Cognitive Linguistics Investigations: Across languages, fields and philosophical boundaries

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June Luchjenbroers
John Benjamins Publishing, 01.06.2006 - 334 Seiten
The total body of papers presented in this volume captures research across a variety of languages and language groups, to show how particular elements of linguistic description draw on otherwise separate aspects (or fields) of linguistic investigation. As such, this volume captures a diversity of research interest from the field of cognitive linguistics. These areas include: lexical semantics, cognitive grammar, metaphor, prototypes, pragmatics, narrative and discourse, computational and translation models; and are considered within the contexts of: language change, child language acquisition, language and culture, grammatical features and word order and gesture. Despite possible differences in philosophical approach to the role of language in cognitive tasks, these papers are similar in a fundamental way: they all share a commitment to the view that human categorization involves mental concepts that have fuzzy boundaries and are culturally and situation-based.

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Introduction
1
I Cultural models and conceptual mappings
11
When does cognitive linguistics become cultural?
13
Purple persuasion
47
Depicting fictive motion in drawings
67
Discourse gesture and mental spaces manoeuvers
87
II Computational models and conceptual mappings
107
In search of meaning
109
Verbal explication and the place of NSM semantics in cognitive linguistics
189
How do you know shes a woman?
219
Crosslinguistic polysemy in tactile verbs
235
How experience structures the conceptualization of causality
255
Internal state predicates in Japanese
271
Figure ground and connexity
293
Discourse organization and coherence
305
Name index
325

Grammar and language production
139
Word recognition and sound merger
169
III Linguistic components and conceptual mappings
187
Subject index
329
The series Human Cognitive Processing
335
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