Toward a Cognitive Semantics, Volume 2: Typology and Process in Concept Structuring (Language, Speech, and Communication) - Softcover

Talmy, Leonard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262700972 ISBN 13: 9780262700979

Publisher: MIT Press, 2003

Synopsis

In this two-volume set, Talmy approaches the question of how language organizes conceptual material both at a general level and by analyzing a crucial set of particular conceptual domains: space and time, motion and location, causation and force interaction, and attention and viewpoint.

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About the Author

Leonard Talmy is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Director Emeritus of the Center for Cognitive Science at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He is the author of Toward a Cognitive Semantics, volume 1, Concept Structuring Systems, and volume 2, Typology and Process in Concept Structuring (MIT Press).

Review

--Barbara Tversky, Professor of Psychology, Stanford University

--Ronald Langacker, Department of Linguistics, University of California San Diego

" Talmy's penetrating analyses of the structure of language provide deep insights into the fundamental structure of cognition: space, time, causality, and social influence." --Barbara Tversky, Professor of Psychology, Stanford University

" At last we have all these classic papers in one place! This collection finally makes it possible to appreciate the full scope and originality of Talmy's pioneering work in cognitive linguistics." --Ray Jackendoff, Professor of Linguistics, Brandeis University

" These volumes bring together the works of a man who has profoundly influenced the study of linguistic meaning. An extremely rich collection, and essential reading for anyone interested in the relation of language and thought." --Terry Regier, Department of Psychology, University of Chicago

" Leonard Talmy is among the foremost scholars in the rapidly developing and expanding field that has come to be called 'cognitive linguistics.' This book will be a fundamental and much-cited work in that field, in linguistics generally, and beyond." --Ronald Langacker, Department of Linguistics, University of California San Diego

& quot; Talmy's penetrating analyses of the structure of language provide deep insights into the fundamental structure of cognition: space, time, causality, and social influence.& quot; --Barbara Tversky, Professor of Psychology, Stanford University

& quot; At last we have all these classic papers in one place! This collection finally makes it possible to appreciate the full scope and originality of Talmy's pioneering work in cognitive linguistics.& quot; --Ray Jackendoff, Professor of Linguistics, Brandeis University

& quot; These volumes bring together the works of a man who has profoundly influenced the study of linguistic meaning. An extremely rich collection, and essential reading for anyone interested in the relation of language and thought.& quot; --Terry Regier, Department of Psychology, University of Chicago

& quot; Leonard Talmy is among the foremost scholars in the rapidly developing and expanding field that has come to be called 'cognitive linguistics.' This book will be a fundamental and much-cited work in that field, in linguistics generally, and beyond.& quot; --Ronald Langacker, Department of Linguistics, University of California San Diego

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262700972
• ISBN 13: 9780262700979
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 504