Handbook of cognitive semantics /
"This Handbook is guided by the founding father of Cognitive Semantics, Leonard Talmy, and edited by Fuyin Thomas Li, Founding Editor of the journal Cognitive Semantics. It includes numerous contributions from some of the field's most well-regarded researchers and it aims to provide the mo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2023]-
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| Series: | Brill's handbooks in linguistics ;
v. 4. |
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| Summary: | "This Handbook is guided by the founding father of Cognitive Semantics, Leonard Talmy, and edited by Fuyin Thomas Li, Founding Editor of the journal Cognitive Semantics. It includes numerous contributions from some of the field's most well-regarded researchers and it aims to provide the most comprehensive coverage of the field to date. Beginning with an encompassive taxonomy of the field, it addresses such essential theories as frame semantics, embodied semantics, simulation semantics, and a natural semantic metalanguage; such basic concepts as Figure/Ground semantics, event structure, and open/closed-class conceptualizations; and such specific semantic phenomena as possession, degree, and ideophonicity. It further provides guidelines to data collection, quantitative methods, and person-oriented methodologies. Last but not least, it contains the latest frontier: Targeting in Language"-- |
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| Physical Description: | volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9789004468207 900446820X 9789004526600 9004526609 9789004526624 9004526625 9789004526648 9004526641 |
| ISSN: | 1879-629X ; |