Toward a Cognitive Semantics
Author: Leonard Talmy
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2000-09-11
Total Pages: 574
ISBN-13: 0262201208
DOWNLOAD EBOOKV.1 concept structuring systems -- V.2 Typology and process in concept structuring.
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Cognitive Semantics
Author: Jens S. Allwood
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9027250685
DOWNLOAD EBOOKToward the end of the 20th century, there is both a dissatisfaction with existing formal semantic theories and a wish to preserve insights from other semantic traditions. Cognitive semantics, the latest of the major trends which have dominated the century, attempts to do this by focusing on meaning as a cognitive phenomenon. This book provides different perspectives on meaning as a cognitive phenomenon. Jens Allwood presents an approach where meaning is analyzed in terms of context sensitive cognitive operations. Peter Gärdenfors examines the relationship between cognitive semantics and standard formal extensional and intensional semantics. Peter Harder discusses the relation between functionalism and cognitive semantics. Sören Sjöström and +ke Viberg extend a cognitive semantic approach to new empirical domains like vision and physical contact. Elisabeth Engberg Pedersen extends the use of cognitive semantics even further in order to analyze deaf sign language and, finally, Kenneth Holmqvist and Jordan Zlatev discuss two different possibilities of implementing a cognitive semantic approach using computer programs. The variety of perspectives on cognitive semantics make this book suitable as course material.
Ten Lectures on Cognitive Semantics
Author: Leonard Talmy
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-01-29
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 900434957X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn his ten Beijing lectures, Leonard Talmy represents the range of his work in cognitive semantics. The central concern of this approach is the linguistic representation of conceptual structure, that is, the patterns in which and processes by which conceptual content is organized in language. The lectures examine the semantics of grammar, force dynamics, a typology of how motion events are represented, factive versus fictive motion, a typology of event integration, differences in how spoken and signed language structure space, the attention system of language, introspection as a methodology in linguistics, the relation of language to other cognitive systems, and digitalization in the Evolution of language.
Cognitive Semantics and Scientific Knowledge
Author: András Kertész
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9789027238900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book focuses on the question of how and to what extent cognitive semantic approaches can contribute to the new field of the cognitive science of science. The argumentation is based on a series of instructive case studies which are intended to test the prospects and limits of the metascientific application of both holistic and modular cognitive semantics. The case studies show that, while cognitive semantic research is able to solve problems which have traditionally been the domain of the philosophy of science, it also encounters serious limits. The prospects and the limits thus revealed suggest new research topics which in future can be tackled by cognitive semantic approaches to the cognitive science of science.
Quantitative Methods in Cognitive Semantics: Corpus-Driven Approaches
Author: Dylan Glynn
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2010-11-29
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 3110226421
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn line with the increasing use of empirical methods in Cognitive Linguistics, the current volume explores the uses of quantitative, in particular corpus-driven, techniques for the study of meaning. It shows how these techniques contribute to the core theoretical issues of Cognitive Semantics as well as how they inform semantic analysis. The research presented in the volume constitutes an important step towards an Empirical Cognitive Semantics.
Semantics - Theories
Author: Claudia Maienborn
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-02-19
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 3110589249
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow in paperback for the first time since its original publication, the material gathered here is perfect for anyone who needs a detailed and accessible introduction to the important semantic theories. Designed for a wide audience, it will be of great value to linguists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, and computer scientists working on natural language. The book covers theories of lexical semantics, cognitively oriented approaches to semantics, compositional theories of sentence semantics, and discourse semantics. This clear, elegant explanation of the key theories in semantics research is essential reading for anyone working in the area.
Cognitive Linguistics
Author: Vyvyan Evans
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-24
Total Pages: 852
ISBN-13: 1317954351
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
A Cognitive Linguistics View of Terminology and Specialized Language
Author: Pamela Faber
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-07-04
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 3110277204
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the importance of Cognitive Linguistics for specialized language within the context of Frame-based Terminology (FBT). FBT uses aspects of Frame Semantics, coupled with premises from Cognitive Linguistics to structure specialized domains and create non-language-specific knowledge representations. Corpus analysis provides information regarding the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of specialized knowledge units. Also studied is the role of metaphor and metonymy in specialized texts. The first section explains the purpose and structure of the book. The second section gives an overview of basic concepts, theories, and applications in Terminology and Cognitive Linguistics. The third section explains the Frame-based Terminology approach. The fourth section explores the role of contextual information in specialized knowledge representation as reflected in linguistic contexts and graphical information. The final section highlights the conclusions that can be derived from this study.
From Cognitive Semantics to Lexical Pragmatics
Author: Kerstin Fischer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2013-06-10
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 3110828642
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorical Semantics and Cognition
Author: Andreas Blank
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2013-03-25
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 3110804190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains 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.
