The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Part 53 pot

... examples. The event of a pounce (noun) is construed nonrelationally and atemporally. The pounce (noun) profiles just the action; the participant of the action is deprofiled into the base or frame of the concept. ... schema is a function of the type frequency of the instances of the schema. Type frequency is the frequency of word types that conform to a schema...

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... directed the 1995 Linguistic Institute. She was the chair of the Department of Linguistics at the University of New Mexico from 1999 to 2002 and was president of the Linguistic Society of America ... habil. 1987) is professor of English language and linguistics at the University of Ło ´ dz ´ , where she holds the position of professor ordinarius and chair of...

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... the language. Many of these notions are far from exclusive for Cognitive Linguistics, but even then, Cognitive Linguistics subjects them to specific forms of analysis. The second part of the Handbook, ... available for subscribers to Cognitive Linguistics. 4. The Organization of the Handbook The organization of the present Handbook reflects the protot...

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... distinctions also exist in the domain of time. The flow of time constitutes (part of) the base of the meaning of verbs. Different lexical verbs may profile different ‘‘slices’’ of time, backgrounding ... constitutes part of the semantic difference is the active/passive contrast. The meanings of lexical items quite generally include a subtype of this Figure/ Gro...

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... substructure of it. Usually when the whole of the one entity is identified with a substructure of the other, there is a clear relationship of schematicity between the two. The schematically characterized ... Wayne ate, and in the other the same entity as the toast.In Cognitive Grammar terms, John Wayne ate is profile determinant in the one case and the toast is pro...

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... word forms with their partly overlapping feature matrices. By contrast, one of the major distinguishing features of Cognitive Linguistics as it emerged in the 1980s is precisely the renewed interest 6.3. ... all. It appears, then, that the prototypes outlined above can only be applied to an idealized type of discourse that is of maximum conceptual simplicity. They are par...

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... Vantage Theory (MacLaury 1992; Taylor and MacLaury 1995), which is one of the possible reformulations of the theory of prototypes. Other contemporary theories of concepts extend and re- fine other ... Neoclassical Theories, the Theory-Theory, and Conceptual Atomism). The systematic comparison of theoretical models, then, should be an essential concern for the further develo...

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... fact, the range of polysemy in language. Bierwisch’s model is consonant with the modularity thesis concerning the division of work between linguistic and other cognitive faculties of the mind. The ... view of conceptual structure. 13. See Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (2004: 408): The consequence of Bierwisch’s two- level model to the analysis of polysemic items is ‘‘a po...

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... think of as ‘ part of ’ the Ship -of- State metaphor, and the framework allows us to treat this mapping as just another of the counterpart relations exploited by the blend. Another contribution of ... people cause themselves harm through their own actions. The causal structure of the source space is not projected into the blend; instead, the blended space contains...

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... remainder of the clause as the dominant hand signs the comment (see Liddell 2003). That is, the nondominant hand maintains some of the viewer’s background attention on the identity of the topic, ... extension. Journal of Semantics 12: 15–67. Croft, William. 1993. The role of domains in the interpretation of metaphors and me- tonymies. Cognitive Linguistics 4:...

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