Beautiful to me. “Lexical Semantics” from a complete list of linguistic paradigms from chatGPT, briefly.
1. Generative Grammar: feature-based analysis, formal semantics, lexical decomposition
2. Cognitive Linguistics: embodiment, image schemas, metaphor, metonymy, mental spaces
3. Construction Grammar: lexical units, constructional meaning, frame semantics
4. Functional Linguistics: semantic categories, prototypes, semantic networks, systemic networks
5. Distributional Semantics: co-occurrence patterns, distributional similarity, word embeddings, neural networks
6. Pragmatics: context, implicature, presupposition, deixis, speech acts, conversational implicature, politeness theory
7. Psycholinguistics: lexical access, semantic memory, lexical ambiguity, lexical processing
8. Computational Linguistics: word sense disambiguation, semantic role labeling, information extraction, question answering
9. Anthropological Linguistics: ethnosemantics, lexical fields, cultural models, semantic universals
10. Semiotics: signification, denotation, connotation, symbol, icon, index
NOW I ‘get it’. I was having trouble with Lexical Semantics BECAUSE there are so many paradigms with their own theories and it was not always clear which one was in use at any given time – but it _is_ what I’d been studying for some time.