In Paradigm and Paradox, Dirk Geeraerts formulated many of the basic tenets that were to form what Cognitive Linguistics is today. Change of Paradigms New Paradoxes links back to this seminal work, exploring which of the original theories and ideas still stand strong, which new questions have arisen and which ensuing new paradoxes need to be addressed. It thus reveals how Cognitive Linguistics has developed and diversified over the past decades."
Author(s): Jocelyne Daems; Eline Zenner; Kris Heylen; Hubert Cuyckens; Dirk Speelman (eds.)
Series: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL], 31
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Year: 2015
Language: English
City: Berlin
Tags: Linguistics and Semiotics; Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines; Cognitive Linguistics
Table of contents
Introduction. Change of paradigms – New paradoxes. Recontextualizing language and linguistics
Part One: Language in the context of cognition
Instru-mentality. The embodied dialectics of instrument and mind
The dynamics of a usage-based approach
Part Two: Usage-based lexical semantics and semantic change
Semasiology and onomasiology. Empirical questions between meaning, naming and context
Education in the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. Exploring diachronic change in a semantic field
Bueno, a window opener
How does context produce metaphors?. A contextualist view of conceptual metaphor theory
Blending effects in bahuvrihi compounds
Metonymic relationships among actuality, modality, evaluation, and emotion
Part Three: Recontextualizing grammar
On the origins of cognitive grammar
The linguistic representations of agency in causal chains
Much in all as: The anatomy of a strange expression
Descriptive and discursive organization in cognitive grammar
Part Four: The importance of socio-cultural context
Language in the mind and in the community
Cognitive sociolinguistics, language systems and the fall of empires
Cultural cognitive models of language variation. Romanticism and rationalism in language policy debates about the unity/diversity of European and Brazilian Portuguese
Part Five: Methodological challenges of contextual parameters
Four challenges for usage-based linguistics
The role of quantitative methods in cognitive linguistics. Corpus and experimental data on (relative) frequency and contingency of words and constructions
Does gender-related variation still have an effect, even when topic and (almost) everything else is controlled?
Recontextualizing language complexity
A quantitative analysis of qualitative free response data. Paradox or new paradigm?
Index
