The Development of the Concept of SMELL in American English : : A Usage-Based View of Near-Synonymy / / Daniela Pettersson-Traba.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Pettersson-Traba, Daniela,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] , 51
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XVIII, 270 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; List of figures --; List of tables --; List of abbreviations --; 1 Introduction --; 2 Synonymy --; 3 The concept pleasant smelling --; 4 Semasiological and onomasiological analyses of the synonym set --; 5 In-depth onomasiological analysis of the synonym set: A multivariate approach --; 6 Idiosyncratic collocational preferences of the near-synonyms --; 7 The concept pleasant smelling: A victim of societal change? --; 8 Concluding remarks and suggestions for future research --; List of references and sources --; Appendix --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110792294; 9783110766820; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110993707; 9783110993684
• ISSN: 1861-4078
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110792294
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Daniela Pettersson-Traba.

The last decades have witnessed a renewed interest in near-synonymy. In particular, recent distributional corpus-based approaches used for semantic analysis have successfully uncovered subtle distinctions in meaning between near-synonyms. However, most studies have dealt with the semantic structure of sets of near-synonyms from a synchronic perspective, while their diachronic evolution generally has been neglected. Against this backdrop, the aim of this book is to examine five adjectival near-synonyms in the history of American English from the understudied semantic domain of SMELL: fragrant, perfumed, scented, sweet-scented, and sweet-smelling. Their distribution is analyzed across a wide range of contexts, including semantic, morphosyntactic, and stylistic ones, since distributional patterns of this type serve as a proxy for semantic (dis)similarity. The data is submitted to various univariate and multivariate statistical techniques, making it possible to uncover fine-grained (dis)similarities among the near-synonyms, as well as possible changes in their prototypical structures. The book sheds valuable light on the diachronic development of lexical near-synonyms, a dimension that has up to now been relatively disregarded.