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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Other Authors: Allwood, Jens S., 1947-, Gärdenfors, Peter
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1999
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