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Cognitive Linguistics: Basic Readings / Dirk Geeraerts.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] ; 34
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cognitive grammar.
- Language and languages.
- Cognitive Linguistics.
- Cognitive linguistics.
- Kognitive Linguistik.
- linguistic theorie.
- Local Subjects:
- Cognitive Linguistics.
- Cognitive linguistics.
- Kognitive Linguistik.
- linguistic theorie.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (493 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2008]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Over the past decade, Cognitive Linguistics has grown to be one of the most broadly appealing and dynamic frameworks for the study of natural language. Essentially, this new school of linguistics focuses on the meaning side of language: linguistic form is analysed as an expression of meaning. And meaning itself is not something that exists in isolation, but it is integrated with the full spectrum of human experience: the fact that we are embodied beings just as much as the fact that we are cultural beings. Cognitive Linguistics: Basic Readings brings together twelve foundational articles, each of which introduces one of the basic concepts of Cognitive Linguistics, like conceptual metaphor, image schemas, mental spaces, construction grammar, prototypicality and radial sets. The collection features the founding fathers of Cognitive Linguistics: George Lakoff, Ron Langacker, Len Talmy, Gilles Fauconnier, and Charles Fillmore, together with some of the most influential younger scholars. By its choice of seminal papers and leading authors, Basic Readings is specifically suited for an introductory course in Cognitive Linguistics. This is further supported by a general introduction to the theory and, specifically, the practice of Cognitive Linguistics and by trajectories for further reading that start out from the individual chapters.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction A rough guide to Cognitive Linguistics
- Chapter 1 Cognitive Grammar
- Chapter 2 Grammatical construal
- Chapter 3 Radial network
- Chapter 4 Prototype theory
- Chapter 5 Schematic network
- Chapter 6 Conceptual metaphor
- Chapter 7 Image schema
- Chapter 8 Metonymy
- Chapter 9 Mental spaces
- Chapter 10 Frame semantics
- Chapter 11 Construction Grammar
- Chapter 12 Usage-based linguistics
- Epilogue Trajectories for further reading
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 3-11-019085-0
- OCLC:
- 979744635
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