36.1493, Books: A Taxonomy of Cognitive Semantics: Talmy (2025)

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Date: 09-May-2025
From: Rosanna Woensdregt [rosanna.woensdregt at degruyterbrill.com]
Subject: A Taxonomy of Cognitive Semantics: Talmy (2025)


Title: A Taxonomy of Cognitive Semantics
Series Title: Brill Research Perspectives in Linguistics
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Brill
           http://www.brill.com
Book URL: https://brill.com/display/title/72220

Author(s): Leonard Talmy

Paperback ISBN: 978-90-04-73025-0
E-book ISBN: 978-90-04-73026-7

Abstract:

Cognitive semantics is a relatively new field whose central concern is
how language structures conceptual content. This book aims to approach
the field comprehensively and outline its main contours. It both
summarizes previous research and presents novel analyses. The main
issues it covers range from concept structuring mechanisms, through
crosslinguistic contrasts of concepts, to relations across cognitive
faculties. Along the way, it examines communication systems, including
gesture and signed language; diachronic change from long to
short-term; differences between universal, typological, and
language-specific features; ten conceptual categories represented by
closed-class forms; and tropes as a form of "constructive
discrepancy".

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics

Written In: English (eng)



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