Some aspects of modern diachronic onomasiology

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ID3989648
AuthorsJoachim Grzega (0000-0001-6562-5456, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume40
Issue5
Publication date2002-01-18
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLinguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ling.2002.035
OpenAlexW2085922818
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited31

The following contribution calls attention to the fact that cognitive linguistics has already had its effects on historical semasiology, but hardly on historical onomasiology. Although certain modern linguistic concepts can be detected in the literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, it is the merit of cognitive linguistics to put them into a certain systemization. The article dwells on some aspects where further research is needed and attempts to give a few incentives. A new internet journal is presented as a necessary organ for cross-linguistic studies in the realm of onomasiology. The article then offers revisions of traditional onomasiological classifications, detecting shortcomings and offering new systems on the basis of cognitive linguistics. It is the explicit aim of these classifications that they be independent from specific concepts and languages. In the center are the motives for lexical, or lexemic, change (which consist of a scale from subconscious to conscious motives). The classifications respect such modern concepts as prototypicality and salience, fuzziness, iconymy (the study of motives), and political correctness

Linguistics · Sociology · Theoretical linguistics · Categorization, perception, and language · History · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Philosophy

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