Words And Other Wonders

by Geeraerts, Dirk

• ISBN13: 9783110190427
• ISBN10: 3110190427
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-07-01
• Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter

Summary

The volume brings together seventeen previously published articles on lexical and semantic topics by one of the most influential authors in cognitive linguistic lexicology. Spanning the period from the late 1980s to recent years, the collection features a number of papers that may be considered classics. The book serves as an excellent introduction to the field. Key Features: Excellent introduction to the field Includes papers from the late 1980s to recent years that may be considered as classics

Table of Contents

Prospects and problems of prototype theory	p. 3
Where does prototypicality come from?	p. 27
The semantic structure of Dutch over	p. 48
Salience phenomena in the lexicon : a typology	p. 74
Vagueness's puzzles, polysemy's vagaries	p. 99
Classical definability and the monosemic bias	p. 149
The semantic structure of the indirect object in Dutch	p. 175
The interaction of metaphor and metonymy in composite expressions	p. 198
Looking back at anger : cultural traditions and metaphorical patterns	p. 227
Beer and semantics	p. 252
Cultural models of linguistic standardization	p. 272
Caught in a web of irony : Job and his embarassed God	p. 307
The lexicographical treatment of prototypical polysemy	p. 327
The definitional practice of dictionaries and the cognitive semantic conception of polysemy	p. 345
Cognitive grammar and the history of lexical semantics	p. 367
The theoretical and descriptive development of lexical semantics	p. 398
Idealist and empiricist tendencies in cognitive semantics	p. 416
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