The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Part 130 ppt

... the future holds for the interdisciplinary science of the mind. I return to these contemporary themes below, but the first aim of this chapter is to shed light on the history of the sciences of ... Classical Cognitive Science. 1.2. The Psychology of Higher Mental Processes The main focus of this chapter will be on cognitive psychology, which has been the sourc...

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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, ... shaping it. The overall design and orga- nization of the book, the selection of the topics to be treated, and the identification of the experts to treat them, were predominantly...

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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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... 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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... 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 ... instance of the source-path-goal schema. A re- lated model focuses attention not on the thing itself but on the container of the thing given, as in a...

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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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... 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 frame can be directed at the ground ... and the complex mental constructions required for a coherent understanding of the whole expression. While rules of semantic composition are certainly part of th...

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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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