Bøker i Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]-serien

This title elaborates one of Roman Jakobson's brilliant ideas, his insight that the two cognitive strategies of the metaphoric and the metonymic are the end-points on a continuum of conceptualization processes.

As a usage-based language theory, cognitive linguistics is predestined to have an impact on applied research in such areas as language in society, ideology, language acquisition, language pedagogy.

This volume aims to enrich the current interdisciplinary theoretical discussion of human emo-tions by presenting studies based on extensive linguistic data from a wide range of languages of the world.

The papers in this book are all written within a cognitive linguistics framework, concentrated around different linguistic aspects of the verb. The two keynote papers serve as an introduction to this main theme, providing a broad perspective and a general, theoretical background.

I-VIII -- Introduction -- Assessing the cognitive linguistic enterprise -- Some contributions of typology to cognitive linguistics and vice versa -- Methods and generalizations -- Compositionality and blending: semantic composition in a cognitively realistic framework -- Idealist and empiricist tendencies in cognitive semantics -- Partial Autonomy. Ontology and methodology in cognitive linguistics -- Grounding, mapping, and acts of meaning -- List of contributors -- Index of names -- Subject index -- 271-272

Focusing on a wide range of linguistic structures, the articles in this volume explore the explanatory potential of two of the most influential cognitive-linguistic theories, conceptual metaphor and metonymy theory and conceptual blending theory.

Addresses aspects of language change using the semantics-based theory of Cognitive Linguistics, and focuses on the lexicon and metaphor, the semantics of syntax, and language evolution. This title considers various approaches to questions of the mental organization of meaning and its expression.

All languages of the world provide their speakers with linguistic means to express causal relations in discourse. This book discusses parameters of categorization that shape the use of causal connectives and auxiliary verbs across languages like English, Dutch and Polish.