21.4092, Books: Cognitive Science/Pragmatics: Harder

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From: Julia Ulrich [julia.ulrich at degruyter.com]
Subject: Meaning in Mind and Society: Harder
 

	
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Title: Meaning in Mind and Society 
Subtitle: A Functional Contribution to the Social Turn in Cognitive Linguistics 
Series Title: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] 41  

Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sk/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110205107-1 


Author: Peter Harder

Electronic: ISBN:  9783110216059 Pages: 516 Price: Europe EURO 119.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9783110205107 Pages: 516 Price: Europe EURO 119.95


Abstract:

Meaning is embodied - but it is also social. If Cognitive Linguistics is to be a 
complete theory of language in use, it must cover the whole spectrum from 
grounded cognition to nonsense and irony. This book tries to show how.

Cognitive Linguistics knocked down the wall between language and the 
experiential content of the human mind. Frame semantics, embodiment, 
conceptual construal, figure-ground organization, metaphorical mapping, and 
mental spaces are among the results of this breakthrough, which at the same 
time provided cognitive science as a whole with an essential human 
dimension. A new phase began when Cognitive Linguistics started to see 
itself as part of the wider movement of 'usage-based' linguistics. Bringing 
about an alliance between mind and discourse, it complemented the 
conceptual dimension that had been dominant until then with a 'use' 
dimension - thereby living up to the explicit 'experiential' commitment of 
Cognitive Linguistics. This outward expansion is continuing: The focus on 
'meaning construction', which began with the theory of blending, highlights 
emergent, online effects rather than underlying mappings. Cognitive 
Linguistics is integrating the evolutionary perspective, which links up 
individual and population-based features of language. The empirical 
obligations incurred by this expansion have led to greatly increased attention 
to corpus and experimental methods, especially in relation to sociolinguistic 
and language acquisition research.

The book describes this development and goes on to discuss the 
foundational challenge that it creates for Cognitive Linguistics as it begins to 
cover issues that are also central to types of discourse analysis focusing on 
social processes of determination. The book argues for a synthesis based on 
a renewed Cognitive Linguistics, which can accommodate everything from 
bodily grounding to deconstructible floating signifiers in an integrated 
complete picture, which also covers the roles of arbitrariness and structure. 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Pragmatics


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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