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

Leonard Talmy

ISBN 10: 0262201216 / ISBN 13: 9780262201216

Published by MIT Press, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Toward a Cognitive Semantics: Volume 2: Typology and Process in Concept Structuring: Typology and Process in Concept Structuring Vol 2 (Language, Speech, and Communication)
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262201216
• ISBN 13: 9780262201216
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: Second Printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 32 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
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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.

One of a two-volume set defining the field of cognitive semantics. Leonard 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. Talmy maintains that these are among the most fundamental parameters by which language structures conception. By combining these conceptual domains into an integrated whole, Talmy shows, we advance our understanding of the overall conceptual and semantic structure of natural language. Volume one examines the fundamental systems by which language shapes concepts.

About the Author

Leonard Talmy is Director of the Center for Cognitive Science and Associate Professor of Linguistics at the State University of New York at Buffalo.