The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Part 75 doc

... verb phrases, and inverted clauses. ‘‘In grammar, the investigation of the idiomatic and of the general are the same; the study of the periphery is the study of the core—and vice versa’’ (Kay and Fillmore ... idioms. Another set of expressions reflective of an idiom scheme is the following: (39) a. scare the life out of someone b. scare the shit out of som...

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... In other words, they claim that each and every mapping between the elements of the source and the elements of the target is unidirectional; the logic of the image schema is projected from the ... general theoretical framework for the embodiment hypothesis of Cognitive Linguistics. a. Confusion about the use of the term ‘‘embodiment’’ in Cognitive Lin- guist...

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... 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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... verhagen at the end of section 3). But it may also consist in an increase of the role of the construal relation or the ground in the profile of an expression, or (what ultimately may be part of the same ... 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....

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... by partial vis-a ` -vis holistic profiling of distinct segments of the whole sense. Some subtypes of, for instance, the category mother are (predictable) exten- sions of the central member of the ... separately? One of the most fruitful insights of Cognitive Linguistics is the recognition that the definitional structure of a polysemic lexical item is similar to...

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... of reality. Rather, as cognitive models, the entities and the relations between them are mental con- structs. Lakoff, furthermore, points out that the propositional structure of ICMs may be of ... among them: the simple proposition, the scenario (or script), the feature bundle, the taxonomy, or the radial category. He describes each of these in the following way. f...

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... reflection of the nature of Cognitive Linguistics as it is understood by its practitioners. If Cognitive Linguistics is the study of ways in which features of language reflect other aspects of human ... to a unified theory of the structure of human behavior. The Hague: Mouton. Quinn, Naomi. 1991. The cultural basis of metaphor. In James W. Fernandez, ed., Beyond...

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... Towards a cognitive account of the use of the prepositions por and para in Spanish. In Eugene H. Casad, ed., Cognitive linguistics in the Red- woods: The expansion of a new paradigm in linguistics ... domain onto another distinct conceptual domain, where the structure of the target is isomorphic to that of the source (Invariance Hypothesis). Most contemporary a...

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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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... set his or her attention. The effectiveness of this factor relies not on the triggering of automatic cognitive mechanisms, but on a further cognitive mech- anism of the hearer, one that is under ... foregrounds the concept. And the absence of forms referring to a concept that might otherwise be represented backgrounds that concept. This is the factor underlying the w...

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