Exploring Functional-Cognitive Space

✍ Scribed by Christopher S. Butler, Francisco Gonzálvez-García

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 600
• Series: Studies in Language Companion Series 157
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book, intended primarily for researchers and advanced students, expands greatly on previous work by the authors exploring the topography of the multidimensional “functional-cognitive space” within which functional, cognitive and/or constructionist approaches to language can be located. The analysis covers a broad range of 16 such approaches, with some additional references to Chomskyan minimalism, and is based on 58 questionnaire items, each rated by 29 experts on particular models for their importance in the model concerned. These ratings are analysed statistically to reveal overall patterns of (dis)similarity across models. The questionnaire ratings and experts’ comments are then used, together with the authors’ close reading of the literature, in detailed discussion leading to a final dichotomous rating for each feature in each model, the results again being analysed statistically. The final chapter presents the overall conclusions and suggests how existing collaborations between approaches could be strengthened, and new ones created, in future research.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgment
Abbreviations for models
Figures and Tables

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Profiles
Chapter 3. Features for the characterization of models: The questionnaire
Chapter 4. Statistical analysis of the questionnaire data
Chapter 5. Characterization of models: Introduction; communication and motivation
Chapter 6. Characterization of models: Coverage
Chapter 7. Characterization of models: The database for description
Chapter 8. Characterization of models: Explanation
Chapter 9. Characterization of models: The form of the grammar
Chapter 10. Characterization of models: Applications
Chapter 11. Statistical analysis of final ratings
Chapter 12. Compatibilities and contrasts

References

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Когнитивная лингвистика и лингвоконцептология;