The Development of the Concept of SMELL in American English
de Gruyter Mouton (Verlag)
978-3-11-163182-0 (ISBN)
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.
Daniela Pettersson-Traba, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 09.10.2024 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] ; 51 |
| Zusatzinfo | 25 b/w and 8 col. ill., 67 b/w tbl. |
| Verlagsort | Basel/Berlin/Boston |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 583 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
| Schlagworte | Bedeutungswandel • collocation • Geruch • Kognitive Linguistik • Kollokation • Near-Synonymy • Semantic change • Smell |
| ISBN-10 | 3-11-163182-6 / 3111631826 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-11-163182-0 / 9783111631820 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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