From Etymology to Pragmatics
Subtitle: Metaphorical and Cultural Aspects of Semantic Structure (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 26, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780521424424
Subjects: Etymology; Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; Semantics; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines / Semantics; Language Arts & Disciplines-Linguistics; Semantics Semantics
First sentence: As mentioned in chapter 1, recent work on polysemy structures (see Brugman 1988; G. Lakoff 1985) has suggested that a word meaning is a structured and unified entity.