A Taxonomy of Cognitive Semantics

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-73025-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 106 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 181 g

Reihe: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Linguistics

Cognitive semantics is a relatively new field whose central concern is how language structures conceptual content. This book aims to approach the field comprehensively and outline its main contours. It both summarizes previous research and presents novel analyses. The main issues it covers range from concept structuring mechanisms, through crosslinguistic contrasts of concepts, to relations across cognitive faculties. Along the way, it examines communication systems, including gesture and signed language; diachronic change from longto short-term; differences between universal, typological, and language-specific features; ten conceptual categories represented by closed-class forms; and tropes as a form of "constructive discrepancy".

Autoren/Hrsg.

Talmy, Leonard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Major Language Divisions (A) 2 Participant Structure (B) 3 Arenas of Assembly (C) 4 Content Structuring Mechanisms (D) 5 Combination (E) 6 Diachronic Comparison (F) 7 Crosslinguistic Comparison (G) 8 Quantity of Manifestation (H) 9 Communication Systems (I) 10 Relations across Cognitive Faculties (J) 11 Research Characteristics (K) Conclusion References Index

Über Autor(innen)

Leonard Talmy is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Director Emeritus of the Center for Cognitive Science, University at Buffalo. He has authored the Targeting System of Language and the two-volume set Toward a Cognitive Semantics, both with MIT Press, plus numerous articles.