Bøker i Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]-serien

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

This volume presents a carefully selected collection of papers based on contributions to the 3rd International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, held in Leuven, Belgium, in 1993. The papers demonstrate the progress which has been made in the various subfields of cognitive linguistics.

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.

By illustrating the diverging research methods and procedures possible within the cognitive-linguistic scene, this volume reveals the contribution cognitive linguistics offers to the study of emotion.

This text reflects on a dialogue between academics of two apparently-incompatible bases of lingusitics research: the fields of cognitive linguistics and historical linguistics.

This compilation of invited contributions, gathering an international collection of cognitive and functional linguists, offers an outline of original empirical work carried out in grounding theory.

Topics covered in this text on cognitively inspired lexical semantics include: polysemy versus monosemy; prototypicality in lexical categories; and the development of lexical items in child language acquisition and in diachrony.