| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 217 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
A roadmap to Roget's Thesaurus -- Roget's Thesaurus, deconstructed -- Roget's Thesaurus, 1852 to 2002 -- Three words from the thesaurus: negro, sex, and tolerance -- Roget in Germany: the adaptation of the thesaurus (1852) in Daniel Sanders' Sprachschatz (1873) -- Roget in the romance world: Théodore Robertson's translation of Roget's Thesaurus (1852) into French as Le Dictionnaire Idéologique (1859) -- Wilkins and Roget meet. An experiment in thought -- On background knowledge and seriality -- The didactic potential of thesauri -- A cognitive view of synonymy |
| Summary |
Werner Hullen discusses the influence of Roget's Thesaurus abroad (Germany and the Romance countries) and examines how the Thesaurus prepared the way for the more recent idea of network semantics. He concludes by considering the role of synonymy in language from a perspective of cognitive linguistics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-207) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Roget, Peter Mark, 1779-1869. Thesaurus of English words and phrases.
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| SUBJECT |
Thesaurus of English words and phrases (Roget, Peter Mark) fast |
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English language -- Synonyms and antonyms.
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English language -- Lexicography.
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English language -- Semantics.
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REFERENCE.
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English language -- Lexicography
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English language -- Semantics
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English language -- Synonyms and antonyms
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191564680 |
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0191564680 |
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9780199553235 |
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0199553238 |
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9780191720352 |
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0191720356 |
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