Cognitive Linguistics has given a major impetus to the study of
semantics and the lexicon. The present volume brings together
seventeen previously published papers that testify to the
fruitfulness of Cognitive Linguistics for the study of lexical and
semantic topics. Spanning the period from the late 1980s to recent
years, the collection features a number of papers that may be
considered classics within the field of cognitive linguistic
lexicology. The papers are grouped in thematic sections. The first
section deals with prototypicality as a theoretical and practical
model of semantic description. The second section discusses
polysemy and criteria for distinguishing between meanings. The
third section tackles questions of meaning description beyond the
level of words, on the level of idioms and constructions. The
following section casts the net even wider, dealing with the
cultural aspects of meaning. Moving away from the theoretical and
descriptive perspective towards applied concerns, the fifth section
looks at lexicography from the point of view of Cognitive
Linguistics. The final section has a metatheoretical orientation:
it discusses the history and methodology of lexical semantics. Each
paper is preceded by a newly written introduction that situates the
text against the period in which it was first published, but that
also points to further developments, in the author's own research
or in Cognitive Linguistics at large. The variety of topics dealt
with make this book an excellent introduction to the broad field of
lexicological and lexical semantic research.
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