Polysemy
eBook - PDF

Polysemy

Flexible Patterns of Meaning in Mind and Language

  1. 432 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Polysemy

Flexible Patterns of Meaning in Mind and Language

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. List of contributors
  3. Setting the scene
  4. Polysemy and flexibility: introduction and overview
  5. Cognitive models of polysemy
  6. Polysemy: past and present
  7. Cognitive approaches
  8. Polysemy and conceptual blending
  9. Reconsidering prepositional polysemy networks: the case of over
  10. Polysemy as flexible meaning: experiments with English get and Finnish pitää
  11. Metonymic polysemy and its place in meaning extension
  12. Synchrony/diachrony approaches
  13. Polysemy in derivational affixes
  14. The role of links and/or qualia in modifier-head constructions
  15. Polysemy and bleaching
  16. Polysemy in the lexicon and in discourse
  17. Psycholinguistic approaches
  18. Irony in conversation: salience, role, and context effects
  19. Young children’s and adults’ use of figurative language: how important are cultural and linguistic influences?
  20. Emerging patterns and evolving polysemies: the acquisition of get between four and ten years
  21. Computational approaches
  22. “I don’t believe in word senses”
  23. Senses and texts
  24. Index