The study of antonyms (or 'opposites') in a language can provide
important insight into word meaning and discourse structures. This
book provides an extensive investigation of antonyms in English and
offers an innovative model of how we mentally organize concepts and
how we perceive contrasts between them. The authors use corpus and
experimental methods to build a theoretical picture of the antonym
relation, its status in the mind and its construal in context.
Evidence is drawn from natural antonym use in speech and writing,
first-language antonym acquisition, and controlled elicitation and
judgements of antonym pairs by native speakers. The book also
proposes ways in which a greater knowledge of how antonyms work can
be applied to the fields of language technology and lexicography.
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