Cognitive Linguistics And Lexical Change

Author : Natalya I. Stolova
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269867

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Cognitive Linguistics and Lexical Change by Natalya I. Stolova Pdf

This monograph offers the first in-depth lexical and semantic analysis of motion verbs in their development from Latin to nine Romance languages — Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, Occitan, Sardinian, and Raeto-Romance — demonstrating that the patterns of innovation and continuity attested in the data can be accounted for in cognitive linguistic terms. At the same time, the study illustrates how the insights gained from Latin and Romance historical data have profound implications for the cognitive approaches to language — in particular, for Leonard Talmy’s motion-framing typology and George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s conceptual metaphor theory. The book should appeal to scholars interested in historical Romance linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and lexical change.

Author : Margaret E. Winters,Heli Tissari,Kathryn Allan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110226430

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Historical Cognitive Linguistics by Margaret E. Winters,Heli Tissari,Kathryn Allan Pdf

This volume addresses aspects of language change using the semantics-based theory of Cognitive Linguistics, and primarily focuses on the lexicon and metaphor, the semantics of syntax, and language evolution. The papers that make up the collection consider current approaches to questions of the mental organization of meaning and its expression, and point toward future research.

Author : Ewa Dąbrowska,Dagmar Divjak
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110623154

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Cognitive Linguistics - A Survey of Linguistic Subfields by Ewa Dąbrowska,Dagmar Divjak Pdf

The chapters provide comprehensive surveys of the major subfields of Cognitive Linguistics. Apart from phonology, construction grammar and lexical semantics, the areas of language use, language acquisition and literary discourse are comprehensively presented.

Author : Evie Coussé,Ferdinand von Mengden
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270092

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Usage-Based Approaches to Language Change by Evie Coussé,Ferdinand von Mengden Pdf

Usage-based approaches to language have gained increasing attention in the last two decades. The importance of change and variation has always been recognized in this framework, but has never received central attention. It is the main aim of this book to fill this gap. Once we recognize that usage is crucial for our understanding of language and linguistic structures, language change and variation inevitably take centre stage in linguistic analysis. Along these lines, the volume presents eight studies by international authors that discuss various approaches to studying language change from a usage-based perspective. Both theoretical issues and empirical case studies are well-represented in this collection. The case studies cover a variety of different languages – ranging from historically well-studied European languages via Japanese to the Amazonian isolate Yurakaré with no written history at all. The book provides new insights relevant for scholars interested in both functional and cognitive linguistic theory, in historical linguists and in language typology.

Author : Friedrich Ungerer,Hans-Jorg Schmid
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317867739

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An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics by Friedrich Ungerer,Hans-Jorg Schmid Pdf

Learning About Language is an exciting and ambitious series of introductions to fundamental topics in language, linguistics and related areas. The books are designed for students of linguistics and those who are studying language as part of a wider course. Cognitive Linguistics explores the idea that language reflects our experience of the world. It shows that our ability to use language is closely related to other cognitive abilities such as categorization, perception, memory and attention allocation. Concepts and mental images expressed and evoked by linguistic means are linked by conceptual metaphors and metonymies and merged into more comprehensive cognitive and cultural models, frames or scenarios. It is only against this background that human communication makes sense. After 25 years of intensive research, cognitive-linguistic thinking now holds a firm place both in the wider linguistic and the cognitive-science communities. An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics carefully explains the central concepts of categoriza­tion, of prototype and gestalt perception, of basic level and conceptual hierarchies, of figure and ground, and of metaphor and metonymy, for which an innovative description is provided. It also brings together issues such as iconicity, lexical change, grammaticalization and language teaching that have profited considerably from being put on a cognitive basis. The second edition of this popular introduction provides a comprehensive and accessible up-to-date overview of Cognitive Linguistics: Clarifies the basic notions supported by new evidence and examples for their application in language learning Discusses major recent developments in the field: the increasing attention paid to metonymies, Construction Grammar, Conceptual Blending and its role in online-processing. Explores links with neighbouring fields like Relevance Theory Uses many diagrams and illustrations to make the theoretical argument more tangible Includes extended exercises Provides substantial updated suggestions for further reading.

Author : Margaret E. Winters
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261236

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Historical Linguistics by Margaret E. Winters Pdf

This textbook serves a dual purpose. It is, first, a comprehensive introduction to historical linguistics, intended for both undergraduate and graduate students who have taken, at the least, an introductory course in linguistics. Secondly, unlike many such textbooks, this one is based in the theoretical framework of Cognitive Linguistics, a semantics-based theory which emphasizes the relationship between cognition and language. Descriptions and explanations touch on cognitive, social, and physiological aspects of language as it changes across time. Examples come principally from Germanic (English, German, Yiddish) and Romance (French and Spanish), but with some exploration of aspects of the history of other languages as well. Each chapter concludes with exercises based on material in the chapter and also with suggestions for extensions of the content to wider issues in diachronic linguistics.

Author : Margaret E. Winters,Geoffrey S. Nathan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030336042

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Cognitive Linguistics for Linguists by Margaret E. Winters,Geoffrey S. Nathan Pdf

This volume offers an introduction to cognitive linguistics, written by authors who were engaged in the field from its beginnings. It starts by reviewing these early studies and provides an overview of the sources and conceptual underpinnings of the theory. This is followed by a description of how cognitive linguistics has been (and continues to be) applied in all subcomponents of language study. From the point of view of the history of Linguistics, it presents the evolution of the theory over time in a range of directions, including its view of the nature of Language itself, as well as how it is acquired. The final chapter provides an overview of relatively new approaches, in particular those which are provoking a significant challenge to the generative account.

