Sovran T. Relational Semantics and the Anatomy of Abstraction

Routledge, 2013. — xii,187 p.— (Routledge Studies in Linguistics). — ISBN: 978--0-203-79472-2.
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This book presents a study of meaning relations, linking the philosophical tradition of conceptual analysis with recent theories and methodologies in cognitive semantics. Its main concern is the extent to which analyzing meaning relations between cognate words reveal the infrastructure of the actual and mental lexicon, assuming that language mirrors thought. Sovran aims to elucidate their infrastructure and the metaphorical and perceptual models that constitute abstract concepts, dealing finally with the role of abstraction in poetic metaphors. Overall, this volume addresses major contemporary issues in the philosophy of language and theoretical semantics.List of FiguresBackground and Method
Similarity
Difference
Negativity
Truth
Norm
Abstraction and Poetic MetaphorNotes