University of Sussex
Browse

File(s) not publicly available

Antonyms in English: construals, constructions, and canonicity

book
posted on 2023-06-08, 11:25 authored by Steven Jones, M. Lynne MurphyM. Lynne Murphy, Carita Paradis, Caroline Willners
The study of antonyms (or 'opposites') in a language can provide important insight into word meaning and discourse structures. This book provides an extensive investigation of antonyms in English and offers an innovative model of how we mentally organize concepts and how we perceive contrasts between them. The authors use corpus and experimental methods to build a theoretical picture of the antonym relation, its status in the mind and its construal in context. Evidence is drawn from natural antonym use in speech and writing, first-language antonym acquisition, and controlled elicitation and judgements of antonym pairs by native speakers. The book also proposes ways in which a greater knowledge of how antonyms work can be applied to the fields of language technology and lexicography.

History

Publication status

  • Published

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Pages

184.0

ISBN

9780521761796

Series

Studies in English Language

Department affiliated with

  • English Publications

Full text available

  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-05-03

Usage metrics

    University of Sussex (Publications)

    Categories

    No categories selected

    Exports

    RefWorks
    BibTeX
    Ref. manager
    Endnote
    DataCite
    NLM
    DC