Cognitive Linguistics: A Complete Guide

ISBN-13: 9781474405225 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 896 str.

Vyvyan Evans

Opis

An authoritative general introduction to cognitive linguistics, this book provides up-to-date coverage of all areas of the field and sets in context recent developments within cognitive semantics (including primary metaphors, conceptual blending and Principled Polysemy), and cognitive approaches to grammar (including Radical Construction Grammar and Embodied Construction Grammar). While all topics are introduced in terms accessible to both undergraduate and postgraduate students, this work is sufficiently comprehensive and detailed to serve as a reference work for scholars from linguistics and neighbouring disciplines who wish to gain a better understanding of cognitive linguistics.

The book is divided into three parts (The cognitive linguistics enterprise; Cognitive semantics; and Cognitive approaches to grammar), and is therefore suitable for a range of different course types, both in terms of length and level, as well as in terms of focus. In addition to defining the field, the text also includes appropriate critical evaluation. Complementary and potentially competing approaches are explored both within the cognitive approach and beyond it. In particular, cognitive linguistics is compared and contrasted with formal approaches including Generative Grammar, formal approaches to semantics, and Relevance Theory.

Spis treści

Preface; List of figures; List of tables; List of abbreviations; PART I: THE COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS ENTERPRISE; 1: What do cognitive linguists study?; 2: Key commitments and research methods; 3: Foundations of experience I: Space; 4: Foundations of experience II: Time; 5: Language in use I: Knowledge of language; 6: Language in use II: Language change, and acquisition; 7: Key topics in language science: Formal versus cognitive linguistics; PART II: CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE; 8: What is a cognitive linguistics approach to conceptual structure?; 9: Image schemas and the origin of concepts; 10: Cognitive Semantics; 11: Categorisation and idealised cognitive models; 12: Conceptual metaphor theory; 13: Primary metaphors and conceptual metonymy; PART III: SEMANTIC STRUCTURE; 14: What is a cognitive linguistics approach to semantic structure?; 15: The encyclopaedic approach to semantic structure I: Overview; 16: The encyclopaedic approach to semantic structure II: Two theories; 17: Network approaches to semantic structure; 18: Access semantics and meaning construction; 19: Mental spaces and discourse meaning; 20: Conceptual blending and semantic creativity; PART IV: GRAMMAR; 21: What is a cognitive linguistics approach to grammar?; 22: Cognitive Grammar I: Lexical classes; 23: Cognitive Grammar II: Constructions; 24: Cognitive Grammar III: The verb string; 25: Construction Grammar I: Accounting for irregularity in grammar; 26: Construction Grammar II: accounting for generalisations in grammar; 27: The evolution of grammar; PART V: APPLICATIONS AND EXTENSIONS OF COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS; 28: Language, society and discourse; 29: Text, narrative and literature; 30: Gesture and sign language; references; index