The Spectrum of Sense Remoteness in Polysemy: Bridging Computational and Theoretical Lexicography with Psycholinguistics (Part 2)

Dorota Klimek-Jankowska; Krzysztof Hwaszcz; Justyna  Wieczorek

The Spectrum of Sense Remoteness in Polysemy: Bridging Computational and Theoretical Lexicography with Psycholinguistics (Part 2)

Publication date: 2022

Studies in Polish Linguistics, Volume 17 (2022), Vol. 17, Issue 2, pp. 55 - 73

https://doi.org/10.4467/23005920SPL.22.003.16380

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The Spectrum of Sense Remoteness in Polysemy: Bridging Computational and Theoretical Lexicography with Psycholinguistics (Part 2)

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This two-part paper bridges insights from psycholinguistics and from theoretical and computational lexicography to develop a fine-grained classification of polysemy organized along a wider spectrum of sense remoteness of ambiguous words in Polish based on the investigation of a large collection of linguistic data. In the second part, we show that polysemy is not a stable phenomenon and relations between senses may differ across language users. For instance, our fifty-fifty class or borderline cases may be represented differently by different language users depending on their perception of the world, world knowledge, associations. We point to some parameters of variation in the class of polysemy by metonymy and polysemy by metaphor which may affect their sense remoteness and consequently also the way they are represented in the mental lexicon.

Ten dwuczęściowy artykułkonsoliduje fakty dotyczące polisemii z zakresu psycholingwistyki oraz leksykografii teoretycznej i obliczeniowej oraz prezentuje wyniki badańilościowych i jakościowych przeprowadzonych na dużym zbiorze danych polisemicznych w języku polskim, na podstawie których proponujemy uszczegółowionąklasyfikacjępolisemii oraz opracowujemy poszerzone spektrum podobieństwa sensów słów wieloznacznych. W drugiej części publikacji wykazujemy, że polisemia nie jest zjawiskiem stabilnym, a relacje między sensami mogąbyćoceniane odmiennie przez różnych mówców w zależności od ich postrzegania świata, wiedzy o życiu i skojarzeń. Wskazujemy na kilka parametrów zróżnicowania, które mogąwpłynąćna ocenępodobieństwa sensów i reprezentacjęw mentalnym leksykonie polisemii przez metonimięi metaforę.

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polysemy, spectrum of sense remoteness, plWordNet – Słowosieć, Polish, mental lexicon, homonymy, metonymy, metaphor, nested polysemy

polisemia, spektrum podobieństwa sensów, plWordNet – Słowosieć, język polski, mentalny leksykon, homonimia, metonimia, metafora, polisemia gniazdowa, polski abstrakt

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Information: Studies in Polish Linguistics, Volume 17 (2022), Vol. 17, Issue 2, pp. 55 - 73

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/23005920SPL.22.003.16380

Article type: Original article

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The Spectrum of Sense Remoteness in Polysemy: Bridging Computational and Theoretical Lexicography with Psycholinguistics (Part 2)

Authors

Dorota Klimek-Jankowska

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3102-1384

University of Wrocław, plac Uniwersytecki 1, 50-137 Wrocław, Poland

Krzysztof Hwaszcz

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2136-5001

University of Wrocław, plac Uniwersytecki 1, 50-137 Wrocław, Poland

Justyna Wieczorek

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7880-6069

Politechnika Wrocławska

Published at: 2022

Article status: Open

Licence: CC BY

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This research was internally partially supported by the Center for Corpus and Experimental Research on Slavic Languages ‘Slavicus’ of Wrocław University.

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Dorota Klimek-Jankowska (Author) - 33%

Krzysztof Hwaszcz (Author) - 33%

Justyna Wieczorek (Author) - 34%

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