A Taxonomy of Cognitive Semantics

Cognitive semantics is a relatively new field whose central concern is how language structures conceptual content. This book aims to approach the field comprehensively and outline its main contours. It both summarizes previous research and presents novel analyses. The main issues it covers range from concept structuring mechanisms, through crosslinguistic contrasts of concepts, to relations across cognitive faculties. Along the way, it examines communication systems, including gesture and signed language; diachronic change from long to short-term; differences between universal, typological, and language-specific features; ten conceptual categories represented by closed-class forms; and tropes as a form of "constructive discrepancy".

Author: Leonard Talmy
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Brill
Published: 04/03/2025
Series: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences #8
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 9.17h x 6.35w x 0.05d
ISBN: 9789004730250