Cognitive Linguistics : A Complete Guide.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Vyvyan, Author.

Series:

Edinburgh Law Essentials

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (897 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Other Title:

Cognitive linguistics

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Your guide to understanding public law in Scotland and the UK.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Figures

Tables

Preface

Abbreviations

Part I: The cognitive linguistics enterprise

1 What do cognitive linguists study?

1 What is language for?

1.1 The symbolic function of language

1.2 The interactive function of language

2 The systematic structure of language

2.1 Evidence for a system

2.2 The systematic structure of thought

3 What do cognitive linguists do?

3.1 What?

3.2 Why?

3.3 How?

3.4 Speaker intuitions

3.5 Converging evidence

4 What it means to know a language (from the perspective of cognitive linguistics)

SUMMARY

FURTHER READING

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

2 Key commitments and research methods

1 Two key commitments

2 The Generalisation Commitment

2.1 Categorisation

2.1.1 Categorisation in morphology: the diminutive in Italian

2.1.2 Categorisation in syntax: 'parts of speech'

2.1.3 Categorisation in phonology: distinctive features

2.2 Polysemy

2.2.1 Polysemy in the lexicon: over

2.2.2 Polysemy in morphology: agentive -er suffix

2.2.3 Polysemy in syntax: ditransitive construction

2.3 Metaphor

2.3.1 Metaphor in the lexicon: over (again)

2.3.2 Metaphor in syntax: the ditransitive (again)

3 The Cognitive Commitment

3.1 Attention: profiling in language

3.2 Categorisation: fuzzy categories

3.3 Metaphor

4 Research methods

4.1 Phenomena studied by cognitive linguistics

4.2 Research methods in cognitive linguistics

4.2.1 Introspective method

4.2.2 Audio-visual method

4.2.3 Corpus method

4.2.4 Behavioural method

4.2.5 Neuroscientific method

5 The field of cognitive linguistics

3 Foundations of experience I: space

1 Spatial perception

1.1 Three stages of perception

1.2 Percepts versus concepts.

1.3 Types of perceptual experience

1.4 How do percepts arise?

1.5 Bottom-up theories

1.5.1 Texture perception

1.5.2 Object perception

1.6 Top-down theories: form perception

1.6.1 Figure-ground organisation

1.6.2 Gestalt grouping principles

2 Linguistic reflexes of perceptual experience

2.1 'What' versus 'where' systems in perception and language

2.2 Figure-ground segregation in perception and language

3 Spatial representation in language

3.1 The nature of spatial schemas

3.1.1 Spatio-geometric components

3.1.2 Properties of components

3.1.3 Relations between components

3.2 The functional nature of spatial schemas

3.3 Spatial frames of reference

3.3.1 Case study: Talmy's taxonomy of s-FoRs

4 Cross-linguistic variation in the representation of space

4.1 Categorising spatial scenes in English and Korean

4.2 S-FoRs in Guugu Yimithirr

4 Foundations of experience II: time

1 Temporal perception

1.1 The subjective reality of time

1.1.1 Experience of events

1.1.2 Vital functioning

1.1.3 Individual factors

1.2 Facets of temporal experience

1.2.1 Parameters for comparing space and time

1.2.2 A taxonomy of temporal experience types

2 Linguistic representations for time

2.1 The spatialisation of time

2.1.1 Time is space

2.1.2 Experimental evidence

2.1.3 Further developments

2.2 Lexical concepts for time

2.2.1 Time

2.2.2 Temporal aspects of an event: Christmas

2.3 Temporal frames of reference

2.3.1 The spatial basis of t-FoRs

2.3.2 The temporal basis of t-FoRs

3 Cross-linguistic patterns in the conceptualisation of time

3.1 The past and future in Aymara

3.2 Earlier and later in Mandarin

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS.

