New Insights into the Mental Lexicon

Edited By: Teodora Popescu

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This volume explores the mental lexicon from a multitude of perspectives, covering meaning creation, language development, and contemporary discourse. A must-read for anyone interested in a broader overview of the field, it offers seminal approaches for future research.

New Insights into the Mental Lexicon consists of 10 individual contributions grouped around some key areas in the study of meaning creation: developing the mental…

New Insights into the Mental Lexicon consists of 10 individual contributions grouped around some key areas in the study of meaning creation: developing the mental lexicon in the mother tongue and foreign languages, construal and comprehension of meaning in contemporary discourses, and literature and cinematic adaptations. The complexity and extensive array of investigative angles presented here make this volume a must-read for anyone genuinely interested in achieving a broader overview of the mental lexicon from a multitude of perspectives. The book will provide significant contributions to both current research and practice, affording seminal approaches which can be further expanded by other researchers in the field.

Professor Teodora Popescu teaches English Semantics, Translation Studies and Intercultural Business Communication at 1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba-Iulia, Romania. She is the author of English-Romanian Dictionary of Business Terminology (2017) and The Business English Language Curriculum (2017) and co-author of Dictionary of Business Collocations. (2009) and English-German-French-Italian-Romanian Pocket Dictionary of Business, Legal and Political Terms (2006). She has also (co)-authored 90 book chapters and articles in the field of ELT methodology, curriculum studies, lexical semantics and intercultural business communication, and is editor-in-chief of The Journal of Linguistic and Intercultural Education – JoLIE.

Adina Botaș, Adina Festeu, Andreea Laurentiu, Bianca Tincu, Crina Herţeg, Diana Tirnavean, Gabriela Campean, Melinda Gorgan, Rebeca Marchedon, Sorina Victoria, Teodora Popescu