Wrestling with words and meanings : essays in honour of Keith Allan / edited by Kate Burridge & R�eka Benczes.

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Front Cover -- Title Page -- Imprint Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1: Words and meanings -- Chapter 1: Bastards and buggers -- Simon Musgrave and Kate Burridge -- 1. Introduction -- Swearing in Australian English -- 2. 'Buggers' and 'bastards' -- A brief history -- 3. The data on bastards and buggers -- 4. Discussion -- References -- Chapter 2: Diachronic properties of the lexicon -- Olav Kuhn -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Cognate finding -- 3. Subgrouping -- 4. Distant relationships -- 5. Conclusions -- Appendix -- References -- Chapter 3: The non-redundant nature of English tautological compounds -- Reka Benczes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is a tautological compound? -- 3. Hyponym-superordinate compounds -- 4. Synonym compounds -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4: French gender -- Margaret H. a Beckett -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Past accounts -- 3. Variations in gender and finale phoneme -- 4. From sex to species -- 5. Gender: Other semantic features -- 6. Gender and terms for human beings -- 7. Final sounds/segments and associated semantic features -- 8. Dual semantic systems, different semantic domains -- 9. Comparison with other noun classification systems -- 10. Concluding remarks -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- References -- Chapter 5: Trendy new trends in wine terminology -- Adrienne Lehrer -- 1. Semantic concepts -- 2. Wine descriptors -- 3. Names of wines and wineries -- 4. What else is like wine descriptions? -- References -- Chapter 6: Semantic prosody of hyperbolic adverbial collocations -- Jozsef Andor -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The study -- 3. Concluding remarks -- References -- Part 2: Discourse and pragmatics -- Chapter 7: The metaphorical conceptual system in context -- Zoltan Kovecses -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Universality in human knowledge -- 3. Context in human knowledge.

4. The contextual groundings of metaphorical concepts -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 8: Frightful names -- Barry J. Blake -- 1. Introductory remarks -- 2. Names as inalienable possessions -- 3. Names and the power of language -- 4. Concluding remarks -- References -- Chapter 9: On politic behaviour -- Finex Ndhlovu -- 1. Introduction and background -- 2. Brief overview of theoretical framework -- 3. Research methods and procedures -- 4. Results -- 5. Discussion and analysis -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: Response words are anaphors -- Thorstein Fretheim -- 1. Anaphora relation -- 2. Identifying the content of occurrences of 'yes' and 'no' -- 3. How to distribute positive and negative members of a tripartite response word system -- 4. Norwegian 'jo' is insensitive to the polarity of its linguistic antecedent -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11: Cultural schemas as 'common ground' -- Farzad Sharifian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Cultural cognition and cultural conceptualisations -- 3. Persian cultural schema of 'tarof' -- 4. Concluding remarks -- References -- Chapter 12: Elaborativeness in academic writing -- Zofia Golebiowski -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The corpus -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Findings -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 13: Communication disorders and mental health -- Deborah Perrott -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Brief literature review -- 3. Where to from here? Suggested solutions for consideration -- 4. Summary -- References -- Part 3: Semantic theory and philosophy of language -- Chapter 14: 'Nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo traductorum philosophorum' -- Pedro Jose Chamizo Dominguez -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ambiguities -- 3. Archaisms -- 4. False friends -- 5. Gender -- 6. Idioms and collocations -- 7. Non-lexicalised metaphors -- 8. Polysemies -- 9. Conclusions.

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