The study of polysemy in Azerbaijani Turkish in the framework of cognitive semantics: visual verb /görmǝk/ (seeing)

The aim of present study is to investigate the roleof metaphor in the polysemy of visual verb /görmǝk/ (seeing) in Azerbaijani Turkish within the framework of cognitive semantics. This study is a descriptive - documentary and has been tried to present the various meanings based on cognitive semantics approach. To achieve this goal, the linguistic corpus used in this study is comprised of Azerbaijani Turkish language databases, including dictionaries, books, magazines, newspapers, and author's linguistic intuition. The findings indicate that for visual verb /görmǝk/ (seeing) 24 senses was extracted after the classification and abstracting away of contextual variations. They also show that the polysemy is a systematic phenomenon and factors such as metaphor and metonymy are crucially involved in the formation and description of polysemy. In this way, semantic extensive network of verb is formed and on the other hand, it is claimed that metaphor has stronger role than metonymy in the formation of polysemy and usage of verb in the different context.