Britta E. Zawada

List of John Benjamins publications in which Britta E. Zawada is involved.

Title

Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997

Edited by Hubert Cuyckens and Britta E. Zawada

In Cognitive Linguistics, polysemy is regarded as a categorizing phenomenon; i.e., related meanings of words form categories centering around a prototype and bearing family resemblance relations to one another. Under this polysemy = categorization view, the scope of investigation has been gradually… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 177] 2001. xxvii, 296 pp.

Articles

Cuyckens, Hubert and Britta E. Zawada 2001 Introduction Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997, Cuyckens, Hubert and Britta E. Zawada (eds.), pp. ix–xxvii | Miscellaneous

Zawada, Britta E. and Piet Swanepoel 1994 On the empirical adequacy of terminological concept theories: The case for prototype theory Terminology 1:2, pp. 253–275 | Article

The main purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that classical concept theories and hybrids thereof are empirically inadequate for the terminological analysis and description of concepts in a number of sciences. Examples of the classification and definition of minerals in the field of mineralogy… read more