An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics

, by Ungerer, Friedrich; Schmid, Hans-Jorg

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ISBN: 9780582784963 | 0582784964
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Copyright: 12/1/2006

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Learning About Language is an exciting and ambitious series of introductions to fundamental topics in language, linguistics and related areas. The books are designed for students of linguistics and those who are studying language as part of a wider course.

Publisher's acknowledgements

Preface to the second edition

vii

Typographical conventions

Introduction

(6)

Prototypes and categories

(57)

Colours, squares, birds and cups: early empirical research into lexical categories

(17)

The internal structure of categories: prototypes, attributes, family resemblances and gestalt

(21)

Context-dependence and cultural models

(19)

Levels of categorization

(50)

Basic level categories of organisms and concrete objects

(12)

Superordinate and subordinate categories

(9)

Conceptual hierarchies

(7)

Categorization and composite word forms

(9)

Basic level categories and basic experiences: actions, events, properties, states and locations

101

(13)

Conceptual metaphors and metonymies

114

(49)

Metaphors and metonymies: from figures of speech to conceptual systems

114

(18)

Metaphors, metonymies and the structure of emotion categories

132

(12)

Metaphors as a way of thinking: examples from science and politics

144

(10)

Thinking in metonymies: potential and limitations

154

(9)

Figure and ground

163

(44)

Figure and ground, trajector and landmark: early research into prepositions

163

(13)

Figure, ground and two metaphors: a cognitive explanation of simple clause patterns

176

(15)

Other types of prominence and cognitive processing

191

(16)

Frames and constructions

207

(50)

Frames and scripts

207

(11)

Event-frames and the windowing of attention

218

(12)

Language-specific framing and its use in narrative texts

230

(14)

Construction Grammar

244

(13)

Blending and relevance

257

(43)

Metaphor, metonymy and conceptual blending

257

(11)

Conceptual blending in linguistic analysis and description

268

(12)

Conceptual blending in advertising texts, riddles and jokes

280

(8)

Relevance: a cognitive-pragmatic phenomenon

288

(12)

Other issues in cognitive linguistics

300

(43)

Iconicity

300

(12)

Lexical change and prototypicality

312

(9)

Cognitive aspects of grammaticalization

321

(7)

Effects on foreign language teaching

328

(15)

Conclusion

343

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An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics

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