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Cognitive Semantics : Meaning and Cognition

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80 SÖREN SJÖSTRÖM<br />

2. Being visually more perceptible than → dominating<br />

SWEDISH ENGLISH<br />

överglänsa ‘outshine’<br />

överskugga ‘overshadow’<br />

skymma ‘block, dim , obscure’<br />

3. Light → knowledge<br />

SWEDISH ENGLISH<br />

ljus ‘light’<br />

ljus (idé) ‘bright (idea)’<br />

förklaring ‘explanation’<br />

klarhet ‘clearness, clarity, transparency’<br />

glimt ‘gleam, flash, glimpse’<br />

upplysning ‘lighting, illumination, enlightenment’<br />

rampljus ‘limelight’ “public knowledge”<br />

4. Being light → being comprehensible<br />

SWEDISH ENGLISH<br />

ljusna ‘get light, dawn’<br />

dagas ‘dawn’<br />

5. Being transparent → being easily comprehensible<br />

SWEDISH ENGLISH<br />

klar ‘clear’<br />

solklar ‘as clear as daylight’<br />

klarna ‘getting clear’<br />

klart (intellekt) ‘clearly’<br />

genomskinligt ‘transparent’<br />

skönjbar ‘discernible’<br />

sikt ‘visibility, view’<br />

6. Darkness → ignorance<br />

SWEDISH ENGLISH<br />

mörker ‘darkness’<br />

synonyms:<br />

okunnighet ‘ignorance’<br />

oupplysthet “unenlightenment”<br />

barbari ‘barbarism’<br />

blindhet ‘blindness’<br />

töcken ‘mist, haze’<br />

dunkel ‘dusk, gloom’

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