Cognitive Linguistics

Name: Cognitive Linguistics | Convergence and Expansion
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Convergence and Expansion

Mario Brdar Stefan Th. Gries Milena Zic Fuchs(Editor)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Published on 10. November 2011

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Cognitive Linguistics
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Editors and contributors
Introduction
1. Background and introduction
2. The contributions to this volume
2.1 Setting the scene
2.2 Consolidating the paradigm
2.3 Expanding the paradigm
Part 1. Setting the scene
Convergence in cognitive linguistics
References
An overview of cognitive linguistics
1. Historical context of CL
2. Basic theoretical and methodological principles of CL
2.1 Basic theoretical principles
2.2 Methodological principles
3. Main directions and current research tendencies in CL
3.1 Construction Grammars
3.2 Lexico-semantic networks: Polysemy
3.3 Metaphor, metonymy, and blending
4. Main results and applications of CL
4.1 In Construction Grammars
4.2 In polysemous lexical networks
4.3 Metaphor, metonymy, and blending
5. Remaining problems and future research
5.1 General cognitive linguistics theory
5.2 In Construction Grammar
5.3 In the study of lexical networks and polysemy
5.4 Metaphor, metonymy, and blending
References
Other cited references
Part 2. Consolidating the paradigm
Pattern versus process concepts of grammar and mind
1. Introduction
2. Linguistics in change: A brief recent history
3. Functional linguistics and cognition
4. Cognitive linguistics and the issue of dynamism
5. 'Non-relevant' notions of 'dynamicity' in CL
6. Arguments against a process concept of grammar
7. Constructions are not incompatible with a process model
8. Rules as constructions
9. Meaning and structure
10. Conclusion
References
Metaphor in language and thought
1. Introduction
2. Converging evidence for conceptual metaphor
3. Grammar and usage
4. Language and thought
5. Sign and behavior
6. Metaphor "in language"
7. Metaphor "in thought"
8. How do we map the field?
References
Emotion and desire in independent complement clauses
1. Introduction
1.1 Cross-linguistic examples
1.2 Pragmatic functions
2. Expressive-exclamative complement clauses
2.1 Some English examples of expressive complement clauses
2.2 Some German examples of expressive dass-clauses
3. Dass-clauses as directive speech acts
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Non-canonical directive dass-constructions
3.3 The function of mir in directive dass-clauses
4. Conclusion
References
Schematic meaning of the Croatian verbal prefix iz-
1. Introduction
2. Discussion
2.1 Conceptual analysis of the schematic meaning of iz- and its allomorphs
2.2 Meaning chains and syntactic implications
3. Conclusion
References
The conceptual motivation of bahuvrihi compounds in English and Spanish
1. Introduction
2. On the notion of bahuvrihi compounds
3. Goal and methodology
4. The analysis
4.1 Compounds where the characteristic property (the reference-point property) is conceptualized nonmetonymically and nonmetaphorically (i.e. "literally")
4.2 Compounds where the reference-point property is conceptualized metonymically and non-metaphorically
4.3 Compounds where the reference-point property is conceptualized by means of metaphorico-metonymic interaction
5. Grammar and phonology
5.1 Bahuvrihi compounds as grammatical constructions
5.2 Prosody
6. Contrastive issues
7. Blending and compression
8. Conclusions
References
Appendix 1: Initial sample
Appendix 2: Selected samples
On the subject of impersonals
1. Introduction
2. Alternations in focal prominence
2.1 Basic grammatical notions
2.2 Actor defocusing
2.3 Non-participant trajectors
3. The specification of nominal referents
3.1 Nominal organization
3.2 Definites
3.3 Delimitation
3.4 Definite impersonals
3.5 Vagueness
4. The control cycle
4.1 The general model
4.2 Epistemic level
5. What does it mean?
5.1 Putting the pieces together
5.2 Reconciliation
6. Impersonal constructions
7. Further prospects
References
Part 3. Expanding the paradigm
Do people infer the entailments of conceptual metaphors during verbal metaphor understanding?
1. Introduction
2. Evidence supporting the reality of conceptual metaphors
3. Skeptical questions about conceptual metaphor theory
4. Unexplored ambiguities in conceptual metaphor analyses
5. The problem of metaphorical entailments
6. Exploratory study on inferring entailment of conceptual metaphors
7. Conclusion
References
Appendix A
Appendix B
Corpus data in usage-based linguistics
1. Introduction
2. Approximating the semantics of constructions: Collostructional analysis
3. Case study 1: Lemmas vs. inflectional forms in the English ditransitive construction
4. Case study 2: Registers and the English ditransitive construction
5. Conclusions
References
Cognitive linguistics meets the corpus
1. Introduction
2. Corpus linguistics as a research tool
2.1 Background
2.2 Examples
2.3 Discussion
3. Corpus linguistics as a linguistic model
3.1 Background
3.2 Examples
3.2.1 Associations between words and constructions
3.3 Discussion
4. General discussion
Recommended reading
Data sources
Corpora
Individual examples
References
Oops blush!
1. Introduction
2. Shame and metaphor
2.1 Kövecses on emotion concepts
2.2 Metonymies and metaphors of shame
3. The embodiment of shame
3.1 Shame and the infant
3.2 Shame and the growing/maturing body
3.3 Shame as an embodied adult emotion
4. Shame and language: Prospects for study
4.1 Shame and the face
4.2 Shame and the body
5. Conclusions
References
Conceptual construal and social construction
1. Introduction: The social dimension of linguistic conceptualization
2. Conceptual construal and social construction: The difference and the link
3. Social construction in a Darwinian world
4. The role of discourse pressure: From discursive practice to conceptualization
5. The cartoon crisis: Construals, discourses, and social constructions in communication
5.1 The background
5.2 The crisis
5.3 From concept to social construction and back again: A level-by-level analysis of the crisis
6. Summing up
References
The biblical story retold
1. Introduction
2. The story retold and reinterpreted
2.1 There is God and God creates the world
2.2 God tells people to believe in and rely on him entirely
2.3 God tells people how to live in the world. People do not live the way God tells them to live, and so he punishes them
2.4 God loves people and offers them a new chance to live the way he told them to by sending his son to the people to show them how to live
2.5 In the name of God, the son teaches the people how to live
2.6 The Son offers a new covenant to his disciples between God and humanity, thereby establishing the Christian church
2.7 But most people do not live that way and do not want to accept the new covenant. They kill the son by crucifying him. The son dies for people's sins
2.8 The son ascends to heaven
2.9 The Son is resurrected and he sends the Holy Spirit to the people
2.10 Jesus will come back to judge all people
3. A note on metaphor
4. Discussion and conclusions
References
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