1) What is lexical semantics: investigation of the general situation definition of the term lexical semantics, presentation of various possible classifications of theories and models, an overview of topoi in lexical-semantic research from the standpoint of theory of lexical meaning 2) Structural semantics: European and American origins of theory of meaning structuralist doctrine in lexical semantics, first and classical proponents (Wiesgerber, Pottier, Lyons), anthropological motivation, theory of binary oppositions, Hjelmslevian background, Nida's concept of lexical meaning 3) (Post)structural semantics: between text and oppositions application of structuralist methods in the environment of developing text theory, relation between dictionary and encyclopaedia, dynamic and processual semantics, post-structuralist approaches 4) Generativist semantics: entering people's minds? theoretical background and form of Katz-Fodor semantics model, semantics anomality, disambiguation problem, semantic theory as complement of syntactic model, relation between feature semantics and pragmatics in linguistic models, 5) Neo-structural approaches 1: natives anthropological model on Anna Wierzbicka, semantic primitives/universals, expert X folk semantics 6) Neo-structural (generativist) approaches 2: 3-D model, Aristotle and the metonymy machine Ray Jackendoff's model, semantics as part of multi-modal concept of cognitive processing of language, critique of semantic postulates, Generative Lexicon of James Pustejovsky, relation between dictionary and encyclopaedia in the computation model, automation of regular polysemy, qualia as universal principles of semantic classification 7) Computational lexical semantics: know the neighbour, and you'll know the meaning corpus lexical semantics, problem of collocation, statistically oriented models of meaning, dynamics of meaning in the corpus paradigm, problem of lexical unit, WordNet 8) Cognitive semantics 1: metaphors and prototypes theory of cognitive metaphor and IKM model of George Lakoff, theory of prototypes in lexical semantics 9) Cognitive semantics 2: organized encyclopaedia Ronald Langacker's encyclopaedic concept of meaning, construction of meaning in communication, domain theory, profile/base organisation, perception basis 10) Cognitive semantics 3: from cases to frames development of Fillmore's theory, case theory and frame theory, Frame-Net, lexicographic implications (Fillmore-Atkins) 11) Cultural-cognitive semantics concepts of stereotype and connotation, reflection of world in language, phraseology 12) Theory of lexical concepts and cognitive models: lexical meaning and situated cognition relation between linguistic content and conceptual content, LASS theory as cognitive basis for interaction between language and non-language domains of cognition, concept of rich content
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