Recent milestones in the lexicon-encyclopedia debate
Recent milestones in the lexicon-encyclopedia debate
Peeters, Bert (2000). “Setting the scene. Recent milestones in the lexicon-encyclopedia debate”.
The lexicon – encyclopedia interface
(Current research in the semantics / pragmatics interface, 5; Bert Peeters, ed.). Oxford: Elsevier Science. 1-52.
Setting the scene:
Some recent milestones in the
lexicon-encyclopedia debate[1]
Bert Peeters
University of Tasmania, School of English and European Languages and
Literatures, GPO Box 252-82, Hobart TAS 7001, Australia
E-mail: Bert.Peeters@utas.edu.au
0. Introduction
Questions about the exact nature of linguistic as opposed to non-linguistic knowledge have been asked for as long as humans have studied language, be it as linguists, philosophers, psychologists, language teachers, semioticians, cognitive scientists, whatever. The distinction has been maintained and defended by some, attacked and abandoned by others. Those who have maintained and defended the distinction have drawn the line in many different ways. Very solid arguments have been advanced in both camps; in the course of a) editing this volume, and b) doing the research leading up to the present paper, I have seen so many that in the end, no longer sure of my own thoughts on the matter, I had to reluctantly decide to cancel my own contribution, or at least to hold it over until I would have had enough time for further reflexion.
