Ten Lectures on Cognitive Sociolinguistics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ten Lectures on Cognitive Sociolinguistics write by Dirk Geeraerts. This book was released on 2017-11-06. Ten Lectures on Cognitive Sociolinguistics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cognitive Sociolinguistics combines the interest in meaning of Cognitive Linguistics with the interest in social variation of sociolinguistics, converging on two domains of enquiry: variation of meaning, and the meaning of variation. These Ten Lectures, a transcribed version of talks given by professor Geeraerts in 2009 at Beihang University in Beijing, introduce and illustrate both dimensions. The ‘variation of meaning’ perspective involves looking at types of semantic and categorial variation, at the role of social and cultural factors in semantic variation and change, and at the interplay of stereotypes, prototypes and norms. The ‘meaning of variation’ perspective involves looking at the way in which categorization processes of the type studied by Cognitive Linguistics shape how scholars and laymen think about language variation.
Ten Lectures on Applied Cognitive Linguistics
Ten Lectures on Applied Cognitive Linguistics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ten Lectures on Applied Cognitive Linguistics write by John Taylor. This book was released on 2018-03-20. Ten Lectures on Applied Cognitive Linguistics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A series of 10 lectures on various aspects of Cognitive Linguistics as these relate to matters of language teaching and learning. Topics addressed include the role of categorization, the nature of rules, the encyclopaedic scope of semantics, spatial expressions, metaphor and metonymy, nouns and nominals, tense and aspect, and the theoretical status of the phoneme.
Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics and the Unification of Spoken and Signed Languages
Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics and the Unification of Spoken and Signed Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics and the Unification of Spoken and Signed Languages write by Sherman Wilcox. This book was released on 2017-11-06. Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics and the Unification of Spoken and Signed Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 between signed and spoken languages by taking an embodied view. This embodied solution reveals the patterns and principles that unite languages across modalities. Using a multidisciplinary approach, Wilcox explores such issues as the how to apply cognitive grammar to the study of signed languages, the pervasive conceptual iconicity present throughout the lexicon and grammar of signed languages, the relation of language and gesture, the grammaticization of signs, the significance of motion for understanding language as a dynamic system, and the integration of cognitive neuroscience and cognitive linguistics.
Ten Lectures on Language, Cognition, and Language Acquisition
Ten Lectures on Language, Cognition, and Language Acquisition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ten Lectures on Language, Cognition, and Language Acquisition write by Melissa Bowerman. This book was released on 2018-07-17. Ten Lectures on Language, Cognition, and Language Acquisition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In her Beijing lectures, Melissa Bowerman presents a lucid introduction and account of her research on a range of topics: how children acquire the semantics of spatial terms, how they construct categories and acquire the semantics of nouns, and how they master the semantics of verbs in early language acquisition. Bowerman also covers the learning of argument structure and expressions of end-state, with special attention to the adult speech that guides children, and hence also the role of typology in acquisition; how cross-linguistic variation affects, for example, how speakers represent ‘cutting’ and ‘breaking’ in different languages, and the relation of the Whorfian Hypothesis to cross-linguistic variations in the semantics of languages. Bowerman’s over-riding concern throughout is with how children come to master the first language being spoken to them by their parents and caregivers.
Ten Lectures on Language, Culture and Mind
Ten Lectures on Language, Culture and Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ten Lectures on Language, Culture and Mind write by Chris Sinha. This book was released on 2017-08-28. Ten Lectures on Language, Culture and Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this interdisciplinary collection of lectures, Chris Sinha presents an overview of topics ranging from language in children’s play, through cultural conceptualizations of time, to philosophical and linguistic relativism. The intertwining of the evolutionary and individual time scales of human development is a key theme unifying the lectures, as is the fundamentally cultural nature of language and cognition. Familiar topics in cognitive linguistics, such as spatial semantics and conceptual blending, are addressed from these cultural, comparative and developmental perspectives. Chris Sinha also discusses the psychological roots of key concepts in cognitive linguistics, and sets out a biocultural approach to language evolution.
