LEXICAL MEANING AS INTERPRETED IN QUOTIDIAN AND IMPROMPTU LEXICOGRAPHY

the relationship between topic familiarity and guessing lexical meaning and retention among iranian efl learners

the skill of reading in english as a foreign language is an important and challenging one which is affected both by linguistic and extra linguistic factors. since vocabularies are part and parcel of every reading comprehension text, knowing enough vocabulary always facilitates this process. however, guessing strategy as one of the most important strategies has consistently ignored by language l...

Lexical meaning as ontologies and construals Metonymizationa and facetization

Philosophically, the notion of ontology is related to the nature of categories as we perceive them. In this paper, the notion of ontology is more specifically related to the nature of lexical knowledge and thereby also to the debate concerning the linguistic/encyclopaedic divide. Ontological knowledge, as it is understood here, is conceptual in nature. It is neither totally part of what is trad...

Towards a theory of lexical meaning as ontologies and construals

The purpose of this paper is to propose a framework of lexical meaning, broadly along the lines of Cognitive Semantics (Langacker 1987a). The paper focuses on interpretations of adjective-noun (ADJ N ) combinations in English. Within the proposed model, all aspects of meaning are to be explained in terms of properties of ontologies in conceptual space, i.e. properties of content ontologies and ...

Concreteness and Subjectivity as Dimensions of Lexical Meaning

We quantify the lexical subjectivity of adjectives using a corpus-based method, and show for the first time that it correlates with noun concreteness in large corpora. These cognitive dimensions together influence how word meanings combine, and we exploit this fact to achieve performance improvements on the semantic classification of adjective-noun pairs.

Models of lexical meaning