Theories Of Lexical Semantics - A Cognitive Perspective

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the major traditions of word meaning research in linguistics. It charts the evolution of lexical semantics from the mid nineteenth century to the present day, presenting the main ideas, landmark publications, and the dominant figures ofthe the five semantic traditions.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Historical-Philological Semantics


• 2: Structuralist Semantics


• 3: Generativist Semantics


• 4: Neostructuralist Semantics


• 5: Cognitive Semantics


• Conclusion


• References

About the author

Dirk Geeraerts is Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at the University of Leuven and head of the research group Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics. He is the author of The Structure of Lexical Variation (1994), Diachronic Prototype Semantics (1997), and Words and Other Wonders (2006) and the editor, along with Hubert Cuyckens, of The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics (2007).

Summary

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the major traditions of word meaning research in linguistics. It charts the evolution of lexical semantics from the mid nineteenth century to the present day, presenting the main ideas, landmark publications, and the dominant figures ofthe the five semantic traditions.

Additional text

fills a crucial gap in the literature on word meaning...a long-awaited must-read in lexicological and semantic theory...should be background knowledge for anyone seriously committed to lexical work...a state-of-the-art overview awaited for decades, provides an indispensable reference in semantic theory

Product details

• Authors: Dirk Geeraerts, Dirk (Professor of Linguistics Geeraerts, Geeraerts Dirk
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.04.2010
• EAN: 9780198700302
• ISBN: 978-0-19-870030-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Oxford Linguistics; Oxford Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc