ISBN: 9780262201216 - toward a cognitive semantics, volume 2: typology and process in concept structuring (3 résultats)

Hard cover. Etat : Very good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Jacket is shelf worn and slightly smudge near the bottom edge alone the hinge, otherwise jacket is in good condition. Cover is shelf worn on the bottom edge. otherwise cover boards are in great condition with no visible flaws. Binding is tight and inside is clean and unmarked.…

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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Oversized cloth hardcover, 2nd printing, viii + 495 pages, NOT ex-library. Weight: 1.17kg. Book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. In an untorn, mildly shelfworn dust jacket. -- Contents: Introduction; Part I: Typological Patterns in the Representation of Event Structure: 1 Lexicalization Patterns 2 Surveying Lexicalization Patterns 3 A Typology of Event Integration 4 Borrowing Semantic Space: Diachronic Hybridization; Part II: Semantic Interaction: 5 Semantic Conflict and Resolution 6 Communicative Goals and Means: Their Cognitive Interaction; Part III: Other Cognitive Systems: 7 The Cognitive Culture System 8 A Cognitive Framework for Narrative Structure; References; Index -- In this two-volume set [published separately under different ISBNs] Leonard Talmy defines the field of cognitive semantics. He approaches the question of how language organizes conceptual material both at a general level and by analyzing a crucial set of particular conceptual domains: space and time, motion and location, causation and force interaction, and attention and viewpoint. Talmy maintains that these are among the most fundamental parameters by which language structures conception. By combining these conceptual domains into an integrated whole, Talmy shows, we advance our understanding of the overall conceptual and semantic structure of natural language. Volume 1 examines the fundamental systems by which language shapes concepts. …