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Toward a Cognitive Semantics: Typology and Process in Concept Structuring

By Leonard Talmy

Book information

Publisher
The MIT Press
Year
2003
ISBN
0262700972, 9780262700979
Open Library ID
OL9428897M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1870542 bytes)
Series
Language, Speech, and Communication
Volume
volume 2
Pages
504\504
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-04-11 19:55:47

Description

In this two-volume set Leonard Talmy defines the field of cognitive semantics. He approaches the question of how language organizes conceptual material both at a general level and by analyzing a crucial set of particular conceptual domains: space and time, motion and location, causation and force interaction, and attention and viewpoint. Talmy maintains that these are among the most fundamental parameters by which language structures conception. By combining these conceptual domains into an integrated whole, Talmy shows, we advance our understanding of the overall conceptual and semantic structure of natural language. Volume 1 examines the fundamental systems by which language shapes concepts. Volume 2 sets forth typologies according to which concepts are structured and the processes by which they are structured.

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