Cognitive linguistics and the study of Chinese / edited by Dingfang Shu, Shanghai International Studies University, Hui Zhang, Nanjing Normal University, Lifei Zhang, Ningbo University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shu, Dingfang.

Contributor:

Shu, Dingfang, editor.

Zhang, Hui, 1964 February-, editor.

Zhang, Lifei, editor.

Series:

Human cognitive processing ; 67.

Human Cognitive Processing ; 67

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese language--Philology.

Chinese language.

Cognitive grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 pages).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]

Summary:

Bringing together contributions from a group of prominent researchers, within a cognitive-linguistic framework, this volume sheds light on linguistic structures and usages characteristic of the Chinese language, including noun-verb inclusion, the conceptual spatialization of actions, existential constructions, conceptual structures and coherence, idioms and metaphors, language acquisition of caused motion, etc. The contributions are committed to the principle of “converging evidence” that has been advocated in Cognitive Linguistics since its inception. Some studies in this volume combine introspective methods with theoretical analysis, while others rely on corpus-based, experimental and neuroscientific methods. Featuring diverse topics and multiple methods, this collection will be useful to readers who are interested in the grammatical and conceptual structure of Chinese, as well as in the state-of-the-art of Cognitive Linguistics in China.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Editors and contributors

Series Editors’ Preface

Foreword

Abbreviations

Introduction to this volume

General introduction

Part I. Morphological, lexical and syntactic constructions

Chapter 1. When constructions meet context

Chapter 2. On the partial productivity of constructions

Chapter 3. A corpus-based study of subjectification and the disposal construction in modern Mandarin

Chapter 4. Types of negatives and the noun-verb distinction in English and Chinese

Chapter 5. The conceptual spatialization of actions or activities in Chinese

Part II. Cognitive pragmatics

Chapter 6. Structural salience and referential accessibility

Chapter 7. Complementing cognitive linguistics with pragmatics and vice versa

Part III. Neurocognition and psycholinguistics

Chapter 8. A neurocognitive approach to Chinese idiom comprehension

Chapter 9. The role of metaphor in categorization

Chapter 10. Linguistic and mental representations of caused motion in Chinese and English children

Author index

Subject index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027262080

902726208X