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«… the ball seemed to keep rolling …»

Linking up Cognitive Systems in Language: Attention and Force Dynamics

by Martina Lampert (Author) Günther Lampert (Author)
©2013 Monographs VI, 288 Pages

Summary

Again firmly rooted in Leonard Talmy’s Cognitive Semantics, this new study moves beyond the analysis of single schematic systems in language contributing to the linguistic task of conceptual integration. It investigates for the first time effects of linking up Force Dynamics, a conceptual category generalizing over the traditional notion of the causative, and the Attention system of language, as detailed in Talmy’s most recent extended draft version. To accommodate the conceptual and formal complexities involved at the interface of Attention, Force Dynamics, and Cognitive State and to allow for an appropriate degree of fine-grainedness the analytical framework affords, the exposition has been constrained to the golf scenario, where forces are at work in the physical and sociodynamic domains.

Details

Pages
VI, 288
Publication Year
2013
ISBN (PDF)
9783653035353
ISBN (Hardcover)
9783631609002
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-03535-3
Language
English
Publication date
2013 (July)
Keywords
Causation Modality Architecture of Cognition Language System Individual Morphemes Cognitive Semantics
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2013. 288 pp., 8 b/w fig.

Biographical notes

Martina Lampert (Author) Günther Lampert (Author)

Martina Lampert and Günther Lampert have been committed to Talmy’s Cognitive Semantics since the late 1980s. They both teach English linguistics at the University of Mainz.

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