Cognitive linguistics : convergence and expansion

✍ Scribed by Mario Brdar, Stefan Th. Gries, Milena Zic Fuchs

• Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 371
• Series: Human cognitive processing 32
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Cognitive Linguistics is not a unified theory of language but rather a set of flexible and mutually compatible theoretical frameworks. Whether these frameworks can or should stabilize into a unified theory is open to debate. One set of contributions to the volume focuses on evidence that strengthens the basic tenets of CL concerning e.g. non-modularity, meaning, and embodiment. A second set of chapters explores the expansion of the general CL paradigm and the incorporation of theoretical insights from other disciplines and their methodologies – a development that could lead to competing and mutually exclusive theories within the CL paradigm itself. The authors are leading experts in cognitive grammar, cognitive pragmatics, metaphor and metonymy theory, quantitative corpus linguistics, functional linguistics, and cognitive psychology. This volume is therefore of great interest to scholars and students wishing to inform themselves about the current state and possible future developments of Cognitive Linguistics

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cognitive Linguistics
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Editors and contributors
Introduction
1. Background and introduction
2. The contributions to this volume
2.1 Setting the scene
2.2 Consolidating the paradigm
2.3 Expanding the paradigm
Part 1. Setting the scene
Convergence in cognitive linguistics
References
An overview of cognitive linguistics
1. Historical context of CL
2. Basic theoretical and methodological principles of CL
2.1 Basic theoretical principles
2.2 Methodological principles
3. Main directions and current research tendencies in CL.