Networks and Knowledge in Roget's Thesaurus - Hardcover

Hüllen, Werner

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199553238 ISBN 13: 9780199553235

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2009

Synopsis

In this book Werner Hüllen examines Roget's Thesaurus in relation to linguistics, philosophy and history. He explores the influence of Roget's Thesaurus abroad (Germany and the Romance countries). He epitomizes its history and compares the various editions of the book. In lexical case studies he evaluates some entries with pertinence to their cultural and political implications. He discusses the didactic potential of thesauri in general and considers the implications of the Thesaurus for the study of scholarly linguistics and psychology. He discusses how Roget's Thesaurus prepared the way for the more recent idea of network semantics. By analyzing retrieval techniques one can show, he claims, how the words of languages were (and are) stored in the minds of those who speak them. Professor Hüllen concludes by considering the role of synonymy in language from a perspective of cognitive linguistics showing that it is indispensable for communication.

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About the Author

Werner Hüllen is Professor Emeritus of English Linguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He has published widely on the teaching and learning of English as a foreign language and on the history of linguistics and lexicography, including English Dictionaries 800-1700: The Topical Tradition (OUP, 1999) and A History of Roget's Thesaurus (OUP, 2004).

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199553238
• ISBN 13: 9780199553235
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240