Geeraerts Dirk (Editor). Cognitive Linguistics: Basic Readings

Mouton de Gruyter, 2006. — xv, 485 pages. — (Cognitive Linguistics Research). — ISBN13: 978-3-11-019084-7.So this is the first time you visit the field of Cognitive Linguistics, no? You may need a guide then. Sure, when you move through the following chapters of this volume, you get to see a top twelve of sights that you should not miss: a delightful dozen of articles written by authorities in the field that each introduce one of the conceptual cornerstones of the theoretical framework of Cognitive Linguistics. Still, to give you a firm reference point for your tour, you may need some initiation to what Cognitive Linguistics is about. That’s what the present chapter is for: it provides you with a roadmap and a travel book to Cognitive Linguistics. It’s only a rough guide, to be sure: it gives you the minimal amount of background that you need to figure out the steps to be taken and to make sure that you are not recognized as a total foreigner or a naïve apprentice, but it does not pretend to supply more than that.Introduction: A rough guide to Cognitive Linguistics
Dirk Geeraerts
Cognitive Grammar: Introduction to Concept, Image, and Symbol
Ronald W. Langacker
Grammatical construal: The relation of grammar to cognition
Leonard Talmy
Radial network: Cognitive topology and lexical networks
Claudia Brugman and George Lakoff
Prototype theory: Prospects and problems of prototype theory
Dirk Geeraerts
Schematic network: Ambiguity, polysemy, and vagueness
David Tuggy
Conceptual metaphor: The contemporary theory of metaphor
George Lakoff
Image schema: The cognitive psychological reality of image schemas and their transformations
Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. and Herbert L. Colston
Metonymy: The role of domains in the interpretation of metaphors and metonymies
William Croft
Mental spaces: Conceptual integration networks
Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner
Frame semantics
Charles J. Fillmore
Construction Grammar: The inherent semantics of argument structure: The case of the English ditransitive construction
Adele E. Goldberg
Usage-based linguistics: First steps toward a usage-based theory of language acquisition
Michael Tomasello
Epilogue: Trajectories for further reading
Dirk Geeraerts