Author: Wei-lun Lu
Publisher: Masarykova univerzita
ISBN: 8028000398
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Tato studie zkoumá vzájemnou souhru polysémie, kontextu, pojmu a konstruování, přičemž pro ilustraci využívá konstrukční schéma [V] – [UP] (angličtina) a [V] – [SHANG] (čínština). Kromě této kognitivně sémantické analýzy se kniha zabývá též dvěma hlavními východisky kognitivní lingvistiky. Na jednu stranu jde o přesvědčení, že význam do značné míry závisí na archetypálním pojímání, což odráží základní kognitivní dispozice člověka. Současně je však subjektivita vnímána jako klíčový prvek při studiu lexikální sémantiky, a to nejen v tom ohledu, že role konceptualizujícího subjektu (tj. mluvčího) je výchozí při každém užití jazyka, ale také s ohledem na nezbytnost subjektivního mentálního „scanningu“ v porozumění výrazně utlumeným lexikálním významům.
A Conceptual Exploration of Polysemy: A Case Study of [V] – [UP] and [V] – [SHANG]
Author: Wei-lun Lu
Publisher: Masarykova univerzita
ISBN: 8028000398
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Tato studie zkoumá vzájemnou souhru polysémie, kontextu, pojmu a konstruování, přičemž pro ilustraci využívá konstrukční schéma [V] – [UP] (angličtina) a [V] – [SHANG] (čínština). Kromě této kognitivně sémantické analýzy se kniha zabývá též dvěma hlavními východisky kognitivní lingvistiky. Na jednu stranu jde o přesvědčení, že význam do značné míry závisí na archetypálním pojímání, což odráží základní kognitivní dispozice člověka. Současně je však subjektivita vnímána jako klíčový prvek při studiu lexikální sémantiky, a to nejen v tom ohledu, že role konceptualizujícího subjektu (tj. mluvčího) je výchozí při každém užití jazyka, ale také s ohledem na nezbytnost subjektivního mentálního „scanningu“ v porozumění výrazně utlumeným lexikálním významům.
Publisher: Masarykova univerzita
ISBN: 8028000398
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Tato studie zkoumá vzájemnou souhru polysémie, kontextu, pojmu a konstruování, přičemž pro ilustraci využívá konstrukční schéma [V] – [UP] (angličtina) a [V] – [SHANG] (čínština). Kromě této kognitivně sémantické analýzy se kniha zabývá též dvěma hlavními východisky kognitivní lingvistiky. Na jednu stranu jde o přesvědčení, že význam do značné míry závisí na archetypálním pojímání, což odráží základní kognitivní dispozice člověka. Současně je však subjektivita vnímána jako klíčový prvek při studiu lexikální sémantiky, a to nejen v tom ohledu, že role konceptualizujícího subjektu (tj. mluvčího) je výchozí při každém užití jazyka, ale také s ohledem na nezbytnost subjektivního mentálního „scanningu“ v porozumění výrazně utlumeným lexikálním významům.
Cognitive Linguistics and Sociocultural Theory
Author: Kyoko Masuda
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501500899
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
By integrating cognitive linguistics and sociocultural theories, this groundbreaking book presents empirical studies on selected grammatical and semantic aspects that are challenging for second/foreign language learners. Through in-depth studies exploring eight different languages, this book offers insights generated through the synergy between cognitive linguistics and sociocultural theories that can be readily incorporated into teaching.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501500899
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
By integrating cognitive linguistics and sociocultural theories, this groundbreaking book presents empirical studies on selected grammatical and semantic aspects that are challenging for second/foreign language learners. Through in-depth studies exploring eight different languages, this book offers insights generated through the synergy between cognitive linguistics and sociocultural theories that can be readily incorporated into teaching.
Cognitive Linguistics
Author: Vyvyan Evans
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317954351
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317954351
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
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.
