How Words Mean
Lexical Concepts, Cognitive Models, and Meaning Construction
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 10 September 2009
- ISBN 9780199234660
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 253x177x27 mm
- Weight 844 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Figures, Tables 0
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Short description:
In this book, Vyvyan Evans builds a framework for the understanding and analysis of meaning that is at once descriptively adequate and psychologically plausible. In so doing he also addresses current issues in lexical semantics and semantic compositionality, polysemy, figurative language, and the semantics of time and space.
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How Words Mean introduces a new approach to the role of words and other linguistic units in the construction of meaning. It does so by addressing the interaction between non-linguistic concepts and the meanings encoded in language. It develops an account of how words are understood when we produce and hear language in situated contexts of use. It proposes two theoretical constructs, the lexical concept and the cognitive model. These are central to the accounts of lexical representation and meaning construction developed, giving rise to the Theory of Lexical Concepts and Cognitive Models (or LCCM Theory).
Vyvyan Evans integrates and advances recent developments in cognitive science, particularly in cognitive linguistics and cognitive psychology. He builds a framework for the understanding and analysis of meaning that is at once descriptively adequate and psychologically plausible. In so doing he also addresses current issues in lexical semantics and semantic compositionality, polysemy, figurative language, and the semantics of time and space, and writes in a way that will be accessible to students of linguistics and cognitive science at advanced undergraduate level and above.
An inspiring contemporary account of semantic and cognitive issues that is worth reading.
Table of Contents:
Part I Introduction
Words and Meaning
Towards a New Account of Word Meaning
Cognitive Linguistics
Word Meaning in LCCM Theory
Part II Lexical Representation
Symbolic Units
Semantic Structure
Lexical Concepts
Polysemy
Conceptual Structure
Cognitive Models
Part III Compositional Semantics
Lexical Concept Selection
Lexical Concept Integration
Interpretation
Part IV Figurative Language and Thought
Metaphor and Metonymy
The Semantics of Time
Part V Conclusions
LCCM Theory in Context
References
Index
