Contrastive Lexical Semantics (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, Band 171) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027236763 ISBN 13: 9789027236760

Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

Contrastive lexical semantics was the main topic of an International Workshop at the University of Münster in May, 1997. It was addressed from different perspectives, from the pragmatic perspective of a corpus-oriented approach as well as from the model-oriented perspective of sign theoretic linguistics. Whereas the rule-governed model-oriented approach is necessarily restricted to subsets of vocabulary, the pragmatic approach aims to analyse and describe the whole vocabulary-in-use. After the pragmatic turn, lexical semantics can no longer be seen as a discipline on its own but has to be developed as an integral part of a theory of language use. Essential features of individual languages can be discovered only by looking beyond the limits of our mother languages and including a contrastive perspective. Within a pragmatic, corpus-oriented approach essential new ideas are discussed, mainly the insight that single words can no longer be considered to be the lexical unit. It is the complex multi-word lexical unit a pragmatic approach has to deal with.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9027236763
• ISBN 13: 9789027236760
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 280
• Herausgeber: Weigand Edda
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