Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 500 g
Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 500 g
Reihe: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory
ISBN: 978-90-272-3513-8
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
This study represents a contribution to the theory of meaning in natural language. It proposes a semantic theory containing a set of regular relational principles. These principles enable semantic theory to describe connections from the lexical reading of a word to its figurative contextual reading, from one variant reading of a polysemous lexical item to another, from the idiomatic to its literal reading or to the literal reading(s) of one or more of its component lexical items. Semiotic theory provides a foundation by supplying principles defining motivated expression-content relations for signs generally. The author argues that regular semantic relational principles must dervive from such semiotic principles, to ensures the psychological reality and generality of the semantic principles.
