ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD POLYSEMY
From New Latin polysēmia, from Greek polusēmos having many meanings, from poly- + sēma a sign.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POLYSEMY»
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polysemy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
polysemy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Polysemy: Flexible Patterns of Meaning in Mind and Language
Review text: "To end on a personal note, I hope that Polysemy: Flexible Patterns of Meaning in Mind and Language will provoke a number of discussions in related fields, leading to a number of interesting findings and the development of ...
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The Semantics of
Polysemy: Reading Meaning in English and ...
Biographical note: Nick Riemer is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, University of Sydney, Australia.
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From
Polysemy to Semantic Change: Towards a Typology of ...
This book is the result of a joint project on lexical and semantic typology which gathered together field linguists, semanticists, cognitivists, typologists, and an NLP specialist.
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Polysemy : Theoretical and Computational Approaches: ...
This volume of newly commissioned essays examines current theoretical and computational work on polysemy, the term used in semantic analysis to describe words with more than one meaning or function, sometimes perhaps related (as in plain) ...
Yael Ravin, Claudia Leacock, 2000
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Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected Papers from the ...
The papers in this volume illustrate the importance of polysemy in describing these various categories.
H. Cuyckens, Britta Zawada, 2001
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From Cognitive Semantics to Lexical Pragmatics: The ...
In work carried out principally at the University of Bielefeld, Fischer examines small items in English such as yes, yeah, oh, or well and in German such as ja, also, ne, oh or ach, which are grammatically peripheral but may fulfill a broad ...
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The cognitive basis of
polysemy: new sources of evidence for ...
The volume aims to explore the relationship between the theoretical modelling and the mental representation of the perceived multiplicity of lexical meanings.
Marina Rakova, Gergely Pethő, Csilla Rákosi, 2007
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Metaphor Processing and
Polysemy
This study investigated the claims of career of metaphor hypothesis (Gentner and Bowdle, 2001; Bowdle and Gentner, 2005) and dual reference theory (Glucksberg and Haught, 2006a; 2006b) regarding the role of comparison and categorization in ...
Bahriye Selin Gokcesu, 2007
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Discourse Markers in Colombian Spanish: A Study in
Polysemy
This book applies the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach to analyze a set of four discourse markers (bueno, pues, o sea, entonces), as used in a corpus of conversational Colombian Spanish.
Catherine E. Travis, 2005
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Words and Other Wonders: Papers on Lexical and Semantic Topics
Originally published in Cognitive Linguistics 1993, 4: 223-272. Polysemy is the
basic phenomenon in lexical meaning structures, and arguably the basic
contribution of Cognitive Linguistics to lexicology is the renewed attention for the
structure ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POLYSEMY»
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polysemy is used in the context of the following news items.
Back then, and now – just who is David Bowie?
The answer is never a simple one: his polysemy and contradictory and challenging masks render him a figure of diversity and confusion ... «The Conversation AU, Jul 15»
The English language is a circle with no circumference
Quandary IV is polysemy, or multiple meanings. So far we've encountered figure as a number, as well as a verb. Just as skim can mean to read ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jun 15»
Chemical doublespeak
There is potential for mischievous metaphor with polysemy, particularly when both senses are simultaneously apparent. The double-meanings ... «Nature.com, Jun 15»
Polysemic Language, Democratization, and the Empowerment of …
Through polysemy, the body politic, reader, and spectator are exhorted to “play” with the “third thing,” or this interpretable, exterior medium. By grappling with ... «Student Pulse, Jun 15»
YouTube Millionaires: For Racka Racka, “The Whole Process Is …
RackaRacka is a polysemy. There's about 5 meanings to the name. I'll give you one meaning; the double “Racka” represents my brother and I ... «Tubefilter, Jun 15»
?Pawing? at a new style
To talk about Sisters-based musician Dalton Moehnke, who records under the name Polysemy, you first must define a couple of words. «Bend Bulletin, May 15»
New algorithm improves computer understanding of text
Two of the biggest problems facing basic computer understanding of human language are synonymy and polysemy (having one word with ... «Dailyuw, May 15»
Principles, anxieties and concern in the Section 66A judgment
The polysemy of digital content threatens law's hegemonic control over singularity in meaning. Concerns: Website Blocking Rules. A crucial ... «The Hindu, Apr 15»
Six lessons on translating the untranslatable
I wish I could have similarly retained the expression gudi in Bharathipura. It is a significant instance of polysemy in the context of the theme; ... «Scroll.in, Mar 15»
A View from Burnaby Mountain: Naomi Klein's This Changes …
Positioning one's voice at the head of this march and this movement requires a book that allows for a certain polysemy and ambivalence of ... «Socialist Project, Mar 15»
