Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics as an Empirical Science details the relationship between form and meaning in language, especially at the systematic level of morphology. The role of metaphor and metonymy in elaborating meaning are investigated, as well as the structuring of semantics in terms of prototypes and radial categories. Implications for cultural studies and pedagogical applications are explored. The bulk of examples and data are drawn from the Slavic languages.
Author(s): Laura A. Janda
Series: Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 339
City: Leiden
Tags: Linguistics; Cognitive Linguistics
Intro
Contents
Preface
Note on Supplementary Material
About the Author
LECTURE 1: From Cognitive Linguistics to Cultural Linguistics: How Cognitive Categories Reflect Culture
LECTURE 2: Conceptual Overlap and the Illusion of Semantic Emptiness
LECTURE 3: Metaphor in Grammar: Conceptualization of Time
LECTURE 4: Metonymy in Grammar: Word Formation
LECTURE 5: Constructional Profiles: What Constructions Tell Us about the Meanings of Words
LECTURE 6: Grammatical Profiles: What Inflectional Forms Tell Us about Lexicon and Grammar
LECTURE 7: Semantic Maps: Do They Reveal a Universal Underlying Conceptual Space?
LECTURE 8: Pedagogical Applications of Research into Embodied Grammar
LECTURE 9: Linguistic Concepts as Prototype-Based Categories: Reexamining Allomorphy
LECTURE 10: The Paradigm as a Radial Category
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