The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning, and Cognition - Couverture rigide

Tyler, Andrea; Evans, Vyvyan

 
9780521814300: The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning, and Cognition
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0521814308 ISBN 13 : 9780521814300
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2003

Synopsis

Using a cognitive linguistics perspective, this book provides a comprehensive, theoretical analysis of the semantics of English prepositions. All English prepositions originally coded spatial relations between two physical entities; while retaining their original meaning, prepositions have also developed a rich set of non-spatial meanings. In this study, Tyler and Evans argue that all these meanings are systematically grounded in the nature of human spatio-physical experience. The original 'spatial scenes' provide the foundation for the extension of meaning from the spatial to the more abstract. This analysis articulates an alternative methodology that distinguishes between a conventional meaning and an interpretation produced for understanding the preposition in context, as well as establishing which of several competing senses should be taken as the primary sense. Together, the methodology and framework are sufficiently articulated to generate testable predictions and allow the analysis to be applied to additional prepositions.

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À propos des auteurs

Andrea Tyler is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She teaches a range of courses which largely focus on applications of linguistic theory to issues of second language learning and teaching. She has published in numerous journals.

Vyvyan Evans is Lecturer in Linguistics at the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex. He teaches a range of courses in general linguistics at undergraduate and post-graduate level. His research focuses on conceptual structure and semantics.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521814308
ISBN 13 
9780521814300
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
268
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Personne responsable
Avery
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9780521044639: Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning, and Cognition

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521044634 ISBN 13 :  9780521044639
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008
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