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Wrestling with words and meanings : essays in honour of Keith Allan /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Clayton, Victoria, Australia :
Monash University Publishing,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Linguistics (Monash University Publishing)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Imprint Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part 1: Words and meanings
- Chapter 1: Bastards and buggers
- Simon Musgrave and Kate Burridge
- 1. Introduction
- Swearing in Australian English
- 2. 'Buggers' and 'bastards'
- A brief history
- 3. The data on bastards and buggers
- 4. Discussion
- References
- Chapter 2: Diachronic properties of the lexicon
- Olav Kuhn
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Cognate finding
- 3. Subgrouping
- 4. Distant relationships
- 5. Conclusions
- Appendix
- References
- Chapter 3: The non-redundant nature of English tautological compounds
- Reka Benczes
- 1. Introduction
- 2. What is a tautological compound?
- 3. Hyponym-superordinate compounds
- 4. Synonym compounds
- 5. Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 4: French gender
- Margaret H. a Beckett
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Past accounts
- 3. Variations in gender and finale phoneme
- 4. From sex to species
- 5. Gender: Other semantic features
- 6. Gender and terms for human beings
- 7. Final sounds/segments and associated semantic features
- 8. Dual semantic systems, different semantic domains
- 9. Comparison with other noun classification systems
- 10. Concluding remarks
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- References
- Chapter 5: Trendy new trends in wine terminology
- Adrienne Lehrer
- 1. Semantic concepts
- 2. Wine descriptors
- 3. Names of wines and wineries
- 4. What else is like wine descriptions?
- References
- Chapter 6: Semantic prosody of hyperbolic adverbial collocations
- Jozsef Andor
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The study
- 3. Concluding remarks
- References
- Part 2: Discourse and pragmatics
- Chapter 7: The metaphorical conceptual system in context
- Zoltan Kovecses
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Universality in human knowledge
- 3. Context in human knowledge.
- 4. The contextual groundings of metaphorical concepts
- 5. Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 8: Frightful names
- Barry J. Blake
- 1. Introductory remarks
- 2. Names as inalienable possessions
- 3. Names and the power of language
- 4. Concluding remarks
- References
- Chapter 9: On politic behaviour
- Finex Ndhlovu
- 1. Introduction and background
- 2. Brief overview of theoretical framework
- 3. Research methods and procedures
- 4. Results
- 5. Discussion and analysis
- 6. Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 10: Response words are anaphors
- Thorstein Fretheim
- 1. Anaphora relation
- 2. Identifying the content of occurrences of 'yes' and 'no'
- 3. How to distribute positive and negative members of a tripartite response word system
- 4. Norwegian 'jo' is insensitive to the polarity of its linguistic antecedent
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 11: Cultural schemas as 'common ground'
- Farzad Sharifian
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Cultural cognition and cultural conceptualisations
- 3. Persian cultural schema of 'tarof'
- 4. Concluding remarks
- References
- Chapter 12: Elaborativeness in academic writing
- Zofia Golebiowski
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The corpus
- 3. Methodology
- 4. Findings
- 5. Discussion
- 6. Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 13: Communication disorders and mental health
- Deborah Perrott
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Brief literature review
- 3. Where to from here? Suggested solutions for consideration
- 4. Summary
- References
- Part 3: Semantic theory and philosophy of language
- Chapter 14: 'Nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo traductorum philosophorum'
- Pedro Jose Chamizo Dominguez
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Ambiguities
- 3. Archaisms
- 4. False friends
- 5. Gender
- 6. Idioms and collocations
- 7. Non-lexicalised metaphors
- 8. Polysemies
- 9. Conclusions.