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Baeskow, Heike and Rolshoven, Juergen (2018). Anglicisms and German near-synonyms. What lexical co-occurrence reveals about their meanings. SKASE J. Theor. Linguist., 15 (1). S. 23 - 59. KOSICE: SLOVAK ASSOC STUDY ENGLISH-SKASE. ISSN 1336-782X

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Abstract

In this article, subtle semantic and connotative contrasts between the well-established anglicisms Dealer, Drink, Song, Skyline and shoppen and German near-synonyms will be identified for the first time on the basis of their distribution in large quantities of text. Co-occurrence matrices automatically generated from three journalistic corpora and two web-based corpora will show that despite a certain degree of semantic overlap, the anglicisms convey specific meaning components or connotative nuances which make them suitable for semantic and/or connotative differentiation. Semantic information retrieved from co-occurrence profiles will be mapped onto qualia structures, which are part of Pustejovsky's (1996) Generative Lexicon and help to model the generic knowledge associated with the referents of lexical items. Connotations, which are not part of the semantic representation, are supposed to comprise stylistic, emotional and communicative pragmatic information as well as the Nebensinn ('by-sense') of a lexical item.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Baeskow, Heike UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Rolshoven, Juergen UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-199272
Journal or Publication Title:	SKASE J. Theor. Linguist.
Volume:	15
Number:	1
Page Range:	S. 23 - 59
Date:	2018
Publisher:	SLOVAK ASSOC STUDY ENGLISH-SKASE
Place of Publication:	KOSICE
ISSN:	1336-782X
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Linguistics; Language & Linguistics Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/19927