Cornelia Zelinsky Wibbelt Livres

This edition gives an explanatory account of language which is intrinsically related to psychological models of the human mind. The commitment to language as a cognitive system enables the explanation of many linguistic phenomena, such as the acquisition, storage, and retrieval of linguistic information, as a memory effect. The authors of this volume explain these phenomena by investigating the architecture of language and memory, the representation of concepts and their linguistic structures in the mental lexicon as well as their neural basis, and, finally, the role of memory in language comprehension.

The common aim of the contributions to this volume is to shed light on the communication of conceptual structures. The papers investigate how speakers rely on the same cognitive dispositions in three different areas of transfer: in the lexicalization of metonymies and metaphors; in intercultural communication; and in expert-lay communication.

InhaltsverzeichnisI-IV -- Preface -- List of figures -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Philosophical issues in reference and truth -- Chapter 3. Psychological theories of reference and categorization -- Chapter 4. Selecting the psychological model of reference -- Chapter 5. Representing mental categorization -- Chapter 6. Domains of the conceptual type hierarchy -- Chapter 7. Representing discourse domains -- Chapter 8. Metonymy and metaphor as universals -- Chapter 9. Contextual functions -- Chapter 10 Representing token vs. type reference -- Chapter 11. General conclusions and perspectives -- References -- Index

Von semantischen und psycholinguistischen Theoriebildungen ausgehend werden submorphematische Einheiten des Englischen systematisch im Hinblick auf ihre semantische Belastung untersucht. Das semantisch klassifizierte Corpus wird durch automatische Clusteranalyse strukturiert. Eine Regressionsanalyse zeigt die Systemhaftigkeit der semantischen Belastung englischer Submorpheme als statistische Tendenz.