Cognitive semantics : meaning and cognition /
Toward the end of the 20th century, there is both a dissatisfaction with existing formal semantic theories and a wish to preserve insights from other semantic traditions. Cognitive semantics, the latest of the major trends which have dominated the century, attempts to do this by focusing on meaning...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1999
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Series: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
new ser. 55. |
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Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- COGNITIVE SEMANTICS; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Contents; Preface; Semantics as Meaning Determination with Semantic-Epistemic Operations; Some Tenets of Cognitive Semantics; Function, Cognition, and Layered Clause Structure; From Vision to Cognition: A Study of Metaphor and Polysemy in Swedish; Polysemy and Differentiation in the Lexicon: Verbs of Physical Contact in Swedish; Space and Time; Conceptual Engineering: Implementing Cognitive Semantics; Situated Embodied Semantics and Connectionist Modeling; Index of Names; Index of Subjects; PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES