Cognitive Lexicography

A New Approach to Lexicography Making Use of Cognitive Semantics
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-3-11-042744-8
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Deutsch, Band 149, 380 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 842 g

Reihe: Lexicographica. Series Maior

English lexicography and linguistics have always shared close ties, yet the potential of cognitive linguistics for lexicography has only been hesitantly acknowledged in the literature. This is what cognitive lexicography attempts to change by using insights gained in cognitive semantic research for the development of new dictionary features. After a short survey of the history and practice of English monolingual learner lexicography, as well as an outline of the relationship between linguistics and lexicography, three new dictionary features are developed. They cover three different cognitive semantic theories as well as three different parts of the monolingual dictionary entry, each time for a new set of lexemes. Frame semantics, conceptual metaphor theory, as well as cognitive conceptions of polysemy, are used to create a new example section for agentive nouns, a new defining structure for emotion terms and a new microstructural arrangement for particle entries. Dictionary analyses on all, as well as user studies on two of the features, complement these suggestions. The monograph thus presents a new approach to lexicography that incorporates into its description of lexical items how humans perceive and conceptualise language.

Zielgruppe

Lexikographen, Sprachwissenschaftler, Bibliotheken, Institute / Lexicographers, Linguists, Institutes, Libraries

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ostermann, Carolin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Lexikologie, Lexikographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition

Über Autor(innen)

Carolin Ostermann, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

Carolin Ostermann, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.