Polysemy, Diachrony, and the Circle of Cognition

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Del 28 i serien Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture

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Beskrivning

Verbs of mental states or activity constitute a subject of considerable interest to both Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic Typology. They promise to open a window on the invisible workings of the mind, while at the same time displaying a wide variety of historical sources across languages. In this book Michael Fortescue presents an innovative approach to the semantics and diachronic source of cognitive verbs across a representative array of the world’s languages. The relationship among the cognitive verbs of individual languages is essentially one of metonymy, and the book investigates in detail the specific metonymic relationships involved, as revealed largely by the polysemous spread of word meanings. The data is projected against a circular ‘map’ of interrelated cognitive categories.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-01-28
Mått:155 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt:534 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture
Antal sidor:234
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004449510

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Mer om författaren

Michael Fortescue, Ph.D. Edinburgh University (1978), is professor emeritus in Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen. He published widely in Arctic languages, including West Greenlandic (Croom Helm, 1984) and (co-authored) The Comparative Eskimo Dictionary(Alaska Native Language Center, 2010). And within cognitive studies: The Abstraction Engine (Benjamins 2017).

Innehållsförteckning

List of Figures and TablesAbbreviations1 Introduction2 Thinking in General3 Understanding4 Knowing5 Believing6 Remembering7 Thinking about8 Judging (Considering)9 Calculating10 Deciding11 Guessing12 Intending13 Imagining14 Expecting15 Wishing16 Emotional Feelings17 Surprise18 Experiencing (Feeling)19 Perceiving (Noticing)20 Recognizing21 Full Circle22 What a Surprise! A Closer Look at a Cinderella Category23 The Cross-Linguistic Expression of Categories of Emotion24 Seeming: An Odd One Out?25 Guess: How a Single Category Can Involve All Others26 ConclusionsSources for Languages CitedAppendix 1: A Sentimental CircleAppendix 2: Raw Lexical DataReferencesIndex