%0 Journal Article
%T Network models: an assessment
%A Pawelec, Andrzej
%J Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
%V 2010
%N Volume 127, Issue 1
%P 39-56

%@ 1897-1059
%D 2010
%U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-linguistica-uic/artykul/network-models-an-assessment
%X 
	This article – based on a larger study (Pawelec 2009) – has two aims. The more limited one is to present network models proposed by Ronald Langacker and George Lakoff. I try to show that both ventures rest on manifestly different assumptions, contrary to the widespread view that they are convergent or complementary. Langacker’s declared aim is “descriptive adequacy”: his model serves as a global representation of linguistic intuitions, rooted in convention. Lakoff, on the other hand, offers a developmental model: a fairly general abstract schema is “imagistically” specified and transformed, while the more specific schemas serve as the basis for metaphorical transfers. My wider aim is to offer a preliminary assessment of theoretical justifications and practical potential of network models in lexical semantics.