UNIVERSAL MODELS OF POLYSEMOUS NOUNS IN ENGLISH AND GEORGIAN LANGUAGES

Tinatin Vardidze

Authors

Tinatin Vardidze

Keywords:

contextual analysis, polysemic nouns, solar model

Abstract

This paper presents the results of a comparative study of polysemous words to reveal universal models of nouns in the English and Georgian languages. The study examines the models of nouns denoting the body parts (hand, head), facial parts (eye, mouth), as well as the names of the internal organs (heart, brain) through comparing them with the same group words in the Georgian language. The research through the methodology of definitional analysis, contextual analysis and corpus analysis, revealed that these noun groups represent the same type of model that professor Tinatin Margalitadze named as solar model (Margalitadze, 2008). I present the sub models of the mentioned solar model; I further distinguished a long-ray solar model and a shortray solar model. The research is part of my thesis on universal models of polysemous nouns in the English and Georgian Languages. In this paper I will discuss the example of the comparative study of the noun “eye” to present the results of the research.

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Author Biography

Tinatin Vardidze

The author of the article is a PhD student specializing in lexicography, who has ten years of working experience as an English language teacher and during the last few years she has been actively testing the results received through the examination of polysemous nouns in English in her classroom. She has presented her work in the field at teachers’ conferences and has triggered great interest among English language teachers. She has also developed lesson plans on how to teach certain polysemous nouns discussed in her thesis.

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