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Lexical Analysis: Norms and Exploitations

Hanks, Patrick·2013·The MIT Press eBooks
DOI 10.7551/mitpress/9780262018579.001.0001
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A lexically based, corpus-driven theoretical approach to meaning in language that distinguishes between patterns of normal use and creative exploitations of norms. In Lexical Analysis, Patrick Hanks offers a wide-ranging empirical investigation of word use and meaning in language. The book fills the need for a lexically based, corpus-driven theoretical approach that will help people understand how words go together in collocational patterns and constructions to make meanings. Such an approach is now possible, Hanks writes, because of the availability of new forms of evidence (corpora, the Internet) and the development of new methods of statistical analysis and inferencing. Hanks offers a new theory of language, the Theory of Norms and Exploitations (TNE), which makes a systematic distinction between normal and abnormal usage—between rules for using words normally and rules for exploiting such norms in metaphor and other creative use of language. Using hundreds of carefully chosen citations from corpora and other texts, he shows how matching each use of a word against established contextual patterns plays a large part in determining the meaning of an utterance. His goal is to develop a coherent and practical lexically driven theory of language that takes into account the immense variability of everyday usage and that shows that this variability is rule governed rather than random. Such a theory will complement other theoretical approaches to language, including cognitive lingu…

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Authors
Hanks, P.
Corresponding author
Hanks, Patrick
Venue
The MIT Press eBooks
Publisher
The MIT Press
Published
2013-01-25
DOI
10.7551/mitpress/9780262018579.001.0001
OpenAlex
W4206813637
Cited by
358
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FWCI
12.98
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book
Language
en
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closed
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Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Lexicography and Language Studies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › linguistics and terminology studies
Keywords
word meaning, collocations, construction, metaphor, linguistic variability, corpus linguistics

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