Polysemy Flexible Patterns of Meaning in Mind and Language

About fifty years ago, Stephen Ullmann wrote that polysemy is 'the pivot of semantic analysis'. Fifty years on, polysemy has become one of the hottest topics in linguistics and in the cognitive sciences at large. The book deals with the topic from a wide variety of viewpoints. The cognitive approach is supplemented and supported by diachronic, psycholinguistic, developmental, comparative, and computational perspectives. The chapters, written by some of the most eminent specialists in the field, are all underpinned by detailed discussions of methodology and theory.

About the author

Brigitte Nerlich is Senior Research Officer at the University of Nottingham, UK.

Zazie Todd is Lecturer at Leeds University, UK.

David D. Clarke is Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK.

Vimala Herman is Reader at the University of Nottingham, UK.

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"To end on a personal note, I hope that Polysemy: Flexible Patterns of Meaning in Mind and Language will provoke a number of discussions in related fields, leading to a number of interesting findings and the development of polysemy research in the future."Yoshikata Shibuya in: Cognitive Linguistics 4/2007

Product details

• Assisted by: Brigitte Nerlich (Editor), Zazie Todd (Editor), Vimala Herman (Editor), David D. Clarke (Editor), Zazi Todd (Editor), Vimala Herman et al (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 01.01.2003
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics
• EAN: 9783110176162
• ISBN: 978-3-11-017616-2
• Pages: 422
• Dimensions (packing): 15.5 x 3.6 x 23 cm
• Weight (packing): 824 g
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs > Vol.142; Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs (TiLSM) > Vol.142; Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] > 142; ISSN > 142
• Subjects: Psychologie, Semantik, Kognitionswissenschaft, Sprachpsychologie, Semantik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik, Bedeutung (semantisch) / Bedeutungslehre, Kognitive Linguistik, Sprachwissenschaft / Kognitive Linguistik