Ten Lectures on Cognitive Modeling : Between Grammar and Language-Based Inferencing

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Full Title:: Ten Lectures on Cognitive Modeling : Between Grammar and Language-Based Inferencing / Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
Series Titles:: Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004400689
Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics ; 25
Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004400689.
Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics ; 25.

Summary:: These lectures deal with the role of cognitive modelling in language-based meaning construction. To make meaning people use a small set of principles which they apply to different types of conceptual characterizations. This yields predictable meaning effects, which, when stably associated with specific grammatical patterns, result in constructions or fixed form-meaning parings. This means that constructional meaning can be described on the basis of the same principles that people use to make inferences. This way of looking at pragmatics and grammar through cognition allows us to relate a broad range of pragmatic and grammatical phenomena, among them argument-structure characterizations, implicational, illocutionary, and discourse structure, and such figures of speech as metaphor, metonymy, hyperbole, and irony.
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: 1 online resource
Local Note:: Available to current Emory faculty, students and staff.
Related Resources Link:: Online resource from Brill