Cognitive Linguistics Investigations

Across languages, fields and philosophical boundaries

Editor

June Luchjenbroers | University of Wales at Bangor

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The total body of papers presented in this volume captures research across a variety of languages and language groups, to show how particular elements of linguistic description draw on otherwise separate aspects (or fields) of linguistic investigation. As such, this volume captures a diversity of research interest from the field of cognitive linguistics. These areas include: lexical semantics, cognitive grammar, metaphor, prototypes, pragmatics, narrative and discourse, computational and translation models; and are considered within the contexts of: language change, child language acquisition, language and culture, grammatical features and word order and gesture. Despite possible differences in philosophical approach to the role of language in cognitive tasks, these papers are similar in a fundamental way: they all share a commitment to the view that human categorization involves mental concepts that have fuzzy boundaries and are culturally and situation-based.

[Human Cognitive Processing, 15] 2006. xiii, 334 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.15

Table of Contents

Preface | pp. ix–x

Bibliographical information | pp. xi–xiii

1. Introduction: Research issues in cognitive linguistics

June Luchjenbroers | pp. 1–10

Cultural models and conceptual mappings

2. When does cognitive linguistics become cultural? Case studies in Tagalog voice and Shona noun classifiers

Gary B. Palmer | pp. 13–45

3. Purple persuasion: Deliberative rhetoric and conceptual blending

Seana Coulson and Todd Oakley | pp. 47–65

4. Depicting fictive motion in drawings

Teenie Matlock | pp. 67–85

5. Discourse, gesture, and mental spaces manoeuvers: Inside vs. outside F-space

June Luchjenbroers | pp. 87–105

Computational models and conceptual mappings

6. In search of meaning: The acquisition of semantic structure and morphological systems

Ping Li | pp. 109–137

7. Grammar and language production: Where do function words come from?

Joost Schilperoord and Arie Verhagen | pp. 139–168

8. Word recognition and word merger

Paul Warren | pp. 169–186

Linguistic components and conceptual mappings

9. Verbal explication and the place of NSM semantics in cognitive linguistics

Cliff Goddard | pp. 189–218

10. “How do you know she’s a woman?”: Features, prototypes and category stress in Turkish ‘kadin’ and ‘kiz’

Robin Turner | pp. 219–234

11. Cross-linguistic polysemy in tactile verbs

Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano | pp. 235–253

12. How experience structures the conceptualization of causality

Maarten Lemmens | pp. 255–270

13. Subjective predicates in Japanese: A cognitive approach

Satoshi Uehara | pp. 271–291

14. Figure, ground and connexity: Evidence from Xhosa narrative

David Gough | pp. 293–303

15. Discourse organization and coherence

Ming-Ming Pu | pp. 305–324

Name Index | pp. 325–327

Subject Index | pp. 329–334

“Prepared by researchers from universities in Australia, New Zealand, Spain, France, USA, Turkey and Holland, this volume constitutes a significant contribution to the field of cognitive and cultural linguistics. Just as the subtitle 'Across languages, fields and philosophical boundaries' suggests, the fifteen chapters cover an extensive selection of concepts and notions that are of interest for everyone dealing with such fields as language acquisition, video data analysis, gesture, Blending Theory, fictive motion and the like. [...] An important merit of the book is the fact that some papers go beyond mere linguistic investigations, and provide revealing insights into some cultural (Palmer; Goddard; Turner), socio-political (Coulson & Oakley) and psychological (Uehara; Pu) phenomena.”

Ignacy Nasalski, Jagiellonian University of Cracow, Poland, in Cognitive Linguistics, Vol. 21:2 (2010)

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