Conceptualizations and Mental Processing in Language / / ed. by Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn, Richard A. Geiger.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Adriaens, Geert,; Casad, Eugene H.,; Cook, Haruko Minegishi,; Cook, Kenneth William,; Geeraerts, Dirk,; Geiger, Richard A.,; Geluykens, Ronald,; Ikegami, Yoshihiko,; Janssen, Theo A.J.M.,; Kirsner, Robert S.,; Krzeszowski, Tomasz P.,; Kövecses, Zoltän,; Lamiroy, Béatrice,; Lauerbach, Gerda E.,; Newman, John,; Nishimura, Yoshiki,; Paprotté, Wolf,; Pauwels, Paul,; Rudzka-Ostyn, Brygida,; Schulze, Rainer,; Seiler, Hansjakob,; Simon-Vandenbergen, Anne-Marie,; Sinha, Chris,; Smith, Michael B.,; Swiggers, Pierre,; Tabakowska, Elżbieta,; Taylor, John R.,; Tsohatzidis, Savas L.,; Turner, Mark,; Wierzbicka, Anna,
• HerausgeberIn: Geiger, Richard A.,; Rudzka-Ostyn, Brygida,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] , 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (825 p.)

Table of Contents

• I-IV
• Contents
• Preface
• List of contributors
• Introduction
• Part I: The cognitive paradigm: Goals, frameworks, implications
• The alphabet of human thoughts
• Cognitive semantics and the history of philosophical epistemology
• From meaning to message in two theories: Cognitive and Saussurean views of the Modern Dutch demonstratives
• A functional view on prototypes
• Process linguistics: A cognitive-scientific approach to natural language understanding
• Requirements for a computational lexicon: a cognitive approach
• Some pedagogical implications of cognitive linguistics
• Part II: Meaning and meaning extension
• On representing and referring
• Minimal and full definitions of meaning
• Metacognitive aspects of reference: Assessing referential correctness and success
• An image-schematic constraint on metaphor
• The axiological parameter in preconceptional image schemata
• Value judgment in the metaphorization of linguistic action
• Part III: Lexico-syntactic phenomena
• Schematic values of the Japanese nominal particles wa and ga
• The meaning of (a) round: A study of an English preposition
• The semantics of giving in Mandarin
• Agentivity in cognitive grammar
• Cases as conceptual categories: Evidence from German
• A cognitive account of Samoan lavea and galo verbs
• “Locations”, “paths” and the Cora verb
• Part IV: A broader perspective: Discursive, cross-linguistic, cross-cultural
• Patterns of mobilization: A study of interaction signals in Romance
• Interaction and cognition: Speech act schemata with but and their interrelation with discourse type
• Syntactic, semantic and interactional prototypes: The case of left-dislocation
• Scenes and frames for orders and threats
• Tenses and demonstratives: Conspecific categories
• Articles in translation: An exercise in cognitive linguistics
• What does it mean for a language to have no singular-plural distinction? Noun-verb homology and its typological implication
• Subject index