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| Vocabulary: A language’s vocabulary comprises all the words currently used by its speakers. The vocabulary is written down in dictionaries in comparison to grammar and syntax rules laid down in “rule books”. Vocabulary can be reduced to its use at a particular time or by individual speakers for the purpose of research. See also idiolect, language, private language, conservatism, words, meaning of a word, meaning. _____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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John Lyons on Vocabulary - Dictionary of Arguments
I 56 Vocabulary/Structure/Meaning/Lyons: today: Assignment of words and meaning is convention. >Philosophical theories of meaning, >Convention, >Words, >Word meaning. I 57 Proof: by the fact that different languages have very different words for the same object e.g. tree, Baum, arbre. Problem: this encourages the false assumption that the vocabulary of a language is a list of names. >Lists, >Lexicon. But: Language/Meaning/Demarcation/Lyons: the meaning demarcations in the different languages are not congruent. E.g. Russian: for the German "Schwager" there are four words For example "light blue", "dark blue": here there are two completely different colour words in Russian. Culture/Language/Lyons: Thesis: The different distinctions (demarcations) reflect the culture of the community that speaks the language. Cf. >Culture, >Culture relativism._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Ly II John Lyons Semantics Cambridge, MA 1977 Lyons I John Lyons Introduction to Theoretical Lingustics, Cambridge/MA 1968 German Edition: Einführung in die moderne Linguistik München 1995 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-19