The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics

by Geeraerts, Dirk; Cuyckens, Hubert

• ISBN13: 9780195143782
• ISBN10: 0195143787
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

In the past decade, Cognitive Linguistics has developed into one of the most dynamic and attractive frameworks within theoretical and descriptive linguistics The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics is a major new reference that presents a comprehensive overview of the main theoreticalconcepts and descriptive/theoretical models of Cognitive Linguistics, and covers its various subfields, theoretical as well as applied. The first twenty chapters give readers the opportunity to acquire a thorough knowledge of the fundamental analytic concepts and descriptive models of Cognitive Linguistics and their background. The book starts with a set of chapters discussing different conceptual phenomena that are recognized askey concepts in Cognitive Linguistics: prototypicality, metaphor, metonymy, embodiment, perspectivization, mental spaces, etc. A second set of chapters deals with Cognitive Grammar, Construction Grammar, and Word Grammar, which, each in their own way, bring together the basic concepts into aparticular theory of grammar and a specific model for the description of grammatical phenomena. Special attention is given to the interrelation between Cognitive and Construction Grammar. A third set of chapters compares Cognitive Linguistics with other forms of linguistic research (functionallinguistics, autonomous linguistics, and the history of linguistics), thus giving a readers a better grip on the position of Cognitive Linguistics within the landscape of linguistics at large. The remaining chapters apply these basic notions to various more specific linguistic domains, illustrating how Cognitive Linguistics deals with the traditional linguistic subdomains (phonology, morphology, lexicon, syntax, text and discourse), and demonstrating how it handles linguistic variationand change. Finally they consider its importance in the domain of Applied Linguistics, and look at interdisciplinary links with research fields such as philosophy and psychology. With a well-known cast of contributors from around the world, this reference work will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in (cognitive) linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, and anthropology.

Author Biography

Dirk Geeraerts is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Leuven

Hubert Cuyckens is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Leuven

Table of Contents

Introducing Cognitive Linguistics	p. 3
Embodiment and Experientialism	p. 25
Construal and Perspectivization	p. 48
Schematicity	p. 82
Entrenchment, Salience, and Basic Levels	p. 117
Polysemy, Prototypes, and Radial Categories	p. 139
Frames, Idealized Cognitive Models, and Domains	p. 170
Metaphor	p. 188
Image Schemas	p. 214
Metonymy	p. 236
Attention Phenomena	p. 264
Force Dynamics	p. 294
Spatial Semantics	p. 318
Mental Spaces	p. 351
Conceptual Integration	p. 377
Iconicity	p. 394
Cognitive Grammar	p. 421
Construction Grammar	p. 463
Word Grammar	p. 509
Cognitive Linguistics and Functional Linguistics	p. 543
Cognitive Linguistics and Autonomous Linguistics	p. 566
Cognitive Linguistics and the History of Linguistics	p. 589
Phonology	p. 611
Inflectional Morphology	p. 632
Word-Formation	p. 650
Nominal Classification	p. 676
Idioms and Formulaic Language	p. 697
Relational Constructions in Cognitive Linguistics	p. 726
Clause Structure and Transitivity	p. 753
Complementation	p. 782
Tense and Aspect	p. 803
Grammatical Voice in Cognitive Grammar	p. 829
Modality in Cognitive Linguistics	p. 869
Pronominal Anaphora	p. 890
Discourse and Text Structure	p. 916
Diachronic Linguistics	p. 945
Lexical Variation and Change	p. 988
Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic Relativity	p. 1012
Cognitive Linguistics and Anthropological Linguistics	p. 1045
Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic Typology	p. 1074
Cognitive Linguistics and First Language Acquisition	p. 1092
Signed Languages	p. 1113
Cognitive Linguistics and Applied Linguistics	p. 1139
Lexicography	p. 1160
Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Literary Studies: State of the Art in Cognitive Poetics	p. 1175
Cognitive Linguistics and Cultural Studies	p. 1203
Cognitive Linguistics, Ideology, and Critical Discourse Analysis	p. 1222
Cognitive Linguistics and Philosophy	p. 1241
Cognitive Linguistics, Psychology, and Cognitive Science	p. 1266
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