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Wrestling with words and meanings : essays in honour of Keith Allan
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- Creator
- edited by Kate Burridge & Réka Benczes
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Victoria, Australia : Monash University Publishing, 2014
- ©2014
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (450 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781922235329, 1922235326, 1922235318
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Front Cover; Title Page; Imprint Page; Contents; Introduction; Part 1: Words and meanings; Chapter 1: Bastards and buggers - Simon Musgrave and Kate Burridge; 1. Introduction - Swearing in Australian English; 2. 'Buggers' and 'bastards' - A brief history; 3. The data on bastards and buggers; 4. Discussion; References; Chapter 2: Diachronic properties of the lexicon - Olav Kuhn; 1. Introduction; 2. Cognate finding; 3. Subgrouping; 4. Distant relationships; 5. Conclusions; Appendix; References; Chapter 3: The non-redundant nature of English tautological compounds - Reka Benczes; 1. Introduction
- 2. What is a tautological compound?3. Hyponym-superordinate compounds; 4. Synonym compounds; 5. Conclusions; References; Chapter 4: French gender - Margaret H. a Beckett; 1. Introduction; 2. Past accounts; 3. Variations in gender and finale phoneme; 4. From sex to species; 5. Gender: Other semantic features; 6. Gender and terms for human beings; 7. Final sounds/segments and associated semantic features; 8. Dual semantic systems, different semantic domains; 9. Comparison with other noun classification systems; 10. Concluding remarks; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; References
- Chapter 5: Trendy new trends in wine terminology - Adrienne Lehrer1. Semantic concepts; 2. Wine descriptors; 3. Names of wines and wineries; 4. What else is like wine descriptions?; References; Chapter 6: Semantic prosody of hyperbolic adverbial collocations - Jozsef Andor; 1. Introduction; 2. The study; 3. Concluding remarks; References; Part 2: Discourse and pragmatics; Chapter 7: The metaphorical conceptual system in context - Zoltan Kovecses; 1. Introduction; 2. Universality in human knowledge; 3. Context in human knowledge; 4. The contextual groundings of metaphorical concepts
- 5. ConclusionsReferences; Chapter 8: Frightful names - Barry J. Blake; 1. Introductory remarks; 2. Names as inalienable possessions; 3. Names and the power of language; 4. Concluding remarks; References; Chapter 9: On politic behaviour - Finex Ndhlovu; 1. Introduction and background; 2. Brief overview of theoretical framework; 3. Research methods and procedures; 4. Results; 5. Discussion and analysis; 6. Conclusion; References; Chapter 10: Response words are anaphors - Thorstein Fretheim; 1. Anaphora relation; 2. Identifying the content of occurrences of 'yes' and 'no'
- 3. How to distribute positive and negative members of a tripartite response word system4. Norwegian 'jo' is insensitive to the polarity of its linguistic antecedent; 5. Conclusion; References; Chapter 11: Cultural schemas as 'common ground' - Farzad Sharifian; 1. Introduction; 2. Cultural cognition and cultural conceptualisations; 3. Persian cultural schema of 'tarof'; 4. Concluding remarks; References; Chapter 12: Elaborativeness in academic writing - Zofia Golebiowski; 1. Introduction; 2. The corpus; 3. Methodology; 4. Findings; 5. Discussion; 6. Conclusion; References
- Chapter 13: Communication disorders and mental health - Deborah Perrott