Historical Semantics and Cognition

Historical Semantics and Cognition
Author: Andreas Blank
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2013-03-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110804190
GET BOOK

Contains revised papers from a September 1996 symposium which provided a forum for synchronically and diachronically oriented scholars to exchange ideas and for American and European cognitive linguists to confront representatives of different directions in European structural semantics. Papers are in sections on theories and models, descriptive categories, and case studies, and examine areas such as cognitive and structural semantics, diachronic prototype semantics, synecdoche as a cognitive and communicative strategy, and intensifiers as targets and sources of semantic change.

Historical Linguistics

Historical Linguistics
Author: Margaret E. Winters
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2020-05-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027261237
GET BOOK

This textbook serves a dual purpose. It is, first, a comprehensive introduction to historical linguistics, intended for both undergraduate and graduate students who have taken, at the least, an introductory course in linguistics. Secondly, unlike many such textbooks, this one is based in the theoretical framework of Cognitive Linguistics, a semantics-based theory which emphasizes the relationship between cognition and language. Descriptions and explanations touch on cognitive, social, and physiological aspects of language as it changes across time. Examples come principally from Germanic (English, German, Yiddish) and Romance (French and Spanish), but with some exploration of aspects of the history of other languages as well. Each chapter concludes with exercises based on material in the chapter and also with suggestions for extensions of the content to wider issues in diachronic linguistics.

Meaning and Cognition

Meaning and Cognition
Author: Liliana Albertazzi
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2000-11-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9027299722
GET BOOK

The aim of this book is to present significant aspects of cognitive grammar by adopting an interdisciplinary approach. The book provides an interplay of contributions by some exponents of cognitive grammar (Langacker, Croft, Wood, Geeraerts, Kövecses, Wildgen), and philosophers of language (Albertazzi, Marconi, Peruzzi, Violi) who, in most cases, share a phenomenological and Gestalt approach to the problem of semantics. The topics covered include themes that are central to the debate in cognitive grammar, such as, metaphor, construal operations, prototypicality, Gestalt schemes and field semantics. The book offers evidence to support the cognitive hypothesis in semantics and the existence of a close connection between the structures of perception and the categories of natural language. Because of the approach employed, with its consideration of borderline aspects among semantics, linguistics, theoretical reflection and historical analysis, the book marks out a route for a philosophical inquiry complementary to a cognitive approach to the semantics of natural language.

Semantics and Cognition

Semantics and Cognition
Author: Ray S. Jackendoff
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1985-09-10
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780262600132
GET BOOK

This book emphasizes the role of semantics as a bridge between the theory of language and the theories of other cognitive capacities such as visual perception and motor control.

Cultural Semantics and Social Cognition

Cultural Semantics and Social Cognition
Author: Carsten Levisen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110294656
GET BOOK

Presenting original, detailed studies of keywords of Danish, this book breaks new ground for the study of language and cultural values. Based on evidence from the semantic categories of everyday language, such as the Danish concept of hygge (roughly meaning, ‘pleasant togetherness’), the book provides an integrative socio-cognitive framework for studying and understanding language-particular universes. It is argued that the worlds we live in are not linguistically and conceptually neutral, but rather that speakers who live by Danish concepts are likely to pay attention to their world in ways suggested by central Danish keywords and lexical grids. By means of a sophisticated semantic methodology, the author accounts for the meanings of even highly culture-specific and untranslatable linguistic concepts. The book offers new tools for comparative research into the diversity of semantic and cultural systems in contemporary Europe. Additionally, it contributes to the emerging discipline of cultural semantics, and to the ongoing debates of linguistic diversity, metalanguage, and the use of linguistic evidence in studies of culture and social cognition.

Semantics - Theories

Semantics - Theories
Author: Claudia Maienborn
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2019-02-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110589249
GET BOOK

Now in paperback for the first time since its original publication, the material gathered here is perfect for anyone who needs a detailed and accessible introduction to the important semantic theories. Designed for a wide audience, it will be of great value to linguists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, and computer scientists working on natural language. The book covers theories of lexical semantics, cognitively oriented approaches to semantics, compositional theories of sentence semantics, and discourse semantics. This clear, elegant explanation of the key theories in semantics research is essential reading for anyone working in the area.

The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics

The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics
Author: Dirk Geeraerts
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 1366
Release: 2010-06-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199738637
GET BOOK

With 49 chapters written by experts in the field, this reference volume authoritatively covers cognitive linguistics, from basic concepts and models to practical applications.

The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics
Author: Wen Xu
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 792
Release: 2021-06-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1351034693
GET BOOK

The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics provides a comprehensive introduction and essential reference work to cognitive linguistics. It encompasses a wide range of perspectives and approaches, covering all the key areas of cognitive linguistics and drawing on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research in pragmatics, discourse analysis, biolinguistics, ecolinguistics, evolutionary linguistics, neuroscience, language pedagogy, and translation studies. The forty-three chapters, written by international specialists in the field, cover four major areas: • Basic theories and hypotheses, including cognitive semantics, cognitive grammar, construction grammar, frame semantics, natural semantic metalanguage, and word grammar; • Central topics, including embodiment, image schemas, categorization, metaphor and metonymy, construal, iconicity, motivation, constructionalization, intersubjectivity, grounding, multimodality, cognitive pragmatics, cognitive poetics, humor, and linguistic synaesthesia, among others; • Interfaces between cognitive linguistics and other areas of linguistic study, including cultural linguistics, linguistic typology, figurative language, signed languages, gesture, language acquisition and pedagogy, translation studies, and digital lexicography; • New directions in cognitive linguistics, demonstrating the relevance of the approach to social, diachronic, neuroscientific, biological, ecological, multimodal, and quantitative studies. The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics is an indispensable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and for all researchers working in this area.

Toward a Cognitive Semantics

Toward a Cognitive Semantics
Author: Leonard Talmy
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 574
Release: 2000-09-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0262201208
GET BOOK

V.1 concept structuring systems -- V.2 Typology and process in concept structuring.

The Sentence in Language and Cognition

The Sentence in Language and Cognition
Author: Tista Bagchi
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2008
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780739118450
GET BOOK

The Sentence in Language and Cognition is about the significant role of the sentence in linguistic cognition and in the practical domains of human existence. Dr. Tista Bagchi has written a comprehensive assessment of the structure and cognitive function of the sentence and the clause in the context of real-world discourse and activities. The notions of sentencehood and clausehood with special reference to the semantic histories of the terms sentence and clause, including their ethical, legal, and administrative uses, are assessed. This is followed by a concise historical survey of the treatment of the sentence in a few of the ancient linguistic traditions, notably the Greek, Roman(-Alexandrian), Arab, and Sanskrit scholastic traditions. A wide variety of sentence types, from a cross-section of languages spoken in Asia, Europe, and the Americas, are presented by way of factual evidence for sentences and clauses as linguistic units. Formally defined notions of the sentence and the clause as syntactic constituents in major theoretical frameworks are examined and assessed for their essential properties and points of convergence. The Sentence in Language and Cognition is an essential book for advanced students and researchers of linguistics.