Cognitive Grammar: A Basic IntroductionOxford University Press, 2008 M02 4 - 584 páginas This book fills a long standing need for a basic introduction to Cognitive Grammar that is current, authoritative, comprehensive, and approachable. It presents a synthesis that draws together and refines the descriptive and theoretical notions developed in this framework over the course of three decades. In a unified manner, it accommodates both the conceptual and the social-interactive basis of linguistic structure, as well as the need for both functional explanation and explicit structural description. Starting with the fundamentals, essential aspects of the theory are systematically laid out with concrete illustrations and careful discussion of their rationale. Among the topics surveyed are conceptual semantics, grammatical classes, grammatical constructions, the lexicon-grammar continuum characterized as assemblies of symbolic structures (form-meaning pairings), and the usage-based account of productivity, restrictions, and well-formedness. The theory's central claim - that grammar is inherently meaningful - is thereby shown to be viable. The framework is further elucidated through application to nominal structure, clause structure, and complex sentences. These are examined in broad perspective, with exemplification from English and numerous other languages. In line with the theory's general principles, they are discussed not only in terms of their structural characterization, but also their conceptual value and functional motivation. Other matters explored include discourse, the temporal dimension of language structure, and what grammar reveals about cognitive processes and the construction of our mental world. |
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... expressions (like phrases, clauses, and sentences). It is thus an essential aspect of the conceptual apparatus through ... expression's meaning depends on factors other than the situation described. On the one hand, it presupposes an ...
... expressions (like phrases, clauses, and sentences). It is thus an essential aspect of the conceptual apparatus through ... expression's meaning depends on factors other than the situation described. On the one hand, it presupposes an ...
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... expression's meaning resides in the conceptualizing activity of individual speakers. But does a single individual really ever know an expression's meaning? One objection is that linguistic meanings are conventional and thus reside at ...
... expression's meaning resides in the conceptualizing activity of individual speakers. But does a single individual really ever know an expression's meaning? One objection is that linguistic meanings are conventional and thus reside at ...
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... expression's meaning is first and foremost its meaning for a single (representative) speaker. This is not to deny or diminish the social aspect of linguistic meaning. An individual's notion of what an expression means develops through ...
... expression's meaning is first and foremost its meaning for a single (representative) speaker. This is not to deny or diminish the social aspect of linguistic meaning. An individual's notion of what an expression means develops through ...
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... expression's linguistic meaning? Or as the question is usually posed, which facets of it belong to semantics (reflecting the language per se) and which are better left for pragmatics? The traditional position, that there is a definite ...
... expression's linguistic meaning? Or as the question is usually posed, which facets of it belong to semantics (reflecting the language per se) and which are better left for pragmatics? The traditional position, that there is a definite ...
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... expression's full contextual understanding goes beyond what can be determined from established linguistic units. Suppose we are looking at a cat, and I say The bird is safe. With this statement I may implicate that the cat is lazy or ...
... expression's full contextual understanding goes beyond what can be determined from established linguistic units. Suppose we are looking at a cat, and I say The bird is safe. With this statement I may implicate that the cat is lazy or ...
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