24.629, Books: Lexical Analysis: Hanks

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Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 09:40:44
From: David Weininger [dgw at mit.edu]
Subject: Lexical Analysis: Hanks

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Title: Lexical Analysis 
Subtitle: Norms and Exploitations 
Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: MIT Press
	   http://mitpress.mit.edu/

Book URL: http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262018579 

Author: Patrick Hanks

Hardback: ISBN:  9780262018579 Pages: 480 Price: U.S. $ 60.00

Abstract:

In Lexical Analysis, Patrick Hanks offers a wide-ranging empirical
investigation of word use and meaning in language. The book 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 approach is now possible, Hanks writes, because of
the availability of new forms of evidence (corpora, the Internet) and the
development of new methods of statistical analysis and inferencing.

Hanks offers a new theory of language, the Theory of Norms and Exploitations
(TNE), which makes a systematic distinction between normal and abnormal
usage—between rules for using words normally and rules for exploiting such
norms in metaphor and other creative use of language. Using hundreds of
carefully chosen citations from corpora and other texts, he shows how matching
each use of a word against established contextual patterns plays a large part
in determining the meaning of an utterance. His goal is to develop a coherent
and practical lexically driven theory of language that takes into account the
immense variability of everyday usage and that shows that this variability is
rule governed rather than random. Such a theory will complement other
theoretical approaches to language, including cognitive linguistics,
construction grammar, generative lexicon theory, priming theory, and pattern
grammar.

Linguistic Field(s): Lexicography
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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