Search: ____________________ in [All Catalogue] [go-en.gif]-Submit Power Search Please, visit our classical music shop Antiques & Collectibles Architecture Art Biography & Autobiography Body, Mind & Spirit Business & Economics Comics & Graphic Novels Computers Cooking Crafts & Hobbies Drama Education Family & Relationships Fiction Foreign Language Study Games Gardening Health & Fitness History House & Home Humor Juvenile Books Language Arts & Disciplines Law Literary Collections Literary Criticism Mathematics Medical Music Nature Non-Classifiable Performing Arts Periodicals Pets Philosophy Photography Poetry Political Science Psychology Recorded Music Reference Religion Science Self-Help Social Science Sports & Recreation Study Aids Technology Transportation Travel True Crime [0521424429.jpg] Zoom image Eve E. Sweetser: From Etymology to Pragmatics: Metaphorical and Cultural Aspects of Semantic Stucture Quality Paperback, 188 pages Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (Paperback) Released: July 1991 ISBN: 0521424429 Usually ships in 2-3 weeks Our price without VAT: EUR32.29 Our price with VAT: EUR33.90 Related links: - Sweetser, Eve E. - Language Arts & Disciplines > Semantics - Language Arts & Disciplines > Linguistics This book offers a new approach to the analysis of the multiple meanings of English modals, conjunctions, conditionals, and perception verbs. Although such ambiguities cannot easily be accounted for by feature-analyses of word meaning, Eve Sweetser's argument shows that they can be analyzed both readily and systematically. Meaning relationships in general cannot be understood independently of human cognitive structure, including the metaphorical and cultural aspects of that structure. Sweetser shows that both lexical polysemy and pragmatic ambiguity are shaped by our metaphorical folk understanding of epistemic processes and of speech interaction. Similar regularities can be shown to structure the contrast among root, epistemic and speech act uses of modal verbs, multiple uses of conjunctions and conditionals, and certain processes of historical change observed in Indo-European languages. Since polysemy is typically the intermediate step in semantic change, the same regularities observable in polysemy can be extended to an analysis of semantic change. E-mail a Friend About This Book Inform your friend about this book and help us hold our prices low. We do not spend money of our customers for advertising but we rely mainly on personal referencies. Continue About Books.MusicaBona.Com Privacy Policy Security Discounts Free Shipping Contacts Currency: GBP EUR © 2003-2005, Musica Bona, s.r.o.