Toward a cognitive semantics. Volume I, Concept structuring systems / Leonard Talmy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Talmy, Leonard, author.

Series:

Language, speech, and communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive grammar.

Semantics--Psychological aspects.

Semantics.

Concepts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 565 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2000]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In this two-volume set, Talmy 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.One of a two-volume set defining the field of cognitive semantics. Leonard Talmy 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 one examines the fundamental systems by which language shapes concepts.

Notes:

Rev. and expanded version of papers, essays, et cetera published during the last twenty years; compare volume 1, pages 6.

"A Bradford book."

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262284660

0262284669

0585436487

9780585436487

OCLC:

51995292

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