The Structure of Time
Author: Vyvyan Evans
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027293783
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
One of the most enigmatic aspects of experience concerns time. Since pre-Socratic times scholars have speculated about the nature of time, asking questions such as: What is time? Where does it come from? Where does it go? The central proposal of The Structure of Time is that time, at base, constitutes a phenomenologically real experience. Drawing on findings in psychology, neuroscience, and utilising the perspective of cognitive linguistics, this work argues that our experience of time may ultimately derive from perceptual processes, which in turn enable us to perceive events. As such, temporal experience is a pre-requisite for abilities such as event perception and comparison, rather than an abstraction based on such phenomena. The book represents an examination of the nature of temporal cognition, with two foci: (i) an investigation into (pre-conceptual) temporal experience, and (ii) an analysis of temporal structure at the conceptual level (which derives from temporal experience).
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027293783
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
One of the most enigmatic aspects of experience concerns time. Since pre-Socratic times scholars have speculated about the nature of time, asking questions such as: What is time? Where does it come from? Where does it go? The central proposal of The Structure of Time is that time, at base, constitutes a phenomenologically real experience. Drawing on findings in psychology, neuroscience, and utilising the perspective of cognitive linguistics, this work argues that our experience of time may ultimately derive from perceptual processes, which in turn enable us to perceive events. As such, temporal experience is a pre-requisite for abilities such as event perception and comparison, rather than an abstraction based on such phenomena. The book represents an examination of the nature of temporal cognition, with two foci: (i) an investigation into (pre-conceptual) temporal experience, and (ii) an analysis of temporal structure at the conceptual level (which derives from temporal experience).
Particle Verbs in English
Author: Nicole Dehé
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789027227805
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This book offers a new account of the transitive particle verb construction in English. The main emphasis is on the alternation between the two word orders possible in English (continuous: hand in the manuscript vs. discontinuous: hand the manuscript in). The central aim is to show that the choice of the word order is not optional as has often been claimed in related literature on the topic and that a syntactic analysis should thus not be based on optional movement operations or optional feature selection. The author argues in some detail that the choice of the word order is determined to a great extent by the information structuring of the context in which the relevant construction is embedded. The syntactic structure she develops is based on a substantial combination of empirical facts, evidence from theoretical research and the results of two experimental studies on the intonation patterns of the construction.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789027227805
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This book offers a new account of the transitive particle verb construction in English. The main emphasis is on the alternation between the two word orders possible in English (continuous: hand in the manuscript vs. discontinuous: hand the manuscript in). The central aim is to show that the choice of the word order is not optional as has often been claimed in related literature on the topic and that a syntactic analysis should thus not be based on optional movement operations or optional feature selection. The author argues in some detail that the choice of the word order is determined to a great extent by the information structuring of the context in which the relevant construction is embedded. The syntactic structure she develops is based on a substantial combination of empirical facts, evidence from theoretical research and the results of two experimental studies on the intonation patterns of the construction.
The Grammar Network
Author: Holger Diessel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108498817
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Provides a dynamic network model of grammar that explains how linguistic structure is shaped by language use.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108498817
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Provides a dynamic network model of grammar that explains how linguistic structure is shaped by language use.
Introducing Semantics
Author: Nick Riemer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521851920
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
An introduction to the study of meaning in language for undergraduate students.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521851920
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
An introduction to the study of meaning in language for undergraduate students.
Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language
Author: Adele E. Goldberg
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
ISBN: 9781575860411
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
This collection of papers is the result of the first Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language conference (CSDL) held at the University of California, San Diego. The conference brought together researchers from both 'Cognitive' and 'Functional' approaches to linguistics. The papers in this volume span a variety of topics, but the common thread running through them is the claim that semantics and discourse properties are fundamental to the understanding of language. The themes presented in the volume include an emphasis on the dynamic nature of language, the relevance of a notion of viewpoint in grammatical analysis, the role and nature of metaphor and cognitive blend, the possibility of non-derivational ways to capture relationships among constructions and the importance of lexical semantics. This volume will appeal to a wide range of linguists, echoing the theme of the conference - bringing together two diverse approaches to linguistics.
