The Historical Linguistics Cognitive

Author : Margaret E. Winters
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 45,6 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,Heli Tissari,Kathryn Allan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : Pilar Ron Vaz, Montserrat Martínez Vázquez,Juan Gabriel Vázquez González
Publisher : Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Huelva
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788418628788

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THE HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS-COGNITIVE by Pilar Ron Vaz, Montserrat Martínez Vázquez,Juan Gabriel Vázquez González Pdf

The works included under this volume highlight the diachronic potential of such an approach. And they do it diversely. Some of the contributions are panchronic in nature, that is, they try the analysis of some English linguistic construtions by providing us with a complete picture of their historical evolution.

Author : Andreas Blank,Peter Koch
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Tore Nesset
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009032933

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Language Change and Cognitive Linguistics by Tore Nesset Pdf

The purpose of this Cambridge Element is to bring together three subfields of the language sciences: cognitive, historical (diachronic), and Russian linguistics. Although diachrony has inspired a number of important works in recent years, historical linguistics is still underrepresented in cognitive linguistics, and the most influential publications mainly concern the history of English. This is an unfortunate bias, especially since its lack of morphological complexity makes English a typologically unusual language. In this Cambridge Element, the author demonstrates that Russian has a lot to offer the historically oriented cognitive linguist, given its well-documented history and complex phonology and morpho-syntax. Through seven case studies the author illustrates the relevance of four basic tenets of Cognitive Grammar: the cognitive, semiotic, network, and usage-based commitments.

Author : Johann-Mattis List
Publisher : Düsseldorf University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-21
Category : Historical linguistics
ISBN : 394346072X

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Sequence Comparison in Historical Linguistics by Johann-Mattis List Pdf

Author : Jorge Fernández Jaén,Herminia Provencio Garrigós
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261380

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Changes in Meaning and Function by Jorge Fernández Jaén,Herminia Provencio Garrigós Pdf

Diachronic linguistics has been experiencing a strong revival during the last few decades, since an increasing number of researchers have assumed that evolutionary and historical factors must be considered to properly understand how natural languages work. This book offers new data and insights on some of the research lines which are currently being developed within the framework of diachronic language research. The papers brought together in this volume are characterized both by their originality and by their methodological diversity; the reader will thus find herein theoretical as well as empirical works, undertaken from various perspectives of analysis (diachronic cognitive semantics, grammaticalization theory, discursive traditions, historical phraseology, etc.). The final outcome is an eclectic volume which offers valuable information for every reader, regardless of whether they are experienced linguists or junior researchers willing to know the latest epistemological advances in this discipline.

Author : Susanne Niemeier,René Dirven
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Discourse analysis
ISBN : 9027237050

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Evidence for Linguistic Relativity by Susanne Niemeier,René Dirven Pdf

This volume has arisen from the 26th International LAUD Symposium on "Humboldt and Whorf Revisited. Universal and Culture-Specific Conceptualizations in Grammar and Lexis." While contrasting two or more languages, the papers in this volume either provide empirical evidence confirming hypotheses related to linguistic relativity, or deal with methodological issues of empirical research.These new approaches to Whorf's hypotheses do not focus on mere theorizing but provide more and more empirical evidence gathered over the last years. They prove in a very sophisticated way that Whorf's ideas were very lucid ones, even if Whorf's insights were framed in a terminology which lacked the flexibility of linguistic categories developed over the last quarter of this century, especially in cognitive linguistics. To date, there is sufficient proof to claim that linguistic relativity is indeed a vital issue, and the current volume confirms a more general trend for rehabilitating Whorf's theory complex and also offers evidence for it. It contains articles written by scholars from various fields of linguistics including phonology, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, historical linguistics, anthropological linguistics and (cross-)cultural semantics, which all contribute to a re-evaluation and partial reformulation of Whorf's thinking.

Author : René Dirven,Marjolijn Verspoor
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : René Dirven,Bruce Hawkins,Esra Sandikcioglu
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001-02-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789027299543

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Language and Ideology by René Dirven,Bruce Hawkins,Esra Sandikcioglu Pdf

Together with its sister volume on Descriptive Cognitive Approaches, this volume explores the contribution which cognitive linguistics can make to the identification and analysis of overt and hidden ideologies. As a theory of language which sees language as the accumulation of the conventionalised conceptualisations of a given linguistic and/or cultural community or sub-group within it, cognitive linguistics is called upon to make its own inroads in the study of ideology. This volume offers theoretical approaches and first discusses the philosophical foundations of cognitive linguistics. The question whether cognitive linguistics is not an ideology itself is not tabooed. The speaker’s deictic centre is the anchoring point, not only for spatial, temporal or interactional deixis, but also for cultural and ideological deixis. Cognitive linguistics is also confronted with a severe Marxist critique, but the potential convergence between the two ‘philosophies’ is highlighted as well. Further the question is raised to what extent the central nervous system and the grammatical system of a language impose sexually biased, and hence ideological representations on cognition. Finally, linguistics itself is seen as a potential bearer of ideological deviations as was the case with the ‘politics of linguistics’ in Nazi Germany, and even with the quest for the Indo-European homeland in comparative and historical linguistics throughout the 19th century and well into the 20th century.

Author : Wen Xu,John R. Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351034692

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The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics by Wen Xu,John R. Taylor Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics provides a comprehensive introduction and essential reference work to cognitive linguistics. It encompasses a wide range of perspectives and approaches, covering all the key areas of cognitive linguistics and drawing on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research in pragmatics, discourse analysis, biolinguistics, ecolinguistics, evolutionary linguistics, neuroscience, language pedagogy, and translation studies. The forty-three chapters, written by international specialists in the field, cover four major areas: • Basic theories and hypotheses, including cognitive semantics, cognitive grammar, construction grammar, frame semantics, natural semantic metalanguage, and word grammar; • Central topics, including embodiment, image schemas, categorization, metaphor and metonymy, construal, iconicity, motivation, constructionalization, intersubjectivity, grounding, multimodality, cognitive pragmatics, cognitive poetics, humor, and linguistic synaesthesia, among others; • Interfaces between cognitive linguistics and other areas of linguistic study, including cultural linguistics, linguistic typology, figurative language, signed languages, gesture, language acquisition and pedagogy, translation studies, and digital lexicography; • New directions in cognitive linguistics, demonstrating the relevance of the approach to social, diachronic, neuroscientific, biological, ecological, multimodal, and quantitative studies. The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics is an indispensable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and for all researchers working in this area.

Author : Juan Gabriel Vázquez González,Montserrat Martínez Vázquez,Pilar Ron Vaz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8496373800

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The Historical Linguistics-cognitive by Juan Gabriel Vázquez González,Montserrat Martínez Vázquez,Pilar Ron Vaz Pdf

Author : Laurel Brinton,Alexander Bergs
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110523034

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Historical Outlines from Sound to Text by Laurel Brinton,Alexander Bergs Pdf

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the history of English, organized by linguistic level, and it explores key questions and debates. Individual chapters are written by recognized experts in the field. The volume begins with a re-evaluation of the concept of periodization in the history of English. This is followed by overviews of changes in the traditional areas of phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics as well as chapters covering areas less often treated in histories of English, including prosody, idioms and fixed expressions, pragmatics and discourse, onomastics, orthography, style/register/text types, and standardization.

Author : Natalya I. Stolova
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : Vyvyan Evans,Melanie Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 45,5 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.