31.1019, Books: Language, Space and Mind: Chilton

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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 22:09:06
From: Louise Bowes [lbowes at cambridge.org]
Subject: Language, Space and Mind: Chilton

 


Title: Language, Space and Mind 
Subtitle: The Conceptual Geometry of Linguistic Meaning 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/psycholinguistics-and-neurolinguistics/language-space-and-mind-conceptual-geometry-linguistic-meaning?format=PB 


Author: Paul Chilton

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108810388 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 32.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108810388 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 24.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108810388 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 29.17


Abstract:

The idea that spatial cognition provides the foundation of linguistic
meanings, even highly abstract meanings, has been put forward by a number of
linguists in recent years. This book takes this proposal into new dimensions
and develops a theoretical framework based on simple geometric principles. All
speakers are conceptualisers who have a point of view both in a literal and in
an abstract sense, choosing their perspective in space, time and the real
world. The book examines the conceptualising properties of verbs, including
tense, aspect, modality and transitivity, as well as the conceptual workings
of grammatical constructions associated with counterfactuality, other minds
and the expression of moral force. It makes links to the cognitive sciences
throughout and concludes with a discussion of the relationship between
language, brain and mind.

1. Introduction: space, geometry, mind; 2. Viewpoint, reference frames and
transformations; 3. Distance, direction and verbs; 4. Event types and
cognitive operators; 5. Times, tenses and reference frames; 6. Counterfactual
reflections; 7. Reference frames and other minds; 8. Mental distance and
complement clauses; 9. Verbs, complements and their conceptual effects; 10.
The deontic dimension; 11. Concluding perspectives.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Psycholinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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