TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pettersson-Traba,Daniela
TI  - The Development of the Concept of SMELL in American English: A Usage-Based View of Near-Synonymy 
T2  - Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] ,
SN  - 9783110792201
U1  - 427.973 
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
KW  - Bedeutungswandel
KW  - Geruch
KW  - Kognitive Linguistik
KW  - Kollokation
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Collocation
KW  - Near-Synonymy
KW  - SMELL
KW  - Semantic Change
N1  - 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; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110792294
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