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Polysemy. Flexible Patterns of Meaning in Mind and Language

By Brigitte Nerlich , Zazie Todd , Vimala Herman , David D. Clarke (Editors)

Book information

Publisher
Mouton de Gruyter
Year
2003
ISBN
3-11-017616-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13861518 bytes)
Series
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs
Volume
142
Pages
438\438
DPI
300
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-09-16 16:32:18

Description

Aims and ScopeAbout 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. "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

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