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Cognitive Linguistics

Five Volume Set
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August 2016 | 1 520 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

In the past few decades, cognitive linguistics has developed into one of the most dynamic and empirically insightful frameworks within theoretical and descriptive linguistics. It represents a revolutionary, new movement in modern linguistics which includes a variety of approaches and methodologies. They are, however, unified by a number of common assumptions. Foremost among these is the thesis of “cognition and embodiment”: (i) language forms an integral part of human cognition, and (ii) any insightful analysis of linguistic phenomena needs to be embedded in what is known about human cognitive abilities and embodied experience. Cognitive linguistics aims, in new and insightful perspectives, for a cognitively plausible and natural account of what it means to know language, how language evolutionally emerged, how language is acquired, how language dynamically changes, and how language is used for communication in a creative way.

This five-volume major work brings together articles on this broad subject which take up a number of crucial issues both theoretical and methodological; investigate research questions relating to phonology, morphology and grammar; explore issues relating to the semantic and pragmatic mechanism of language and communication; and outline and survey the interdisciplinary relationship between cognitive linguistics and related fields of cognitive science.

 

 
VOLUME ONE: THEORY AND METHOD
The Quiet Revolution: Ron Langacker’s Fall Quarter 1977 Lectures

John Newman
The Cognitive Linguistics Enterprise: An Overview

Vyvyan Evans, Benjamin Bergen and Jörg Zinken
Cognitive versus Generative Linguistics: How Commitments Influence Results

George Lakoff
Cognitive Linguistics

Gilles Faucconier
An Introduction to Cognitive Grammar

Ronald Langacker
Why Cognitive Linguists Should Care More about Empirical Methods

Raymond Gibbs, Jr.
Why Cognitive Linguistics Requires Embodied Realism

Mark Johnson and George Lakoff
Embodiment and Experientialism

Tim Rohrer
Some Thoughts on the Boundaries and Components of Linguistics

Charles J. Fillmore
The Relation of Grammar to Cognition

Leonard Talmy
 
VOLUME TWO: COGNITIVE PHONOLOGY AND MORPHOLOGY
Cognitive Phonology

George Lakoff
Phonotactic Constraints in Cognitive Phonology

Riitta Välimaa-Blum
Towards a Usage-based Cognitive Phonology

Gitte Kristiansen
Word Frequency and Context of Use in the Lexical Diffusion of Phonetically Conditioned Sound Change

Joan Bybee
A Cognitive Approach to Clinical Phonology

Anna Vogel Sosa and Joan Bybee
Phonogenesis

Paul Hopper
A Connectionist Implementation of Cognitive Phonology

Deirdre Wheeler and David Touretzky
Phonological Representation of Morphological Complexity: Alternative Models (Neuro- and Psycholinguistic Evidence)

Pier Marco Bertinetto
Evaluation through Morphology: A Cognitive Perspective

Natalia Besedina
What Is a Morpheme? A View from Construction Grammar

Richard Rhodes
Metonymy in Word-Formation

Laura Janda
 
VOLUME THREE: COGNITIVE GRAMMAR AND SYNTAX
The Mechanisms of Construction Grammar

Charles Fillmore
Constructions in Cognitive Grammar

Ronald Langacker
Constructionist Approaches to Language

Adele Goldberg
Logical and Typological Arguments for Radical Construction Grammar

William Croft
Linguistic Gestalts

George Lakoff
Syntactic Amalgams

George Lakoff
Emergent Grammar

Paul Hopper
Metonymic Grammar

Ronald Langacker
Towards a Corpus-based Identification of Prototypical Instances of Constructions

Stefan Th. Gries
Collostructions: Investigating the Interaction between Words and Constructions

Anatol Stefanowitsch and Stefan Th. Gries
 
VOLUME FOUR: COGNITIVE SEMANTICS
An Alternative to Checklist Theories of Meaning

Charles Fillmore
Context, Cognition, and Semantics: A Unified Dynamic Approach

Ronald Langacker
Conceptual Metaphor in Everyday Language

George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
Metaphtonymy: The Interaction of Metaphor and Metonymy in Expressions for Linguistic Action

Louis Goossens
Force Dynamics in Language and Thought

Leonard Talmy
Conceptual Integration Networks

Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner
Blending and Coded Meaning: Literal and Figurative Meaning in Cognitive Semantics

Seana Coulson and Todd Oakley
Domains and Image Schemas

Timothy Clausner and William Croft
Image Schemas: From Linguistic Analysis to Neural Grounding

Ellen Dodge and George Lakoff
The Brain’s Concepts: The Role of the Sensory-Motor System in Conceptual Knowledge

Vittorio Gallese and George Lakoff
 
VOLUME FIVE: COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS & RELATED FIELDS
First Steps toward a Usage-based Theory of Language Acquisition

Michael Tomasello
The LAD Goes to School: A Cautionary Tale for Nativists

Ewa Dabrowska
Integrating Cognitive Linguistics and Foreign Language Teaching: Historical Background and New Developments

Antoon De Rycker and Sabine De Knop
Linguistic Selection: An Utterance-based Evolutionary Theory of Language

William Croft
Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Literary Studies: State of the Art in Cognitive Poetics

Margaret H. Freeman
The Neuroscience of Form in Art

George Lakoff
What Does It Mean to Compare Language and Gesture? Modalities and Constrasts

Eve Sweetser
Conceptual Metaphor and the Cognitive Foundations of Mathematics

Rafael N?ñez
Neurological Evidence for a Cognitive Theory of Syntax: Agrammatic Aphasia and the Spatialization of Form Hypothesis

Paul Deane
Embodied Meaning in a Neural Theory of Language

Jerome Feldmanand Srinivas Narayanan
Cognitive Linguistics, Biology of Cognition and Biosemiotics: Bridging the Gaps

Alexander Kravchenko
Cognitive Semiotics: An Emerging Field for the Transdisciplinary Study of Meaning

Jordan Zlatev

A notable feature of this 5-volume work is the scope of its coverage. The articles selected represent a wide range of authors and cover many areas of cognitive linguistic research spanning the several decades of its history. This collection performs the useful service of bringing together an array of classic papers that for many scholars may no longer be known or easily accessible. It is valuable for providing a good sense of the breadth of cognitive linguistics, the diversity of its approaches, and its development over the years.

Ronald W. Langacker
Emeritus Professor, University of California, San Diego

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