The Development of the Concept of SMELL in American English : : A Usage-Based View of Near-Synonymy / / 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...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XVIII, 270 p.) |
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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 |
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Summary: | 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. |
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. |