The Cognitive Linguistics ReaderEdited by: Vyvyan Evans, Benjamin K. Bergen, Jörg Zinken
Series: Advances in Cognitive Linguistics Hardback Price £120.00/$235.00 Paperback Price £50.00/$85.00 |    |
Description
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.
The Cognitive Linguistics Reader is both an ideal introduction to the full breadth and depth of Cognitive Linguistics and a single work of reference bringing together the most significant work in the field.
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.
The Cognitive Linguistics Reader is both an ideal introduction to the full breadth and depth of Cognitive Linguistics and a single work of reference bringing together the most significant work in the field.
Contents
Introduction
I. Overview
1. The Cognitive Linguistics Enterprise: An Overview Vyvyan Evans, Benjamin K. Bergen and Jörg Zinken
II. Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics
Introduction
2. Why Cognitive Linguists Should Care More about Empirical Methods Raymond W. Gibbs
3. Towards an Empirical Lexical Semantics Hubert Cuyckens, Sandra Dominiek and Sally Rice
4. Collostructions: Investigating the Interaction of Words and Constructions Anatol Stefanowitsch and Stefan Thomas Gries
5. Conceptual Integration and Metaphor: An Event-related Potential Study Seana Coulson and Cyma Van Petten
III. Prototypes, Polysemy and Word-meaning
Introduction
6. Cognitive Models and Prototype Theory George Lakoff
7. Where does Prototypicality Come from? Dirk Geeraerts
8. Reconsidering Prepositional Polysemy Networks: The Case of OVER Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans
9. Frame Semantics Charles Fillmore
IV. Metaphor, Metonymy and Blending
Introduction
10. The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor George Lakoff
11. A Typology of Motivation for Conceptual Metaphor: Correlation vs. Resemblance Joseph Grady
12. Towards a Theory of Metonymy Günter Radden and Zoltán Kövecses
13. Conceptual Integration Networks Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner
14. Blending and Metaphor Joseph E. Grady, Todd Oakley and Seana Coulson
V. Cognitive Approaches to Grammar
15. An Introduction to Cognitive Grammar Ronald W. Langacker
16. The Relations of Grammar to Cognition Leonard Talmy
17. Regularity and Idiomaticity: The Case of LET ALONE Charles Fillmore, Paul Kay and Mary Catherine O’Connor
18. Constructions: A New Theoretical Approach to Language Adele Goldberg
19. Embodied Construction Grammar in Simulation-based Language Understanding Benjamin K. Bergen and Nancy Chang
20. Logical and Typological Arguments for Radical Construction Grammar William Croft
VI. Conceptual Structure in Language
21. Force Dynamics in Language and Cognition Leonard Talmy
22. How we Conceptualise Time: Language, Meaning and Temporal Cognition Vyvyan Evans
23. How Language Structures Space Leonard Talmy
VII. Language Acquisition, Diversity and Change
24. A Usage-based Approach to Child Language Acquisition Michael Tomasello
25. Space Under Construction: Language-specific Spatial Categorization in First Language Acquisition Melissa Bowerman and Soonja Choi
26. Does Language Shape Thought? English and Mandarin Speakers’ Conceptions of Time Lera Boroditsky
27. Language and Thought Online: Cognitive Consequences of Linguistic Relativity Dan Slobin
28. Linguistic Selection: An Utterance-based Evolutionary Theory of Language William Croft
Annotated Further Reading
Specifications
| ISBN-10 (Hardback) | 1845531094 |
| ISBN-13 (Hardback) | 9781845531096 |
| Price (Hardback) | £120.00/$235.00 |
| ISBN-10 (Paperback) | 1845531108 |
| ISBN-13 (Paperback) | 9781845531102 |
| Price (Paperback) | £50.00/$85.00 |
| Publication Date | November 2007 |
| Pages | 992 |
| Size | 244 x 169mm |
| Readership | academics and students |
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