From Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM Fri Aug 22 14:04:32 2003 From: Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM (Julia Ulrich) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:04:32 EDT Subject: Polysemy. Flexible Patterns of Meaning in Mind and Language, ed. by Brigitte Nerlich et al. (2003) Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- NEW FROM MOUTON DE GRUYTER! >From the series TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS. STUDIES AND MONOGRAPHS Series Editors: Walter Bisang (main editor for this volume), Hans Henrich Hock, and Werner Winter POLYSEMY Flexible Patterns of Meaning in Mind and Language Edited by Brigitte Nerlich, Zazie Todd, Vimala Herman, and David D. Clarke 2003. xii, 422 pages. Cloth. Euro 98.00 / sFr 157.00 / Approx. US$ 97.00 ISBN 3-11-017616-5 (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 142) About fifty years ago, Stephen Ullmann wrote that polysemy is 'the pivot of semantic analysis'. Fifty years on, polysemy has become one of the hottest topics in linguistics and in the cognitive sciences at large. The book deals with the topic from a wide variety of viewpoints. The cognitive approach is supplemented and supported by diachronic, psycholinguistic, developmental, comparative, and computational perspectives. The chapters, written by some of the most eminent specialists in the field, are all underpinned by detailed discussions of methodology and theory. Brigitte Nerlich is Senior Research Officer at the University of Nottingham, UK. Zazie Todd is Lecturer at Leeds University, UK. David D. Clarke is Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK. Vimala Herman teaches at the University of Nottingham, UK. FROM THE CONTENTS: SETTING THE SCENE Brigitte Nerlich and David D. Clarke Polysemy and flexibility: introduction and overview John R. Taylor Cognitive models of polysemy Brigitte Nerlich Polysemy: past and present COGNITIVE APPROACHES Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner Polysemy and conceptual blending Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans Reconsidering prepositional polysemy networks: the case of over Jarno Raukko Polysemy as flexible meaning: experiments with English get and Finnish pitää Ken-ichi Seto Metonymic polysemy and its place in meaning extension SYNCHRONY/DIACHRONY APPROACHES Adrienne Lehrer Polysemy in derivational affixes Beatrice Warren The role of links and/or qualia in modifier-head constructions Jean Aitchison and Diana M. Lewis Polysemy and bleaching Andreas Blank Polysemy in the lexicon and in discourse PSYCHOLINGUISTIC APPROACHES Rachel Giora and Inbal Gur Irony in conversation: salience, role, and context effects Ann Dowker Young children's and adults' use of figurative language: how important are cultural and linguistic influences? Brigitte Nerlich, Zazie Todd and David D. Clarke Emerging patterns and evolving polysemies: the acquisition of get between four and ten years COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES Adam Kilgarriff "I don't believe in word senses" Yorick Wilks Senses and texts To sign up for our FREE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER, please visit our website at www.degruyter.de/newsletter To order, please contact SFG-Servicecenter-Fachverlage GmbH Postfach 4343 72774 Reutlingen, Germany Fax: +49 (0)7071 - 93 53 - 33 E-mail: deGruyter at s-f-g.com For USA, Canada and Mexico: Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 200 Saw Mill River Road Hawthorne, NY 10532, USA Fax: +1 (914) 747-1326 E-mail: cs at degruyterny.com Please visit our website for other publications by Mouton de Gruyter: http://www.mouton-publishers.com __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Diese E-Mail und ihre Dateianhaenge ist fuer den angegeben Empfaenger und/oder die Empfaengergruppe bestimmt. 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Fifty years on, polysemy has become one of the hottest topics in linguistics and in the cognitive sciences at large. The book deals with the topic from a wide variety of viewpoints. The cognitive approach is supplemented and supported by diachronic, psycholinguistic, developmental, comparative, and computational perspectives. The chapters, written by some of the most eminent specialists in the field, are all underpinned by detailed discussions of methodology and theory. Brigitte Nerlich is Senior Research Officer at the University of Nottingham, UK. Zazie Todd is Lecturer at Leeds University, UK. David D. Clarke is Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK. Vimala Herman teaches at the University of Nottingham, UK. FROM THE CONTENTS: SETTING THE SCENE Brigitte Nerlich and David D. Clarke Polysemy and flexibility: introduction and overview John R. Taylor Cognitive models of polysemy Brigitte Nerlich Polysemy: past and present COGNITIVE APPROACHES Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner Polysemy and conceptual blending Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans Reconsidering prepositional polysemy networks: the case of over Jarno Raukko Polysemy as flexible meaning: experiments with English get and Finnish pit?? Ken-ichi Seto Metonymic polysemy and its place in meaning extension SYNCHRONY/DIACHRONY APPROACHES Adrienne Lehrer Polysemy in derivational affixes Beatrice Warren The role of links and/or qualia in modifier-head constructions Jean Aitchison and Diana M. Lewis Polysemy and bleaching Andreas Blank Polysemy in the lexicon and in discourse PSYCHOLINGUISTIC APPROACHES Rachel Giora and Inbal Gur Irony in conversation: salience, role, and context effects Ann Dowker Young children's and adults' use of figurative language: how important are cultural and linguistic influences? Brigitte Nerlich, Zazie Todd and David D. Clarke Emerging patterns and evolving polysemies: the acquisition of get between four and ten years COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES Adam Kilgarriff "I don't believe in word senses" Yorick Wilks Senses and texts To sign up for our FREE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER, please visit our website at www.degruyter.de/newsletter To order, please contact SFG-Servicecenter-Fachverlage GmbH Postfach 4343 72774 Reutlingen, Germany Fax: +49 (0)7071 - 93 53 - 33 E-mail: deGruyter at s-f-g.com For USA, Canada and Mexico: Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 200 Saw Mill River Road Hawthorne, NY 10532, USA Fax: +1 (914) 747-1326 E-mail: cs at degruyterny.com Please visit our website for other publications by Mouton de Gruyter: http://www.mouton-publishers.com __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Diese E-Mail und ihre Dateianhaenge ist fuer den angegeben Empfaenger und/oder die Empfaengergruppe bestimmt. 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