Where Words Get their Meaning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Where Words Get their Meaning write by Marianna Bolognesi. This book was released on 2020-11-15. Where Words Get their Meaning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Words are not just labels for conceptual categories. Words construct conceptual categories, frame situations and influence behavior. Where do they get their meaning? This book describes how words acquire their meaning. The author argues that mechanisms based on associations, pattern detection, and feature matching processes explain how words acquire their meaning from experience and from language alike. Such mechanisms are summarized by the distributional hypothesis, a computational theory of meaning originally applied to word occurrences only, and hereby extended to extra-linguistic contexts. By arguing in favor of the cognitive foundations of the distributional hypothesis, which suggests that words that appear in similar contexts have similar meaning, this book offers a theoretical account for word meaning construction and extension in first and second language that bridges empirical findings from cognitive and computer sciences. Plain language and illustrations accompany the text, making this book accessible to a multidisciplinary academic audience.
Words and Their Meaning
Words and Their Meaning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Words and Their Meaning write by Howard Jackson. This book was released on 2014-06-03. Words and Their Meaning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, the development of the English dictionary is examined, along with the kinds of dictionary available, the range of information they contain, factors affecting their usage, and public attitudes towards them. As well as an descriptive analysis of word meaning, the author considers whether a thematic, thesaurus-like presentation might be more suited than the traditional alphabetical format to the description of words and their meaning.
When Words Lose Their Meaning
When Words Lose Their Meaning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook When Words Lose Their Meaning write by James Boyd White. This book was released on 2012-12-21. When Words Lose Their Meaning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through fresh readings of texts ranging from Homer's Iliad, Swift's Tale of a Tub, and Austen's Emma through the United States Constitution and McCulloch v. Maryland, James Boyd White examines the relationship between an individual mind and its language and culture as well as the "textual community" established between writer and audience. These striking textual analyses develop a rhetoric—a "way of reading" that can be brought to any text but that, in broader terms, becomes a way of learning that can shape the reader's life. "In this ambitious and demanding work of literary criticism, James Boyd White seeks to communicate 'a sense of reading in a new and different way.' . . . [White's] marriage of lawyerly acumen and classically trained literary sensibility—equally evident in his earlier work, The Legal Imagination—gives the best parts of When Words Lose Their Meaning a gravity and moral earnestness rare in the pages of contemporary literary criticism."—Roger Kimball, American Scholar "James Boyd White makes a state-of-the-art attempt to enrich legal theory with the insights of modern literary theory. Of its kind, it is a singular and standout achievement. . . . [White's] selections span the whole range of legal, literary, and political offerings, and his writing evidences a sustained and intimate experience with these texts. Writing with natural elegance, White manages to be insightful and inciteful. Throughout, his timely book is energized by an urgent love of literature and law and their liberating potential. His passion and sincerity are palpable."—Allan C. Hutchinson, Yale Law Journal "Undeniably a unique and significant work. . . . When Words Lose Their Meaning is a rewarding book by a distinguished legal scholar. It is a showcase for the most interesting sort of inter-disciplinary work: the kind that brings together from traditionally separate fields not so much information as ideas and approaches."—R. B. Kershner, Jr., Georgia Review
Words Without Meaning
Words Without Meaning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Words Without Meaning write by Christopher Gauker. This book was released on 2003. Words Without Meaning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A critique of, and alternative to, the received view of linguistic communication.
Semantic Antics
Semantic Antics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Semantic Antics write by Sol Steinmetz. This book was released on 2009-02-04. Semantic Antics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "My favorite popular word book of the year" -William Safire, NY Times 6/22/2008 A fun, new approach to examining etymology! Many common English words started out with an entirely different meaning than the one we know today. For example: The word adamant came into English around 855 C.E. as a synonym for 'diamond,' very different from today's meaning of the word: "utterly unyielding in attitude or opinion." Before the year 1200, the word silly meant "blessed," and was derived from Old English saelig, meaning "happy." This word went through several incarnations before adopting today's meaning: "stupid or foolish." In Semantic Antics, lexicographer Sol Steinmetz takes readers on an in-depth, fascinating journey to learn how hundreds of words have evolved from their first meaning to the meanings used today.
