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 Language, Cognition, and Language Acquisition

Ten Lectures on Language, Cognition, and Language Acquisition PDF

Author: Melissa Bowerman

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-07-17

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 9004362827

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Melissa Bowerman’s lectures present a lucid detailed account of her research on how children build up a semantics for domains such as space in their first language, and the roles played by adult speech, typology, and cross-linguistic variation.

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics and the Unification of Spoken and Signed Languages

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics and the Unification of Spoken and Signed Languages PDF

Author: Sherman Wilcox

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-11-06

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 900433677X

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In Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics and the Unification of Spoken and Signed Languages Sherman Wilcox suggests that rather than abstracting away from the material substance of language, linguists can discover the deep connections between signed and spoken languages by taking an embodied view.

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 Language, Culture and Mind

Ten Lectures on Language, Culture and Mind PDF

Author: Chris Sinha

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-08-28

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 900434909X

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In this interdisciplinary collection of lectures, Chris Sinha presents a uniquely cultural, developmental and evolutionary approach to cognitive linguistics. Topics range from language in children’s play, through cultural conceptualizations of time, to philosophical and linguistic relativism.

Ten Lectures on the Basics of Cognitive Grammar

Ten Lectures on the Basics of Cognitive Grammar PDF

Author: Ronald Langacker

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-07-31

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13: 9004347453

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The book offers a basic introduction to the theory of Cognitive Grammar, which claims that meaning resides in conceptualization, and that grammar is inherently meaningful, residing in the structuring and symbolization of conceptual content.

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 Linguistics

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics PDF

Author: George Lakoff

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-01-22

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 9004325301

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Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics presents ten lectures, in both audio and transcribed text, given by George Lakoff in Beijing in April 2004. Lakoff gives an account of the background of cognitive linguistics, and basic mechanisms of thought, grammar, neural theory of language, metaphor, implications for Philosophy, and political linguistics. He does so in a manner that is accessible for anyone, including undergraduate level students and a general audience. With the massive experience of being a linguist for over 50 years, and being one of the founding fathers of the field, George Lakoff is one of the best possible experts to introduce Cognitive Linguistics to anyone. The lectures for this book were given at The China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics in April 2004.