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Lexical analysis : norms and exploitations /

This study offers a wide-ranging empirical investigation of word use and meaning in language. It fills the need for a lexically based, corpus-driven theoretical approach that will help people understand how words go together in collocational patterns and constructions to make meanings. Such an appro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hanks, Patrick
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Words and meaning: the needs for a new approach
  • What is a word?
  • Do word meaning exist?
  • Prototypes and norms
  • Contextual dependency and lexical sets
  • Norms over time
  • Three types of alternation
  • Exploitations
  • Intertextuality, literature and the exploitation of norms
  • Word and pattern meaning, a complex linguistic gestalt
  • Meaning, philosophy of language, and anthropology
  • The role of the lexicon in linguistic theory
  • The broader picture.