D. U. Ashurova m. R. Galieva cognitive linguistics

Negative conceptual features

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  “Words” are often senseless
  

I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them (W. Hazlitt); Oaths are but words, and words are but wind (S. Butler); Words and feathers the wind carries away (G. Herbert);
Heaps of huge words uphoarded hideously,
With horrid sound, though having little sense (Edmund Spenser);
Polonius: What do you read, my Lord?
Hamlet: Words, words, words (W. Shakespeare);

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  “Words” are considered unworthy if not supported by deeds:
  

And yet, words are no deeds (W. Shakespeare); Words are but holy, as the deeds they cover (P. R. Shelley); Words may show a man’s wit, but actions his meaning (B. Franklin); Words pay no debts, give her deeds (W. Shakespeare); We have too many high-sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them (A. Adams);
Throughout the world, if it were sought,
Fair words enough a man shall find,
They be good cheap; they cost right nought,
Their substance is but only wind (T. Wyatt).

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  “Words” without thoughts perish
  

Words are like leaves; and where they most abound,
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found (Alexander Pope)
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go (W. Shakespeare)
Words are like leaves; some wither every year,
And every year a younger race succeed (Wentworth Dillon)

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  “Word” has a destructive power
  

…God preserve us from the destructive power of words! There are words which can separate hearts sooner than sharp swords. There are words whose sting can remain through a whole life! (M. Howitt); A word carries far-very far- deals destruction through a time as a bullet go flying through space (J. Conrad).

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