Ten Lectures on Natural Semantic MetaLanguage
Title | Ten Lectures on Natural Semantic MetaLanguage PDF eBook |
Author | Cliff Goddard |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 373 |
Release | 2018-03-20 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9004357726 |
These lively lectures introduce the theory, practice and application of a versatile, rigorous and non Anglocentic approach to cross-linguistic semantics. Topics include semantic primes and molecules, emotions, evaluation, verbs and event structure, cultural key words and scripts, language teaching.
Ten Lectures on Cognitive Semantics
Title | Ten Lectures on Cognitive Semantics PDF eBook |
Author | Leonard Talmy |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 474 |
Release | 2018-01-29 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 900434957X |
In his ten Beijing lectures, Leonard Talmy represents the range of his work in cognitive semantics. This approach concerns the linguistic representation of conceptual structure: the patterns in which and processes by which conceptual content is organized in language.
Ten Lectures on the Basics of Cognitive Grammar
Title | Ten Lectures on the Basics of Cognitive Grammar PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald Langacker |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 457 |
Release | 2017-07-31 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9004347453 |
The book offers a basic introduction to the theory of Cognitive Grammar, which claims that meaning resides in conceptualization, and that grammar is inherently meaningful, residing in the structuring and symbolization of conceptual content.
Ten Lectures on Field Semantics and Semantic Typology
Title | Ten Lectures on Field Semantics and Semantic Typology PDF eBook |
Author | Jürgen Bohnemeyer |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 215 |
Release | 2021-09-27 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9004362622 |
These lectures provide one of the first comprehensive introductions to semantic typology, the study of crosslinguistic variation in how languages represent reality. In addition, they survey research methods for field semantics, the study of linguistic meaning under fieldwork conditions.
The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics
Title | The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics PDF eBook |
Author | Wen Xu |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 792 |
Release | 2021-06-04 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1351034693 |
The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics provides a comprehensive introduction and essential reference work to cognitive linguistics. It encompasses a wide range of perspectives and approaches, covering all the key areas of cognitive linguistics and drawing on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research in pragmatics, discourse analysis, biolinguistics, ecolinguistics, evolutionary linguistics, neuroscience, language pedagogy, and translation studies. The forty-three chapters, written by international specialists in the field, cover four major areas: • Basic theories and hypotheses, including cognitive semantics, cognitive grammar, construction grammar, frame semantics, natural semantic metalanguage, and word grammar; • Central topics, including embodiment, image schemas, categorization, metaphor and metonymy, construal, iconicity, motivation, constructionalization, intersubjectivity, grounding, multimodality, cognitive pragmatics, cognitive poetics, humor, and linguistic synaesthesia, among others; • Interfaces between cognitive linguistics and other areas of linguistic study, including cultural linguistics, linguistic typology, figurative language, signed languages, gesture, language acquisition and pedagogy, translation studies, and digital lexicography; • New directions in cognitive linguistics, demonstrating the relevance of the approach to social, diachronic, neuroscientific, biological, ecological, multimodal, and quantitative studies. The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics is an indispensable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and for all researchers working in this area.
Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication
Title | Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication PDF eBook |
Author | Kerry Mullan |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2019-10-24 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9813299835 |
This book is the first in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach in linguistics. In addition, it explores ethnopragmatics and conversational humour, with a further focus on semantic analysis more broadly. Often considered the most fully developed, comprehensive and practical approach to cross-linguistic and cross-cultural semantics, Natural Semantic Metalanguage is based on evidence that there is a small core of basic, universal meanings (semantic primes) that can be expressed in all languages. It has been used for linguistic and cultural analysis in such diverse fields as semantics, cross-cultural communication, language teaching, humour studies and applied linguistics, and has reached far beyond the boundaries of linguistics into ethnopsychology, anthropology, history, political science, the medical humanities and ethics.
Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication
Title | Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication PDF eBook |
Author | Lauren Sadow |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Total Pages | 253 |
Release | 2019-10-23 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 9813299797 |
This book is the third in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach in linguistics. This third volume explores the potential of Minimal English, a recent offshoot of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage, with special reference to its use in Language Teaching and Intercultural Communication. Often considered the most fully developed, comprehensive and practical approach to cross-linguistic and cross-cultural semantics, Natural Semantic Metalanguage is based on evidence that there is a small core of basic, universal meanings (semantic primes) that can be expressed in all languages. It has been used for linguistic and cultural analysis in such diverse fields as semantics, cross-cultural communication, language teaching, humour studies and applied linguistics, and has reached far beyond the boundaries of linguistics into ethnopsychology, anthropology, history, political science, the medical humanities and ethics.