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Aspects of meaning construction /
"England and America are two nations divided by a common language."(George Bernard Shaw)Adopting a construction-based view of language (Goldberg 1995), we demonstrate that it is possible to uncover differences between British and American English at the lexicosyntactic level, showing that...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins,
©2007.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title page
- LCC data
- Dedication page
- Table of contents
- List of contributors
- Introduction: The construction of meaning in language
- 1. Underspecification and the construction of meaning
- 2. Types of underspecification
- 3. Ways of constructing underspecified meanings
- References
- Part I. Metonymy and metaphor
- Experimental tests of figurative meaning construction
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Metonymy and meaning construction
- 3. Proving the psychological reality of conceptual metonymies
- 4. Studies on metonymic processing
- 5. Mutual adjustment during figurative language processing
- 6. Conclusion
- References
- High-level metaphor and metonymy in meaning construction
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Levels of description
- 3. Constraints on metaphor and metonymy
- 4. Metonymic chains
- 5. Metaphor, metonymy, and grammar
- 6. Conclusion
- References
- The role of metonymy in meaning construction at discourse level
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Metonymy
- 3. Discussion of some relevant parts of the case study
- 4. Conclusions
- References
- Appendix
- Chained metonymies in lexicon and grammar
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Chained metonymies
- 3. Body part terms and their chained metonymies
- 4. Conclusion
- References
- Arguing the case against coercion
- Introduction
- 1. Defining terms
- 2. Examples of coercion in recent studies
- 3. Coercion in the construction of meaning
- 4. Conclusions
- References
- When Zidane is not simply Zidane, and Bill Gates is not just Bill Gates
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Objectivist theories of reference vs. cognitive approach to the figurative use of proper names
- 3. Metonymy and metaphor in the construction of the meaning of figuratively used proper names
- 4. Conclusions and prospects for further research
- References
- Collocational overlap can guidemetaphor interpretation
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A frequency-based model of collocational overlap
- 3. An association-based model of collocational overlap
- 4. Evaluation of the model against native-speaker interpretations
- 5. General discussion
- References
- Part 2. Mental spaces and conceptual blending
- Constructing the meanings of personal pronouns
- References
- The construction of meaning in relative clauses
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The construction of meaning in relative clauses
- 3. Pragmatically and contextually driven interpretations
- 4. Conceptual and constructional constraints in the interpretation of relatives
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Constraints on inferential constructions
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Constraints on the English inferential construction
- 3. The distribution of inferential constructions in discourse
- 4. A discourse constraint on English inferential constructions
- 5. Discussion
- 6. Conclusion
- References
- The construction of vagueness
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Lexical sources
- 3. The functions of taxonomic nouns in scientific contexts
- 4. The emergence of approximative modifiers
- 5. From prepositional to modifying use
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Dictionaries, corpora, and internet sources
- Communication or memory mismatch?
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Radical Experientialism and Cognitive Typology
- 3. Questio.