On Some Problems of Meaning - Polysemy Between Sense Enumeration and Core Meaning Paradigms
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Polysemy is a semantic phenomenon which occurs when one lexical item has more meanings which can be seen as related to each other. It is to be distinguished from the other extreme pole of ambiguity, homonymy, which occurs when two or more unrelated meanings are by means of an etymologi- cal accident tied to the same orthographic and/or phonological form. Even though polysemy can be considered as a non-issue, since discourse easily solves all of the problems of possible ambiguity for use in everyday language use, accounting for it (in an systematic manner) in terms of how polysemy is represented in the mental lexicon and how to account for the criteria govern- ing the meaning distinctions and the interaction of meanings, for example, is a challenge still not fully met. The paper first gives an overview of the exist- ing theoretical accounts of polysemy which arose over the course of the last two centuries to meet one of the said challenges, namely how polysemy is represented in our mind...s. The discussion is followed up by a conclusion of the predominant and most plausible theoretical view on multiple meanings stem- ming from the presented philosophical, semantic, and cognitive frameworks and models.
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polysemy / ambiguity / cognitionSource:
Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society, 2014, 146-163Publisher:
- Beograd : Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
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IFDTTY - JOUR AU - Dobrić, Nikola PY - 2014 UR - http://rifdt.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/123456789/254 AB - Polysemy is a semantic phenomenon which occurs when one lexical item has more meanings which can be seen as related to each other. It is to be distinguished from the other extreme pole of ambiguity, homonymy, which occurs when two or more unrelated meanings are by means of an etymologi- cal accident tied to the same orthographic and/or phonological form. Even though polysemy can be considered as a non-issue, since discourse easily solves all of the problems of possible ambiguity for use in everyday language use, accounting for it (in an systematic manner) in terms of how polysemy is represented in the mental lexicon and how to account for the criteria govern- ing the meaning distinctions and the interaction of meanings, for example, is a challenge still not fully met. The paper first gives an overview of the exist- ing theoretical accounts of polysemy which arose over the course of the last two centuries to meet one of the said challenges, namely how polysemy is represented in our minds. The discussion is followed up by a conclusion of the predominant and most plausible theoretical view on multiple meanings stem- ming from the presented philosophical, semantic, and cognitive frameworks and models. PB - Beograd : Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju T2 - Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society T1 - On Some Problems of Meaning - Polysemy Between Sense Enumeration and Core Meaning Paradigms SP - 146 EP - 163 DO - 10.2298/FID1404146D ER -
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Dobrić, N.. (2014). On Some Problems of Meaning - Polysemy Between Sense Enumeration and Core Meaning Paradigms. in Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society Beograd : Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju., 146-163. https://doi.org/10.2298/FID1404146D
Dobrić N. On Some Problems of Meaning - Polysemy Between Sense Enumeration and Core Meaning Paradigms. in Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society. 2014;:146-163. doi:10.2298/FID1404146D .
Dobrić, Nikola, "On Some Problems of Meaning - Polysemy Between Sense Enumeration and Core Meaning Paradigms" in Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society (2014):146-163, https://doi.org/10.2298/FID1404146D . .