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  • Formaat: Hardback, 184 pages, kõrgus x laius: 216x138 mm, kaal: 353 g, 24 Tables, black and white; 23 Halftones, black and white; 23 Illustrations, black and white
  • Sari: Routledge Focus on Linguistics
  • Ilmumisaeg: 08-Oct-2021
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0367461129
  • ISBN-13: 9780367461126
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 184 pages, kõrgus x laius: 216x138 mm, kaal: 353 g, 24 Tables, black and white; 23 Halftones, black and white; 23 Illustrations, black and white
  • Sari: Routledge Focus on Linguistics
  • Ilmumisaeg: 08-Oct-2021
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0367461129
  • ISBN-13: 9780367461126
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Antonyms in Mind and Brain presents a multi-method empirical investigation of opposition with a particular focus on the processing of opposite pairs and their representation in the mental lexicon. Building on recent cognitive accounts of antonymy which highlight the fundamentally conceptual nature of antonymy, this book











outlines previous literature to draw out criteria for good opposites and establish the state of the art on the question whether the strong connection of certain opposite pairs is primarily of a conceptual or lexical nature.





presents a detailed cross-linguistic empirical study combining corpus data, speaker judgements and behavioural experiments for a wide range of central (e.g. big:little) and peripheral (e.g. buy:sell; wife:husband) opposite pairs to establish the contribution of individual factors.





proposes a model of the representation of opposite pairs in the mental lexicon and illustrates how the processing consequences of such a model account for the patterns observed in the data.

The approach taken in this book highlights the importance of using a number of different methods to investigate complex phenomena such as antonymy. Such an approach forms the empirical foundation for a dynamic psycholinguistic model of opposition based on the conventionalisation and entrenchment of the conceptual and lexical relationship of antonyms.
List of figures
xii
List of tables
xiv
List of abbreviations
xvi
Acknowledgements xvii
PART I Theoretical foundations
1(32)
1 Introduction
3(6)
1.1 Background and aims
3(2)
1.2 Focus
5(2)
1.3 Structure of the book
7(2)
2 Previous perspectives on antonymy
9(24)
2.1 What is lexical opposition?
10(1)
2.2 A Structuralist account of opposition
11(5)
2.2.1 Classifications of opposition: Lyons (1977) and Cruse (1986)
12(3)
2.2.2 Criteria for `good' opposites
15(1)
2.3 Opposites in discourse: corpus perspectives
16(5)
2.3.1 Syntactic frames and co-occurrence patterns
17(1)
2.3.2 Semantic range and match of non-propositional meaning
18(1)
2.3.3 Textual functions
19(1)
2.3.4 Antonym order
20(1)
2.3.5 Key contributions of corpus research
21(1)
2.4 Opposites in the mind: a lexical or conceptual relation?
21(5)
2.4.1 A cognitive-pragmatic approach
23(1)
2.4.2 Cognitive proposals
24(2)
2.5 Opposites in the brain: psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic evidence
26(3)
2.5.1 Psycholinguistic investigations
26(2)
2.5.2 Neurolinguistic evidence
28(1)
2.5.3 Key findings of cognitive and psycholinguistic antonym research
28(1)
2.6 Towards a psycholinguistic model of antonymy -- criteria for good antonyms
29(4)
PART II Empirical investigation
33(82)
3 Antonymic and associative strength: evidence from English and German
35(35)
3.1 Antonym selection
35(5)
3.1.1 Type of antonymic relation
36(3)
3.1.2 Morphological relatedness
39(1)
3.1.3 Word class
39(1)
3.1.4 Control items
40(1)
3.2 Corpus data: measuring frequency of co-occurrence
40(1)
3.2.1 Corpora
40(1)
3.2.2 Analysis procedure
41(1)
3.3 Assessing antonymic strength: a judgement task
41(1)
3.3.1 Task and procedure
42(1)
3.3.2 Participants
42(1)
3.4 From best to worst: a judgement task analysis
42(25)
3.4.1 Associative strength as a predictor for antonymic strength
43(2)
3.4.2 Morphological relatedness
45(4)
3.4.3 Gradable opposites: the role of symmetry and conceptual distance
49(4)
3.4.4 Semantic range and semantic generality
53(2)
3.4.5 Antonym order
55(3)
3.4.6 Antonym type
58(1)
3.4.6.1 Verbal converses
59(2)
3.4.6.2 Nominal converses
61(2)
3.4.7 Extending purity of opposition: the effect of conceptual category structure
63(4)
3.5 Conclusions
67(3)
4 Processing opposite pairs: an antonym-decision task
70(23)
4.1 Rationale and design
71(3)
4.1.1 Task design
73(1)
4.1.2 Stimuli
73(1)
4.1.3 Participants
74(1)
4.1.4 Data cleaning and analysis procedure
74(1)
4.2 Overview of results
74(15)
4.2.1 Antonymic strength (judgement task scores)
75(3)
4.2.2 Associative strength: frequency of co-occurrence
78(3)
4.2.3 Antonym sequence
81(2)
4.2.4 Symmetry of distribution
83(1)
4.2.5 Morphological relatedness
84(1)
4.2.6 Word class
85(1)
4.2.7 Antonym type
86(3)
4.3 Conclusions
89(4)
5 Case studies
93(22)
5.1 Case study I: borrow:lend and rent:let -- a cross-linguistic comparison
93(3)
5.2 Case study II: a matter of size
96(8)
5.3 Case study III: complementaries: pairs clustered around male:female
104(11)
PART III Theoretical implications
115(39)
6 Antonyms in mind and brain: towards a psycholinguistic model of opposition
117(31)
6.1 Antonym canonicity: what makes an opposite pair canonical?
117(9)
6.1.1 Minimal and sufficient difference
118(1)
6.1.2 Morphological relatedness
119(2)
6.1.3 Purity and salience of opposition
121(1)
6.1.4 Symmetry
122(1)
6.1.5 Semantic range and generality
123(1)
6.1.6 Associative strength: a result of frequent co-occurrence
124(2)
6.2 Opposites in the mind: cognitive construal and entrenchment of opposition
126(7)
6.2.1 Antonymy as a prototype category
126(1)
6.2.2 The conceptual construal of opposites
127(1)
6.2.2.1 Complexity of category structure
128(2)
6.2.2.2 Salience and context effects
130(1)
6.2.2.3 Conceptual entrenchment
131(2)
6.3 Antonymy in the brain: a psycholinguistic model of representation and processing
133(15)
6.3.1 Lexical entries and the mental lexicon
133(4)
6.3.2 Looking up or working out?
137(2)
6.3.3 A psycholinguistic model of opposition
139(9)
7 Conclusions
148(6)
7.1 What is antonymy?
148(2)
7.2 Methodological considerations
150(2)
7.3 Further implications
152(2)
Appendix 1 154(6)
Appendix 2 160(5)
Appendix 3 165(5)
Appendix 4 170(2)
Bibliography 172(9)
Index 181
Sandra Kotzor is a Senior Researcher in the Language and Brain Laboratory at the University of Oxford and Senior Lecturer in English Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at Oxford Brookes University.