CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS article
Front. Educ.
Sec. Language, Culture and Diversity
Volume 10 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2025.1513434
A Contrastive Study of Pragmatic and Semantic Features in Typical and Atypical Comparative Constructions Across English, Chinese, Russian, and Turkmen: Cognitive Interpretations Explored
Provisionally accepted
- Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China
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This paper presents a contrastive analysis that sheds light on the similarities and differences of comparative constructions in English, Chinese, Russian, and Turkmen, and the reasons behind them from a cognitive perspective. Specifically, based on the analysis of the massive online English, Chinese, and Russian corpora, namely COCA, CCL, RNC, and the self-built Turkmen corpus data, this study focuses on pragmatic and semantic features of typical and atypical comparatives, providing a comprehensive analysis of their resemblances and distinctions. The similarities are chiefly exhibited in prominent usage of typical comparative constructions, occurrence of comparative deletion, atypical semantic features based on the typical ones. The differences mainly lie in the preference for synthetic or analytic typical forms and the distribution between concrete and abstract atypical forms., expression forms of degree semantics in typical comparatives, semantic types of atypical comparatives. The cognitive interpretations for the similarities of the typical and atypical comparative constructions in mentioned languages are mainly reflected in the human cognition toward the comparatives. The cognitive interpretations for the differences are mainly manifested in the diverse levels of salience and specificity of construal modes in the context of comparison.
Keywords: Comparative constructions, Contrastive analysis, pragmatics, semantics, Cognitive Interpretation; 1 Introduction Font: (Default)Times New Roman Regular, In English, Chinese, Russian
Received: 18 Oct 2024; Accepted: 06 May 2025.
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* Correspondence: Annagul Annamyradova, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China
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