The Development of the Concept of SMELL in American English : A Usage-Based View of Near-Synonymy /
Pettersson-Traba, Daniela
The Development of the Concept of SMELL in American English : A Usage-Based View of Near-Synonymy / Daniela Pettersson-Traba. - 1 online resource (XVIII, 270 p.) - Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] , 51 1861-4078 ; .
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Synonymy -- 3 The concept pleasant smelling -- 4 Semasiological and onomasiological analyses of the synonym set -- 5 In-depth onomasiological analysis of the synonym set: A multivariate approach -- 6 Idiosyncratic collocational preferences of the near-synonyms -- 7 The concept pleasant smelling: A victim of societal change? -- 8 Concluding remarks and suggestions for future research -- List of references and sources -- Appendix -- Index
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The last decades have witnessed a renewed interest in near-synonymy. In particular, recent distributional corpus-based approaches used for semantic analysis have successfully uncovered subtle distinctions in meaning between near-synonyms. However, most studies have dealt with the semantic structure of sets of near-synonyms from a synchronic perspective, while their diachronic evolution generally has been neglected. Against this backdrop, the aim of this book is to examine five adjectival near-synonyms in the history of American English from the understudied semantic domain of SMELL: fragrant, perfumed, scented, sweet-scented, and sweet-smelling. Their distribution is analyzed across a wide range of contexts, including semantic, morphosyntactic, and stylistic ones, since distributional patterns of this type serve as a proxy for semantic (dis)similarity. The data is submitted to various univariate and multivariate statistical techniques, making it possible to uncover fine-grained (dis)similarities among the near-synonyms, as well as possible changes in their prototypical structures. The book sheds valuable light on the diachronic development of lexical near-synonyms, a dimension that has up to now been relatively disregarded.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9783110792201 9783110792362 9783110792294
10.1515/9783110792294 doi
Bedeutungswandel.
Geruch.
Kognitive Linguistik.
Kollokation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
Collocation. Near-Synonymy. SMELL. Semantic Change.
427.973
The Development of the Concept of SMELL in American English : A Usage-Based View of Near-Synonymy / Daniela Pettersson-Traba. - 1 online resource (XVIII, 270 p.) - Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] , 51 1861-4078 ; .
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Synonymy -- 3 The concept pleasant smelling -- 4 Semasiological and onomasiological analyses of the synonym set -- 5 In-depth onomasiological analysis of the synonym set: A multivariate approach -- 6 Idiosyncratic collocational preferences of the near-synonyms -- 7 The concept pleasant smelling: A victim of societal change? -- 8 Concluding remarks and suggestions for future research -- List of references and sources -- Appendix -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
The last decades have witnessed a renewed interest in near-synonymy. In particular, recent distributional corpus-based approaches used for semantic analysis have successfully uncovered subtle distinctions in meaning between near-synonyms. However, most studies have dealt with the semantic structure of sets of near-synonyms from a synchronic perspective, while their diachronic evolution generally has been neglected. Against this backdrop, the aim of this book is to examine five adjectival near-synonyms in the history of American English from the understudied semantic domain of SMELL: fragrant, perfumed, scented, sweet-scented, and sweet-smelling. Their distribution is analyzed across a wide range of contexts, including semantic, morphosyntactic, and stylistic ones, since distributional patterns of this type serve as a proxy for semantic (dis)similarity. The data is submitted to various univariate and multivariate statistical techniques, making it possible to uncover fine-grained (dis)similarities among the near-synonyms, as well as possible changes in their prototypical structures. The book sheds valuable light on the diachronic development of lexical near-synonyms, a dimension that has up to now been relatively disregarded.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9783110792201 9783110792362 9783110792294
10.1515/9783110792294 doi
Bedeutungswandel.
Geruch.
Kognitive Linguistik.
Kollokation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
Collocation. Near-Synonymy. SMELL. Semantic Change.
427.973