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Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language

Author : Adele E. Goldberg
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781575860411
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (64 download)

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Book Synopsis Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language by : Adele E. Goldberg

Download or read book Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language written by Adele E. Goldberg and published by Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications. This book was released on 1996-06-13 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers is the result of the first Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language conference (CSDL) held at the University of California, San Diego. The conference brought together researchers from both 'Cognitive' and 'Functional' approaches to linguistics. The papers in this volume span a variety of topics, but the common thread running through them is the claim that semantics and discourse properties are fundamental to the understanding of language. The themes presented in the volume include an emphasis on the dynamic nature of language, the relevance of a notion of viewpoint in grammatical analysis, the role and nature of metaphor and cognitive blend, the possibility of non-derivational ways to capture relationships among constructions and the importance of lexical semantics. This volume will appeal to a wide range of linguists, echoing the theme of the conference - bringing together two diverse approaches to linguistics.

Semantics - Theories

Author : Claudia Maienborn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110589249
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Semantics - Theories by : Claudia Maienborn

Download or read book Semantics - Theories written by Claudia Maienborn and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback for the first time since its original publication, the material gathered here is perfect for anyone who needs a detailed and accessible introduction to the important semantic theories. Designed for a wide audience, it will be of great value to linguists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, and computer scientists working on natural language. The book covers theories of lexical semantics, cognitively oriented approaches to semantics, compositional theories of sentence semantics, and discourse semantics. This clear, elegant explanation of the key theories in semantics research is essential reading for anyone working in the area.

Language Structure, Discourse, and the Access to Consciousness

Author : Maksim Stamenov
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027251320
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Language Structure, Discourse, and the Access to Consciousness by : Maksim Stamenov

Download or read book Language Structure, Discourse, and the Access to Consciousness written by Maksim Stamenov and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this collective volume is on the mutual determination of language structure, discourse patterns and the accessibility to consciousness of mental contents of different types of organization and complexity. The contributions address the following problems, among others: the history of the interpretation of conscious and unconscious mind in the theoretical discourse of modern linguistics; the determination of the structure of consciousness by the grammatical structure; the levels of access of grammatical and lexical information to consciousness; the development of cognitive complexity and control in ontogeny; pathologies of consciousness access in discourse comprehension and production; the cognitive contextual prerequisites for the representation of meaning in consciousness; the relationships between language structure and qualia in the phenomenology of experience; the dialogical structure of intentionality and meaning representation, etc. (Series B)

Conceptual Structures at Work

Author : Karl Erich Wolff
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540277692
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Conceptual Structures at Work by : Karl Erich Wolff

Download or read book Conceptual Structures at Work written by Karl Erich Wolff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-06-29 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains selected papers presented at the 12th International C- ference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2004, held in Huntsville Alabama, July 19–23, 2004. The main theme of the conference, “Conceptual Structures at Work”, was chosen to express our intention of applying conceptual structures for hum- centered practical purposes. That invites us to develop not only clear conceptual theories,butalsomethodstosupporthumansintheapplicationofthesetheories in their societies. Some promising steps in this direction are being taken, but the gap between the researchers working on a highly sophisticated level on one side and the practitioners in many ?elds of applications on the other side is usually di?culttobridge.Someofushaveexperiencesinsuchpracticalcooperation,but we need more members of our community to be engaged in “real life problems”. We all know that solutions of complex problems in practice require not only a well-developed formal theory, but also an understanding of the whole context of the given problems. To support our understanding we need general philo- phical methods as well as formal theories for the representation of fundamental structures in practice. We believe that our community has powerful tools and methodsforsuccessfulapplicationsinpractice,butthatwemustdevelopaforum to present our results to a broader audience. First we must understand the s- ni?cant developments in our own group, which has activities in many directions of research.

Concepts, Discourses, and Translations

Author : Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030960994
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Book Synopsis Concepts, Discourses, and Translations by : Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk

Download or read book Concepts, Discourses, and Translations written by Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-06 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This present book discusses issues related to languages, cultures, and discourses by addressing a variety of topics ranging from culture and translation, cognitive and linguistic dimensions of discourse, and the role of language in political discourses and bilingualism. By focusing on multiple interconnected research subjects, the book allows us to see the intersections of language, culture, and discourse in their full diversity and to illuminate their less frequented nooks and crannies in a timely fashion.

Language and the Creative Mind

Author : Michael Borkent
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion
ISBN 13 : 9781575866710
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (667 download)

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Book Synopsis Language and the Creative Mind by : Michael Borkent

Download or read book Language and the Creative Mind written by Michael Borkent and published by Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together papers from the 11th Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language Conference, held in Vancouver in May 2012. In the last few years, the cognitive study of language has begun to examine the interaction between language and other embodied communicative modalities, such as gesture, while at the same time expanding the traditional limits of linguistic and cognitive enquiry into creative domains such as music, literature, and visual images. Papers in this collection show how the study of language paves the way for these new areas of investigation. They bring issues of multimodal communication to the attention of linguists, while also looking through and beyond language into various domains of human creativity. This refreshed view of the relations across various communicative domains will be important not only to linguists, but also to all those interested in the creative potential of the human mind.

