Polysemy: flexible patterns of meaning in mind and language
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York Mouton de Gruyter 2003
Series:Trends in linguistics 142
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Online Access:DE-824
DE-706
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Biographical note: 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.
Main description: 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
Review text: "To end on a personal note, I hope that Polysemy: Flexible Patterns of Meaning in Mind and Language will provoke a number of discussions in related fields, leading to a number of interesting findings and the development of polysemy research in the future."Yoshikata Shibuya in: Cognitive Linguistics 4/2007
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 422 p)
ISBN:3110176165
9783110176162
9783110895698

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