Cognitive linguistics : an introduction
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Cognitive linguistics : an introduction
Edinburgh University Press, c2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 792-811) and index
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: hard ISBN 9780748618316
Description
An authoritative general introduction to cognitive linguistics. This new textbook introduction to Cognitive Linguistics provides up-to-date coverage of all areas of the field, exploring recent developments such as the theory of primary metaphors, Conceptual Blending Theory, and the development of Radical Construction Grammar. All topics are introduced in terms accessible to both undergraduate and postgraduate students, while the comprehensive and detailed coverage make this equally invaluable as a reference resource for scholars in linguistics and neighbouring disciplines. The book is divided into three main sections, a 'background' section, introducing cognitive linguistic approaches to a range of topics (including language and mind, language change and linguistic relativity); a section on semantics; and a grammar section. The text is designed for flexible use on courses of varying lengths, or which differ in focus. It also includes appropriate critical evaluation, comparing and contrasting different approaches within the discipline, and between Cognitive Linguistics and other formal and functional approaches, including formal semantics and generative grammar.
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: pbk ISBN 9780748618323
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An authoritative general introduction to cognitive linguistics, this book provides up-to-date coverage of all areas of the field and sets in context recent developments within cognitive semantics (including primary metaphors, conceptual blending and Principled Polysemy), and cognitive approaches to grammar (including Radical Construction Grammar and Embodied Construction Grammar). While all topics are introduced in terms accessible to both undergraduate and postgraduate students, this work is sufficiently comprehensive and detailed to serve as a reference work for scholars from linguistics and neighbouring disciplines who wish to gain a better understanding of cognitive linguistics. The book is divided into three parts (The cognitive linguistics enterprise; Cognitive semantics; and Cognitive approaches to grammar), and is therefore suitable for a range of different course types, both in terms of length and level, as well as in terms of focus. In addition to defining the field, the text also includes appropriate critical evaluation. Complementary and potentially competing approaches are explored both within the cognitive approach and beyond it.
In particular, cognitive linguistics is compared and contrasted with formal approaches including Generative Grammar, formal approaches to semantics, and Relevance Theory. Features: *Exercises at the end of each chapter *Annotated reading list at the end of each chapter *Lively and accessible presentation *Full bibliography *Contains 200 diagrammatic illustrations
Table of Contents
- PART I: OVERVIEW OF THE COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS ENTERPRISE
- 1. What does it Mean to Know a Language?
- 2. The Nature of Cognitive Linguistics: Assumptions and Commitments
- 3. Universals and Variation in Language, Thought and Experience
- 4. Language in Use: Grammar, Language Change and Acquisition
- PART II: COGNITIVE SEMANTICS
- Introduction
- 5. What is Cognitive Semantics?
- 6. Embodiment and Conceptual Structure
- 7. The Encyclopaedic View of Meaning
- 8. Categorisation and Idealised Cognitive Models
- 9. Metaphor and Metonymy
- 10. Word Meaning and Radial Categories
- 11. Meaning Construction and Mental Spaces
- 12. Conceptual Blending
- 13. Cognitive Semantics in Context
- PART III: COGNITIVE APPROACHES TO GRAMMAR
- Introduction
- 14. What is a Cognitive Approach to Grammar?
- 15. The Conceptual Basis of Grammar
- 16. Cognitive Grammar: Word Classes
- 17. Cognitive Grammar: Constructions
- 18. Cognitive Grammar: Grounding the Clause
- 19. Motivating a Construction Grammar
- 20. The Architecture of Construction Grammars
- 21. Grammaticalisation
- 22. Cognitive Approaches to Grammar in Context
- PART IV. CONCLUSION
- 23. Assessing the Cognitive Linguistics Enterprise.
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