Main description:
The total body of papers presented in this volume captures research across a variety of languages and language groups, to show how particular elements of linguistic description draw on otherwise separate aspects (or fields) of linguistic investigation. As such, this volume captures a diversity of research interest from the field of cognitive linguistics. These areas include: lexical semantics, cognitive grammar, metaphor, prototypes, pragmatics, narrative and discourse, computational and translation models; and are considered within the contexts of: language change, child language acquisition, language and culture, grammatical features and word order and gesture. Despite possible differences in philosophical approach to the role of language in cognitive tasks, these papers are similar in a fundamental way: they all share a commitment to the view that human categorization involves mental concepts that have fuzzy boundaries and are culturally and situation-based.
Table of contents:
- Preface
- Bibliographical information
- 1. Introduction
- Cultural models and conceptual mappings
- 2. When does cognitive linguistics become cultural?
- 3. Purple persuasion
- 4. Depicting fictive motion in drawings
- 5. Discourse, gesture, and mental spaces manoeuvers
- Computational models and conceptual mappings
- 6. In search of meaning
- 7. Grammar and language production
- 8. Word recognition and word merger
- Linguistic components and conceptual mappings
- 9. Verbal explication and the place of NSM semantics in cognitive linguistics
- 10. 'How do you know she's a woman?'
- 11. Cross-linguistic polysemy in tactile verbs
- 12. How experience structures the conceptualization of causality
- 13. Subjective predicates in Japanese
- 14. Figure, ground and connexity
- 15. Discourse organization and coherence
- Name Index
- Subject Index
The total body of papers presented in this volume captures research across a variety of languages and language groups, to show how particular elements of linguistic description draw on otherwise separate aspects (or fields) of linguistic investigation. As such, this volume captures a diversity of research interest from the field of cognitive linguistics. These areas include: lexical semantics, cognitive grammar, metaphor, prototypes, pragmatics, narrative and discourse, computational and translation models; and are considered within the contexts of: language change, child language acquisition, language and culture, grammatical features and word order and gesture. Despite possible differences in philosophical approach to the role of language in cognitive tasks, these papers are similar in a fundamental way: they all share a commitment to the view that human categorization involves mental concepts that have fuzzy boundaries and are culturally and situation-based.
Table of contents:
- Preface
- Bibliographical information
- 1. Introduction
- Cultural models and conceptual mappings
- 2. When does cognitive linguistics become cultural?
- 3. Purple persuasion
- 4. Depicting fictive motion in drawings
- 5. Discourse, gesture, and mental spaces manoeuvers
- Computational models and conceptual mappings
- 6. In search of meaning
- 7. Grammar and language production
- 8. Word recognition and word merger
- Linguistic components and conceptual mappings
- 9. Verbal explication and the place of NSM semantics in cognitive linguistics
- 10. 'How do you know she's a woman?'
- 11. Cross-linguistic polysemy in tactile verbs
- 12. How experience structures the conceptualization of causality
- 13. Subjective predicates in Japanese
- 14. Figure, ground and connexity
- 15. Discourse organization and coherence
- Name Index
- Subject Index