5 Language in use I: knowledge of language

1 Language in use

1.1 A usage event

1.2 The relationship between usage and linguistic structure

1.3 Comprehension and production

1.4 Context

1.5 Frequency

2 Cognitive Grammar

2.1 Abstraction, schematisation and language use

2.2 Schemas and their instantiations

2.3 Partial sanction

2.4 The non-reductive nature of schemas

2.5 Frequency in schema formation

6 Language in use II: language change,and acquisition

1 A usage-based approach to language change

1.1 Historical linguistics and language change

1.2 The utterance selection theory of language change

1.3 The generalised theory of selection and the theory of utterance selection

1.4 Causal mechanisms for language change

1.4.1 Normal replication

1.4.2 Intentional altered replication

1.4.3 Non-intentional altered replication

1.4.4 Selection

1.5 Causal mechanisms of language stability and change

2 The usage-based approach to language acquisition

2.1 Empirical findings in language acquisition

2.2 The cognitive view: sociocognitive mechanisms in language acquisition

7 Key topics in language science: formal versus cognitive linguistics

1 Language origins and time depth

1.1 The received view of human evolution

1.2 How old is language?

1.3 What motivated the rise of language?

1.4 Stages in language evolution

2 Language universals

2.1 The Universal Grammar approach

2.1.1 The falsifiability problem

2.1.2 The methodological problem

2.1.3 The abstractness problem

2.2 The cognitive linguistics approach

2.2.1 Human interactional intelligence

2.2.2 Universal scenes of experience

3 Language acquisition.

3.1 The rise of the nativist approach to L1 acquisition

3.2 The cognitive linguistics critique

3.2.1 Problem of absence of discontinuous learning jumps

3.2.2 Problem of absence of evidence not implying evidence of absence

3.2.3 Problem of findings from neurobiology

4 Modularity of mind

4.1 Double dissociations

4.2 Localisation of language

4.3 The cognitive linguistics critique

5 Semantic universals

5.1 The semantic decomposition approach

5.2 The cognitive linguistics critique

6 Language and thought

6.1 Strong versus weak versions of linguistic relativity

6.2 The cognitive linguistics perspective

Part II: Conceptual structure

8 What is a cognitive linguistics approach to conceptual structure?

1 Guiding principles

1.1 Conceptual structure is embodied

1.2 Semantic structure reflects conceptual structure

2 Comparing and contrasting approaches to conceptualstructure

2.1 Two views of concepts and the mind

2.1.1 Disembodied cognition

2.1.2 Embodied cognition

2.1.3 Embodied versus disembodied cognition perspectives

2.2 The symbol grounding problem

2.3 Evidence for the embodied cognition perspective

2.4 Experiential realism

3 Embodiment effects in semantic structure

3.1 Types of embodiment effects

9 Image schemas and the origin of concepts

1 The origin of concepts

1.1 Perceptual meaning analysis

1.2 The nature of a child's first concepts

1.3 The embodied basis of conceptual structure

2 Image schema theory

2.1 What is an image schema?

2.2 An example

3 Properties of image schemas

3.1 Image schemas are pre-conceptual in origin

3.2 An image schema can give rise to more specific concepts.

3.3 Image schemas derive from interaction with and observationof the world

3.4 Image schemas are inherently meaningful

3.5 Image schemas are analogue representations

3.6 Image schemas can be internally complex

3.7 Image schemas are not the same as mental images

3.8 Image schemas are multimodal

3.9 Image schemas are subject to transformations

3.10 Image schemas can occur in clusters

3.11 Image schemas underlie linguistic meaning

3.12 Image schemas give rise to abstract thought

3.13 A partial list of image schemas

4 Refining image schema theory

4.1 Spatial primitives

4.2 Image schemas

4.3 Schematic integrations

5 Mimetic schemas

10 Cognitive Semantics

1 Semantic structure

2 The configuration of space and time

2.1 time versus space

2.2 Conceptual alternativity

3 Schematic systems

3.1 The Configurational Structure system

3.1.1 Overview

3.1.2 Plexity

3.1.3 Boundedness

3.1.4 Dividedness

3.1.5 Disposition of quantity

3.1.6 Degree of extension

3.1.7 Patterns of distribution

3.1.8 Axiality

3.2 The Attentional System

3.2.1 Overview

3.2.2 Focus of attention pattern

3.2.3 Windowing pattern

3.2.4 Level of attention pattern

3.3 The Perspectival System

3.3.1 Overview

3.3.2 Perspectival location

3.3.3 Perspectival distance

3.3.4 Perspectival mode

3.3.5 Perspectival direction

3.4 The Force-Dynamics System

3.4.1 Overview

3.4.2 Types of force

3.4.3 Antagonist versus agonist

11 Categorisation and idealised cognitive models

1 A new approach to categorisation and the development of cognitive linguistics

2 The classical theory

2.1 The definitional problem

2.2 The problem of conceptual fuzziness.

2.3 The problem of prototypicality.

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ISBN:

1-4744-0524-X

1-4744-0523-1

OCLC:

1337068525