Historical Cognitive Linguistics / / ed. by Kathryn Allan, Heli Tissari, Margaret E. Winters.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Allan, Kathryn,; Cuyckens, Hubert,; Fabiszak, Małgorzata,; Frank, Roslyn M.,; Geeraerts, Dirk,; Gontier, Nathalie,; Hebda, Anna,; Heyvaert, Liesbet,; Luraghi, Silvia,; Musolff, Andreas,; Sylvester, Louise,; Tissari, Heli,; Trim, Richard,; Winters, Margaret E.,
• HerausgeberIn: Allan, Kathryn,; Tissari, Heli,; Winters, Margaret E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] , 47
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)

The volume explores the ways in which language change is studied within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics, a semantics-based theory of language production and perception. The eleven chapters explore two kinds of changes: firstly, those which involve mental prototypes or 'best instances' of particular concepts and extensions of these prototypes, and secondly, those which relate to conceptual networks, for example via metaphor or metonymy. More specifically, the papers address syntactic and lexical change, as well as the evolution of language and changes in the expression - usually metaphoric - of emotions. In presenting a wide range of current work of this kind, the volume demonstrates the value of cross-fertilization between historical and cognitive linguistics, and is intended to open the way for further related research. The included papers are of particular relevance to those working in metaphor theory and syntactic / semantic change within Cognitive Linguistics, but will also be of interest to other historical linguists and those studying cognitive semantics and metaphor from a synchronic viewpoint.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Preface -- 1. History and Development -- Introduction: On the emergence of diachronic cognitive linguistics -- 2. The Evolution of Language -- On constructing a research model for historical cognitive linguistics (HCL): Some theoretical considerations -- Metaphor in discourse history -- 3. Cognitive Approaches to Syntactic Change -- Where do beneficiaries come from and how do they come about? Sources for beneficiary expressions in Classical Greek and the typology of beneficiary -- Finite and gerundive complementation in Modern and Present-day English: Semantics, variation and change -- 4. Cognitive Approaches to Meaning -- Tracing metonymic polysemy through time: material for object mappings in the OED -- The roles of reader construal and lexicographic authority in the interpretation of Middle English texts -- 5. The Expression of Emotions over Time -- Conceptual networking theory in metaphor evolution: Diachronic variation in models of love -- Cognitive historical approaches to emotions: Pride -- English words for emotions and their metaphors -- 6. Afterword -- Prospects for the past: Perspectives for cognitive diachronic semantics -- Index