Cognitive semantics

Lemmens, Maarten

Document type :

Partie d'ouvrage

Title :

Cognitive semantics

Author(s) :

Lemmens, Maarten [Auteur]

Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]

Scientific editor(s) :

Nick Riemer

Book title :

Routledge Handbook of Semantics

Publisher :

Routledge

Publication date :

2015

English keyword(s) :

cognitive semantics

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Linguistique

English abstract : [en]

In a cognitive approach to language, meaning is considered as being at the heart of all parts of the grammar; in other words, all linguistic (i.e., symbolic) units are considered as meaningful. This chapter first give a ...
Show more >In a cognitive approach to language, meaning is considered as being at the heart of all parts of the grammar; in other words, all linguistic (i.e., symbolic) units are considered as meaningful. This chapter first give a general description of such view and subsequently considers how meaning is at work at several levels in the grammar, ranging from morphology, lexical semantics, to syntactic constructions. Some of the notions that will be briefly discussed are Frames and Idealised Cognitive Models, image schemas, schematicity, salience and prototypes, and metaphor and metonymy, lexical and constructional polysemy, and conceptual semantics and its relation to linguistic relativity.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Comment :

version auteur, avant publication

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