Linguistic Categorization (Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics)

✍ Scribed by John R. Taylor

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 325
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The third edition of the book widely recognized as providing the most readable and clearly articulated introduction to Cognitive Linguistics is fully revised and updated to include the considerable developments in Cognitive Linguistics since 1987. It covers recent research on polysemy, meaning relatedness and metaphors, as well as expanding the discussion of syntactic categories and the relevance of computer simulations.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface to the third edition
Typographical conventions
Introduction and Overview
1 The Categorization of Colour
1.1 Why colour terms?
1.2 Arbitrariness
1.3 An alternative approach: focal colours
1.4 Autonomous linguistics vs. cognitive linguistics
2 The Classical Approach to Categorization
2.1 Aristotle
2.2 The classical approach in linguistics: phonology
2.3 The classical approach in semantics
2.4 What’s wrong with the classical theory?
3 Prototype Categories: I
3.1 Wittgenstein
3.2 Prototypes: an alternative to the classical theory
3.3 Basic level terms
3.4 Prototypes and the basic level
3.5 Where do prototypes come from?
3.6 Some applications
4 Prototype Categories: II
4.1 Prototypes
4.2 Prototypes and schemas
4.3 Folk categories and expert categories
4.4 Hedges
5 Linguistic and Encyclopaedic Knowledge
5.1 The dictionary and the encyclopaedia
5.2 Domains and schemas
5.3 Frames and scripts
5.4 Perspectivization
5.5 Frames and scripts in the comprehension of nominals
5.6 Fake
5.7 Real
6 Polysemy and Meaning Chains
6.1 Monosemous and polysemous categories
6.2 An illustration: Climb
6.3 Over
6.4 Some problems
7 Category Extension: Metonymy and Metaphor
7.1 Metonymy
7.2 Metaphor
8 Polysemy, or: How Many Meanings Does a Word Really Have?
8.1 Polysemy and compositionality
8.2 The two-level approach
8.3 Two illustrations: in and round
8.4 Polysemy and the network model
9 Polysemous Categories in Morphology and Syntax
9.1 Case
9.2 The diminutive
9.3 The past tense
9.4 Yes–no questions
10 Polysemous Categories in Intonation
10.1 The problem of intonational meaning
10.2 The meanings of falling and rising tones
10.3 High key
11 Grammatical Categories
11.1 Words, affixes, and clitics
11.2 Grammatical categories
11.3 The semantic basis of grammatical categories
12 Syntactic Constructions as Prototype Categories
12.1 Why we need constructions
12.2 Elements of a construction grammar
12.3 The prenominal possessive
12.4 The transitive construction
12.5 The transitive construction: more marginal members
12.6 Metaphorical extension of syntactic constructions
12.7 A comparison with German
12.8 Concluding remarks
13 Prototype Categories in Phonology
13.1 Phoneme categories
13.2 The gradience of phonetic features
13.3 Syllable constructions
14 The Acquisition of Categories
14.1 Hypothesized acquisition routes
14.2 Grammatical categories and constructions
14.3 Conceptual development
14.4 Word meanings
References
Author index
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