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Publication details [#39691]

Deane, Paul D. 1988. Polysemy and cognition. Lingua 75 (4) : 325–361.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognition | polysemy | relevance

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper argues that a mix of Anderson's theory of cognitive architecture, Sperber and Wilson's relevance concept, and Lakoff and Johnson's theory of image schemas, allows to explain many properties of polysemy.