Words and Other Wonders

Papers on Lexical and Semantic Topics

By: Dirk Geeraerts

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Hardcover | 18 July 2006

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Cognitive Linguistics has given a major impetus to the study of semantics and the lexicon. The present volume brings together seventeen previously published papers that testify to the fruitfulness of Cognitive Linguistics for the study of lexical and semantic topics. Spanning the period from the late 1980s to recent years, the collection features a number of papers that may be considered classics within the field of cognitive linguistic lexicology.

The papers are grouped in thematic sections. The first section deals with prototypicality as a theoretical and practical model of semantic description. The second section discusses polysemy and criteria for distinguishing between meanings. The third section tackles questions of meaning description beyond the level of words, on the level of idioms and constructions. The following section casts the net even wider, dealing with the cultural aspects of meaning. Moving away from the theoretical and descriptive perspective towards applied concerns, the fifth section looks at lexicography from the point of view of Cognitive Linguistics. The final section has a metatheoretical orientation: it discusses the history and methodology of lexical semantics.

Each paper is preceded by a newly written introduction that situates the text against the period in which it was first published, but that also points to further developments, in the author''s own research or in Cognitive Linguistics at large.

The variety of topics dealt with make this book an excellent introduction to the broad field of lexicological and lexical semantic research.

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"Many other scholars in linguistics can find plenty of food for thought in this stimulating book. [...]Linguists have a lot to gain and little to lose by reading this book, especially if they never read these articles by Geeraerts when they were first published."Craig Hamilton in: Lexis 3/2007

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Non-Fiction Language & Linguistics Reference, Dictionaries & Guides Linguistics Semantics & Discourse Analysis Lexicography

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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