Cognitive semantics and the history of philosophical epistemology

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Contents V
3. Preface IX
4. List of contributors XI
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: The cognitive paradigm: Goals, frameworks, implications
7. The alphabet of human thoughts 23
8. Cognitive semantics and the history of philosophical epistemology 53
9. From meaning to message in two theories: Cognitive and Saussurean views of the Modern Dutch demonstratives 81
10. A functional view on prototypes 115
11. Process linguistics: A cognitive-scientific approach to natural language understanding 141
12. Requirements for a computational lexicon: a cognitive approach 171
13. Some pedagogical implications of cognitive linguistics 201
14. Part II: Meaning and meaning extension
15. On representing and referring 227
16. Minimal and full definitions of meaning 247
17. Metacognitive aspects of reference: Assessing referential correctness and success 267
18. An image-schematic constraint on metaphor 291
19. The axiological parameter in preconceptional image schemata 307
20. Value judgment in the metaphorization of linguistic action 331
21. Part III: Lexico-syntactic phenomena
22. Schematic values of the Japanese nominal particles wa and ga 371
23. The meaning of (a) round: A study of an English preposition 399
24. The semantics of giving in Mandarin 433
25. Agentivity in cognitive grammar 487
26. Cases as conceptual categories: Evidence from German 531
27. A cognitive account of Samoan lavea and galo verbs 567
28. “Locations”, “paths” and the Cora verb 593
29. Part IV: A broader perspective: Discursive, cross-linguistic, cross-cultural
30. Patterns of mobilization: A study of interaction signals in Romance 649
31. Interaction and cognition: Speech act schemata with but and their interrelation with discourse type 679
32. Syntactic, semantic and interactional prototypes: The case of left-dislocation 709
33. Scenes and frames for orders and threats 731
34. Tenses and demonstratives: Conspecific categories 741
35. Articles in translation: An exercise in cognitive linguistics 785
36. What does it mean for a language to have no singular-plural distinction? Noun-verb homology and its typological implication 801
37. Subject index 815