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 of the five semantic traditions.
Theories of Lexical Semantics offers a comprehensive overview of
the major traditions of word meaning research in linguistics. In
spite of the growing importance of the lexicon in linguistic
theory, no overview of the main theoretical trends in lexical
semantics is currently available. This book fills that gap by
charting the evolution of the discipline from the mid nineteenth
century to the present day. It presents the main ideas, the
landmark publications, and the
dominant figures of five traditions: historical-philological
semantics, structuralist semantics, generativist semantics,
neostructuralist semantics, and cognitive semantics. The
theoretical and methodological relationship between the approaches
is a major point of attention throughout the text: going well
beyond a
mere chronological enumeration, the book does not only describe the
theoretical currents of lexical semantics, but also the
undercurrents that have shaped ist evolution.
Ausstattung/Bilder: ca. 384 p., Figures - 246 x 171 mm
Seitenzahl: 341
Englisch
Abmessung: 246mm x 175mm x 25mm
Gewicht: 794g
ISBN-13: 9780198700302
ISBN-10: 019870030X
Best.Nr.: 28530179
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 Clara Molina, The Linguist List
