Title Aspects of meaning construction / edited by Günter Radden [and others]

Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (x, 287 pages) : illustrations Contents Cover -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction: The construction of meaning in language -- 1. Underspecification and the construction of meaning -- 2. Types of underspecification -- 3. Ways of constructing underspecified meanings -- References -- Part I. Metonymy and metaphor -- Experimental tests of figurative meaning construction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Metonymy and meaning construction -- 3. Proving the psychological reality of conceptual metonymies -- 4. Studies on metonymic processing -- 5. Mutual adjustment during figurative language processing -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- High-level metaphor and metonymy in meaning construction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Levels of description -- 3. Constraints on metaphor and metonymy -- 4. Metonymic chains -- 5. Metaphor, metonymy, and grammar -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- The role of metonymy in meaning construction at discourse level -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Metonymy -- 3. Discussion of some relevant parts of the case study -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix -- Chained metonymies in lexicon and grammar -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Chained metonymies -- 3. Body part terms and their chained metonymies -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Arguing the case against coercion -- Introduction -- 1. Defining terms -- 2. Examples of coercion in recent studies -- 3. Coercion in the construction of meaning -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- When Zidane is not simply Zidane, and Bill Gates is not just Bill Gates -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Objectivist theories of reference vs. cognitive approach to the figurative use of proper names -- 3. Metonymy and metaphor in the construction of the meaning of figuratively used proper names -- 4. Conclusions and prospects for further research -- References -- Collocational overlap can guidemetaphor interpretation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A frequency-based model of collocational overlap -- 3. An association-based model of collocational overlap -- 4. Evaluation of the model against native-speaker interpretations -- 5. General discussion -- References -- Part 2. Mental spaces and conceptual blending -- Constructing the meanings of personal pronouns -- References -- The construction of meaning in relative clauses -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The construction of meaning in relative clauses -- 3. Pragmatically and contextually driven interpretations -- 4. Conceptual and constructional constraints in the interpretation of relatives -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Constraints on inferential constructions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Constraints on the English inferential construction -- 3. The distribution of inferential constructions in discourse -- 4. A discourse constraint on English inferential constructions -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- The construction of vagueness -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Lexical sources -- 3. The functions of taxonomic nouns in scientific contexts -- 4. The emergence of approximative modifiers -- 5. From prepositional to modifying use -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Dictionaries, corpora, and internet sources -- Communication or memory mismatch? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Radical Experientialism and Cognitive Typology -- 3. Questio Summary "England and America are two nations divided by a common language."(George Bernard Shaw)Adopting a construction-based view of language (Goldberg 1995), we demonstrate that it is possible to uncover differences between British and American English at the lexicosyntactic level, showing that the collexemes, i.e. the words significantly associated with a construction, are variety-dependent. To this end, we compare more than 5,000 verb pair types as they occur in the two varieties in the so-called into- causative construction (as in He tricked me into employing him) and submit them to Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes English Print version record Subject Semantics. Metonyms. Metaphor. Grammar, Comparative and general. Semantics Metaphor semantics. metonymy. metaphor. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Semantics. Grammar, Comparative and general Metaphor Metonyms Semantics Metonymie. Form Electronic book Author Radden, Günter. LC no. 2006047946 ISBN 9789027292551 9027292558 1282154672 9781282154674 9786612154676 6612154675

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