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Tue Sep 30 2003

Books: Cog Science/Semantics: Cuyckens, Dirven, Taylor

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1. julia.ulrich, Cognitive Approaches to Lexical Semantics: Cuyckens, Dirven, Taylor

	
Title: Cognitive Approaches to Lexical Semantics
Series Title: Cognitive Linguistics Research 23
			
Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter 
 http://www.mouton-publishers.com		 
			
Editor: Hubert Cuyckens, University of Leuven 
Editor: Ren� Dirven, University of Duisburg 
Editor: John R. Taylor, University of Otago 

Hardback: ISBN: 3110177099, Pages: xii, 502 pages, Price: EURO
	 128.00/approx. US$ 140.80

Abstract:

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 is ques-tioned 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 will be of
interest to semanticists and cognitive linguists, as well as to
scholars working in the broader field of cognitive science.


>From the contents:

JOHN TAYLOR, HUBERT CUYCKENS AND REN� DIRVEN: 
 Introduction: New directions in cognitive lexical semantic research 
STEFAN GRONDELARS AND DIRK GEERAERTS
 Meaning potentials and context: Some consequences for the analysis of
 variation in meaning
JENS ALLWOOD: 
 Towards a pragmatic model of cognitive onomasiology 
THEO A.J.M. JANSSEN:
 Monosemy versus polysemy 
HANNA LEHTI-EKLUND
 The grammaticalization of alltsa and saledes: Two
 Swedish conjuncts revisited
LAURA A. MICHAELIS:
 Word meaning, sentence meaning, and syntactic meaning 
KURT QUELLER
 Metonymic sense shift: Its origins in hearers' abductive construal of
 usage in context
SALLY RICE: 
 Growth of a lexical network: Nine English prepositions in acquisition 
AUGUSTO SOARES DA SILVA: 
 Image schemas and category coherence: The case of the Portuguese verb
 deixar
DAVID TUGGY
 The Nawatl verb kisa: A case study in polysemy 
SATOSHI UEHARA: 
 A diachronic perspective on prototypicality: The case of nominal
 adjectives in Japanese
CLAUDE VANDELOISE:
 Containment, support, and linguistic relativity 
CHRISTOF VANDEN EYNDE
 The Dutch hedges echt and gewoon: Markers of prototypicality? 
JORDAN ZLATEV 
 Polysemy or generality? Mu.

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Lingfield(s): Cognitive Science
		Semantics

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