Ten Lectures on Grammar in the Mind
Ten Lectures on Grammar in the Mind

Author: Ewa Dąbrowska

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-05-01

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 9004336826

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This volume presents a synthesis of cognitive linguistic theory and research on first and second language acquistion, language processing, individual differences in linguistic knowledge, and on the role of multi-word chunks and low-level schemas in language production and comprehension. It highlights the tension between “linguists’ grammars”, which are strongly influenced by principles such as economy and elegance, and “speakers’ grammars”, which are often messy, less than fully general, and sometimes inconsistent, and argues that cognitive linguistics is an empirical science which combines study of real usage events and experiments which rigorously test specific hypotheses.

Ten Lectures on Language, Culture and Mind
Ten Lectures on Language, Culture and Mind

Author: Chris Sinha

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-08-28

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 900434909X

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In this interdisciplinary collection of lectures, Chris Sinha presents an overview of topics ranging from language in children’s play, through cultural conceptualizations of time, to philosophical and linguistic relativism. The intertwining of the evolutionary and individual time scales of human development is a key theme unifying the lectures, as is the fundamentally cultural nature of language and cognition. Familiar topics in cognitive linguistics, such as spatial semantics and conceptual blending, are addressed from these cultural, comparative and developmental perspectives. Chris Sinha also discusses the psychological roots of key concepts in cognitive linguistics, and sets out a biocultural approach to language evolution.

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Modeling
Ten Lectures on Cognitive Modeling

Author: Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-11-04

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 9004439226

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These lectures discuss cognitive modelling in language-based meaning construction. It puts forward a unified analytical framework for several linguistic phenomena, including different types of constructions, traditional implicature and speech acts, and figures of speech like metaphor, metonymy, hyperbole, and irony.

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics
Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics

Author: George Lakoff

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789004331372

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Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics presents ten lectures, in both audio and transcribed text, given by George Lakoff in Beijing in April 2004. Lakoff gives an account of the background of cognitive linguistics, and basic mechanisms of thought, grammar, neural theory of language, metaphor, implications for Philosophy, and political linguistics. He does so in a manner that is accessible for anyone, including undergraduate level students and a general audience. With the massive experience of being a linguist for over 50 years, and being one of the founding fathers of the field, George Lakoff is one of the best possible experts to introduce Cognitive Linguistics to anyone. The lectures for this book were given at The China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics in April 2004.

Reconnecting Form and Meaning
Reconnecting Form and Meaning

Author: Caroline Gentens

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2023-02-15

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 9027254494

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This volume is intended as a celebration of Kristin Davidse’s work and its impact within the broad traditions of cognitive, functional and usage-based grammars. Reflecting this wide functionalist lens, the contributions develop ideas central to Neo-Firthian theories of grammar (in particular, Semiotic Grammar and SFL), the Prague School, Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), and broader cognitive-functional (e.g. Construction Grammar) and usage-based approaches (e.g. Entrenchment-and-Conventionalization theory, corpus-based sociolinguistics). The range of topics addressed makes the volume particularly relevant to linguists investigating information structure, construction grammar, functional discourse grammar, spatial deixis, pronoun and case systems, and/or the semantics of verbal constructions.

Ten Lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar
Ten Lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar

Author: Martin Hilpert

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-09-13

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 9004446796

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In this book, Martin Hilpert lays out how Construction Grammar can be applied to the study of language change. In a series of ten lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar, the book presents the theoretical foundations, open questions, and methodological approaches that inform the constructional analysis of diachronic processes in language. The lectures address issues such as constructional networks, competition between constructions, shifts in collocational preferences, and differentiation and attraction in constructional change. The book features analyses that utilize modern corpus-linguistic methodologies and that draw on current theoretical discussions in usage-based linguistics. It is relevant for researchers and students in cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, and historical linguistics.

Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology
Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology

Author: William Croft

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-09-25

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 900436353X

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In Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology, William Croft presents a unified theory of linguistic form and meaning that encompasses crosslinguistic diversity, verbalization and language change.

Ten Lectures on Figurative Meaning-Making: The Role of Body and Context
Ten Lectures on Figurative Meaning-Making: The Role of Body and Context

Author: Zóltan Kövecses

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-09-16

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 9004364900

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The topics presented in this book deal with the language and conceptualization of emotions, cross-cultural variation in metaphor, metaphor and metonymy in discourse, and the issue of the relationship between language, mind, and culture from a cognitive linguistic perspective.

Ten Lectures on Event Structure in a Network Theory of Language
Ten Lectures on Event Structure in a Network Theory of Language

Author: Nikolas Gisborne

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-08-31

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 9004375295

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In Ten Lectures on Event Structure in a Network Theory of Language, Nikolas Gisborne offers an account of verb meaning from the perspective of a model that treats language structure as part of the wider cognitive network.

Ten Lectures on Natural Semantic MetaLanguage
Ten Lectures on Natural Semantic MetaLanguage

Author: Cliff Goddard

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-03-20

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 9004357726

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This lively lecture series by a leading expert introduces the theory, practice and application of a versatile, rigorous and well-developed approach to cross-linguistic semantics: the NSM approach originated by Anna Wierzbicka. Topics include: history and philosophy of the study of meaning, semantic primes and molecules, emotions, evaluation, verbs and event structure, cultural key words and scripts. Case studies come from English, Chinese, Danish, and other languages. Applications in language teaching and intercultural education are also covered, along with comparisons between NSM and other leading approaches to linguistic semantics. The book will appeal to students and scholars of linguistics at all levels, communication and translation scholars, and anyone interested in a systematic and non Anglocentric approach to meaning, culture and cognition.