Author : Leonard Talmy
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262700964
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (627 download)
Book Synopsis Toward a Cognitive Semantics, Volume 1 by : Leonard Talmy
Download or read book Toward a Cognitive Semantics, Volume 1 written by Leonard Talmy and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003-01-24 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this two-volume set, Talmy approaches the question of how language organizes conceptual material both at a general level and by analyzing a crucial set of particular conceptual domains: space and time, motion and location, causation and force interaction, and attention and viewpoint. One of a two-volume set defining the field of cognitive semantics. Leonard Talmy approaches the question of how language organizes conceptual material both at a general level and by analyzing a crucial set of particular conceptual domains: space and time, motion and location, causation and force interaction, and attention and viewpoint. Talmy maintains that these are among the most fundamental parameters by which language structures conception. By combining these conceptual domains into an integrated whole, Talmy shows, we advance our understanding of the overall conceptual and semantic structure of natural language. Volume one examines the fundamental systems by which language shapes concepts.