Polysemy
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Edited by:
Brigitte Nerlich
About this book
About 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.
Author / Editor information
Brigitte Nerlich is Senior Research Officer at the University of Nottingham, UK.
Zazie Todd is Lecturer at Leeds University, UK.
David D. Clarke is Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK.
Vimala Herman is Reader at the University of Nottingham, UK.
Reviews
"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
Topics
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I - Setting the scene
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Polysemy and flexibility: introduction and overview
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Cognitive models of polysemy
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Polysemy: past and present
49 - Cognitive approaches
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Polysemy and conceptual blending
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Reconsidering prepositional polysemy networks: the case of over*
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Polysemy as flexible meaning: experiments with English get and Finnish pitää
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Metonymic polysemy and its place in meaning extension
195 - Synchrony/diachrony approaches
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Polysemy in derivational affixes
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The role of links and/or qualia in modifier-head constructions
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Polysemy and bleaching
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Polysemy in the lexicon and in discourse
267 - Psycholinguistic approaches
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Irony in conversation: salience, role, and context effects
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Young children's and adults' use of figurative language: how important are cultural and linguistic influences?
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Emerging patterns and evolving polysemies: the acquisition of get between four and ten years
333 - Computational approaches
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"I don't believe in word senses"
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Senses and texts
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Index
411
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