基本説明
急速に発展している認知言語学の全貌を見わたすべく、1980年代以来の代表的論考75点を精選収録。理論的発展に自身大きく貢献したゴールドバーグ教授（プリンストン大学）を編者に迎えた注目のコレクション。第1巻は、レイコフ、ラネカーらのパイオニア的探究、第2巻は、メタファーや身体を中心とする意味の探究、第3・4巻は、ゴールドバーグ教授の専門である構文理論を中心に、音韻・形態・文法・談話を包括する広汎な認知言語学のアプローチを、第5巻では、言語習得や言語進化をも取り上げる。
Full Description
This new addition to Routledge's Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Linguistics, brings together the very best and most influential scholarly research on cognitive linguistics. Cognitive Linguistics is a broad approach to language that places psychological reality at the top of the list of theoretical desiderata. Both experimental and theoretical work will be included in each volume. The fact that language is a system of communication is emphasized, so that explanations that rely on the functions of linguistic elements are preferred over purely syntactic accounts. The label, "Cognitive Linguistics," arose in the 1980s with Langacker, Lakoff, Fillmore, and Talmy laying the semantic/pragmatic foundations for the approach. Volume I will be dedicated to key works by these authors and others. Volume II further explores semantic foundations with papers on metaphor, blending and embodiment. Cognitive Linguistics encompasses approaches to phonology, morphology, grammar, and discourse, but the emphasis has been on morphology and grammar. Work has coalesced around the idea that form-function pairings (constructions, schemata) are the basic units of language. Volumes III and IV include seminal works in this area. A strength of Cognitive Linguistics is that it interfaces naturally with a great deal of work in language acquisition, language evolution, and language change. Selected papers from these topics that make explicit use of key ideas in Cognitive Linguistics will be included in Volume V. With a new introduction by the editor and a comprehensive index, this five volume collection will be a convenient and authoritative reference resource on cognitive linguistics for both student and scholar.
Contents
Volume I Categorization, Meaning and Language Use, Volume II Metaphor, Blending and Embodied Language, Volume III Grammar (I), Volume IV Grammar (II), Volume V Language Development, Language Change and the Origins of Language
