Screen LibraryHistorical semantics and cognition /
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| Group Author: | ; |
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[1999] ©1999 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Cognitive linguistics research [clr];
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| Online Access: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110804195 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9783110804195.jpg |
| Carrier Form: |
1 online resource (viii, 312 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| Bibliography: | Num. figs. |
| ISBN: | 9783110804195 |
| Index Number: | P325 |
| CLC: | H030 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction: historical semantics and cognition / Cognitive Semantics and Structural Semantics / Diachronic semantics: towards a unified theory of language change? / Why do new meanings occur? A cognitive typology of the motivations for lexical semantic change / Diachronic prototype semantics. A digest / Cognitive semantics and diachronic semantics: the values and evolution of classes / Losing control: grammaticization, subjectification, and transparency / The rhetoric of counter-expectation in semantic change: a study in subjectif cation / Synecdoche as a cognitive and communicative strategy / Laws of thought, knowledge and lexical change / Intensifies as targets and sources of semantic change / Cognitive ease and lexical borrowing: the recategorization of body parts in Romance / Cognitive aspects of semantic change and polysemy: the semantic space HAVE/BE / List of contributors -- Index. |