Cognitive Models in Language and Thought
Cognitive Models in Language and Thought

Author: René Dirven

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 9783110177923

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The volume offers a number of representative papers on cognitive models that are invoked when people deal with questions of social identity, political and economic manipulation, and more general issues such as the genomic discourse. In line with the well-known volume Cultural Models in Language and Thought by Holland and Quinn (1987), the volume shows that Cognitive Linguistics has further explored the idea that we think about social reality in terms of models - 'cognitive/cultural models' or 'folk theories'. As in cultural models, the present volume demonstrates that the technical apparatus of Cognitive Linguistics can be used to analyze the various ways our conception of social reality is shaped by underlying cognitive and/or cultural models or patterns of thought, and also looks into how this is done. The new inroad the volume wants to pursue is the deliberate and explicit orientation towards a cognitive sociolinguistics, or more generally, a cognitive semiotics.

Cultural Models in Language and Thought
Cultural Models in Language and Thought

Author: Dorothy Holland

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1987-01-30

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780521311687

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A multidisciplinary collaboration exploring the role of cultural knowledge in everyday language and understanding.

Cognitive Models in Language and Thought
Cognitive Models in Language and Thought

Author: René Dirven

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-05-02

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 3110892901

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The volume offers a number of representative papers on cognitive models that are invoked when people deal with questions of social identity, political and economic manipulation, and more general issues such as the genomic discourse. In line with the well-known volume Cultural Models in Language and Thought by Holland and Quinn (1987), the volume shows that Cognitive Linguistics has further explored the idea that we think about social reality in terms of models - 'cognitive/cultural models' or 'folk theories'. As in cultural models, the present volume demonstrates that the technical apparatus of Cognitive Linguistics can be used to analyze the various ways our conception of social reality is shaped by underlying cognitive and/or cultural models or patterns of thought, and also looks into how this is done. The new inroad the volume wants to pursue is the deliberate and explicit orientation towards a cognitive sociolinguistics, or more generally, a cognitive semiotics.

Metonymy in Language and Thought
Metonymy in Language and Thought

Author: Klaus-Uwe Panther

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 9789027223562

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Metonymy in Language and Thought gives a state-of-the-art account of metonymic research. The contributions have different disciplinary and theoretical backgrounds in linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology and literary studies. However, they share the assumption that metonymy is a cognitive phenomenon, a “figure of thought,” underlying much of our ordinary conceptualization that may be even more fundamental than metaphor. The use of metonymy in language is a reflection of this conceptual status. The framework within which metonymy is understood in this volume is that of scenes, frames, scenarios, domains or idealized cognitive models. The chapters are revised papers given at the Metonymy Workshop held in Hamburg, 1996.

The Language of Thought
The Language of Thought

Author: Jerry A. Fodor

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780674510302

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In a compelling defense of the speculative approach to the philosophy of mind, Jerry Fodor argues that, while our best current theories of cognitive psychology view many higher processes as computational, computation itself presupposes an internal medium of representation. Fodor's prime concerns are to buttress the notion of internal representation from a philosophical viewpoint, and to determine those characteristics of this conceptual construct using the empirical data available from linguistics and cognitive psychology.

Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things

Author: George Lakoff

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2008-08-08

Total Pages: 633

ISBN-13: 0226471012

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"Its publication should be a major event for cognitive linguistics and should pose a major challenge for cognitive science. In addition, it should have repercussions in a variety of disciplines, ranging from anthropology and psychology to epistemology and the philosophy of science. . . . Lakoff asks: What do categories of language and thought reveal about the human mind? Offering both general theory and minute details, Lakoff shows that categories reveal a great deal."—David E. Leary, American Scientist

Cognitive Modelling in Language and Discourse across Cultures
Cognitive Modelling in Language and Discourse across Cultures

Author: Annalisa Baicchi

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2017-08-21

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 152750039X

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This volume deals with core issues in figurative language and figurative thought. It also explores areas of convergence between idealised cognitive models and language across fourteen European and non-European languages (Croatian, English, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Polish, Russian, Old Saxon, Sicilian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish). The collection foregrounds the relationship that holds between literalness and figurativeness in meaning construction, it emphasises the role of conceptual metonymy and metaphor as the main cognitive tools at work in inferential activity and as generators of discourse ties, and it also depicts the import of cognitive models in the production and interpretation of multimodal communication. In addition, a number of more specific topics are addressed from different perspectives, such as language variation and cultural models, the argumentative role of metaphor in discourse and the role of empirical work in cognitive linguistics.

Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language
Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language

Author: Annalisa Baicchi

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2020-08-12

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 9027261024

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This volume brings together twelve usage-based studies conducted by leading researchers in language and cognition that explore core issues of figurativeness from the Cognitive Linguistics perspective. The individual chapters reveal the central function of figurativeness in thought and its impact on language. Cognition relies on knowledge-structuring tools in the construction of meaning both mentally and linguistically. Collectively, the chapters delve into an array of topics that are crucial to future research in figurative meaning construction, especially on questions of identification and structure of figures, the figurative motivation of constructions, the impact of figurativeness on pragmatic and multimodal communication, and the correlation between figures and cognitive models.

Cognitive Linguistics
Cognitive Linguistics

Author: Vyvyan Evans

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-24

Total Pages: 852

ISBN-13: 1317954351

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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.

Language in Cognitive Development
Language in Cognitive Development

Author: Katherine Nelson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-03-13

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780521629874

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This book discusses the role of language as a cognitive and communicative tool in a child's early development.