17.2485, Books: Cognitive Science/Semantics: Geeraerts

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Date: 05-Sep-2006
From: Julia Ulrich < julia.ulrich at degruyter.com >
Subject: Words and Other Wonders: Geeraerts 

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Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:03:51
From: Julia Ulrich < julia.ulrich at degruyter.com >
Subject: Words and Other Wonders: Geeraerts 

Title: Words and Other Wonders 
Subtitle: Papers on Lexical and Semantic Topics 
Series Title: Cognitive Linguistics Research 33  

Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
	   http://www.mouton-publishers.com

Book URL: http://http://www.degruyter.com/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-3110190427-1&l=E 

Author: Dirk Geeraerts,   

Hardback: ISBN: 3110190427 Pages: 493 Price: Europe EURO 98.00 Comment: for USA, Mexico, Canada: US$ 132.30

Abstract:

Cognitive Linguistics has given a major impetus to the study of semantics 
and the lexicon. The present volume brings together seventeen previously 
published papers that testify to the fruitfulness of Cognitive Linguistics for 
the study of lexical and semantic topics. Spanning the period from the late 
1980s to recent years, the collection features a number of papers that may 
be considered classics within the field of cognitive linguistic lexicology. 

The papers are grouped in thematic sections. The first section deals with 
prototypicality as a theoretical and practical model of semantic description. 
The second section discusses polysemy and criteria for distinguishing 
between meanings. The third section tackles questions of meaning 
description beyond the level of words, on the level of idioms and 
constructions. The following section casts the net even wider, dealing with 
the cultural aspects of meaning. Moving away from the theoretical and 
descriptive perspective towards applied concerns, the fifth section looks at 
lexicography from the point of view of Cognitive Linguistics. The final section 
has a metatheoretical orientation: it discusses the history and methodology 
of lexical semantics. 

Each paper is preceded by a newly written introduction that situates the text 
against the period in which it was first published, but that also points to 
further developments, in the author's own research or in Cognitive Linguistics 
at large.

The variety of topics dealt with make this book an excellent introduction to 
the broad field of lexicological and lexical semantic research. 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Semantics

Written In: English  (eng)

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