Cognitive Linguistics Investigations

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Across languages, fields and philosophical boundaries

June Luchjenbroers(Herausgeber*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 1. Juni 2006

XIII, 334 Seiten

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Cognitive Linguistics Investigations
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Preface
Biographical information
Introduction
1. The cognitive linguistics agenda
2. Outline of this volume
References
I. Cultural models and conceptual mappings
When does cognitive linguistics become cultural?
1. Introduction
2. Operational concepts
Scenarios
Discourse scenarios and discursives
Categories: Complex, radial, and polycentric
3. Case studies
Case 1: Grammatical voice and emotion language in Tagalog5
Case 2: Shona noun classifiers as polycentric categories
4. Conclusions
Notes
References
Appendix
Purple persuasion
1. Introduction
2. Voting
Palatable candidates
Stinky candidates
Public conversation
Sending a message
Legal act of civil disobedience
Summary
3. Purple point of contact
Let's have church here in your home
Testimony
Sowing the seed of $5, $10, or $20
The purple envelope please
Summary
4. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
References
Depicting fictive motion in drawings
1. Introduction
2. Study 1
Method
Results and discussion
3. Study 2
Method
Results and discussion
4. Study 3
Method
Results and discussion
5. General discussion
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Examples of drawings from Experiment 1
Examples of drawings from Experiment 2
Discourse, gesture, and mental spaces manoeuvers
1. Introduction
2. Discourse processing theory
3. Mental Spaces Theory [`MST']
4. Data
5. Gestures in discourse
What counts as gesture?
The `comfort zone'
Gesture types
6. Mental spaces manoeuvers
7. Conclusions
Notes
References
II. Computational models and conceptual mappings
In search of meaning
1. Introduction
High-dimensional semantic space and lexical representation
Emergent semantic structures in connectionist networks
2. Cryptotype as an emergent category and as a trigger for overgeneralization
Whorf's cryptotype
Cryptotype and morphological productivity in child language
A connectionist account of cryptotype and its acquisition
3. A feed-forward network that learns to map semantic features of verbs to prefixes
Method
Results and discussion
4. A self-organizing network that learns to map semantic features to prefixes
Method
Results and discussion
5. General discussion and conclusions
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Appendix
Grammar and language production
1. Introduction
2. The roles of lexicon and grammar in a theory of language production
3. Pause patterns relative to function words
Some quantitative data
Constructions: The case of determiners
4. Infinitival conjunctions and prepositions
Om-clauses
Prepositions
5. Conclusion
Notes
References
Word recognition and sound merger
1. Introduction
Complete neutralization
Predictable partial neutralization
Unpredictable partial neutralization
2. Production data on the ear/air merger
Regional differences
Age differences
Homophony across age groups
Linguistic context
Lexical frequency
Minimal contrast
Phonetic context
Summary of production data
3. Word recognition and sound merger
Word recognition in the merger process
Speaker age and phonological status
A conflict of two systems?
Ambiguity in context
4. Closing comments
References
III. Linguistic components and conceptual mappings
Verbal explication and the place of NSM semantics in cognitive linguistics
1. Friend, foe, or fellow traveller?
The natural semantic metalanguage approach
2. The indispensability of verbal explication
Diagrams are not enough
Scenarios, models and conceptual metaphor
3. The challenge of abstract, culture-laden vocabulary
Malay ikhlas vs. English sincere
Japanese omoiyari vs. English empathy
4. Concluding remarks
Notes
References
Appendix 1
Semantic primes - English exponents (after Goddard & Wierzbicka Eds., 2002)
Appendix 2
Selected NSM studies of languages other than English
``How do you know she's a woman?''
1. Introduction
2. Views of categorisation
3. Defining features of kiz and kadin
4. Typical features
5. Context and topic
Women and men
Other collocations
6. Causes and effects of category stress
7. Caveats and conclusions
Notes
References
Cross-linguistic polysemy in tactile verbs
1. Introduction: Tactile perception and emotions
2. Metaphorical scope of tactile verbs revisited
3. Compositional polysemy: The semantic packaging of lexical items
4. Cross-linguistic polysemy: Meaning and lexicalisation across languages
5. Conclusions
Notes
References
How experience structures the conceptualization of causality
1. Introduction
2. Two models of causation
3. Transitivity and ergativity in the field of killing
4. Examples of experiential grounding
Focus on volitionality
Accidental causation
The ergative predilection of the suffocate verbs
Ideologically determined transitivization
5. Conclusions and prospects
Notes
References
Internal state predicates in Japanese
1. Introduction
2. Japanese internal state predicates
Other properties of Japanese internal state predicates
3. Cognitive Grammar approach to subjectivity
Definition of linguistic subjectivity
The subjectivity scale
4. Subjective construal and Japanese internal state predicates
The speaker's role
Difference in the default pattern in subjectivity
The role in the event structure
Subjective construal in the Japanese language
5. Conclusion
Notes
References
Figure, ground and connexity
1. Introduction
2. Connexity/dependence
3. Background and foreground information
4. Some points on past approaches
5. Connexity, grounding and Xhosa narrative
The consecutive mood
The participial mood
The continuous tense
6. Discussion
References
Discourse organization and coherence
1. Introduction
2. The narrative study
Episode and episode boundary
Stimulus material
3. Method and procedures
4. Results and discussion
Episodic structure
Achieving and maintaining coherence
5. Conclusion
References
Name index
Subject index
The series Human Cognitive Processing

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