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 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.

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 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 present book contains a transcribed version of the lectures given by Professor Zoltán Kövecses in November 2010 as one of the three forum speakers for the 8th China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics. 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 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 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 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 Cognitive Modeling
Ten Lectures on Cognitive Modeling

Author: Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

Publisher: Distinguished Lectures in Cogn

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9789004439214

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"These lectures deal with the role of cognitive modelling in language-based meaning construction. To make meaning people use a small set of principles which they apply to different types of conceptual characterizations. This yields predictable meaning effects, which, when stably associated with specific grammatical patterns, result in constructions or fixed form-meaning parings. This means that constructional meaning can be described on the basis of the same principles that people use to make inferences. This way of looking at pragmatics and grammar through cognition allows us to relate a broad range of pragmatic and grammatical phenomena, among them argument-structure characterizations, implicational, illocutionary, and discourse structure, and such figures of speech as metaphor, metonymy, hyperbole, and irony"--

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Sociolinguistics
Ten Lectures on Cognitive Sociolinguistics

Author: Dirk Geeraerts

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-11-06

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9004336842

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Cognitive Sociolinguistics combines the interest in meaning of Cognitive Linguistics with the interest in social variation of sociolinguistics, converging on two domains of enquiry: variation of meaning, and the meaning of variation. These Ten Lectures, a transcribed version of talks given by professor Geeraerts in 2009 at Beihang University in Beijing, introduce and illustrate both dimensions. The ‘variation of meaning’ perspective involves looking at types of semantic and categorial variation, at the role of social and cultural factors in semantic variation and change, and at the interplay of stereotypes, prototypes and norms. The ‘meaning of variation’ perspective involves looking at the way in which categorization processes of the type studied by Cognitive Linguistics shape how scholars and laymen think about language variation.

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.