A Cognitive Perspective on Spatial Prepositions

Intertwining networks

Authors

Maria Brenda | University of Szczecin

Jolanta Mazurkiewicz-Sokołowska | University of Szczecin

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A Cognitive Perspective on Spatial Prepositions: Intertwining networks is devoted to the issue of the relation between language and thought approached from the perspective of spatial relations encoded by four equivalent spatial prepositions – English to, German zu, Polish do and Russian к. Regarding these prepositions as path-prepositions, the authors show that the prepositional semantic structures are conceptually grounded in the PATH and the MOTION-EVENT frames and explain that prepositional senses emerge as a result of the PATH image schema transformations and metaphorical mappings related to the EVENT STRUCTURE metaphor. Based on their findings, the authors show how senso-motoric functioning, life experience, individual knowledge, imagery and different ways in which people conceptualize the world influence the relation between language and conceptualization.

[Human Cognitive Processing, 74] 2022. xiii, 242 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.74

Table of Contents

List of figures | pp. ix–x

List of tables | pp. xi–12

Preface | pp. xiii–xiv

Chapter 1. Introduction | pp. 1–14

Chapter 2. Prepositions in the subject literature | pp. 15–40

Chapter 3. Construal of spatial scenes and meaning construction | pp. 41–48

Chapter 4. Prepositions to, zu, do, and к as conceptual categories | pp. 49–54

Chapter 5. Image schema, metonymy and metaphor | pp. 55–64

Chapter 6. Method of analysis | pp. 65–72

Chapter 7. The characteristics of the established prepositional senses | pp. 73–184

Chapter 8. Discussion of results | pp. 185–222

Chapter 9. Conclusions | pp. 223–228

Bibliography | pp. 229–240

Index

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Brenda, Maria

2023. Elaboration sites and prepositional meaning construction in English and Polish. Research in Language 21:2 ► pp. 117 ff.

Kalyuga, Marika & Sofya Yunusova

2024. Contrasting the semantics of prepositions through a cognitive linguistic approach. Review of Cognitive Linguistics

Kwapisz-Osadnik, Katarzyna & Wioletta A. Piegzik

2023. Schémas de perception de la préposition locative sur : vers une description visant un invariant sémantique. Langue française N° 220:4 ► pp. 9 ff.

Mazurkiewicz-Sokołowska, Jolanta

2023. Versuch einer Reaktivierung des semantischen Netzwerks als Werkzeug zur Ermittlung der kognitiven Mechanismen bei der Bedeutungsbildung am Beispiel der Präposition an. Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 53:1 ► pp. 121 ff.

Mazurkiewicz-Sokołowska, Jolanta

2023. The interface of real world, lexicalization and conceptualization on the example of the Contact Sense of the German preposition an (on, at) and its Polish Spanish and English counterparts. Research in Language 21:1 ► pp. 89 ff.

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