Author: Michel Bréal
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Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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Author: Michel Bréal
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Category : Indo-European languages
Languages : fr
Pages : 400

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Author: Brigitte Nerlich
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027277265
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 373

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It is widely believed by historians of linguistics that the 19th-century was largely devoted to historical and comparative studies, with the main emphasis on the discovery of soundlaws. Syntax is typically portrayed as a mere sideline of these studies, while semantics is seldom even mentioned. If it comes into view at all, it is usually assumed to have been confined to diachronic lexical semantics and the construction of some (mostly ill-conceived) typologies of semantic change. This book aims to destroy some of these prejudices and to show that in Europe semantics was an important, although controversial, area at that time. Synchronic mechanisms of semantic change were discovered and increasing attention was paid to the context of the sentence, to the speech situation and the users of the language. From being a semantics of transformations', a child of the biological-geological paradigm of historical linguistics with its close links to etymology and lexicography, the field matured into a semantics of comprehension and communication, set within a general linguistics and closely related to the emerging fields of psychology and sociology.

Author: Julia Kristeva
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110890666
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 653

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Essays in Semiotics /Essais de sémiotique Approaches to Semiotics [AS].

Author: Michel Bréal
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Category : Indo-European languages
Languages : fr
Pages : 0

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Author: Claudia Maienborn
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110226618
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 989

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Author: Susan Petrilli
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 311021850X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1069

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This book introduces and provides commentary on a selection of published and unpublished works by Victoria Welby and exponents of the Signific Movement in the Netherlands. Beyond offering an important contribution to the reconstruction of a neglected phase in the history of ideas, it evidences the theoretical topicality of significs, in particular the focus on the relation of signs to value, meaning, and understanding, on verbal and nonverbal behavior, and on language and communication.

Author: Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 516

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Author: Daniela Pettersson-Traba
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311079229X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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The last decades have witnessed a renewed interest in near-synonymy. In particular, recent distributional corpus-based approaches used for semantic analysis have successfully uncovered subtle distinctions in meaning between near-synonyms. However, most studies have dealt with the semantic structure of sets of near-synonyms from a synchronic perspective, while their diachronic evolution generally has been neglected. Against this backdrop, the aim of this book is to examine five adjectival near-synonyms in the history of American English from the understudied semantic domain of SMELL: fragrant, perfumed, scented, sweet-scented, and sweet-smelling. Their distribution is analyzed across a wide range of contexts, including semantic, morphosyntactic, and stylistic ones, since distributional patterns of this type serve as a proxy for semantic (dis)similarity. The data is submitted to various univariate and multivariate statistical techniques, making it possible to uncover fine-grained (dis)similarities among the near-synonyms, as well as possible changes in their prototypical structures. The book sheds valuable light on the diachronic development of lexical near-synonyms, a dimension that has up to now been relatively disregarded.

Author: Päivi Juvonen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110377675
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 608

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The volume focuses on semantic shifts and motivation patterns in the lexicon. Its key feature is its lexico-typological orientation, i.e. a heavy emphasis on systematic cross-linguistic comparison. The book presents current theoretical and methodological trends in the study of semantic shifts and motivational patters based on an abundance of empirical findings across genetically, areally and typologically diverse languages.