How Words Mean: Lexical Concepts, Cognitive Models, and Meaning Construction
- ISBN-10
- 0199234663
- ISBN-13
- 9780199234660
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 377
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-09-10
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press on Demand
- Author
- Vyvyan Evans
Description
In this book, Vyvyan Evans builds a framework for the understanding and analysis of meaning that is at once descriptively adequate and psychologically plausible. In so doing he also addresses current issues in lexical semantics and semantic compositionality, polysemy, figurative language, and the semantics of time and space.
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