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- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgments
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Chapter 1 Words and Meanings: The Need for a New Approch -
Chapter 2 What Is a Word? -
Chapter 3 Do Word Meanings Exist? -
Chapter 4 Prototypes and Norms -
Chapter 5 Contextual Dependency and Lexical Sets -
Chapter 6 Norms Change over Time -
Chapter 7 Three Types of Alternation -
Chapter 8 Exploitations -
Chapter 9 Intertextuality: Literature and the Exploitation of Norms -
Chapter 10 Word and Pattern Meaning: A Complex Linguistic Gestalt -
Chapter 11 Meaning, Philosophy of Language, and Anthropology -
Chapter 12 The Role of the Lexicon in Linguistic Theory -
Chapter 13 The Broader Picture - References
- Index
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- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgments
-
Chapter 1 Words and Meanings: The Need for a New Approch -
Chapter 2 What Is a Word? -
Chapter 3 Do Word Meanings Exist? -
Chapter 4 Prototypes and Norms -
Chapter 5 Contextual Dependency and Lexical Sets -
Chapter 6 Norms Change over Time -
Chapter 7 Three Types of Alternation -
Chapter 8 Exploitations -
Chapter 9 Intertextuality: Literature and the Exploitation of Norms -
Chapter 10 Word and Pattern Meaning: A Complex Linguistic Gestalt -
Chapter 11 Meaning, Philosophy of Language, and Anthropology -
Chapter 12 The Role of the Lexicon in Linguistic Theory -
Chapter 13 The Broader Picture - References
- Index
