The Oxford Handbook of the Word
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 17 August 2017
- ISBN 9780198808633
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages886 pages
- Size 244x170 mm
- Weight 1502 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This handbook addresses words in all their multifarious aspects and brings together scholars from every relevant discipline to do so. The many subjects covered include word frequencies, lexical borrowing, word origins and change, place and personal names, word acquisition and bilingualism, and word games and puzzles.
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This handbook addresses words in all their multifarious aspects and brings together scholars from every relevant discipline to do so. The many subjects covered include word frequencies; sounds and sound symbolism; the structure of words; taboo words; lexical borrowing; words in dictionaries and thesauri; word origins and change; place and personal names; nicknames; taxonomies; word acquisition and bilingualism; words in the mind; word disorders; and word games, puns, and puzzles.
Words are the most basic of all linguistic units, the aspect of language of which everyone is likely to be most conscious. A 'new' word that makes it into the OED is prime news; when baby says its first word its parents reckon it has started to speak; knowing a language is often taken to mean knowing its words; and languages are seen to be related by the similarities between their words. Up to the twentieth century linguistic description was mainly an account of words and all the current subdivisions of linguistics have something to say about them. A notable feature of human languages is the sheer vastness of their word inventories, and scholars and writers have sometimes deliberately increased the richness of their languages by coining or importing new items into their word-hoards. The book presents scholarship and research in a manner that meets the interests of students and professionals and satisfies the curiosity of the educated reader.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
PART I WORDS: GENERAL ASPECTS
The lure of words
How many words are there?
Words and dictionaries
Words and thesauri
Word frequencies
Word length
Multi-word items
Words and their neighbours
PART II WORDS AND LINGUISTIC THEORY
The structure of words
Word categories
The word and syntax
The prosodic word
The word as a universal category
Taboo words
Sound symbolism
PART III MEANINGS, REFERENTS, AND CONCEPTS
Word meaning
Words as names for objects, actions, relations, and properties
Terminologies and taxonomies
Lexical relations
Comparing lexicons cross-linguistically
Words as carriers of cultural meaning
PART IV WORDS IN TIME AND SPACE
Etymology
How words and vocabularies change
Lexical borrowing
Lexical layers
PART V WORDS IN THE MIND
Word associations
Accessing words from the mental lexicon
The bilingual lexicon
Words and neuropsychological disorders
PART VI WORDS IN ACQUISITION LEARNING
First words
How infants find words
Roger Brown's 'original word game'
Which words do you need?
Words in second language learning and teaching
PART VII NAMES
Names
Personal names
Place and other names
Nicknames
Choosing a name: how name givers' feelings influence their selections
PART VIII FUN WITH WORDS
Funny words: verbal humour
Word puzzles
A FINAL WORD
Why are we so sure we know what a word is?
References
Index of Languages
Subject Index
