Cognitive Semantics: A cultural-historical perspective

✍ Scribed by Vladimir Glebkin

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 250
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The book presents two fundamental theories that characterize the cultural-historical perspective in cognitive semantics: the Four-Level Theory of Cognitive Development (FLTCD) and the Sociocultural Theory of Lexical Complexes (STLC) as well as their application to the analysis of specific material. In particular, the book analyzes the sociocultural history of the MACHINE metaphor, specifically its use in the texts of René Descartes and Francis Bacon. The practical embodiment of STLC is demonstrated through the analysis of lexical complexes such as otkryvat' ‘to open,’ kamen' ‘stone,’ and intelligencija ‘intelligentsia.’ In the final chapter of the monograph, FLTCD and STLC are used for the diachronic analysis of semantic change. The monograph will be of interest to a wide range of linguists, psychologists, cultural anthropologists, and philosophers who consider language as a sociocultural phenomenon.

✦ Table of Contents

Cognitive Semantics
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
Preface
Part I The four-level theory of cognitive development and its applications to cognitive semantics
Chapter 1 An overview of the four-level theory of cognitive development
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Level A. Great apes
1.2 Level B. Prehistoric culture and hunter-gatherer cultures
1.3 Level C. Early theoretical cultures
1.4 Level D. Developed theoretical cultures (modernity in Europe, modern industrial and post-industrial cultures)
1.5 Conclusion
Chapter 2 Cultural-historical psychology and the cognitive view of metonymy and metaphor
2.0 Introduction
2.1 Complex thinking and metonymy
2.2 The semantic evolution of the word ὕλη
2.3 Features of philosophical terminology at level C and level D of FLTCD
2.4 Conclusion
Chapter 3 Cognitive style of early theoretical culture
3.0 Introduction
3.1 The contrast between Eastern and Western types of reasoning and the concept of cognitive style
3.2 Peculiarities of cognitive operations in the first large-scale civilizations
3.3 The cognitive style of the ancient greek mathematics (on the example of Euclid’s elements)
3.4 The cognitive style of the ancient greek historiography (on the example of treatises of Herodotus and Thucydides)
3.5 Conclusion
Part II A cultural-historical analysis of the concept of machine
Chapter 4 A sociocultural history of the machine metaphor
4.0 Introduction
4.1 Conceptual structure of the words μηχανή and machina in classical and late antiquity
4.2 Conceptual structure of the word machina in the Middle Ages
4.3 Conclusion
Chapter 5 The concept of machine in the philosophy of the early modern era
5.0 Introduction
5.1 The philosophical basis of the research programmes of Bacon and Descartes
5.2 The concept of machine in the texts of Bacon and Descartes
5.3 Conclusion
Part III The sociocultural theory of lexical complexes
Chapter 6 The theoretical foundations, basic postulates and framework of STLC
6.0 Introduction
6.1 The philosophical underpinnings of STLC
6.2 The framework of STLC
6.3 Summary
Chapter 7 The conceptual structure of the lexical complex otkryvat’ in STLC
7.0 Introduction
7.1 The verb otkryvat’ and its derivatives in the dictionaries
7.2 A sketch of the conceptual structure of the complex otkryvat’
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7.3 A framework of the article otkryvat’ in an explanatory dictionary
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7.4 Conclusion
Chapter 8 The conceptual structure of the lexical complex kamen’ in STLC
8.0 Introduction
8.1 The noun kamen’ and its derivatives in the dictionaries
8.2 The conceptual structure of the complex kamen’ in Old Russian and in modern Russian
8.3 The framework of the article kamen’ in an explanatory dictionary
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Chapter 9 The conceptual structure the lexical complex intelligencija in STLC
9.0 Introduction
9.1 The noun intelligencija and its derivatives in dictionaries
9.2 The prehistory of the complex intelligencija (up to the 1860s)
9.3 The conceptual structure of the complex intelligencija in the 1860s and 1870s
9.3.1 The sociocultural context of emergence of the complex intelligencija (Level A0)
9.3.2 The complex intelligencija in everyday language (Level A)
9.4 The conceptual structure of the complex intelligencija in the 1880s and 1890s
9.4.1 Theoretical interpretations of the complex intelligencija (Level B)
9.4.2 The complex intelligencija in everyday language (Level A)
9.5 The conceptual structure of the complex intelligencija at the beginning of 20th century (before 1917)
9.5.1 Theoretical interpretations of the complex intelligencija (Level B)
9.5.2 The complex intelligencija in everyday language (Level A)
9.6 The conceptual structure of the complex intelligencija in the 1920s to 1950s
9.6.1 The sociocultural context of the complex intelligencija (Level A0)
9.6.2 Theoretical interpretations of the complex intelligencija (Level B)
9.6.3 The complex intelligencija in everyday language (Level A)
9.7 The conceptual structure of the complex intelligencija in the 1960s to 1980s
9.7.1 Theoretical interpretations of the complex intelligencija (Level B)
9.7.2 The complex intelligencija in everyday language (Level A)
9.8 The conceptual structure of the complex intelligencija in the post-Soviet era
9.8.1 Theoretical interpretations of the complex intelligencija (Level B)
9.8.2 The complex intelligencija in everyday language (Level A)
9.9 The framework of the article intelligencija in an explanatory dictionary
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9.10 Summary
Chapter 10 Regularity in semantic change
10.0 Introduction
10.1 Basic approaches to the analysis of semantic change in cognitive linguistics and historical linguistics
10.2 The large-scale semantic changes and sociocognitive processes underpinning them
10.3 Sociocultural factors influencing semantic change in modern language
10.3.1 An interplay between an idiolect and general language as a trigger for semantic change
10.3.2 Unification-separation request as a motivation for semantic change
10.4 Final remarks
Conclusion
References
Index