32.34, Books: Where Words Get their Meaning: Bolognesi

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Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2021 18:33:23
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Where Words Get their Meaning: Bolognesi

 


Title: Where Words Get their Meaning 
Subtitle: Cognitive processing and distributional modelling of word meaning in first
and second language 
Series Title: Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research 23  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/celcr.23 


Author: Marianna Bolognesi

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027260420 Pages: 208 Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027260420 Pages: 208 Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027260420 Pages: 208 Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027208019 Pages: 208 Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027208019 Pages: 208 Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027208019 Pages: 208 Price: Europe EURO 100.70


Abstract:

Words are not just labels for conceptual categories. Words construct
conceptual categories, frame situations and influence behavior. Where do they
get their meaning? 

This book describes how words acquire their meaning. The author argues that
mechanisms based on associations, pattern detection, and feature matching
processes explain how words acquire their meaning from experience and from
language alike. Such mechanisms are summarized by the distributional
hypothesis, a computational theory of meaning originally applied to word
occurrences only, and hereby extended to extra-linguistic contexts. 

By arguing in favor of the cognitive foundations of the distributional
hypothesis, which suggests that words that appear in similar contexts have
similar meaning, this book offers a theoretical account for word meaning
construction and extension in first and second language that bridges empirical
findings from cognitive and computer sciences. Plain language and
illustrations accompany the text, making this book accessible to a
multidisciplinary academic audience.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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