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Cognitive Approaches to Lexical Semantics
About this book
This collected volume presents radically new directions which are emerging in cognitive lexical semantics research. A number of papers re-ignite the polysemy vs. monosemy debate, and testify to the fact that polysemy is no longer simply taken for granted, but is currently a much more contested issue than it was in the 1980s and 1990s. Other papers offer fresh perspectives on the prototype structure of lexical categories, while generally accepted notions about the radial network structure of categories are questioned in papers on the development of word meaning in child language acquisition and in diachrony. Additional topics include the interaction of lexical and constructional meaning, and the relationship between word meanings and the contexts in which the words are encountered.
This book is of interest to semanticists and cognitive linguists, as well as to scholars working in the broader field of cognitive science.
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Table of contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: New directions in cognitive lexical semantic research
- Meaning potentials and context: Some consequences for the analysis of variation in meaning
- Towards a pragmatic model of cognitive onomasiology
- Monosemy versus polysemy
- The grammaticalization of alltså and således: Two Swedish conjuncts revisited
- Word meaning, sentence meaning, and syntactic meaning
- Metonymic sense shift: Its origins in hearers' abductive construal of usage in context
- Growth of a lexical network: Nine English prepositions in acquisition
- Image schemas and category coherence: The case of the Portuguese verb deixar
- The Nawatl verb kīsa: A case study in polysemy
- A diachronic perspective on prototypicality: The case of nominal adjectives in Japanese
- Containment, support, and linguistic relativity
- The Dutch hedges echt and gewoon: Markers of prototypicality?
- Polysemy or generality? Mu.
- Backmatter