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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782321603321

Autore

Allwood Jens

Titolo

Cognitive Semantics [[electronic resource] ] : Meaning and cognition

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam/Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1999

ISBN

1-282-16329-9

9786612163296

90-272-9909-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Collana

Pragmatics & Beyond New Series

Altri autori (Persone)

GärdenforsPeter

Disciplina

401/.43

Soggetti

Cognition

Semantics -- Psychological aspects

Semantics

Semantics - Psychological aspects

Philology & Linguistics

Languages & Literatures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

COGNITIVE SEMANTICS; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Contents; Preface; Semantics as Meaning Determination with Semantic-Epistemic Operations; Some Tenets of Cognitive Semantics; Function, Cognition, and Layered Clause Structure; From Vision to Cognition: A Study of Metaphor and Polysemy in Swedish; Polysemy and Differentiation in the Lexicon: Verbs of Physical Contact in Swedish; Space and Time; Conceptual Engineering: Implementing Cognitive Semantics; Situated Embodied Semantics and Connectionist Modeling; Index of Names; Index of Subjects; PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES

Sommario/riassunto

Toward the end of the 20th century, there is both a dissatisfaction with existing formal semantic theories and a wish to preserve insights from other semantic traditions. Cognitive semantics, the latest of the major trends which have dominated the century, attempts to do this by focusing on meaning as a cognitive phenomenon. This book provides different perspectives on meaning as a cognitive phenomenon. Jens Allwood presents an approach where meaning is analyzed in terms of



context sensitive cognitive operations. Peter Gärdenfors examines the relationship between cognitive semantics and standa