In this volume, leading Cognitive Linguists and authoritative contributors from related fields discuss and illustrate the central theoretical and methodological tenets of Cognitive Linguistics. This book will be a valuable resource for students and researchers who seek an overview of the theoretical underpinnings of Cognitive Linguistics and the range of main issues and approaches prevalent in the late 1990s.
Contents:
- Gisela Redeker and Theo Janssen, Introduction
- Ronald W. Langacker, Assessing the Cognitive Linguistic Enterprise
- William Croft, Some Contributions of Typology to Cognitive Lin-guistics
- Gilles Fauconnier, Methods and Generalizations
- Eve Sweetser, Compositionality and Blending: Semantic Composition in a Cognitively Realistic Framework
- Dirk Geeraerts, Idealistic and Empirical Tendencies in Cognitive Linguistics
- Peter Harder, Partial Autonomy: Ontology and Methodology in Cognitive Linguistics
- Chris Sinha, Grounding, Mapping, and Acts of Meaning
- List of Contributors
- Indices
Of interest to Students, Scholars, Academic Libraries, Institutes
Subjects: Cognitive Linguistics, General Linguistics
Contents:
- Gisela Redeker and Theo Janssen, Introduction
- Ronald W. Langacker, Assessing the Cognitive Linguistic Enterprise
- William Croft, Some Contributions of Typology to Cognitive Lin-guistics
- Gilles Fauconnier, Methods and Generalizations
- Eve Sweetser, Compositionality and Blending: Semantic Composition in a Cognitively Realistic Framework
- Dirk Geeraerts, Idealistic and Empirical Tendencies in Cognitive Linguistics
- Peter Harder, Partial Autonomy: Ontology and Methodology in Cognitive Linguistics
- Chris Sinha, Grounding, Mapping, and Acts of Meaning
- List of Contributors
- Indices
Of interest to Students, Scholars, Academic Libraries, Institutes
Subjects: Cognitive Linguistics, General Linguistics