Antonyms in English
Subtitle: construals, constructions and canonicity
By: Steven Jones... [et al.].
Series: Studies in English language
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambrige; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780521761796
Subjects: English language; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General; Synonyms and antonyms
Description: "The study of antonyms (or 'opposites') in a language can provide important insight into word meaning and discourse structures. This book provides an extensive investigation of antonyms in English and offers an innovative model of how we mentally organize concepts and how we perceive contrasts between them. The authors use corpus and experimental methods to build a theoretical picture of the antonym relation, its status in the mind and its construal in context. Evidence is drawn from natural antonym use in speech and writing, first-language antonym acquisition, and controlled elicitation and judgements of antonym pairs by native speakers. The book also proposes ways in which a greater knowledge of how antonyms work can be applied to the fields of language technology and lexicography"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Antonymy and antonyms; 2. Antonyms in context; 3. Antonyms and canonicity; 4. Antonyms in acquisition; 5. Antonyms and negation; 6. Antonyms as constructions; 7. The cognitive construal account; 8. Conclusions - looking backward, looking forward.