Conceptualizing Music

Author : Lawrence Michael Zbikowski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0195140230
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Conceptualizing Music written by Lawrence Michael Zbikowski and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The play of concepts and conceptual structures typical of music theory is thus not something remote from our appreciation of music, but is instead basic to it."--Jacket.

Conceptual Structures for Discovering Knowledge

Author : Simon Andrews
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642226884
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Book Synopsis Conceptual Structures for Discovering Knowledge by : Simon Andrews

Download or read book Conceptual Structures for Discovering Knowledge written by Simon Andrews and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-07-18 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2011, held in Derby, UK, in July 2011. The 18 full papers and 4 short papers presented together with 12 workshop papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The volume also contains 3 invited talks. ICCS focuses on the useful representation and analysis of conceptual knowledge with research and business applications. It advances the theory and practice in connecting the user's conceptual approach to problem solving with the formal structures that computer applications need to bring their productivity to bear. Conceptual structures (CS) represent a family of approaches that builds on the successes of artificial intelligence, business intelligence, computational linguistics, conceptual modelling, information and Web technologies, user modelling, and knowledge management. Two of the workshops contained in this volume cover CS and knowledge discovery in under-traversed domains and in task specific information retrieval. The third addresses CD in learning, teaching and assessment.

Grammar, Meaning, and Concepts

Author : Susan Strauss
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131766504X
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Grammar, Meaning, and Concepts written by Susan Strauss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammar, Meaning, and Concepts: A Discourse-Based Approach to English Grammar is a book for language teachers and learners that focuses on the meanings of grammatical constructions within discourse, rather than on language as structure governed by rigid rules. This text emphasizes the ways in which users of language construct meaning, express viewpoints, and depict imageries using the conceptual, meaning-filled categories that underlie all of grammar. Written by a team of authors with years of experience teaching grammar to future teachers of English, this book puts grammar in the context of real language and illustrates grammar in use through an abundance of authentic data examples. Each chapter also provides a variety of activities that focus on grammar, genre, discourse, and meaning, which can be used as they are or can be adapted for classroom practice. The activities are also designed to raise awareness about discourse, grammar, and meaning in all facets of everyday life, and can be used as springboards for upper high school, undergraduate, and graduate level research projects and inquiry-based grammatical analysis. Grammar, Meaning, and Concepts is an ideal textbook for those in the areas of teacher education, discourse analysis, applied linguistics, second language teaching, ESL, EFL, and communications who are looking to teach and learn grammar from a dynamic perspective.

The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics

Author : M. Gareth Gaskell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198568975
Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (985 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics by : M. Gareth Gaskell

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics written by M. Gareth Gaskell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ability to communicate through spoken and written language is one of the defining characteristics of the human race, yet it remains a deeply mysterious process. The young science of psycholinguistics attempts to uncover the mechanisms and representations underlying human language. This interdisciplinary field has seen massive developments over the past decade, with a broad expansion of the research base, and the incorporation of new experimental techniques such as brain imaging and computational modelling. The result is that real progress is being made in the understanding of the key components of language in the mind. The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics brings together the views of 75 leading researchers in psycholinguistics to provide a comprehensive and authoritative review of the current state of the art in psycholinguistics. With almost 50 chapters written by experts in the field, the range and depth of coverage is unequalled. The contributors are eminent in a wide range of fields, including psychology, linguistics, human memory, cognitive neuroscience, bilingualism, genetics, development and neuropsychology. Their contributions are organised into six themed sections, covering word recognition, the mental lexicon, comprehension and discourse, language production, language development, and perspectives on psycholinguistics. The breadth of coverage, coupled with the accessibility of the short chapter format should make the handbook essential reading for both students and researchers in the fields of psychology, linguistics and neuroscience.

Outside-In Inside-Out

Author : Costantino Maeder
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027294658
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Outside-In Inside-Out written by Costantino Maeder and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2005-02-28 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fourth volume of the Iconicity series is like its predecessors devoted to the study of iconicity in language and literature in all its forms. Many of the papers turn the notion of iconicity ‘inside-out’, some suggesting that ‘less-is-more’; others focus on the cognitive factors ‘inside’ the brain that are important for the iconic phenomena that are produced in the ‘outside’ world. In addition this volume includes a paper related to iconicity in music and its interaction with language. Other papers range from the theoretical issues involved in the evolution of language, to those that offer many ‘inside-out’ claims, such as claiming that nouns are derived from pronouns, and as such should more properly be called ‘pro-pronouns’. Also, this volume includes perhaps the first English-language analysis of the iconic aspects of sound symbolism in a prayer from the Koran. This is a truly interdisciplinary collection that should turn some of the notions of iconicity in language and literature ‘outside-in’ and ‘inside-out’.

