Polysemy

Flexible Patterns of Meaning in Mind and Language
Nachdruck 2011
ISBN: 978-3-11-017616-2
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 142, 422 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 878 g

Reihe: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

About fifty years ago, Stephen Ullmann wrote that polysemy is 'the pivot of semantic analysis'. Fifty years on, polysemy has become one of the hottest topics in linguistics and in the cognitive sciences at large. The book deals with the topic from a wide variety of viewpoints. The cognitive approach is supplemented and supported by diachronic, psycholinguistic, developmental, comparative, and computational perspectives. The chapters, written by some of the most eminent specialists in the field, are all underpinned by detailed discussions of methodology and theory.

Zielgruppe

Students, Scholars, Academic Libraries, Institutes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nerlich, Brigitte

Clarke, David D.

Todd, Zazie

Herman, Vimala

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sprachpsychologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Setting the scene Polysemy and flexibility: introduction and overview
Brigitte Nerlich and David D. Clarke Cognitive models of polysemy
John R. Taylor Polysemy: past and present
Brigitte Nerlich

Cognitive approaches Polysemy and conceptual blending
Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner Reconsidering prepositional polysemy networks: the case of over
Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans Polysemy as flexible meaning: experiments with English get and Finnish pitää
Jarno Raukko Metonymic polysemy and its place in meaning extension
Ken-ichi Seto

Synchrony/diachrony approaches Polysemy in derivational affixes
Adrienne Lehrer The role of links and/or qualia in modifier-head constructions
Beatrice Warren Polysemy and bleaching
Jean Aitchison and Diana M. Lewis Polysemy in the lexicon and in discourse
Andreas Blank

Psycholinguistic approaches Irony in conversation: salience, role, and context effects
Rachel Giora and Inbal Gur Young children's and adults' use of figurative language: how important are cultural and linguistic influences?
Ann Dowker Emerging patterns and evolving polysemies: the acquisition of get between four and ten years
Brigitte Nerlich, Zazie Todd and David D. Clarke

Computational approaches "I don't believe in word senses"
Adam Kilgarriff Senses and texts
Yorick Wilks

Über Autor(innen)

Brigitte Nerlich is Senior Research Officer at the University of Nottingham, UK. Zazie Todd is Lecturer at Leeds University, UK. David D. Clarke is Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK. Vimala Herman is Reader at the University of Nottingham, UK.