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Networks and knowledge in Roget's Thesaurus / Werner Hullen.

LIBRA PE1617.R64 H854 2009
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Hüllen, Werner.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Roget, Peter Mark, 1779-1869. Thesaurus of English words and phrases.
Roget, Peter Mark.
English language--Synonyms and antonyms.
English language.
English language--Lexicography.
English language--Semantics.
Physical Description:
vii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2009]
Contents:
1 A Roadmap to Roget's Thesaurus 1
2 Roget's Thesaurus, Deconstructed 8
2.1 Four assertions 8
2.2 The first and third assertions 9
2.3 The second and third assertions 14
2.4 The fourth assertion 17
2.5 The new text genre of synonym definition 19
3 Roget's Thesaurus, 1852 to 2002 22
3.1 Old and new: the macrostructure 22
3.2 Old and new: the microstructure and pragmatic structures 26
3.3 Old and new: horse 28
3.4 New into old: photo 33
3.5 Old: the introduction 35
4 Three Words from the Thesaurus: Negro, Sex, and Tolerance 37
4.1 Interest of topic 37
4.2 Negress, Negro 39
4.3 Sex 45
4.4 Tolerance, toleration 53
4.5 Conclusion 58
5 Roget in Germany: The Adaptation of the Thesaurus (1852) in Daniel Sanders' Sprachschatz (1873) 60
5.1 Roget's Thesaurus in Germany 60
5.2 The structure of Roget's Thesaurus 61
5.3 Daniel Sanders as lexicographer 63
5.4 Identical structures 65
5.5 Some divergent structures 67
6 Roget in the Romance World: Théodore Robertson's Translation of Roget's Thesaurus (1852) into French as Le Dictionnaire Idéologique (1859) 76
6.1 The teacher of modern languages 76
6.2 The semantic order of words 79
6.3 Comparing Roget and Robertson: introduction and macrostructure 84
6.4 Comparing Roget and Robertson: entry article 566 86
6.5 Detailed comparisons 89
7 Wilkins and Roget Meet. An Experiment in Thought 92
7.1 Structures of thesauri 92
7.2 John Wilkins' Essay (1668), chap. XI, genus XXXVI, Civil Relation II, profession or vocation 96
7.3 Roget's Thesaurus (2002), entry article 687 103
8 On Background Knowledge and Seriality 108
8.1 On background knowledge 108
8.2 A typology of seriality 111
8.3 The undergrowth 120
9 The Didactic Potential of Thesauri 122
9.1 Retrieval techniques 122
9.2 Thesaurus structure and word meanings 129
9.2.1 The macrostructure explicitly given 129
9.2.2 Pragmatic structures implied 132
9.2.2.1 Headword index 132
9.2.2.2 Entry articles 135
9.3 The essential gain 140
10 A Cognitive View of Synonymy 144
10.1 The cognitive groundwork 145
10.1.1 Linguistic competence as semiotic competence 145
10.1.2 Linguistic competence as communicative competence 151
10.1.3 The identification of meaning(s) 154
10.2 Meaning as construal 163
10.2.1 Componential aspects of meaning 163
10.2.2 Semantic malleability 166
10.3 On synonymy 174
10.3.1 Similarity and synonymy 174
10.3.2 Fields and frames 180
10.3.3 Antonyms 182
10.4 Synonyms and antonyms in texts 186
10.5 Dictionaries and thesauri 192.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-207) and index.
ISBN:
9780199553235
0199553238
OCLC:
231680169

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