具体描述
Toward the end of the 20th century, there is both a dissatisfaction with existing formal semantic theories and a wish to preserve insights from other semantic traditions. Cognitive semantics, the latest of the major trends which have dominated the century, attempts to do this by focusing on meaning as a cognitive phenomenon. This book provides different perspectives on meaning as a cognitive phenomenon. Jens Allwood presents an approach where meaning is analyzed in terms of context sensitive cognitive operations. Peter Gärdenfors examines the relationship between cognitive semantics and standard formal extensional and intensional semantics. Peter Harder discusses the relation between functionalism and cognitive semantics. Sören Sjöström and +ke Viberg extend a cognitive semantic approach to new empirical domains like vision and physical contact. Elisabeth Engberg Pedersen extends the use of cognitive semantics even further in order to analyze deaf sign language and, finally, Kenneth Holmqvist and Jordan Zlatev discuss two different possibilities of implementing a cognitive semantic approach using computer programs.
The variety of perspectives on cognitive semantics make this book suitable as course material.
作者简介
Peter Gärdenfors is Professor of Cognitive Science at Lund University, Sweden. He is the author of Conceptual Spaces: The Geometry of Thought (MIT Press) and other books.
目录信息
1
Some Tenets of Cognitive Semantics
19
Function Cognition and Layered Clause Structure
37
A Study of Metaphor and Polysemy in Swedish
67
Verbs of Physical Contact in Swedish
87
Space and Time
131
Implementing Cognitive Semantics
153
Situated Embodied Semantics and Connectionist Modeling
173
Index of Names
195
Index of Subjects
199
PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES
202
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