Publications

Publication details [#30317]

Talmy, Leonard. 2000. Toward a cognitive semantics: Volume 1: Concept structuring systems. Volume 2: Typology and process in concept structuring. (Language, Speech and Communication). MIT Press. viii + 565; viii + 495 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

attention | cognitive semantics | conceptual representation | lexicalization | semantics1

Annotation

This comprehensive treatise on the linguistic representation of conceptual structure includes Talmy's influential papers on space structuring, figure and ground, fictive motion, force dynamics and cognition, lexicalization patterns and the semantics of causation, attention and viewpoint.

Reviewed by

Farrell, Patrick. 2002. Review of $Toward a cognitive semantics: Volume 1: Concept structuring systems. Volume 2: Typology and process in concept structuring.