... 1996:
137).
(4) The ball is in front of the tree.
(5) The ball is to the right of the lamp, from your point of view.
(6) John noticed the ball to the right of the lamp.
An expression such as the car ... example, the opening of the Pawnee earth lodge faced
east to admit the morning rays of the sun and the altar to the Evening Star goddess
was in the...
... In other words, they claim that each and
every mapping between the elements of the source and the elements of
the target is unidirectional; the logic of the image schema is projected from
the ... general theoretical framework for the embodiment hypothesis of
Cognitive Linguistics.
a. Confusion about the use of the term ‘‘embodiment’’ in Cognitive Lin-
guist...
... the
levels of investigation in cognitive science. The most basic organizing criterion of
this theoretical framework is the scale of the relative physical sizes of the phenomena
which produce the different ... various levels of investi-
gation due to the constraints of the observational apparatus and method, the
‘‘Tasks’’ column of this theoretical framework s...
... verhagen
at the end of section 3). But it may also consist in an increase of the role of the
construal relation or the ground in the profile of an expression, or (what ultimately
may be part of the same ... charge of the election process and has
just completed the count of the votes). The use of might relates to the epistemic
stance of the president....
... by partial vis-a
`
-vis holistic profiling of
distinct segments of the whole sense.
Some subtypes of, for instance, the category mother are (predictable) exten-
sions of the central member of the ... separately? One of the most
fruitful insights of Cognitive Linguistics is the recognition that the definitional
structure of a polysemic lexical item is similar to...
... of reality. Rather,
as cognitive models, the entities and the relations between them are mental con-
structs. Lakoff, furthermore, points out that the propositional structure of ICMs
may be of ... among them: the simple proposition, the scenario (or
script), the feature bundle, the taxonomy, or the radial category. He describes each
of these in the following way.
f...
... reflection of the nature of Cognitive Linguistics as it is
understood by its practitioners. If Cognitive Linguistics is the study of ways in
which features of language reflect other aspects of human ... to a unified theory of the structure of human
behavior. The Hague: Mouton.
Quinn, Naomi. 1991. The cultural basis of metaphor. In James W. Fernandez, ed., Beyond...
... Towards a cognitive account of the use of the prepositions
por and para in Spanish. In Eugene H. Casad, ed., Cognitive linguistics in the Red-
woods: The expansion of a new paradigm in linguistics ... domain onto another distinct conceptual domain,
where the structure of the target is isomorphic to that of the source (Invariance
Hypothesis).
Most contemporary a...
... most of
the components just identified do not come readily to mind on hearing the verb pry.
(3) a. I pried the board off the wall.
b. I pulled the board off the wall.
c. I flipped the board off the ... are taken to be the relevant
ones.
(9) a. The landlord rented the apartment to the tenant.
b. The tenant rented the apartment from the landlord.
Factor Ba2 underli...
... set his or her attention. The effectiveness of this factor relies not on
the triggering of automatic cognitive mechanisms, but on a further cognitive mech-
anism of the hearer, one that is under ... foregrounds the concept. And the absence of forms referring to
a concept that might otherwise be represented backgrounds that concept. This is
the factor underlying the w...