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Cognitive Approaches


Focus & Content

The Cognitive Linguistics Enterprise

  • Historical Background
  • The nature of cognitive linguistics
  • Universals and variation in language
    • Linguistic typology and typological universals
    • Universals in formal linguistics
    • Universals in cognitive linguistics
    • Do we think the way we speak?
    • Linguistic relativity
  • Language in use
    • Knowledge of language
    • Language change
    • Language acquisition

Cognitive Semantics

  • Embodiment and conceptual structure
    • Image schemas
    • Conceptual structure
  • The encyclopaedic view of meaning
    • Frame semantics
  • Categorisation and cognitive models
    • Categorisation
    • Prototype theory
  • Metaphor and Metonymy
    • Conceptual Metaphor Theory
    • Conceptual metonymy
    • Social interaction and differences between metaphor and metonymy

Cognitive approaches to grammar

  • A cognitive model of grammar
  • Conceptual basis of grammar
    • Talmy's "Conceptual Structuring System Model"
    • Langacker's theory of Cognitive Grammar
  • Construction grammar
    • Goldberg's construction grammar
    • Radical Construction Grammar
    • Embodied Construction Grammar

  • Exercises

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