and 1.750 forms picked out from the literary narrative and press texts of the Corpus
textual informatitzat de la llengua catalana (CTILC). By analyzing these examples and the context
in which they appear, we establish the boundaries between literal and figurative meanings, and
we show that the frequency of use of each verb is different: some figurative meanings are more
prominent than others, both from a general pint of view and from the kind of texts analyzed. The
results obtained in this work serve to thicken the corpus of data on perception verbs in different
languages in terms of the presence, use and distribution of certain meanings