Where Words Get their Meaning is popular PDF and ePub book, written by Marianna Bolognesi in 2020-11-15, it is a fantastic choice for those who relish reading online the Language Arts & Disciplines genre. Let's immerse ourselves in this engaging Language Arts & Disciplines book by exploring the summary and details provided below. Remember, Where Words Get their Meaning can be Read Online from any device for your convenience.
Where Words Get their Meaning Book PDF Summary
Words are not just labels for conceptual categories. Words construct conceptual categories, frame situations and influence behavior. Where do they get their meaning? This book describes how words acquire their meaning. The author argues that mechanisms based on associations, pattern detection, and feature matching processes explain how words acquire their meaning from experience and from language alike. Such mechanisms are summarized by the distributional hypothesis, a computational theory of meaning originally applied to word occurrences only, and hereby extended to extra-linguistic contexts. By arguing in favor of the cognitive foundations of the distributional hypothesis, which suggests that words that appear in similar contexts have similar meaning, this book offers a theoretical account for word meaning construction and extension in first and second language that bridges empirical findings from cognitive and computer sciences. Plain language and illustrations accompany the text, making this book accessible to a multidisciplinary academic audience.
Detail Book of Where Words Get their Meaning PDF
- Author : Marianna Bolognesi
- Release : 15 November 2020
- Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
- ISBN : 9789027260420
- Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
- Total Page : 222 pages
- Language : English
- PDF File Size : 17,9 Mb
If you're still pondering over how to secure a PDF or EPUB version of the book Where Words Get their Meaning by Marianna Bolognesi, don't worry! All you have to do is click the 'Get Book' buttons below to kick off your Download or Read Online journey. Just a friendly reminder: we don't upload or host the files ourselves.