Diachronic Prototype Semantics

Diachronic Prototype Semantics
Author: Dirk Geeraerts
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1997
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780198236528

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The author strikes a balance between theoretical exploration and diachronic description, supporting each step in the argumentation with detailed case studies which chart the semantic development of particular words, or illustrate specific mechanisms of semantic change. Thus the book provides both a theoretical model for diachronic semantics and a number of methodological strategies and representational formats that exemplify how changes of word meaning can be studied in practice.

Towards New Ways of Terminology Description

Towards New Ways of Terminology Description
Author: Rita Temmerman
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027223265

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This title questions the validity of traditional terminology theory. The author's findings are that the traditional approach impedes a pragmatic and realistic description of a large number of categories of terms.

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Sociolinguistics

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Sociolinguistics
Author: Dirk Geeraerts
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2017-11-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004336842

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Cognitive Sociolinguistics combines the interest in meaning of Cognitive Linguistics with the interest in social variation of sociolinguistics, converging on two domains of enquiry: variation of meaning, and the meaning of variation. These Ten Lectures, a transcribed version of talks given by professor Geeraerts in 2009 at Beihang University in Beijing, introduce and illustrate both dimensions. The ‘variation of meaning’ perspective involves looking at types of semantic and categorial variation, at the role of social and cultural factors in semantic variation and change, and at the interplay of stereotypes, prototypes and norms. The ‘meaning of variation’ perspective involves looking at the way in which categorization processes of the type studied by Cognitive Linguistics shape how scholars and laymen think about language variation.

The Structure of Lexical Variation

The Structure of Lexical Variation
Author: Dirk Geeraerts
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2012-01-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110873060

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The Structure of Lexical Variation : Meaning, Naming, and Context.

Meanings and Prototypes (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar)

Meanings and Prototypes (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar)
Author: S.L. Tsohatzidis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 631
Release: 2014-02-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317933583

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There are fewer distinctions in any language than there are distinct things in the universe. If, therefore, languages are ways of representing the universe, a primary function of their elements must be to allow the much more varied kinds of elements out of which the universe is made to be categorized in specific ways. A prototype approach to linguistic categories is a particular way of answering the question of how this categorization operates. It involves two claims. First, that linguistic categorization exploits principles that are not specific to language but characterize most, if not all, processes of cognition. Secondly, that a basic principle by which cognitive and linguistic categories are organized is the prototype principle, which assigns elements to a category not because they exemplify properties that are absolutely required of each one of its members, but because they exhibit, in varying degrees, certain types of similarity with a particular category member which has been established as the best example (or: prototype) of its kind. The development of the prototype approach into a satisfactory body of theory obviously requires both that its empirical base be enriched, and that its conceptual foundations be clarified. These are the areas where this volume, in its 26 essays, makes original contributions. The first two parts contain discussions in which various kinds of linguistic phenomena are analysed in ways that make essential use of prototype notions. The last two parts contain discussions in which prototype notions themselves become the object, rather than the instrument, of analytical scrutiny.

Linguistics across Historical and Geographical Boundaries

Linguistics across Historical and Geographical Boundaries
Author: Dieter Kastovsky
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 1596
Release: 2011-06-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110856131

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TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Sociocultural Situatedness

Sociocultural Situatedness
Author: Roslyn M. Frank
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 453
Release: 2008-08-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110199114

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The contributions contained in the second volume of the two-volume set Body, Language and Mind introduce and elaborate upon the concept of sociocultural situatedness, understood broadly as the way in which minds and cognitive processes are shaped, both individually and collectively, by their interaction with socioculturally contextualized structures and practices; and, furthermore, how these structures interact, contextually, with language and can become embodied in it. Drawing on theoretical concepts and analytical tools within the purview of cognitive linguistics and related fields, the volume explores the relationship between body, language and mind, focusing on the complex mutually reinforcing relationships holding between the sociocultural contextualisation of language and, inversely, the linguistic contextualisation of culure. Stated differently, the notion of sociocultural situatedness allows for language to be seen as a cultural activity and at the same time as a subtle mechanism for organizing culture and thought. The volume offers a representative, multi- and interdisciplinary collection of new papers on sociocultural situatedness, bringing together for the first time a wide variety of perspectives and case studies directed explicitly to elucidating the analytical potential of this concept for cognitive linguists and other researchers working in allied fields such as AI, discourse studies and cognitive anthropology. The book brings together several core issues related to the notion of sociocultural situatedness, some of which have been addressed previously, although to a large degree sporadically and from a variety of disciplinary perspectives without fully exploring the possible analytical advantages of this concept as a tool for investigating the role of culturally entrenched schemata in cognition and language. In short, this is the first comprehensive survey of sociocultural situatedness theory.

History and Perspectives of Language Study

History and Perspectives of Language Study
Author: Olga Mišeska Tomi?
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2000
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027236920

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Each of the contributions in this volume expresses in some way the hope that it is possible to achieve an integrity of linguistics, understood as a science of man, in its psychological, sociological, pragmatic and cultural context. The first section focuses on the history of language study, the second section on the integrative description of facets of language, and the last section on the need for the study of language in context.

Meaning and the Lexicon

Meaning and the Lexicon
Author: Geer A. J. Hoppenbrouwers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 520
Release: 1985
Genre: Lexicology
ISBN:

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