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.

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.

Theories of Lexical Semantics

Theories of Lexical Semantics
Author: Dirk Geeraerts
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2009-11-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0191572535

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Theories of Lexical Semantics offers a comprehensive overview of the major traditions of word meaning research in linguistics. In spite of the growing importance of the lexicon in linguistic theory, no overview of the main theoretical trends in lexical semantics is currently available. This book fills that gap by charting the evolution of the discipline from the mid nineteenth century to the present day. It presents the main ideas, the landmark publications, and the dominant figures of five traditions: historical-philological semantics, structuralist semantics, generativist semantics, neostructuralist semantics, and cognitive semantics. The theoretical and methodological relationship between the approaches is a major point of attention throughout the text: going well beyond a mere chronological enumeration, the book does not only describe the theoretical currents of lexical semantics, but also the undercurrents that have shaped its evolution.

Historical Semantics and Cognition

Historical Semantics and Cognition
Author: Andreas Blank
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2013-03-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110804190

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Contains revised papers from a September 1996 symposium which provided a forum for synchronically and diachronically oriented scholars to exchange ideas and for American and European cognitive linguists to confront representatives of different directions in European structural semantics. Papers are in sections on theories and models, descriptive categories, and case studies, and examine areas such as cognitive and structural semantics, diachronic prototype semantics, synecdoche as a cognitive and communicative strategy, and intensifiers as targets and sources of semantic change.

Diachronic Semantics

Diachronic Semantics
Author: Dirk Geeraerts
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1990
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

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Semantics - Typology, Diachrony and Processing

Semantics - Typology, Diachrony and Processing
Author: Klaus Heusinger
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 704
Release: 2019-02-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110587327

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Now available in paperback for the first time since its original publication, the material in this book provides a broad, accessible guide to semantic typology, crosslinguistic semantics and diachronic semantics. Coming from a world-leading team of authors, the book also deals with the concept of meaning in psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics, and the understanding of semantics in computer science. It is packed with highly cited, expert guidance on the key topics in the field, making it a bookshelf essential for linguists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, and computer scientists working on natural language.

Theories of Lexical Semantics

Theories of Lexical Semantics
Author: Dirk Geeraerts
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2010
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 019870030X

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Theories of Lexical Semantics offers a comprehensive overview of the major traditions of word meaning research in linguistics. In spite of the growing importance of the lexicon in linguistic theory, no overview of the main theoretical trends in lexical semantics is currently available. This book fills that gap by charting the evolution of the discipline from the mid nineteenth century to the present day. It presents the main ideas, the landmark publications, and thedominant figures of five traditions: historical-philological semantics, structuralist semantics, generativist semantics, neostructuralist semantics, and cognitive semantics. The theoretical and methodological relationship between the approaches is a major point of attention throughout the text: going well beyond amere chronological enumeration, the book does not only describe the theoretical currents of lexical semantics, but also the undercurrents that have shaped its evolution.

Semantics - Typology, Diachrony and Processing

Semantics - Typology, Diachrony and Processing
Author: Klaus Heusinger
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 545
Release: 2019-02-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110589826

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Now available in paperback for the first time since its original publication, the material in this book provides a broad, accessible guide to semantic typology, crosslinguistic semantics and diachronic semantics. Coming from a world-leading team of authors, the book also deals with the concept of meaning in psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics, and the understanding of semantics in computer science. It is packed with highly cited, expert guidance on the key topics in the field, making it a bookshelf essential for linguists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, and computer scientists working on natural language.