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Antonyms in Mind and Brain presents a multi-method empirical investigation of opposition with a particular focus on the processing of opposite pairs and their representation in the mental lexicon. Building on recent cognitive accounts of antonymy which highlight the fundamentally conceptual nature of antonymy, this book

  • outlines previous literature to draw out criteria for good opposites and establish the state of the art on the question whether the strong connection of certain opposite pairs is primarily of a conceptual or lexical nature.

  • presents a detailed cross-linguistic empirical study combining corpus data, speaker judgements and behavioural experiments for a wide range of central (e.g. big:little) and peripheral (e.g. buy:sell; wife:husband) opposite pairs to establish the contribution of individual factors.

  • proposes a model of the representation of opposite pairs in the mental lexicon

    Table of Contents

    PART I Theoretical foundations

    1. Introduction

    2. Previous perspectives on antonymy

    PART II Empirical investigation

    3. Antonymic and associative strength: evidence from English and German

    4. Processing opposite pairs: an antonym-decision task

    5. Case studies

    PART III Theoretical implications

    6. Antonyms in mind and brain: towards a psycholinguistic model of opposition

    7. Conclusions

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Publication Date: 9/25/2023 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781032149592, 978-1032149592
      ISBN10: 1032149590
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      Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Writing systems, alphabets, scripts

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Antonyms in Mind and Brain presents a multi-method empirical investigation of opposition with a particular focus on the processing of opposite pairs and their representation in the mental lexicon. Building on recent cognitive accounts of antonymy which highlight the fundamentally conceptual nature of antonymy, this book

      • outlines previous literature to draw out criteria for good opposites and establish the state of the art on the question whether the strong connection of certain opposite pairs is primarily of a conceptual or lexical nature.

      • presents a detailed cross-linguistic empirical study combining corpus data, speaker judgements and behavioural experiments for a wide range of central (e.g. big:little) and peripheral (e.g. buy:sell; wife:husband) opposite pairs to establish the contribution of individual factors.

      • proposes a model of the representation of opposite pairs in the mental lexicon

        Table of Contents

        PART I Theoretical foundations

        1. Introduction

        2. Previous perspectives on antonymy

        PART II Empirical investigation

        3. Antonymic and associative strength: evidence from English and German

        4. Processing opposite pairs: an antonym-decision task

        5. Case studies

        PART III Theoretical implications

        6. Antonyms in mind and brain: towards a psycholinguistic model of opposition

        7. Conclusions

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