Ten Lectures on Cognitive Socolinguistics is a transcribed version of lectures given by Dirk Geeraerts in 2009 at Beihang University in Beijing. The lectures illustrate the ‘social turn’ in Cognitive Linguistics, as a combination of variationist linguistics and cognitive linguistic theory.
at the supermarket vs. in the supermarket – in the field vs. on the field – in (the) church vs. at church Another general point to make here is that the choice of the preposition is very often determined not so much by the objective ...
In Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics and the Unification of Spoken and Signed Languages Sherman Wilcox suggests that rather than abstracting away from the material substance of language, linguists can discover the deep connections ...
Similarly you can say “he shot James Bond” or “he strangled James Bond, but he is not dead”. Now shot I think to no one implicates or entails an end-state of being dead. If you shoot James Bond, he might or might not be dead.
In his ten Beijing lectures, Leonard Talmy represents the range of his work in cognitive semantics.
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In this interdisciplinary collection of lectures, Chris Sinha presents a uniquely cultural, developmental and evolutionary approach to cognitive linguistics.
The lectures for this book were given at The China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics in April 2004.
Jean-Pierre Koenig (ed.), Discourse and Cognition: Bridging the Gap, 71–89. Stanford: CSLI Publications. 1998. Indeterminacy in Semantics and Grammar. José Luis Cifuentes Honrubia (ed.), Estudios de Lingüística Cognitiva II, 649–672.
Coulson, S. 2001. Semantic leaps: Frame-shifting and conceptual blending in meaning construction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Cutting, J. C. & K. Bock. 1997. That's the way the cookie bounces: Syntactic and semantic ...
Conceiving of language and cognition as biological phenomena, these lectures provide and illustrate a coherent, integrated theoretical framework for studying essentially any aspect of language systems, language use, language change, and ...