Toward a Cognitive Semantics: Concept Structuring Systems (Language, Speech, and Communication) (Volume 1)
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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0262700964
ISBN 13
9780262700962
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Publication Year
2003
Publisher
Pages
573
Description
One of a two-volume set defining the field of cognitive semantics. Leonard Talmy 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 one examines the fundamental systems by which language shapes concepts. - from Amzon
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