Semantic Relations and the Lexicon Antonymy, Synonymy and other Paradigms [Paperback]

Handbook on semantic relations between words, and different approaches to how these are mentally represented.This book explores how some word meanings are paradigmatically related to each other, for example as opposites or synonyms, and what these say about the mental organization of our vocabularies. Traditional approaches claim that such relations are part of our lexical knowledge (our 'dictionary' of mentally stored words); however Lynne Murphy takes a new, pragmatic approach, arguing that lexical relations in fact consitute our 'metalinguistic' knowledge. The book draws on a century of previous research, including word association experiments, child language, and the use of synonyms and atonyms in text.This book explores how some word meanings are paradigmatically related to each other, for example as opposites or synonyms, and what these say about the mental organization of our vocabularies. Traditional approaches claim that such relations are part of our lexical knowledge (our 'dictionary' of mentally stored words); however Lynne Murphy takes a new, pragmatic approach, arguing that lexical relations in fact consitute our 'metalinguistic' knowledge. The book draws on a century of previous research, including word association experiments, child language, and the use of synonyms and atonyms in text.This book explores how some word meanings are paradigmatically related to each other, for example, as opposites or synonyms, and how they relate to the mental organization of our vocabularies. Traditional approaches claim that such relationships are part of our lexical knowledge (our dictionary of mentally stored words) but Lynne Murphy argues that lexical relationships actually constitute our metalinguistic knowledge. The book draws on a century of previous research, including word association experiments, child language, and the use of synonyms and antonyms in text.Acknowledgements; Symbols and typographical conventions; Part I. Paradigmatic Relations, Generally:lC%