What are you afraid of? The construction of meaning in X-(o)phobie lexemes
What are you afraid of? The construction of meaning in X-(o)phobie lexemes
Author(s): Marine LasserreSubject(s): Language studies, Morphology, Lexis, Semantics
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: French; neoclassical compounds; distributional analysis; semantics; morphology;
Summary/Abstract: French neoclassical compounds X-(o)phobie display two distinct meanings : ‘fear’ and ‘hostility’. In order to determine which meaning is involved in a given complex word, X-(o)phobie lexemes are studied according to the contexts they are used in. In fact, in a non-compositional analysis, complex words cannot be studied in isolation since they construct their meaning whenever they are employed. The distributional hypothesis offers a new way to examine the semantics of complex words. Two methods make it possible to investigate the variation of meanings in X-(o)phobie lexemes. Moreover, the use of Google data enables an analysis of the construction of neologisms meaning.
Journal: Acta Linguistica Hungarica (Since 2017 Acta Linguistica Academica)
- Issue Year: 62/2015
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 477-495
- Page Count: 19
- Language: English