A Cognitive Semantic Approach to Solidarity in Nobel Prize Laureates’ Speeches (Published)
The study attempts to approach Nobel Prize laureates’ Speeches, namely, Jørgen W. Frydnes’s and Maria Corina Machado’s speeches from cognitive semantic perspective. This study explores how the concept of solidarity is given tangible and emotional meaning through particular cognitive mechanisms. It aims to highlight mental spaces and construction operations in the selected data. The qualitative descriptive and quantitative approaches are designated to analyze the speech to state the following: the paper shows different scholars as Russell’s and Einstein’s roles and values whose contribution to the peaceful use of nuclear weapons. It also highlights many construction operations as profiling, schema, attention, perspective which are determined by theme focus, determiners, adjectives, model verbs that shows the necessity to peaceful use science (nuclear weapon).
Keywords: Mental Spaces, Schema, construction operations, solidarity