Patterns of similarity and difference between the vocabularies of psychology and other subjects

History of Psychology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 19-35

  Benjafield, John G ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Interdisciplinary research; Metaphor; Polysemy; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HISTORY; LINGUISTICS; LITERATURE; NOMENCLATURE; PSYCHOLOGY;

HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; LINGUISTICS; METAPHOR; PSYCHOLOGY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84894072803     PISSN: 10934510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0035386     Document Type: Article

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