Synonyms in corpus texts. Conceptualisation and construction
- Conventional descriptions of synonymous items often concentrate on common semantic traits and the degree of semantic overlap they exhibit. Their aim is to offer classifications of synonymy rather than elucidating ways of establishing contextual meaning equivalence and the cognitive prerequisites for this. Generally, they lack explanations as to how synonymy is construed in actual language use. This paper investigates principles and cognitive devices of synonymy construction as they appear in corpus data, and focuses on questions of how meaning equivalence might be conceptualised by speakers.
Author: | Petra StorjohannGND |
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ISBN: | 978-90-272-3138-3 |
Parent Title (English): | Lexical-Semantic Relations. Theoretical and practical perspectives |
Series (Serial Number): | Lingvisticae Investigationes Supplementa (28) |
Publisher: | Benjamins |
Place of publication: | Amsterdam |
Editor: | Petra Storjohann |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Year of first Publication: | 2010 |
Date of Publication (online): | 2016/06/15 |
First Page: | 69 |
Last Page: | 94 |
DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 410 Linguistik |
Open Access?: | nein |
Licence (German): | Urheberrechtlich geschützt |