Discourse and the continuity of reference: representing mental categorization
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Main Author: Zelinsky-Wibbelt, Cornelia 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin Mouton de Gruyter 2000
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Item Description:Revision of the author's Habilitationsschrift--Hanover University. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
""Preface""; ""List of figures""; ""1 Introduction""; ""1.1 Reference and categorization""; ""1.2 Cognitive linguistics""; ""1.3 Non-focussed objectives""; ""1.4 Overview""; ""2 Philosophical issues in reference and truth""; ""2.1 Prom intension to extension""; ""2.2 The inextricability vs. the inscrutability of language""; ""2.3 The collective achievement of intensions""; ""2.4 The acquisition of knowledge and language""; ""2.5 Joining referential realism with referential holism""; ""2.6 Wittgenstein�s empirical fallacy""; ""2.7 From linguistic object to the objective subject""
""2.8 Intersubjectivizing empirical knowledge""""2.9 Mutual knowledge vs. relevance""; ""2.10 Chomsky�s empirical paradox""; ""2.11 Linguistic competence as the atomistic residue""; ""2.12 The mind as a black box""; ""2.13 The encyclopedic unity of linguistic knowledge""; ""2.14 Conclusion""; ""3 Psychological theories of reference and categorization""; ""3.1 Gibson�s approach to ecological realism""; ""3.2 Neisser�s ecological approach""; ""3.3 Piaget�s constructivism""; ""3.4 Johnson-Laird�s mental model theory""; ""3.5 Conclusion""
""4 Selecting the psychological model of reference""""4.1 The economical abstraction of prototypes""; ""4.2 The economical processing of prototypes""; ""4.3 The semantic priority of information processing""; ""4.4 Categorization and reference""; ""4.5 Conclusion""; ""5 Representing mental categorization""; ""5.1 The speakers� VOLITION""; ""5.2 Prototypes and schemata""; ""5.3 Centre vs. periphery of a conceptual region""; ""5.4 Linguistic vs. encyclopedic meaning""; ""5.5 Top-down inheritance""; ""5.6 Categorization and the continuity of reference""
""5.7 Categorization and referential integration""""5.8 The hierarchical representation of categorization""; ""5.9 Schematizing along the conceptual type hierarchy""; ""5.10 The unification-based formalism""; ""5.11 Distinguishing lexical vagueness from polysemy""; ""5.12 Different types of lexical vagueness""; ""5.13 Polysemy across basic cognitive domains""; ""5.14 The lexical representation of basic cognitive domains""; ""5.15 Autonomous vs. dependent predications""; ""5.16 Conclusion""; ""6 Domains of the conceptual type hierarchy""; ""6.1 Nominal predications""
""6.2 Relational predications""""6.3 Conclusion""; ""7 Representing discourse domains""; ""7.1 Schemata, frames, and scripts""; ""7.2 Discourse representation by mental models""; ""7.3 Relating image schemata and mental models""; ""7.4 Inferring implicit information""; ""7.5 Conclusion""; ""8 Metonymy and metaphor as universals""; ""8.1 Metonymy as domain representation""; ""8.2 Langacker�s billiard-ball model""; ""8.3 Metaphors as extensions across domains""; ""8.4 Metaphorical models of abstract domains""; ""8.5 Conclusion""; ""9 Contextual functions""
Physical Description:x, 354 pages :
ISBN:9783110808698
3110808692
3110167654
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