Chapter 1
The rules of the game
In this chapter, the goals of research, the background assumptions of the research topic, and the methodological guidelines of scientific work that characterize the current approach and scientific research in general are introduced.
Article outline
- 1.1The goals, background assumptions and methodological guidelines
- 1.2Conceptual semantics as a scientific approach
- 1.2.1Conceptual semantics in brief
- 1.2.2Research goals
- 1.2.3Background assumptions
- Systematic nature of language and mind
- Partly universal mind and language
- System-based form-oriented view
- The modularity of mind
- Cognitive constraint
- 1.2.4Methodological guidelines
- 1.3Summary