Cognitive Semantics : A Cultural-Historical Perspective.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glebkin, Vladimir.

Series:

Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts Series

Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts Series ; v.15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semantics--Psychological aspects.

Semantics.

Cognitive grammar.

Metaphor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024.

Summary:

The book presents theories characterizing cultural-historical perspectives in cognitive semantics. The book analyzes the sociocultural history of the machine metaphor. The monograph will be of interest to a wide range of linguists, psychologists, cultural anthropologists, and philosophers who consider language as a sociocultural phenomenon.

Contents:

Intro

Cognitive Semantics

Editorial page

Title page

Copyright page

Table of contents

Preface

Part I The four-level theory of cognitive development and its applications to cognitive semantics

Chapter 1 An overview of the four-level theory of cognitive development

1.0 Introduction

1.1 Level A. Great apes

1.2 Level B. Prehistoric culture and hunter-gatherer cultures

1.3 Level C. Early theoretical cultures

1.4 Level D. Developed theoretical cultures (modernity in Europe, modern industrial and post-industrial cultures)

1.5 Conclusion

Chapter 2 Cultural-historical psychology and the cognitive view of metonymy and metaphor

2.0 Introduction

2.1 Complex thinking and metonymy

2.2 The semantic evolution of the word ὕλη

2.3 Features of philosophical terminology at level C and level D of FLTCD

2.4 Conclusion

Chapter 3 Cognitive style of early theoretical culture

3.0 Introduction

3.1 The contrast between Eastern and Western types of reasoning and the concept of cognitive style

3.2 Peculiarities of cognitive operations in the first large-scale civilizations

3.3 The cognitive style of the ancient greek mathematics (on the example of Euclid's elements)

3.4 The cognitive style of the ancient greek historiography (on the example of treatises of Herodotus and Thucydides)

3.5 Conclusion

Part II A cultural-historical analysis of the concept of machine

Chapter 4 A sociocultural history of the machine metaphor

4.0 Introduction

4.1 Conceptual structure of the words μηχανή and machina in classical and late antiquity

4.2 Conceptual structure of the word machina in the Middle Ages

4.3 Conclusion

Chapter 5 The concept of machine in the philosophy of the early modern era

5.0 Introduction

5.1 The philosophical basis of the research programmes of Bacon and Descartes.

5.2 The concept of machine in the texts of Bacon and Descartes

5.3 Conclusion

Part III The sociocultural theory of lexical complexes

Chapter 6 The theoretical foundations, basic postulates and framework of STLC

6.0 Introduction

6.1 The philosophical underpinnings of STLC

6.2 The framework of STLC

6.3 Summary

Chapter 7 The conceptual structure of the lexical complex otkryvat' in STLC

7.0 Introduction

7.1 The verb otkryvat' and its derivatives in the dictionaries

7.2 A sketch of the conceptual structure of the complex otkryvat'

7.2.0

7.2.1

7.2.2

7.2.3

7.2.4

7.2.5

7.2.6

7.2.7

7.2.8

7.2.9

7.2.10

7.3 A framework of the article otkryvat' in an explanatory dictionary

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Level A

Cluster 1

Examples:132

Cluster 2

Examples:

Cluster 3

Cluster 4

Cluster 5

Cluster 6

Cluster 7

Cluster 8

Cluster 9

Cluster 10

Cluster 11

7.4 Conclusion

Chapter 8 The conceptual structure of the lexical complex kamen' in STLC

8.0 Introduction

8.1 The noun kamen' and its derivatives in the dictionaries

8.2 The conceptual structure of the complex kamen' in Old Russian and in modern Russian

8.3 The framework of the article kamen' in an explanatory dictionary

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Cluster 1203

Cluster 1.1

Cluster 3.1

Cluster 3.2

Cluster 5.1

Cluster 9.1

Cluster 9.2

8.4 Summary.

Chapter 10 Regularity in semantic change

10.0 Introduction

10.1 Basic approaches to the analysis of semantic change in cognitive linguistics and historical linguistics

10.2 The large-scale semantic changes and sociocognitive processes underpinning them

10.3 Sociocultural factors influencing semantic change in modern language

10.3.1 An interplay between an idiolect and general language as a trigger for semantic change

10.3.2 Unification-separation request as a motivation for semantic change

10.4 Final remarks

Conclusion

References

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Glebkin, Vladimir Cognitive Semantics

ISBN:

9789027247278

9027247277

OCLC:

1416747026