The Cognitive Linguistics Reader (advances In Cognitive Linguistics)

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Cognitive Linguistics is the most rapidly expanding school in modern Linguistics. It aims to create a scientific approach to the study of language, incorporating the tools of philosophy, neuroscience and computer science. Cognitive approaches to language were initially based on philosophical thinking about the mind, but more recent work emphasizes the importance of convergent evidence from a broad empirical and methodological base. The Cognitive Linguistics Reader brings together the key writings of the last two decades, both the classic foundational pieces and contemporary work. The essays and articles - selected to represent the full range, scope and diversity of the Cognitive Linguistics enterprise - are grouped by theme into sections with each section separately introduced. The book opens with a broad overview of Cognitive Linguistics designed for the introductory reader and closes with detailed further reading to guide the reader through the proliferating literature.

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• Year: 2,007

• Pages: 988

• Pages In File: 988

• Language: English

• Identifier: 1845531094,9781845531096

• Ddc: 415

• Lcc: P165 .C6454 2007

• Org File Size: 11,989,928

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• Toc: Title Page......Page 1Contents......Page 5Acknowledgements......Page 8Preface......Page 131 The cognitive linguistics enterprise: an overview......Page 16Section 2 Empirical methods in cognitive linguistics......Page 512 Why congnitive linguists should care more about empirical methods......Page 543 Towards an empirical lexical semantics......Page 714 Collostrucitons: investigating the interaction of words and constructions......Page 895 Conceptual intergration and metaphor: an event-related potential study......Page 120Section 3......Page 1396 Cognitive models and prototype theory......Page 1447 Where does prototypicality come from?......Page 1828 Reconsidering prepositional polysemy networks: the case of over......Page 2009 Frame semantics......Page 252Section 4......Page 27710 The contemporary theory of metaphor......Page 28111 A typology of motivation for conceptual metaphor: correlation vs. resemblance......Page 33012 Towards a theory of metonymy......Page 34913 Conceputal integration networds......Page 37414 Blending and metaphor......Page 434Section 5......Page 45515 An introduction to cognitive grammar......Page 45816 The relation of grammar to cognition......Page 49517 Regularity and idiomaticity in grammatical constructions: the case of let alone......Page 55918 Constructions: a new theoretical approach to langauge......Page 60319 Embodied construction grammar in simulation-based language understanding......Page 61520 Logical and typological arguments for radical construction grammar......Page 652Section 6......Page 68921 Force dynamics in language and cognition......Page 69422 How we conceptualise time: language, meaning and temporal cognition......Page 74723 How language structures space......Page 780Section 7......Page 84525 Space under construction: language-specific spatial categorization in first language acquisition......Page 86326 Does langauge shape thought? Mandarin and English speakers' conceptions of time......Page