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Understanding Micro-Senses and Facets in Cognitive Linguistics

Explore the concept of micro-senses and facets in the construal process, their autonomy, and relationship to sense boundaries in language. Discover how submeanings can be unified in superordinate categories or global Gestalts. Learn the complexities of sense autonomy and its variability.

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Understanding Micro-Senses and Facets in Cognitive Linguistics

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  1. Cognitive Linguistics Croft&Cruse 5: Polysemy: the construal of sense boundaries, pt. 2

  2. 5.3 Sub-sense units with near-sense properties • Q: What are “micro-senses” and “facets”?

  3. 5.3 Sub-sense units with near-sense properties • Q: What are “micro-senses” and “facets”? • Microsenses: submeanings that have significant autonomy but can be unified in a superordinate category • Facets: submeanings that can be unified only in a global Gestalt • Note that micro-senses and facets are not antagonistic (as opposed to full-sense units)

  4. 5.3.1.1 Introduction to facets • Facets are not given separate entries in a dictionary, but are autonomous: book (as a physical object vs. the content of text). Facets are part of the construal process. Facets typically co-occur in use.

  5. 5.3.2 Microsenses • A word has microsenses if it names both a superordinate category and more specific items in that category, cf. card.

  6. 5.4 Autonomy • The construal of autonomy among sense units is complex and is not inherent to a lexical item. Autonomy of senses results from conventional, cognitive, and contextual constraints and is itself variable.

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