Cognitive Lexicography: A New Approach to Lexicography Making Use of Cognitive Semantics - Couverture rigide

Ostermann, Carolin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3110427443 ISBN 13 : 9783110427448

Editeur : De Gruyter, 2015

Synopsis

English lexicography and linguistics have always shared close ties, yet the potential of cognitive linguistics for lexicography has only been hesitantly acknowledged in the literature. This is what cognitive lexicography attempts to change by using insights gained in cognitive semantic research for the development of new dictionary features. After a short survey of the history and practice of English monolingual learner lexicography, as well as an outline of the relationship between linguistics and lexicography, three new dictionary features are developed. They cover three different cognitive semantic theories as well as three different parts of the monolingual dictionary entry, each time for a new set of lexemes. Frame semantics, conceptual metaphor theory, as well as cognitive conceptions of polysemy, are used to create a new example section for agentive nouns, a new defining structure for emotion terms and a new microstructural arrangement for particle entries. Dictionary analyses on all, as well as user studies on two of the features, complement these suggestions. The monograph thus presents a new approach to lexicography that incorporates into its description of lexical items how humans perceive and conceptualise language.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Carolin Ostermann, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: De Gruyter
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3110427443
• ISBN 13: 9783110427448
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 392
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Walter de Gruyter GmbH; productsafety@degruyterbrill.com; ; Genthiner Straße 13; Berlin; 10785; Allemagne