Colouring meaning : collocation and connotation in figurative language

✍ Scribed by Gill Philip

• Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 248
• Series: Studies in corpus linguistics, v. 43
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Primarily focused on idioms and other figurative phraseology, Colouring Meaning describes how the meanings of established phrases are enhanced, refocused and modified in everyday language use. Unlike many studies of creativity in language, this book-length survey addresses the matter at several levels, from the purely linguistic level of collocation, through its abstractions in colligation and semantic preference, to semantic prosody and connotation. This journey through both linguistic and cognitive levels involves the examination of habitual language and its exploitations, both mundane and c. Read more...

Content: Colouring Meaning; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; dedication page; Table of contents; List of tables and figures; Acknowledgements; 1. A search for meanings; 2. Idioms and idiomaticity; 3. Co(n)text and meaning; 4. Words in usual collocations; 5. Phrases in context; 6. Variation, metaphor and semantic association; 7. Punning, word play and other linguistic special effects; 8. Words and meanings; References; Appendix; Author index; Examples index; Subject index; The series Studies in Corpus Linguistics.
Abstract:

Focused on idioms and other figurative phraseology, this book describes how the meanings of established phrases are enhanced, refocused and modified in everyday language use. It addresses the matter at several levels, from the linguistic level of collocation, through its abstractions in colligation and semantic preference. Read more...