Ten Lectures on the Basics of Cognitive Grammar

Author : Ronald Langacker
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004347453
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis Ten Lectures on the Basics of Cognitive Grammar by : Ronald Langacker

Download or read book Ten Lectures on the Basics of Cognitive Grammar written by Ronald Langacker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These lectures provide a basic introduction to the linguistic theory known as Cognitive Grammar. It is argued that a conceptualist semantics, well motivated in its own terms, provides the basis for a symbolic view of grammar. Consisting in the structuring and symbolization of conceptual content, grammar is inherently meaningful, and basic grammatical notions have conceptual characterizations. An account is given of grammatical categories, markings, and constructions. A number of central topics are examined in detail, including subjects, possessives, locatives, voice, and impersonals.

The Poetics of Time – Metaphors and Blends in Language and Literature

Author : Anna Piata
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 902726466X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis The Poetics of Time – Metaphors and Blends in Language and Literature by : Anna Piata

Download or read book The Poetics of Time – Metaphors and Blends in Language and Literature written by Anna Piata and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does the concept of time, elusive and inconceivable as it may be, lend itself to verbal creativity? Is it possible to trace something like a “poetics of time”? This book embarks on this endeavor initiated by the assumption that verbal creativity can shed some new light on our understanding of time, challenging everyday linguistic patterns and manipulating mental representations in unforeseen ways. Drawing on empirical evidence from Modern Greek poetry, the book offers a unified account of time conceptualization along a continuum of various degrees of non-conventionality. It also shows, unlike what has been traditionally assumed in the literature, that creativity in the expression of time is not limited to metaphor but extends to other figurative tropes that are perhaps specific to poetry. Poetry thus transpires as an ideal testing frame for exploring temporal cognition and meaning construction alike.

Constructions in Cognitive Linguistics

Author : Ad Foolen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902728458X
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Constructions in Cognitive Linguistics by : Ad Foolen

Download or read book Constructions in Cognitive Linguistics written by Ad Foolen and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2000-05-15 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains selected papers from the 5th ICLC, Amsterdam 1997. The papers present cognitive analyses of a variety of constructions (phrasal verbs, prepositional phrases, transitivity, accusative versus dative objects, possessives, gerunds, passives, causatives, conditionals), in a variety of languages (English, German, Dutch, Polish, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Thai, Fijian). Besides analyses of ‘objective construal’, the volume reflects the increasing interest in subjectivity (grounding and speaker involvement). It also includes, lastly, contributions on the acquisition and agrammatic loss of constructions.

Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory

Author : Zoltán Kövecses
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108490875
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory by : Zoltán Kövecses

Download or read book Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory written by Zoltán Kövecses and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an extended, improved version of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), updating it in the context of current linguistic theory.

Searching for Structure

Author : Robert Englebretson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027296723
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Searching for Structure written by Robert Englebretson and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-04-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues against the existence of complementation in colloquial Indonesian, and discusses the ramifications of these findings for a discourse-functional understanding of grammatical categories and linguistic structure. Based on a close analysis of a corpus of spontaneous conversational Indonesian data, the author examines four construction types which express what is often encoded by complements in other languages: juxtaposed clauses, material introduced by the discourse marker bahwa, serial verbs, and epistemic expressions with the suffix -nya. These four construction types offer no evidence to support complementation as a viable grammatical category in colloquial spoken Indonesian. Rather, they are best understood as emergent, discourse-level phenomena, arising from the interactive and communicative goals of language users. The lack of evidence for complementation in colloquial Indonesian reaffirms the need to understand linguistic structure as language-particular and diverse, and emphasizes the centrality of studying linguistic categories based on their actual occurrence in natural discourse.

Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics

Author : Raymond W. Gibbs
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902723681X
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics by : Raymond W. Gibbs

Download or read book Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics written by Raymond W. Gibbs and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a selection of refereed and revised papers originally presented at the 5th ICLC. After an introduction by the editors, the book opens with a long-needed chapter on historical precedents for the Cognitive Linguistic theory of metaphor. Two chapters demonstrate the method of lexical analysis of linguistic metaphors and how it can be fruitfully applied to a characterization of the conceptual domains of smell and economics. Three chapters deal with theoretical aspects of conceptual metaphor, one of which is a commissioned chapter on the relation between conceptual metaphor theory and conceptual blending. Finally there are five chapters presenting novel theoretical issues and empirical findings about the relation between conceptual metaphor and culture. This book is hence a wide-ranging sample of current approaches to metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics, with some chapters breaking new grounds for future research.