Odnowa czy od nowa...? Semantyka leksykalna w perspektywie tzw. zwrotu empirycznego* w językoznawstwie XXI wieku

Abstract

The paper explores the issue of the development of semantics under the circumstances of „the new linguistic thinking”, which promotes the idea of semantics without borders, and the so-called „empirical-turn” in linguistic investigation. The uncritical fascination with corpus-data, which could be considered as a natural reaction against the promotion of subject-oriented nature of meaning, leads to the substitution of the quest for meaning for the statistical data. On the other hand, the idea of „no borders” endangers the autonomy of semantics as a science.