Cognitive semantics : meaning and cognition / edited by Jens Allwood, Peter Gardenfors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Allwood, Jens S., 1947-

Gärdenfors, Peter.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 55.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser. 55

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semantics--Psychological aspects.

Semantics.

Cognition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Toward the end of the 20th century, there is both a dissatisfaction with existing formal semantic theories and a wish to preserve insights from other semantic traditions. Cognitive semantics, the latest of the major trends which have dominated the century, attempts to do this by focusing on meaning as a cognitive phenomenon. This book provides different perspectives on meaning as a cognitive phenomenon. Jens Allwood presents an approach where meaning is analyzed in terms of context sensitive cognitive operations. Peter Gärdenfors examines the relationship between cognitive semantics and standa

Contents:

COGNITIVE SEMANTICS; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Contents; Preface; Semantics as Meaning Determination with Semantic-Epistemic Operations; Some Tenets of Cognitive Semantics; Function, Cognition, and Layered Clause Structure; From Vision to Cognition: A Study of Metaphor and Polysemy in Swedish; Polysemy and Differentiation in the Lexicon: Verbs of Physical Contact in Swedish; Space and Time; Conceptual Engineering: Implementing Cognitive Semantics; Situated Embodied Semantics and Connectionist Modeling; Index of Names; Index of Subjects; PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-282-16329-9

9786612163296

90-272-9909-9

OCLC:

70768521