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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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