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Semantic profiles of antonymic adjectives in discourse

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

This study has two goals: Firstly, to give an account of the semantic organization of individually used antonymic adjectives in discourse, and secondly, based on these finding, and previous work on antonymic meanings, contribute to a comprehensive theoretical account of their representation within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics. The hypothesis is that the members of the pairs are used in the same contexts and in the same type of constructions, not only when they co-occur and are used to express binary opposition as shown in previous work, but also otherwise. The manually coded corpus data from the BNC are analyzed along four semantic parameters: (i) the configuration of the adjectives in terms of gradability, (ii) the way they modify the nominal meanings, i.e. attributively or predicatively (iii) the meaning type of the modified nouns, and (iv) the status of the constructions with respect to whether their meanings are what we refer to as ‘basic’, metaphorical or metonymical. Multi-dimensional correspondence analysis technique is used to identify similarity spaces on the basis of the totality of the data. As predicted, our findings confirm a high degree of pairwise similarity – and some differences. On the basis of these results, it can be argued that the long-standing controversy within Structuralism between proponents of the co-occurrence hypothesis and the substitutability hypothesis in antonym research is a non-issue.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2015

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

153-191

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Linguistics

Volym

53

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

De Gruyter

Ämne

  • Languages and Literature

Nyckelord

  • Opposition
  • gradability
  • nominal meaning
  • metaphor
  • metonymy
  • literal
  • scalar
  • corpus
  • adjectives
  • English
  • semantics
  • noun
  • attributive
  • figurative
  • syntagmatic
  • paradigmatic
  • substitution hypothesis
  • co-occurrence hypothesis

Status

Published

Projekt

  • How the human mind makes use of contraries in everyday life: A new multidimensional approach to contraries in perception, language, reasoning and emotions
  • CONTRAST in language, thought and memory

Forskningsgrupp

  • Language, Cognition and Discourse@Lund (LCD@L)

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1613-396X