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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDr. Shindo sheds welcome light on how pairs of terms like clear and bright or flat and plain that originally had similar sense-perception meanings developed significantly differentiated abstract, cognitive meanings. Her discussion of objective and subjective construals and of conversion of adjectives to verbs adds valuable dimensions to work on metaphor and schema-extension in semantic change from a cognitive linguistic perspective. -- Elizabeth Closs Traugott, professor emerita, Stanford University
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Theoretical Framework Chapter 3. Semantic Extensions of Sensory Adjectives to Abstract Domains: A Synchronic Perspective Chapter 4. Gradual Processes of Semantic Extensions: A Diachronic Perspective Chapter 5. Tendencies Inducible from Chronological Data: A Cognitive Perspective Chapter 6. Conclusion
