Colouring Meaning
Collocation and connotation in figurative language
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Primarily focused on idioms and other figurative phraseology, Colouring Meaning describes how the meanings of established phrases are enhanced, refocused and modified in everyday language use. Unlike many studies of creativity in language, this book-length survey addresses the matter at several levels, from the purely linguistic level of collocation, through its abstractions in colligation and semantic preference, to semantic prosody and connotation. This journey through both linguistic and cognitive levels involves the examination of habitual language and its exploitations, both mundane and colourful, explaining the phenomena observed in terms of current psycholinguistic research as well as corpus linguistics theory and analysis. The relationships between meaning in text and meaning in the mind are discussed at length and extensively illustrated with worked case studies to offer the reader a comprehensive overview of metaphorical and other secondary meanings as they emerge in real-world communicative situations.
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 43] 2011. xiii, 232 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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List of tables and figures | pp. xi–xii
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Acknowledgements | p. xiii
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chapter 1 A search for meanings | pp. 1–13
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chapter 2 Idioms and idiomaticity | pp. 15–33
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chapter 3 Co(n)text and meaning | pp. 35–82
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chapter 4 Words in usual collocations: Delexicalisation | pp. 83–107
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chapter 5 Phrases in context: Relexicalisation | pp. 109–141
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chapter 6 Variation, metaphor and semantic association | pp. 143–165
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chapter 7 Punning, word play and other linguistic special effects | pp. 167–196
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chapter 8 Words and meanings | pp. 197–210
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Appendix | pp. 221–224
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Author index | pp. 225–226
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Examples index | pp. 227–228
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Subject index | pp. 229–232
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General