Lexicology Semantics and Lexicography

Lexicology  Semantics and Lexicography
Author: Julie Coleman,Christian J. Kay
Publsiher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2000-07-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027299611

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The papers in this volume show the range and direction of current work in historical semantics and word-studies. There is a strong focus throughout on semantic change and lexical innovation, interpreted within a sociolinguistic, cultural or textual context. Many of the papers draw on the remarkable range of electronic resources now available to historical linguists, notably corpora, dictionaries, bibliographies and thesauruses, and show the effects that these have had in stimulating new lines of research or the re-interpretation of previous conclusions. Cognitive semantics, and especially prototype theory, emerges as a challenging theoretical framework for much current research. The volume contains a selection from papers presented at the 10th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (10ICEHL). They include work on historical lexicography and an account of the workshop on electronic dictionary resources, such as the Revised Oxford English Dictionary, which formed the centrepiece of the Fourth G. L. Brook Symposium.

Meaning and Lexicography

Meaning and Lexicography
Author: Jerzy Tomaszczyk,Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
Publsiher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 371
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027278197

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While lexicology, lexical semantics, and lexicography all share an interest in lexical items, they often tend to be regarded as three separate albeit interrelated fields. Indeed, the extent to which the interrelationship is recognized and taken into account in lexicographic practice is the moot point. The conference which produced the papers offered in this volume was designed to bring their practioners together and thus gives an impetus to closer cooperation among them, It is the editors' conviction that the practical activity of lexicography should learn more from its sister fields. People working in lexicography, lexical semantics, etc. may find some of the insights arrived at in the more practically oriented descriptions pertinent and useful.

Semantics and Lexicography

Semantics and Lexicography
Author: Herbert Ernst Wiegand
Publsiher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2011-05-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9783110946048

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This volume is a compilation of nine articles, translated from German. They deal with those lexicographic texts or text excerpts which have been formulated in order to convey the meaning of a lexical unit to a potential dictionary user who is not familiar with that meaning. The articles not only critically analyze lexicographic practice, in particular the so-called lexicographic definitions and the items giving the synonyms in correlation with the examples, in the light of different semantic approaches. They also present ways towards a common understanding in the context of lexicographically imparting knowledge of meaning, i.e. on the basis of an actional-semantics approach which takes into account results obtained from analyses of everyday dialogs about word meanings. Moreover, they discuss how meaning-conveying texts can serve their purposes in dictionary look-up situations, and they lay out all those aspects which are particularly to be taken into consideration in the formulation of lexicographic texts aimed at conveying meaning, in dictionaries belonging to different types.

Lexicology Semantics and Lexicography

Lexicology  Semantics  and Lexicography
Author: Julie Coleman,Christian Kay
Publsiher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027237018

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Including a selection of papers originally presented at the 10th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, the contributions to this volume aim to show the breadth and depth of late-1990s studies in lexicology, semantics and lexicography.

Lexical Semantics for Terminology

Lexical Semantics for Terminology
Author: Marie-Claude L'Homme
Publsiher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2020-01-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027261786

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Lexical Semantics for Terminology: An introduction explores the interconnections between lexical semantics and terminology. More specifically, it shows how principles borrowed from lexico-semantic frameworks and methodologies derived from them can help understand terms and describe them in resources. It also explains how lexical analysis complements perspectives primarily focused on knowledge. Topics such as term identification, meaning, polysemy, relations between terms, and equivalence are discussed thoroughly and illustrated with examples taken from various fields of knowledge. This book is an indispensable companion for those who are interested in words and work with specialized terms, e.g. terminologists, translators, lexicographers, corpus linguists. A background in terminology or lexical semantics is not required since all notions are defined and explained. This book complements other textbooks on terminology that do not focus on lexical semantics per se.

Theories of Lexical Semantics

Theories of Lexical Semantics
Author: Dirk Geeraerts
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2010
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780198700302

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This text provides an introduction to the history and current state of theories of word meanings.

Cognitive Lexicography

Cognitive Lexicography
Author: Carolin Ostermann
Publsiher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2015-07-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9783110424164

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English lexicography and linguistics have always shared close ties, yet the potential of cognitive linguistics for lexicography has only been hesitantly acknowledged in the literature. This is what cognitive lexicography attempts to change by using insights gained in cognitive semantic research for the development of new dictionary features. After a short survey of the history and practice of English monolingual learner lexicography, as well as an outline of the relationship between linguistics and lexicography, three new dictionary features are developed. They cover three different cognitive semantic theories as well as three different parts of the monolingual dictionary entry, each time for a new set of lexemes. Frame semantics, conceptual metaphor theory, as well as cognitive conceptions of polysemy, are used to create a new example section for agentive nouns, a new defining structure for emotion terms and a new microstructural arrangement for particle entries. Dictionary analyses on all, as well as user studies on two of the features, complement these suggestions. The monograph thus presents a new approach to lexicography that incorporates into its description of lexical items how humans perceive and conceptualise language.

Studies in Syntax and Semantics

Studies in Syntax and Semantics
Author: F. Kiefer
Publsiher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789401017077

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In the last decade a profound change has occurred in linguistic science. Not only have old problems been tackled from an entirely new point of view but also quite a few new fields of linguistic research have been opened. The common characteristic of the majority of the theories and methods developed recently is the search for a more adequate description of language. Adequacy does not mean simply that the theory must conform to the facts. It must also meet the general requirements of present-day theories: coherence, clear-cut notions, rigor of presentation. It has also become abundantly clear that linguistic research cannot be content with the registration and classification of linguistic phenomena. In one way or another linguistics must try to explain the deep-seated regularities in language which in general do not appear on the surface in some straightforward way. Therefore, we find the attribute 'deep' very often in contemporary linguistic literature. Linguistic theories seek an explanation for the observed facts in terms of a system of hypotheses about the functioning of language. As research proceeds these will undergo essential changes. Some of them will be waived, others com plemented. The papers of the present volume follow these general principles of linguistic theory though they may differ from each other in the way of presentation considerably. Some of the papers make use of the framework of transformational-generative grammar (e. g. Kuroda; Perlmutter), others approach the pertinent problem from a different angle (e. g. Dupraz and Rouault; Apresyan, Mel'cuk, and Zolkovski).