The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Part 13 ppt

... rather can be seen as different views of or readings off the same complex cognitive structures. Part of the nature of such structures as figure 4.3a is the possibility of layers of categories, the ... represented, under Cognitive Grammar, in these ways. An obvious kind of example are the semantic poles of lexical items (see note 11), where the complexity of t...

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... THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS Edited by DIRK GEERAERTS AND HUBERT CUYCKENS 1 2007 THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS 1 Oxford University Press, ... theoretical and descriptive linguistics. With about fifty chapters written by experts in the field, the Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics intends to provide a comprehensive o...

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... from other forms of cognition, the disciplines studying those other aspects of human knowledge will be natural conversation partners for Cognitive Linguistics. 5. The Appeal of Cognitive Linguistics ... think of the projec- tions and theta-roles of Generative Grammar, of the central role of the lexicon in Lexical-Functional Grammar, and of the lexically dri...

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... omits the description of the actual process of the car hitting the wall and the vehemence of the process encoded in the verb crash; both (8b) and (8c) are odd, to say the least, and focus on the ... up the variable of frequency in order to measure the degree of entrenchment of the concepts un- derlying the Dutch lexical field of clothing terms. Their met...

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... it contains are of the same kind, the library exploits the notion of collection, which piggybacks on the opposition between part and whole. Physically possessing one of these contained objects in the collection ... Chinese metaphors of thinking. Cognitive Linguistics 14: 141–65. metaphor 213 Consider these transformations from the perspective of the library rout...

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... ‘in-bias’ in their use of locatives. As the history of the Zapotec language attests, the role of the human body is a salient source for linguistic concepts, as is evidenced by the fact that body -part terms ... ‘‘that de- velopment of the notion of object permanence can be thought of as the development of several different image schemas, and the workings of tr...

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... In particular, the authors consider ‘ the problem of determining whether the fine distinctions are part of the mental representation (as predicted by the prepositional network approach) or the ... ‘‘peripheral’’ Lakoff 1987), but in all cases one node of the relation is seen as cognitively more basic than the other. One of the best-known applications for this kind o...

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... of the brain), it is not autonomous or encapsulated, and it is not itself the object of contemplation. 13 Conceptuali- zation is always the conceptualization of something, a facet of either the ... 17.1, where the profile is the ‘‘onstage’’ focus of attention, which the speaker and hearer view from their offstage vantage point, the ground. Of course, the viewing...

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... the nineteenth century, the Means and Manner way- constructions appear to merge. At the same time that the class of verbs in the way-construction is expanding, the overall syntactic form of the ... number of aspects of constructing a model of grammatical representation need further devel- opment. Some of these aspects have been alluded to in the course of this pr...

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... explanatory power. It also explains another characteristic of categorization which is part of the theory of prototypes, namely, the existence of borderline categories and of categories whose borders shift ... overridden in the case of exceptional ex- amples. The stored characteristics of penguins override some of the default bird characteristics such as flying and b...

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