Cognitive Linguistics: Basic Readings, edited by Dirk Geeraerts (Mouton de Gruyter)

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COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS: BASIC READINGS

Edited by Dirk Geeraerts

 

2006. viii, 485 pages. 

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Date of publication: 09/2006

 

 

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, such as 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, this book 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.

 

EDITOR:

Dirk Geeraerts, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.

 

FROM THE CONTENTS

 

Introduction: A rough guide to cognitive linguistics

Dirk Geeraerts

 

Cognitive Grammar: Introduction to “concept, image, and symbol” 

Ronald W. Langacker

 

Grammatical construal: The relation of grammar to cognition

Leonard Talmy

 

Radial network: Cognitive topology and lexical networks

Claudia Brugman and George Lakoff

 

Prototype theory: Prospects and problems of prototype theory

Dirk Geeraerts

 

Schematic network: Ambiguity, polysemy, and vagueness

David Tuggy

 

Conceptual metaphor: The contemporary theory of metaphor

George Lakoff

 

Image schema: The cognitive psychological reality of image schemas and their transformations

Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. and Herbert L. Colston

 

Metonymy: The role of domains in the interpretation of metaphors and metonymies

William Croft

 

Mental spaces: Conceptual integration networks

Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner

 

Frame semantics

Charles J.Fillmore

 

Construction Grammar: The inherent semantics of argument structure: The case of the English ditransitive construction

Adele E. Goldberg

 

Usage-based linguistics: First steps toward a usage-based theory of language acquisition

Michael Tomasello

 

Epilogue: Trajectories for further reading

Dirk Geeraerts

 

 

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