Del 28 i serien Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture

Polysemy, Diachrony, and the Circle of Cognition

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Verbs of mental states or activity constitute a subject of considerable interest to both Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic Typology. They promise to open a window on the invisible workings of the mind, while at the same time displaying a wide variety of historical sources across languages. In this book Michael Fortescue presents an innovative approach to the semantics and diachronic source of cognitive verbs across a representative array of the world’s languages. The relationship among the cognitive verbs of individual languages is essentially one of metonymy, and the book investigates in detail the specific metonymic relationships involved, as revealed largely by the polysemous spread of word meanings. The data is projected against a circular ‘map’ of interrelated cognitive categories.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-01-28
Mått155 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt534 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBrill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture
Antal sidor234
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004449510

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List of Figures and TablesAbbreviations1 Introduction2 Thinking in General3 Understanding4 Knowing5 Believing6 Remembering7 Thinking about8 Judging (Considering)9 Calculating10 Deciding11 Guessing12 Intending13 Imagining14 Expecting15 Wishing16 Emotional Feelings17 Surprise18 Experiencing (Feeling)19 Perceiving (Noticing)20 Recognizing21 Full Circle22 What a Surprise! A Closer Look at a Cinderella Category23 The Cross-Linguistic Expression of Categories of Emotion24 Seeming: An Odd One Out?25 Guess: How a Single Category Can Involve All Others26 ConclusionsSources for Languages CitedAppendix 1: A Sentimental CircleAppendix 2: Raw Lexical DataReferencesIndex