New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics

Edited by Vyvyan Evans and Stéphanie Pourcel
Bangor University, UK
Nearly three decades since the publication of the seminal Metaphors We Live By, Cognitive Linguistics is now a mature theoretical and empirical enterprise, with a voluminous associated literature. It is arguably the most rapidly expanding ‘school’ in modern linguistics, and one of the most exciting areas of research within the interdisciplinary project known as cognitive science. As such, Cognitive Linguistics is increasingly attracting a broad readership both within linguistics as well as from neighbouring disciplines including other cognitive and social sciences, and from disciplines within the humanities. This volume contains over 20 papers by leading experts in cognitive linguistics which survey the state of the art and new directions in cognitive linguistics. The volume is divided into 5 sections covering all the traditional areas of study in cognitive linguistics, as well as newer areas, including applications and extensions. Sections include: Approaches to semantics; Approaches to metaphor and blending; Approaches to grammar; Language, embodiment and cognition; Extensions and applications of cognitive linguistics.
[Human Cognitive Processing, 24]  2009.  xi, 519 pp.
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Table of Contents

Contributors
ix
Acknowledgements
xi
Introduction
Vyvyan Evans and Stéphanie Pourcel
1–11
Part I. Approaches to semantics
Meaning as input: The instructional perspective
Peter Harder
15–26
Semantic representation in LCCM Theory
Vyvyan Evans
27–55
Behavioral profiles: A corpus-based approach to cognitive semantic analysis
Stefan Th. Gries and Dagmar Divjak
57–75
Polysemy, syntax, and variation: A usage-based method for Cognitive Semantics
Dylan Glynn
77–104
Part II. Approaches to metaphor and blending
Solving the riddle of metaphor: A salience-based model for metaphorical interpretation in a discourse context
Mimi Ziwei Huang
107–126
When is a linguistic metaphor conceptual metaphor?
Daniel Casasanto
127–145
Generalized integration networks
Gilles Fauconnier
147–160
Genitives and proper names in constructional blends
Barbara Dancygier
161–181
Part III. Approaches to grammar
What’s (in) a construction?: Complete inheritance vs. full-entry models
Arne Zeschel
185–200
Words as constructions
Ewa Dąbrowska
201–223
Constructions and constructional meaning
Ronald W. Langacker
225–267
Partonomic structures in syntax
Edith A. Moravcsik
269–285
Part IV. Language, embodiment and cognition
Language as a biocultural niche and social institution
Chris Sinha
289–309
Understanding embodiment: Psychophysiological models in traditional medical systems
Magda Altman
311–329
Get and the grasp schema: A new approach to conceptual modelling in image schema semantics
Paul Chilton
331–370
Motion scenarios in cognitive processes
Stéphanie Pourcel
371–391
Part V. Extensions and applications of cognitive linguistics
Toward a social cognitive linguistics
William A. Croft
395–420
Cognitive and linguistic factors in evaluating text quality: Global versus local?
Ruth Berman and Bracha Nir
421–440
Reference points and dominions in narratives: A discourse level exploration of the reference point model of anaphora
Sarah van Vliet
441–464
The dream as blend in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive
Johanna Rubba
465–498
“I was in that room!”: Conceptual integration of content and context in a writer’s vs. a prosecutor’s description of a murder
Esther Pascual
499–516
Index
517–519

Quotes

“New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics presents us with a fascinating snapshot of various currents in the cognitive movement. [...] As a balanced collection of insightfully written papers on a number of topical issues, the volume is bound to stimulate further inquiry and research.”
Mario Brdar, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University, Osijek, in Review of Cognitive Linguistics, Vol. 8:2 (2010)
“All in all, the collection gives a coherent and comprehensive representation of both state of the art and innovative conceptual frameworks and methodological approaches in cognitive linguistic research.”
Karolina Krawczak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland, in Language and Cognition, Vol. 2:2 (2010)

Subjects

Benjamins Subject classification

BIC Subject

CFK: Grammar, syntax

BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number:  2009010214
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