Brdar Mario, Gries Stefan Th., Žic Fuchs Milena. Cognitive Linguistics: Convergence and Expansion

John Benjamins, 2011. — viii, 362 pages.. — (Human Cognitive Processing). — ISBN: 978-90-272-8454-9.Th present volume is a collection of contributions originally presented as keynote talks or as regular papers at the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference Converging and Diverging Tendencies in Cognitive Linguistics, held in Dubrovnik (Croatia), October 17–18, 2005, as well as some chapters specially commissioned for this volume. As the title of the conference indicates, the initial key notions were converging and diverging tendencies in cognitive linguistics. However, papers presented at the conference, and the subsequently commissioned ones paved the way to shiftng the
stress to convergence and expansion, as is reflcted in the title of the volume.Ths shif reflcts not only how the ideas behind the conference and this volume developed, but more importantly reflcts the nature of developments in cognitive linguistics itself, in the sense of stressing the converging tendencies anchored in the core of the enterprise, and the expansions that go from the core into diffrent directions.Introduction: Convergence and expansion in cognitive linguistics
[b]Setting the scene
Convergence in cognitive linguistics
An overview of cognitive linguistics
[b]Consolidating the paradigm
Pattern versus process concepts of grammar and mind: A cognitive-functional perspective
Metaphor in language and thought: How do we map the field?
Emotion and desire in independent complement clauses: A case study from German
Schematic meaning of the Croatian verbal prefi iz-: Meaning chains and syntactic implications
The conceptual motivation of bahuvrihi compounds in English and Spanish
On the subject of impersonals
[b]Expanding the paradigm
Do people infer the entailments of conceptual metaphors during verbal metaphor understanding?
Corpus data in usage-based linguistics: What’s the right degree of granularity for the analysis of argument structure constructions?
Cognitive linguistics meets the corpus
Oops blush! Beyond metaphors of emotion
Conceptual construal and social construction
Th biblical story retold: A cognitive linguistic perspective