The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Part 8 docx

... the levels of investigation in cognitive science. The most basic organizing criterion of this theoretical framework is the scale of the relative physical sizes of the phenomena which produce the different ... various levels of investi- gation due to the constraints of the observational apparatus and method, the ‘‘Tasks’’ column of this theoretical framework s...

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... be part of the same process) a decrease of the role of the object of concep- tualization. The phenomenon of subjectification is a highly regular and characteristic fea- ture of many processes of ... charge of the election process and has just completed the count of the votes). The use of might relates to the epistemic stance of the president. The a...

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... Berkeley. (Published as The story of Over: Polysemy, semantics, and the structure of the lexicon . New York: Garland, 1 988 ) Croft, William. 1993. The role of domains in the interpretation of metaphors and metonymies. ... reflection of the nature of Cognitive Linguistics as it is understood by its practitioners. If Cognitive Linguistics is the study of ways...

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... most of the components just identified do not come readily to mind on hearing the verb pry. (3) a. I pried the board off the wall. b. I pulled the board off the wall. c. I flipped the board off the ... are taken to be the relevant ones. (9) a. The landlord rented the apartment to the tenant. b. The tenant rented the apartment from the landlord. Factor Ba2 underli...

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... space, we have the event of 185 3; in a second, we have the event of 1993. These are the input spaces to the blend. There is a partial cross- space mapping that connects counterparts in the input mental ... blends out of the same inputs. The process is the same in all of them, but the results are different. In The shovel is safe, the child is the victim in the...

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... involved. These struc- tures include the interlocutors’ apprehension of each other, of their interaction, of the context, and of the ongoing discourse itself. With respect to generative doc- trine, Cognitive ... line of demarcation would be arbitrary. Thus, the highly schematic meanings of ‘‘grammatical’’ elements— such as the infinitival to, the preposition of, or...

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... Linguistics of his own which runs in parallel with Lakoff’s interest in the neural underpinnings of Cognitive Linguistics (Lamb 1970, 1971, 1999; see Cheng 19 98) . The most important tenet of Lamb’s ... mixing of spheres in metaphor is the following: ‘‘A boy, eight years of age, observes the mo- tion of the long antennae of a butterfly and explains that the ani...

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... the basis of the grammatical constructions in which they occur. (He makes a similar point for the test involving adverbials as in 27 and 28) . Croft, therefore, seriously questions the value of ... single situational frame of reference, namely the one indicated by means of the relative temporal adverb when (Janssen 19 98) . The postulation of the reference point, or...

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... pattern in which the event is construed. In these lan- guages, the selection of a participant as the trajector of the clause implies no de- motion of other participants. In this respect, Philippine ... the middle is the natural form. In principle there is nothing in these situations to imply any type of interaction with another participant. To the degree that the middl...

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... out the lower element, as in The table is below the lamp. The technical term for the Figure is trajector, while the other participant in the relation (if there is one) is termed the landmark. These ... special theoretical constructs for their explication. The theory of Cognitive Grammar developed by Langacker (1 987 , 1991), ar- guably the most fully developed grammati...

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