TY  - BOOK
UR  - https://www.degruyterbrill.com/database/COGBIB/entry/cogbib.2647/html
TI  - Towards a cognitive model of antonymy
T3  - Lexicology
AU  - Cruse, D. Alan
AU  - Togia, Pagona
PY  - 1995
KW  - cognitive semantics
KW  - image schema
KW  - conceptual domain
KW  - construal
KW  - antonymy
KW  - antonymic subdomain
KW  - monoscalar system
KW  - biscalar system
KW  - hybrid system
KW  - anti-complementary system
AB  - In the framework of cognitive linguistics, the notion of image schema proposed by George Lakoff (1987) and those of domain and construal developed by Ronald W. Langacker (1987) are used to construct an explanatory cognitive model of antonymy from which the observed semantic behavior of antonyms naturally follows. Antonyms are understood in the narrow sense defined by John Lyons (1963) as pairs of "gradable, directionally opposed contraries." An antonymic schematic domain imposes three types of construal on portions of content domains, resulting in the antonymic subdomains of monoscalar systems, biscalar systems, and hybrid anto-complementary systems. Biscalar systems, typically involving uncalibrated gradable properties, can be equipollent ('hot/cold') or overlapping ('good/bad'). Hybrid systems combine a complementary opposition between the presence and absence of a gradable property and an antonymic opposition presupposing the presence of the property; lexical opposites vary in the extent to which they behave as complements or antonyms, creating a spectrum of individual hybrid systems. (LLBA, Adapted from the source document, Accession Number 9705573, (c) CSA [1995]. All rights reserved.)
VL  - 1
DB  - Cognitive Linguistics Bibliography (CogBib)
DP  - De Gruyter Mouton
CY  - Berlin, Boston
ET  - 2010
Y2  - 2026-05-01
ER  -