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Author(s): Vyvyan Evans; Melanie Green
ISBN(s): 9780805860146, 0748626506
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 4.41 MB
Year: 2006
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0748626506 
ISBN 13: 9780805860146
Author: Vyvyan Evans, Melanie Green

An authoritative general introduction to cognitive linguistics, this book provides up-to-date coverage of all areas of the field and sets in context recent developments within cognitive semantics (including primary metaphors, conceptual blending and Principled Polysemy), and cognitive approaches to grammar (including Radical Construction Grammar and Embodied Construction Grammar). While all topics are introduced in terms accessible to both undergraduate and postgraduate students, this work is sufficiently comprehensive and detailed to serve as a reference work for scholars from linguistics and neighbouring disciplines who wish to gain a better understanding of cognitive linguistics. The book is divided into three parts (The cognitive linguistics enterprise; Cognitive semantics; and Cognitive approaches to grammar), and is therefore suitable for a range of different course types, both in terms of length and level, as well as in terms of focus. In addition to defining the field, the text also includes appropriate critical evaluation. Complementary and potentially competing approaches are explored both within the cognitive approach and beyond it. In particular, cognitive linguistics is compared and contrasted with formal approaches including Generative Grammar, formal approaches to semantics, and Relevance Theory.Features:*Exercises at the end of each chapter*Annotated reading list at the end of each chapter*Lively and accessible presentation *Full bibliography*Contains 200 diagrammatic illustrations

Cognitive Linguistics An Introduction 2nd Table of contents:

1. Prototypes and Categories

  • Colours, squares, birds and cups: early empirical research into lexical categories

  • The internal structure of categories: prototypes, attributes, family resemblances and gestalt

  • Context‑dependence and cultural models

2. Levels of Categorization

  • Basic-level categories of organisms and concrete objects

  • Superordinate and subordinate categories; experiential hierarchies

  • Categorization and composite word‑formation

  • Basic‑level categories and basic experiences: actions, events, properties, states and locations

3. Conceptual Metaphors and Metonymies

  • From figures of speech to conceptual systems

  • Metaphors, metonymies and emotion categories

  • Metaphors as a way of thinking: science, politics

  • Thinking in metonymies: potential & limitations

4. Figure and Ground

  • Figure and ground; trajector & landmark: research into prepositions

  • Figure, ground and two metaphors: cognitive explanation of simple clause patterns

  • Other types of prominence & cognitive processing

5. Frames and Constructions

  • Frames and scripts

  • Event‑frames and windowing of attention

  • Language‑specific framing in narratives

  • (Also covers Construction Grammar)

6. Blending and Relevance

  • Metaphor, metonymy and conceptual blending

  • Conceptual blending in linguistic analysis, advertising, riddles, jokes

  • Relevance Theory: a cognitive‑pragmatic perspective

7. Other Issues in Cognitive Linguistics

  • Iconicity

  • Lexical change and prototypicality

  • Cognitive aspects of grammaticalization

  • Effects on foreign‑language teaching

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