Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 15:04:02 +0200 From: Julia Ulrich <Julia.UlrichdeGruyter.com> Subject: LEXICOLOGY:An International Handbook on the Nature and Structure of Words and Vocabularies
>From the series
Handb�cher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of
Linguistics and Communication Science / Manuels de linguistique et des
sciences de communication
Edited by Armin Burkhardt, Hugo Steger and Herbert Ernst Wiegand
Lexikologie /LEXICOLOGY
Ein internationales Handbuch zur Natur und Struktur von W�rtern und
Wortsch�tzen /
An International Handbook on the Nature and Structure of Words and
Vocabularies
Edited by D. Alan Cruse, Franz Hundsnurscher, Michael Job
and Peter Rolf Lutzeier
(Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 21.1)
The impression one initially has of lexicology is rather diffuse. As a
discipline, it suffers from the fate of either not being noticed at
all - on account of sub-disciplines, such as lexicography, morphology
and lexical semantics, which are already well established in their own
right - or of being itself broken down into semi-independent
sub-disciplines such as phraseology and mental lexicon. It is against
this background that the handbook identifies and deals with the
following aims for academic progression and practical/theoretical
research: - the establishment and maintenance of an independent
profile for the discipline of lexicology - the collection and
documentation of up-to-date knowledge in the field of lexicology - the
documentation of research still out-standing and the provision of
guidelines on concrete fields of study. The handbook starts off with
the two main sections 'word' and 'vocabulary'. The sense relations act
as the threads which bind these two sections together, because their
ability to link words in pairs allows us to make successive inroads
into the vocabulary. Moving from the term 'word' to the term 'lexical
element' forces us into a more detailed investigation of
phraseology. Detailed treatments of each of the ways of looking at
'vocabulary' are provided, in view of the ambiguity of the term
'vocabulary' (vocabulary in its relation to a natural language
vs. vocabulary in its relation to an individual [mental lexicon]
vs. vocabulary in its relation to grammar [lexicon]). Similarly,
synchronic and diachronic points of view are taken into account, in
order to be able to arrive at an adequate description of the
underlying dynamics of the vocabulary of natural languages. In
conclusion the present state of lexicology made it necessary to deal
thoroughly with questions about the discipline, its methodology and
its links with related disciplines.
CONTENTS
I. The foundations and fundamental questions of lexicology
II. Reflection on the word
III. The word in the context of different theories of language/grammar
IV. The form level of the word
V. The content level of the word I: General overview
VI. The content level of the word II: Lexical decomposition
VII. The content level of the word III: Conceptual approaches
VIII. The content level of the word IV: Structuring of word meaning
IX. The content level of the word V: Dimensions of meaning
X. Relations between the level of form and the level of content
XI. Special forms of lexical units I: Idioms
XII. Special forms of lexical units II: Shortened words, abbreviations
and other lexical units with a status similar to words
XIII. Lexical structures based on sense relations I: General overview,
inclusions and identity
XIV. Lexical structures based on sense relations II: Exclusion and
opposition, derivational relations
XV. Lexical structures based on sense relations III: Descriptive models
XVI. Lexical structures in a syntagmatic perspective
XVII. The architecture of the vocabulary I: Word classes
XVIII. The architecture of the vocabulary II: Word families
XIX. The architecture of the vocabulary III: Lexical fields
XX. The architecture of the vocabulary IV: Structurings related to
concepts
XXI. The architecture of the vocabulary V: Functional varieties
XXII. The architecture of the vocabulary VI: Layers of origin
XXIII. The architecture of the vocabulary VII: Vocabularies for specific
purposes
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