Toward a cognitive semantics / Leonard Talmy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Talmy, Leonard, author.

Series:

Language, speech, and communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive grammar.

Concepts.

Semantics--Psychological aspects.

Semantics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Other Title:

MIT Press CogNet.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2000]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In this two-volume set Leonard Talmy basically defines the field of cognitive semantics. He approaches the question of how language organizes conceptual material both at a general level and by analyzing a crucial set of particular conceptual domains: space and time, motion and location, causation and force interaction, and attention and viewpoint. Talmy maintains that these are among the most fundamental parameters by which language structures conception. By combining these conceptual domains into an integrated whole, Talmy shows, we advance our understanding of the overall conceptual and semantic structure of natural language. Volume 1 examines the fundamental systems by which language shapes concepts. Volume 2 sets forth typologies according to which concepts are structured and the processes by which they are structured.

Contents:

Part 1 Typological Patterns in the Representation of Event Structure 19

Chapter 1 Lexicalization Patterns 21

Chapter 2 Surveying Lexicalization Patterns 147

Chapter 3 A Typology of Event Integration 213

Chapter 4 Borrowing Semantic Space: Diachronic Hybridization 289

Part 2 Semantic Interaction 321

Chapter 5 Semantic Conflict and Resolution 323

Chapter 6 Communicative Goals and Means: Their Cognitive Interaction 337

Part 3 Other Cognitive Systems 371

Chapter 7 The Cognitive Culture System 373

Chapter 8 A Cognitive Framework for Narrative Structure 417.

Notes:

"A Bradford book."

Revised and expanded version of papers, essays, etc. published during the last twenty years; cf. v. 1, p. 6.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Talmy, Leonard. Toward a cognitive semantics.

ISBN:

9780262284660

0262284669

9780262284677

0262284677

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