Semantic Extension, Subjectification, and Verbalization
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- ISBN 9780761843276
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 154 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 16 Oct 2008
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Mika Shindo's Semantic Extension, Subjectification, and Verbalization focuses on semantic extensions of sensory adjectives originating in perception. The aims of this book are to provide systematic accounts of semantic extensions of sensory adjectives from a cognitive perspective, and to document the validity of an empirical approach, using panchronic and corpus-based methods. This cognitive and usage-based empirical study uncovers cognitive mechanisms underlying linguistic phenomena, since expressions related to perception originally describe the most fundamental human experiences that are frequently utilized for conceptualizing abstract entities, and adjectives especially reflect human construals of situations. This study reveals that each word's meanings extend in a manner peculiarly restricted by its original cognitive characteristics, firmly rooted in everyday bodily experiences, and that this crucially influences its syntactic structures as well. At the same time, it is a ground-breaking demonstration of the power of computerized corpus research.
Mika Shindo holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Linguistics from Kyoto University. Her corpus research enables empirical diachronic analysis of semantic change. She has been a researcher at Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, and Visiting Scholar at Stanford University's Linguistics Department. She lectures on English at Kyoto University and other universities in the Kyoto area.
