Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez Francisco José, Galera Masegosa Alicia. Cognitive Modeling - A linguistic perspective

John Benjamins, 2014. — x, 250 pages. — (Human Cognitive Processing). — ISBN: 978-90-272-7000-9.This monograph studies cognitive operations on cognitive models across levels and domains of meaning construction. It explores in what way the same set of cognitive operations, either in isolation or in combination, account for meaning representation whether obtained on the basis of inferential activity or through constructional composition. As a consequence, it makes explicit links between constructional and figurative meaning. The pervasiveness of cognitive operations is explored across the levels of meaning construction (argument, implicational, illocutionary, and discourse structure) distinguished by the Lexical Constructional Model. This model is a usage-based approach to language that reconciles insights from functional and cognitive linguistics and offers a unified account of the principles and constraints that regulate both inferential activity and the constructional composition of meaning. This book is of value to scholars with an interest in linguistic evidence of cognitive activity in meaning construction. The contents relate to the fields of Cognitive Grammar, Cognitive Semantics, Construction Grammar, Functional Linguistics, and Inferential Pragmatics.Aims and scope of the book
Methodology and data
A note on cognitive reality
The structure of the book
Thoretical pre-requisites
Introduction: In search for a unifid framework of analysis
An overview of the Lexical Constructional Model
Figurative thought and fiurative uses of language
Cognitive modelsCognitive model types
Cognitive models and a typology of states of affirs
Cognitive models and the Lexical Constructional Model
Cognitive operationsFormal operations
Content operations: A preliminary exploration
Patterns of combination of cognitive operations
Constraining principles on cognitive operations
Content operations across levels of representation
Domain expansion and domain reduction
Correlation
Comparison
Echoing
Strengthening and mitigation
Parameterization and generalization
Saturation
Conclusions