Colouring Meaning

Name: Colouring Meaning | Collocation and connotation in figurative language
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Collocation and connotation in figurative language

Gill Philip(Autor*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 23. Februar 2011

XIII, 232 Seiten

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Colouring Meaning
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
dedication page
Table of contents
List of tables and figures
Acknowledgements
1. A search for meanings
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Meanings and words
1.3 Words, collocations, phrases
1.4 Meaning in the mind
1.5 Meanings in use
1.6 Navigating variation
2. Idioms and idiomaticity
2.1 What is an idiom?
2.2 Idioms and collocations
2.3 A search for meaning(s) in idioms and metaphorical collocations
2.4 Into the wide blue yonder
3. Co(n)text and meaning
3.1 The idiom principle
3.2 Extended units of meaning
3.3 Collocation
3.4 Grammatical and lexical abstractions
3.5 Secondary semantics
3.6 Semantic prosody (i), a.k.a. semantic association
3.7 Semantic prosody (ii): Discourse and pragmatic functions
3.8 Idioms and the idiom principle
4. Words in usual collocations
4.1 Meanings that come out in the wash
4.2 From origin to use
4.3 Caught red-handed
4.4 Once in a blue moon
4.5 Passando la notte in bianco
4.6 Salient meaning, phraseology and delexicalisation
4.7 Out of the frying pan.
5. Phrases in context
5.1 Variation inside the unit of meaning
5.2 Colligational preference and modification
5.3 Semantic preference and re-metaphorisation
5.4 Relexicalisation
5.5 Metaphor and re-metaphorisation
5.6 Semantic preference, variation, and "imageable" idioms
5.7 Toeing the line
6. Variation, metaphor and semantic association
6.1 Don't count your chickens.
6.2 Variation of key constituents
6.3 Variation of hue: Emphatic nuances in the expression of emotion
6.4 Variation of tone: Ameliorative and pejorative nuances
6.5 Variation of saturation: Emphasis and defocusing
6.6 Culturally constructed colour scales
6.7 Pandora's box
7. Punning, word play and other linguistic special effects
7.1 Optimal innovation
7.2 Changes to the canonical form
7.3 Expansion, addition and combination
7.4 Canonical forms in non-canonical cotext
7.5 More on seeing red/blue/green.
7.6 The grass is always greener.
7.7 The effects of variation
8. Words and meanings
8.1 A few words about meaning
8.2 Meaning what you say vs. saying what you mean
8.3 Meanings in words
8.4 Famous last words
References
Appendix
Author index
Examples index
Subject index
The series Studies in Corpus Linguistics

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