Screen LibraryLexical analysis : norms and exploitations /
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| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xv, 462 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9780262018579 (alk. paper) : 0262018578 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | P326 |
| CLC: | H313 |
| Call Number: | H313/H241 |
| Contents: | Machine generated contents note: 1.1.Using Words to Make Meanings -- 1.2.Competence in Rule-Governed Behavior -- 1.3.Making Comparisons to Make Meanings -- 1.4.Exploiting Normal Usage -- 1.5.Open Choice and Idiomatic Constraints -- 1.6.A Lexically Based Approach to Linguistic Theory -- 1.7.Ontologies -- 1.8.Evidence and Intuition -- 1.9.What This Book Is About -- 1.10.Summary -- 2.1.Competing Concepts of 'Word' -- 2.2.Is the Lexicon of a Language a Finite Set? -- 2.3.Zipf's Law -- 2.4.The Dynamic Lexicon -- 2.5.Proper Names -- 2.6.How New Terminology Is Created -- 2.7.The Words Scientists Use -- 2.8.Contextual Anchoring -- 2.9.Multiword Expressions -- 2.10.Implications -- 2.11.Summary -- 3.1.A Serious Question -- 3.2.Common Sense -- 3.3.Ockham's Razor -- 3.4.Peaceful Coexistence of Incompatible Components -- 3.5.Meaning Events and Meaning Potentials -- 3.6.Clause Structure and Wider Context -- 3.7.Where Corpus Analysis Runs Out -- 3.8.Implications -- 3.9.Summary -- 4.1.Problems with Received Wisdom -- 4.2.Meanings as Events and Meanings as Beliefs: Gricean Implicatures -- 4.3.How to Identify a Norm -- 4.4.Meaning Potentials and Phraseology -- 4.5.Meaning, Preference Semantics, and Prototype Theory -- 4.6.Climb: Empirical Analysis -- 4.7.Implications -- 4.8.Summary -- Appendix 4.1: Uses of Climb, a Verb of Motion [[Process]] -- Appendix 4.2: Contextually Generated Implicatures of Climb (Verb) -- 5.1.Recognizing Patterns -- 5.2.Norms of Usage and Belief: Verbs -- 5.3.Norms of Usage and Belief: Nouns -- 5.4.Projecting Meaning Potentials onto Syntax -- 5.5.Domain-Specific Norms -- 5.6.A Dictionary without Definitions -- 5.7.Creativity and Cliché -- 5.8.Implications -- 5.9.Summary -- 6.1.A Monumental Inscription -- 6.2.Associating Norms of Meaning and Use: The Case of Enthusiasm -- 6.3.Exploiting and Alternating Norms: Enthusiasm -- 6.4.The Problem of Negatives and Questions -- 6.5.What Did Jane Austen Mean by Enthusiasm? -- 6.6.What Did Jane Austen Mean by Condescension? -- 6.7.Norms, Mutual Beliefs, and Social Status -- 6.8.More Mundane Examples of Meaning Change -- 6.9.When New Senses Drive Out Established Senses -- 6.10.Words with Two or More Literal Meanings -- 6.11.Summary -- 7.1.Semantic Epicenters -- 7.2.Lexical Alternations -- 7.3.Semantic-Type Alternations -- 7.4.Syntactic Alternations -- 7.5.Implications -- 7.6.Summary -- 8.1.What Is an Exploitation? -- 8.2.Typology of Exploitations -- 8.3.Are All Rhetorical Tropes Exploitations? -- 8.4.Puns -- 8.5.Making Sense of Complex Exploitations -- 8.6.Exploiting Pattern Ambiguity -- 8.7.Exploiting Existing Words to Form New Ones -- 8.8.General Contextual Resolution of Ambiguity -- 8.9.Minimally Exploited Words and Unexpected Exploitations -- 8.10.Distinguishing Exploitations from Mistakes -- 8.11.Implications -- 8.12.Summary -- 9.1.The Intertextuality of the Lexicon -- 9.2.The Resilience of Ancient Fables and Folk Stories -- 9.3.Intertextuality in Lighter Texts -- 9.4.How Poetry Exploits Lexical Norms -- 9.5.The Influence of Shakespeare -- 9.6.The Influence of the Bible -- 9.7.Playing with Language for Its Own Sake -- 9.8.Extremes of Exploitation and Otherwise -- 9.9.Ultimate Exploitations -- 9.10.Linguistic Evidence, Drama, and Fiction -- 9.11.Summary -- 10.1.Semantic and Syntagmatic Complexity: A Matter of Degree -- 10.2.How Exploitations Become Secondary Norms -- 10.3.Latin and Greek Secondary Norms Can Be Primary Norms in English -- 10.4.Summary -- 11.1.Priorities: Evidence before Theory -- 11.2.Aristotle, Lexical Semantics, and Definitions -- 11.3.The Enlightenment: From Wilkins to Wierzbicka -- 11.4.Wittgenstein: The Variable Nature of Word Meaning -- 11.5.Ogden and Richards: The Semantic Triangle -- 11.6.Grice and Austin: Ordinary-Language Philosophy -- 11.7.Rosch and Putnam: Prototypes and Stereotypes in Lexical Analysis -- 11.8.Summary -- 12.1.Theoretical Streams in Linguistics -- 12.2.The Lexicon in European Structuralism -- 12.3.The Russian Tradition -- 12.4.The Lexicon in Generative Linguistics -- 12.5.Pustejovsky's Generative Lexicon -- 12.6.The Lexicon in Cognitive Linguistics -- 12.7.Fillmore: Frame Semantics and FrameNet -- 12.8.Construction Grammar -- 12.9.The Firthian Tradition -- 12.10.Conclusion -- 12.11.Summary -- 13.1.Using Words; Making Meanings -- 13.2.Summary of the Theory of Norms and Exploitations -- 13.3.Linguistic Rules and Linguistic Data -- 13.4.Theory and Application -- 13.5.Conclusion. |