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
ISBN: 9781575860411
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
This collection of papers is the result of the first Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language conference (CSDL) held at the University of California, San Diego. The conference brought together researchers from both 'Cognitive' and 'Functional' approaches to linguistics. The papers in this volume span a variety of topics, but the common thread running through them is the claim that semantics and discourse properties are fundamental to the understanding of language. The themes presented in the volume include an emphasis on the dynamic nature of language, the relevance of a notion of viewpoint in grammatical analysis, the role and nature of metaphor and cognitive blend, the possibility of non-derivational ways to capture relationships among constructions and the importance of lexical semantics. This volume will appeal to a wide range of linguists, echoing the theme of the conference - bringing together two diverse approaches to linguistics.
Aspect in Mandarin Chinese
Author: Richard Xiao
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789027230836
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Chinese, as an aspect language, has played an important role in the development of aspect theory. This book is a systematic and structured exploration of the linguistic devices that Mandarin Chinese employs to express aspectual meanings. The work presented here is the first corpus-based account of aspect in Chinese, encompassing both situation aspect and viewpoint aspect. In using corpus data, the book seeks to achieve a marriage between theory-driven and corpus-based approaches to linguistics. The corpus-based model presented explores aspect at both the semantic and grammatical levels. At the semantic level a two-level model of situation aspect is proposed, which covers both the lexical and sentential levels, thus giving a better account of the compositional nature of situation aspect. At the grammatical level four perfective and four imperfective aspects in Chinese are explored in detail. This exploration corrects many intuition-based misconceptions, and associated misleading conclusions, about aspect in Chinese common in the literature.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789027230836
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Chinese, as an aspect language, has played an important role in the development of aspect theory. This book is a systematic and structured exploration of the linguistic devices that Mandarin Chinese employs to express aspectual meanings. The work presented here is the first corpus-based account of aspect in Chinese, encompassing both situation aspect and viewpoint aspect. In using corpus data, the book seeks to achieve a marriage between theory-driven and corpus-based approaches to linguistics. The corpus-based model presented explores aspect at both the semantic and grammatical levels. At the semantic level a two-level model of situation aspect is proposed, which covers both the lexical and sentential levels, thus giving a better account of the compositional nature of situation aspect. At the grammatical level four perfective and four imperfective aspects in Chinese are explored in detail. This exploration corrects many intuition-based misconceptions, and associated misleading conclusions, about aspect in Chinese common in the literature.
English Prepositions Explained
Author: Seth Lindstromberg
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027287899
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This completely revised and expanded edition of English Prepositions Explained (EPE), originally published in 1998, covers approximately 100 simple, compound, and phrasal English prepositions of space and time – with the focus being on short prepositions such as at, by, in, and on. Its target readership includes teachers of ESOL, pre-service translators and interpreters, undergraduates in English linguistics programs, studious advanced learners and users of English, and anyone who is inquisitive about the English language. The overall aim is to explain how and why meaning changes when one preposition is swapped for another in the same context. While retaining most of the structure of the original, this edition says more about more prepositions. It includes many more figures – virtually all new. The exposition draws on recent research, and is substantially founded on evidence from digitalized corpora, including frequency data. EPE gives information and insights that will not be found in dictionaries and grammar handbooks.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027287899
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This completely revised and expanded edition of English Prepositions Explained (EPE), originally published in 1998, covers approximately 100 simple, compound, and phrasal English prepositions of space and time – with the focus being on short prepositions such as at, by, in, and on. Its target readership includes teachers of ESOL, pre-service translators and interpreters, undergraduates in English linguistics programs, studious advanced learners and users of English, and anyone who is inquisitive about the English language. The overall aim is to explain how and why meaning changes when one preposition is swapped for another in the same context. While retaining most of the structure of the original, this edition says more about more prepositions. It includes many more figures – virtually all new. The exposition draws on recent research, and is substantially founded on evidence from digitalized corpora, including frequency data. EPE gives information and insights that will not be found in dictionaries and grammar handbooks.