Reading List

General Introductions to Cognitive Linguistics

(:cc CroftCruse2004 "Croft, W., & Cruse, A. D. (2004). Cognitive Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.":)
(:cc CroftCruse2004 "Evans, V., & Green, M. (2006). Cognitive Linguistics: An Introduction. Mahwah, NJ and Edinburgh: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates/Edinburgh University Press.":)
(:cc CroftCruse2004 "Lee, D. (2001). Cognitive Linguistics: An Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.":)
(:cc CroftCruse2004 "Ungerer, F., & Schmid, H.-J. (1996). Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics. London: Longman.":)

Works of General Reference

(:cc CroftCruse2004 "Evans, V. (Forthcoming). Glossary of Cognitive Linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.":)
(:cc CroftCruse2004 "Geeraerts, D., & Cuyckens, H. (2006). Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.":)
(:cc CroftCruse2004 "Janssen, T., & Redeker, G. (1999). Cognitive Linguistics: Foundations, Scope and Methodology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.":)

Specific Topics and Theories

BLENDING THEORY

Coulson, S. (2000). Semantic Leaps: Frame-Shifting and Conceptual Blending in Meaning Construction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Fauconnier, G., & Turner, M. (2002). The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind’s Hidden Complexities. New York: Basic Books.

CATEGORISATION

Lakoff, G. (1987). Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Taylor, J. (2003). Linguistic Categorization, 3rd edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

COGNITIVE GRAMMAR

Langacker, R. (1987/1991). Foundations of Cognitive Grammar, Volumes I and II. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Taylor, J. (2002). Cognitive Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

COGNITIVE PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

Dbrowska, E. (2004). Language, Mind and Brain: Some Psychological and Neurological Constraints on Grammar. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

COGNITIVE LEXICAL SEMANTICS

Cuyckens, H., & Zawada, B. (2001). Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics. Amsterdam, NJ: John Benjamins.
Cuyckens, H., Dirven, R., & Taylor, J. (2003). Cognitive Approaches to Lexical Semantics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Nerlich, B., Todd, Z., Herman, V., & Clarke, D. D. (2003). Polysemy: Flexible Patterns in the Mind. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Tyler, A., & Evans, V. (2003). The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Experience and Cognition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

CONCEPTUAL METAPHOR AND METONYMY

Barcelona, A. (2003). Metaphor and Metonymy at the Crossroads: A Cognitive Perspective. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Dirven, R, Pörings, R. (2002). Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Gibbs, R. (1994). The Poetics of Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (2003). Metaphors We Live By, 2nd, revised edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (1999). Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought. New York: Basic Books.
Kövecses, Z. (2002). Metaphor: A Practical Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Gibbs, R., & Steen, G. (1999). Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics. Amsterdam, NJ: John Benjamins.

CONSTRUCTIONAL APPROACHES TO GRAMMAR

Croft, W. (2002). Radical Construction Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Goldberg, A. (1995). Constructions: A Construction Grammar Approach to Verbal Argument Structure. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Östman, J.-O., & Fried, M. (2005). Construction Grammars: Cognitive Grounding and Theoretical Extensions. Amsterdam, NJ: John Benjamins.

CULTURAL LINGUISTICS

Palmer, G. (1996). Toward a Theory of Cultural Linguistics. University of Texas Press.

EMBODIMENT AND CONCEPTUALIZATION

Nuyts, J., & Pederson, E. (1997) (Eds). Language and Conceptualization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Varela, F., Thompson, E., & Rosch, E. (1991). The Embodied Mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

EMPIRICAL APPROACHES

Gonzalez-Marquez, M., Mittelberg, I., Coulson, S., & Spivey, M. J. (Eds) (2005), Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics. Amsterdam, NJ: John Benjamins.

IMAGE SCHEMAS

Hampe, B. (2005). From Perception to Meaning: Image Schemas in Cognitive Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Johnson, M. (1987). The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination and Reason. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
Mandler, J. (2004). The Foundations of Mind: Origins of Conceptual Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND LANGUAGE USE

Barlow, M., & Kemmer, S. (2000) (Eds.). Usage-Based Models of Language. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
Tomasello, M. (2003). Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

LANGUAGE AND CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE

Evans, V. (2004). The Structure of Time: Language, Meaning and Temporal Cognition. Amsterdam, NJ: John Benjamins.
Talmy, L. (2000). Toward a Cognitive Semantics, Vol. I and II. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

LANGUAGE CHANGE

Croft, W. (2000). Explaining Language Change: An Evolutionary Perspective. London: Longman.
Sweetser, E. (1990). From Etymology to Pragmatics: Metaphorical and Cultural Aspects of Semantic Structure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY AND RELATIVITY

Gentner, D., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2003). Language in Mind: Advances in the Study of Language and Thought. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Gumperz, J., & Levinson, S. (1996) (Eds.). Rethinking Linguistic Relativity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Levinson, S. (2003). Space in Language and Cognition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

MENTAL SPACES THEORY

Dancygier, B., & Sweetser, E. (2005). Mental Spaces in Grammar: Conditional Constructions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Fauconnier, G. (1994). Mental Spaces. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Fauconnier, G. (1997). Mappings in Thought and Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Fauconnier, G., & Sweetser, E. (1996). Spaces, Worlds and Grammar. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

General Linguistics