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

• Autore: Allwood Jens
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam/Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (215 p.)
• Disciplina: 401/.43
• Soggetto topico: Cognition; Semantics -- Psychological aspects; Semantics; Semantics - Psychological aspects; Philology & Linguistics; Languages & Literatures
• Altri autori: GärdenforsPeter
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Cognitive Semantics
• ISBN: 1-282-16329-9; 9786612163296; 90-272-9909-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782321603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series