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UNINA9910461097203321 |
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Zeschel Arne <1973-> |
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Incipient productivity [[electronic resource] ] : a construction-based approach to linguistic creativity / / by Arne Zeschel |
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Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012 |
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1-280-59748-8 |
9786613627315 |
3-11-027484-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Cognitive linguistics research, , 1861-4132 ; ; 49 |
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Creativity (Linguistics) |
Generative grammar |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Coordinate constructions |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Towards a usage-based model of constructional generalisation -- Chapter 3. Testing ground: Intensity collocations -- Chapter 4. Lexicalisation patterns: From concepts to words -- Chapter 5. Fixed expressions: From words to collocations -- Chapter 6. Incipient productivity: From collocations to constructional schemas -- Chapter 7. Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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How do speakers vary established patterns of language use and adapt them to novel contexts of application? This study presents a usage-based approach to linguistic creativity: combining detailed qualitative with large-scale quantitative analyses of corpus data, it traces the emergence of partial productivity in clusters of conventional collocations. Focusing on English and German intensification constructions, it proceeds in three steps: having first inventoried the lexical means (of a given semantic type) that are recruited for signalling intensity in both languages, collostructional analysis is then used to identify entrenched intensity collocations involving these formatives in three different syntactic constructions. Third, multi-rater manual |
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classification methods as well as distribution-based automatic classification methods are employed to uncover semantic generalisations over the attested types on different levels of abstraction. Collocational expansion is shown to proceed through local analogies within sets of semantically similar stored instances of a construction. Synthesising insights from research on language acquisition, variation and change, it is thus argued that creative extensions of linguistic conventions are intrinsically bound up with aspects of memory and repetition. |
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UNINA9910456434603321 |
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Cohen Shaul Ephraim <1961-> |
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Planting nature [[electronic resource] ] : trees and the manipulation of environmental stewardship in America / / Shaul E. Cohen |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004 |
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9786612357084 |
1-282-35708-5 |
0-520-92991-8 |
1-59734-809-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (225 p.) |
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Afforestation - United States |
Afforestation - Environmental aspects - United States |
Afforestation - Government policy - United States |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-199) and index. |
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Taking control of nature -- Planting patriotism, cultivating institutions -- The National Arbor Day Foundation: modifying the natural world -- American forests: planting the future -- Uncle Sam plants for you -- The greatest good -- Celebritrees. |
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Trees hold a powerful place in American constructions of what is good in nature and the environment. As we attempt to cope with |
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environmental crises, trees are increasingly enlisted with great fervor as agents of our stewardship over nature. In this innovative and impassioned book, Shaul E. Cohen exposes the way that environmental stewardship is undermined through the manipulation of trees and the people who plant them by a partnership of big business, the government, and tree-planting groups. He reveals how positive associations and symbols that have been invested in trees are exploited by an interlocking network of government agencies, private timber companies, and nongovernmental organizations to subvert the power of people who think that they are building a better world. Planting Nature details the history of tree planting in the United States and the rise of popular sentiment around trees, including the development of the Arbor Day holiday and tree-planting groups such as the National Arbor Day Foundation and American Forests. Drawing from internal papers, government publications, advertisements, and archival documents, Cohen illustrates how organizations promote tree planting as a way of shifting attention away from the causes of environmental problems to their symptoms, masking business-as-usual agendas. Ultimately, Planting Nature challenges the relationships between a "green" public, the organizations that promote their causes, and the "powers that be," providing a cautionary tale of cooperation and deception that cuts across the political spectrum. |
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