Ten Lectures on Cognitive Modeling

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Modeling PDF

Author: Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-11-04

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 9004439226

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These lectures discuss cognitive modelling in language-based meaning construction. It puts forward a unified analytical framework for several linguistic phenomena, including different types of constructions, traditional implicature and speech acts, and figures of speech like metaphor, metonymy, hyperbole, and irony.

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Semantics

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Semantics PDF

Author: Leonard Talmy

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-01-29

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 900434957X

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In his ten Beijing lectures, Leonard Talmy represents the range of his work in cognitive semantics. This approach concerns the linguistic representation of conceptual structure: the patterns in which and processes by which conceptual content is organized in language.

Ten Lectures on Quantitative Approaches in Cognitive Linguistics

Ten Lectures on Quantitative Approaches in Cognitive Linguistics PDF

Author: Stefan Th. Gries

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-03-06

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 9004336222

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This series of lectures provides an overview of the author's work on quantitative applications in cognitive linguistics by discussing a wide range of studies involving corpus-linguistic as well as experimental work. After a discussion of how corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and psycholinguistics relate to each other, the author discusses empirical and statistical studies of a wide variety of phenomena including morphophonology (morphological blends and alliteration effects), corpus-based cognitive semantics, frequency and association at the syntax-lexis interface. The book concludes with chapters exemplifying the role that bottom-up approaches can take, the role of statistical methods more generally, and the role of converging evidence from corpus and experimental data.The lectures for this book were given at The China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics in May 2013. In the e-book version all handouts have been made available at the back. All audio of the lectures as well as the handouts are available for free, in Open Access, here.

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Sociolinguistics

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Sociolinguistics PDF

Author: Dirk Geeraerts

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-11-06

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9004336842

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Cognitive Sociolinguistics combines the interest in meaning of Cognitive Linguistics with the interest in social variation of sociolinguistics, converging on two domains of enquiry: variation of meaning, and the meaning of variation. These Ten Lectures, a transcribed version of talks given by professor Geeraerts in 2009 at Beihang University in Beijing, introduce and illustrate both dimensions. The ‘variation of meaning’ perspective involves looking at types of semantic and categorial variation, at the role of social and cultural factors in semantic variation and change, and at the interplay of stereotypes, prototypes and norms. The ‘meaning of variation’ perspective involves looking at the way in which categorization processes of the type studied by Cognitive Linguistics shape how scholars and laymen think about language variation.

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Evolutionary Linguistics

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Evolutionary Linguistics PDF

Author: Arie Verhagen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-06-22

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9004422358

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Conceiving of language and cognition as biological phenomena, these lectures provide and illustrate a coherent, integrated theoretical framework for studying essentially any aspect of language systems, language use, language change, and language evolution.

Cognitive Modeling

Cognitive Modeling PDF

Author: Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2014-06-15

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9027270007

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This monograph studies cognitive operations on cognitive models across levels and domains of meaning construction. It explores in what way the same set of cognitive operations, either in isolation or in combination, account for meaning representation whether obtained on the basis of inferential activity or through constructional composition. As a consequence, it makes explicit links between constructional and figurative meaning. The pervasiveness of cognitive operations is explored across the levels of meaning construction (argument, implicational, illocutionary, and discourse structure) distinguished by the Lexical Constructional Model. This model is a usage-based approach to language that reconciles insights from functional and cognitive linguistics and offers a unified account of the principles and constraints that regulate both inferential activity and the constructional composition of meaning. This book is of value to scholars with an interest in linguistic evidence of cognitive activity in meaning construction. The contents relate to the fields of Cognitive Grammar, Cognitive Semantics, Construction Grammar, Functional Linguistics, and Inferential Pragmatics.

Ten Lectures on Event Structure in a Network Theory of Language

Ten Lectures on Event Structure in a Network Theory of Language PDF

Author: Nikolas Gisborne

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-08-31

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 9004375295

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In Ten Lectures on Event Structure in a Network Theory of Language, Nikolas Gisborne offers an account of verb meaning from the perspective of a model that treats language structure as part of the wider cognitive network.