Brigitte Nerlich

List of John Benjamins publications for which Brigitte Nerlich plays a role.

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Subjects History of linguistics | Pragmatics
Subjects History of linguistics | Semantics
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a climate change mitigation technology which has had a rather chequered history in British policy making and in the British public sphere. This article deals with the neglected topic of representations of CCS in the British media and their possible impact on… read more
Bird flu, otherwise known as avian influenza, has attracted widespread public and global attention. The H5N1 avian influenza virus was first documented as infecting humans in Hong Kong in 1997 and many of those infected died subsequently from the virus that had been transmitted from poultry to… read more
Nerlich, Brigitte and David D. Clarke 2009 Wilhelm von HumboldtCulture and Language Use, Senft, Gunter, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 173–184 | Article
Nerlich, Brigitte and Pedro José Chamizo Domínguez 2003 The use of literally: Vice or virtue?Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 1, Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José (ed.), pp. 193–206 | Article
Nerlich, Brigitte 2002 Vivien Law – Some memoriesHistoriographia Linguistica 29:1/2, pp. 15–16 | Miscellaneous
Nerlich, Brigitte and David D. Clarke 2001 Serial metonymy: A study of reference-based polysemisationJournal of Historical Pragmatics 2:2, pp. 245–272 | Article
Metonymy has been studied for at least two thousand years by rhetoricians, for two hundred years by historical semanticists, and for about ten years by cognitive linguists. However, they all have neglected one peculiar aspect of metonymy: its serial nature. Metonymic chains are either synchronic… read more
In the 1930s lexical semantics came under the influence of Saussurean structuralism and Gestalt psychology. The study of whole lexical fields and the structure of these fields replaced a historical semantics focusing on single words and the classification of the transitions between the meanings… read more
Nerlich, Brigitte 2000 Review of Fritz (1998): Historische SemantikJournal of Historical Pragmatics 1:1, pp. 151–160 | Review
Nerlich, Brigitte 1999 “Mummy, I like being a sandwich”: Metonymy in Language AcquisitionMetonymy in Language and Thought, Panther, Klaus-Uwe and Günter Radden (eds.), pp. 361–384 | Article
Nerlich, Brigitte and David D. Clarke 1999 Wilhelm von HumboldtHandbook of Pragmatics: 1997 Installment, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
Nerlich, Brigitte and David D. Clarke 1997 Polysemy: Patterns of meaning and patterns in historyHistoriographia Linguistica 24:3, pp. 349–385 | Article
40 years ago Stephen Ullmann wrote that polysemy was the pivot of semantics. He was referring then to traditional synchronic and diachronic semantics. Nowadays, some 40 years later, polysemy has again become a central topic in cognitive semantics. This article traces the history of this important… read more
The 1930s were a time of immense cultural and scientific activity. It is well known that this was the time when structuralism made its appearance on the linguistic scene. It is generally less well known that this was also a time when a great number of books and articles dealing with ‘pragmatic’… read more
This article is intended to fill a gap in the history of semantics and the history of the psychology of language in England at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. The work of the psychologist and philosopher George Frederick Stout (1860–1944) is analysed, focusing on an article on ‘thought… read more