The Cognitive Linguistics Reader (Advances in Cognitive Linguistics)

✍ Scribed by Benjamin K. Bergen, Vyvyan Evans, Jorg Zinken

• Publisher: Equinox Publishing
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 988
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Cognitive Linguistics is the most rapidly expanding school in modern Linguistics. It aims to create a scientific approach to the study of language, incorporating the tools of philosophy, neuroscience and computer science. Cognitive approaches to language were initially based on philosophical thinking about the mind, but more recent work emphasizes the importance of convergent evidence from a broad empirical and methodological base. The Cognitive Linguistics Reader brings together the key writings of the last two decades, both the classic foundational pieces and contemporary work. The essays and articles - selected to represent the full range, scope and diversity of the Cognitive Linguistics enterprise - are grouped by theme into sections with each section separately introduced. The book opens with a broad overview of Cognitive Linguistics designed for the introductory reader and closes with detailed further reading to guide the reader through the proliferating literature.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page......Page 1
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Preface......Page 13
1 The cognitive linguistics enterprise: an overview......Page 16
Section 2 Empirical methods in cognitive linguistics......Page 51
2 Why congnitive linguists should care more about empirical methods......Page 54
3 Towards an empirical lexical semantics......Page 71
4 Collostrucitons: investigating the interaction of words and constructions......Page 89
5 Conceptual intergration and metaphor: an event-related potential study......Page 120
Section 3......Page 139
6 Cognitive models and prototype theory......Page 144
7 Where does prototypicality come from?......Page 182
8 Reconsidering prepositional polysemy networks: the case of over......Page 200
9 Frame semantics......Page 252
Section 4......Page 277
10 The contemporary theory of metaphor......Page 281
11 A typology of motivation for conceptual metaphor: correlation vs. resemblance......Page 330
12 Towards a theory of metonymy......Page 349
13 Conceputal integration networds......Page 374
14 Blending and metaphor......Page 434
Section 5......Page 455
15 An introduction to cognitive grammar......Page 458
16 The relation of grammar to cognition......Page 495
17 Regularity and idiomaticity in grammatical constructions: the case of let alone......Page 559
18 Constructions: a new theoretical approach to langauge......Page 603
19 Embodied construction grammar in simulation-based language understanding......Page 615
20 Logical and typological arguments for radical construction grammar......Page 652
Section 6......Page 689
21 Force dynamics in language and cognition......Page 694
22 How we conceptualise time: language, meaning and temporal cognition......Page 747
23 How language structures space......Page 780
Section 7......Page 845
25 Space under construction: language-specific spatial categorization in first language acquisition......Page 863
26 Does langauge shape thought? Mandarin and English speakers' conceptions of time......Page 894
27 Language and thought online: cognitive consequences of linguistic relativity......Page 916
28 Linguistic selection: an utterance-based evolutionary theory of language change......Page 943
Futher reading......Page 981