Author : Gitte Kristiansen,Karlien Franco,Stefano De Pascale,Laura Rosseel,Weiwei Zhang
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110733945

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Cognitive Sociolinguistics Revisited by Gitte Kristiansen,Karlien Franco,Stefano De Pascale,Laura Rosseel,Weiwei Zhang Pdf

Cognitive Sociolinguistics draws on the rich theoretical framework of Cognitive Linguistics and focuses on the social factors that underlie the variability of meaning and conceptualization. In the last decade, the field has expanded in various way. The current volume takes stock of current and emerging advances in the field in short academic contributions. The studies collected in this book have a usage-based approach to language variation and change, drawing on the theoretical framework of Cognitive Linguistics and are sensitive to social variation, be it cross-linguistic or language-internal. Three types of contributions are collected in this book. First, it contains theoretical overview papers on the domains that have witnessed expansion in recent years. Second, it presents novel research ideas in proof-of-concept contributions, aimed at blue-sky research and out-of-the-box linguistic analyses. Third, it showcases recent empirical studies within the field. By combining these three types of contributions, the book provides an encompassing overview of novel developments in the field of Cognitive Sociolinguistics.

Author : Andreas Blank,Peter Koch
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110804195

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Historical Semantics and Cognition by Andreas Blank,Peter Koch Pdf

Contains revised papers from a September 1996 symposium which provided a forum for synchronically and diachronically oriented scholars to exchange ideas and for American and European cognitive linguists to confront representatives of different directions in European structural semantics. Papers are in sections on theories and models, descriptive categories, and case studies, and examine areas such as cognitive and structural semantics, diachronic prototype semantics, synecdoche as a cognitive and communicative strategy, and intensifiers as targets and sources of semantic change.

Author : Eline Zenner,Ad Backus,Esme Winter-Froemel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110616842

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Cognitive Contact Linguistics by Eline Zenner,Ad Backus,Esme Winter-Froemel Pdf

This volume serves to illustrate the promising insights to be gained when cross-fertilizing Cognitive Linguistics and contact linguistics, which each hold crucial ingredients to an encompassing study of contact-induced variation and change. Combining the study of the individual mind with the study of shared context, bridging research on experience and perspective with research on variation and change, and tackling the methodological complexities that this empirical approach to mental categorization entails, help us determine how the meaningful units that make up language are categorized and structured in the bi- and multilingual mind and, by extension, in any human mind. Together, the ten papers in this volume reveal the complexities of the interaction between usage, meaning and mind in contact-induced variation and change, which we hope will inspire future research exploring the possibilities of the cross-fertilization we have labeled Cognitive Contact Linguistics.

Author : Vyvyan Evans,Melanie Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317954354

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Cognitive Linguistics by Vyvyan Evans,Melanie Green Pdf

A general introduction to the area of theoretical linguistics known as cognitive linguistics, this textbook provides up-to-date coverage of all areas of the field, including recent developments within cognitive semantics (such as Primary Metaphor Theory, Conceptual Blending Theory, and Principled Polysemy), and cognitive approaches to grammar (such as Radical Construction Grammar and Embodied Construction Grammar). The authors offer clear, critical evaluations of competing formal approaches within theoretical linguistics. For example, cognitive linguistics is compared to Generative Grammar and Relevance Theory. In the selection of material and in the presentations, the authors have aimed for a balanced perspective. Part II, Cognitive Semantics, and Part III, Cognitive Approaches to Grammar, have been created to be read independently. The authors have kept in mind that different instructors and readers will need to use the book in different ways tailored to their own goals. The coverage is suitable for a number of courses. While all topics are presented in terms accessible to both undergraduate and graduate students of linguistics, cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive science, and modern languages, this work is sufficiently comprehensive and detailed to serve as a reference work for scholars who wish to gain a better understanding of cognitive linguistics.

Author : Eugene H. Casad
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1026 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110143585

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Cognitive Linguistics in the Redwoods by Eugene H. Casad Pdf

Author : René Dirven,Marjolijn Verspoor
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027295415

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Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics by René Dirven,Marjolijn Verspoor Pdf

Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics is designed as a comprehensive introductory text for first and second-year university students of language and linguistics. It provides a chapter on each of the more established areas in linguistics such as lexicology, morphology, syntax, phonetics and phonology, historical linguistics, and language typology and on some of the newer areas such as cross-cultural semantics, pragmatics, text linguistics and contrastive linguistics. In each of these areas language is explored as part of a cognitive system comprising perception, emotion, categorisation, abstraction processes, and reasoning. All these cognitive abilities may interact with language and be influenced by language. Thus the study of language in a sense becomes the study of the way we express and exchange ideas and thoughts. This Second Revised Edition is corrected, updated and expanded. Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics is clearly presented and organized after having been tested in several courses in various countries. Includes exercises (solutions to be found on the Internet).

Author : Jocelyne Daems,Eline Zenner,Kris Heylen,Dirk Speelman,Hubert Cuyckens
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110435597

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Change of Paradigms – New Paradoxes by Jocelyne Daems,Eline Zenner,Kris Heylen,Dirk Speelman,Hubert Cuyckens Pdf

In Paradigm and Paradox, Dirk Geeraerts formulated many of the basic tenets that were to form what Cognitive Linguistics is today. Change of Paradigms –New Paradoxes links back to this seminal work, exploring which of the original theories and ideas still stand strong, which new questions have arisen and which ensuing new paradoxes need to be addressed. It thus reveals how Cognitive Linguistics has developed and diversified over the past decades.

Author : June Luchjenbroers
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027293770

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Cognitive Linguistics Investigations by June Luchjenbroers Pdf

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.