Toward a Cognitive Semantics: Typology and Process in Concept Structuring (Language, Speech, and Communication) (Volume 2)

Talmy, Leonard

ISBN 10: 0262700972 / ISBN 13: 9780262700979

Published by MIT Press, 2003

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Title: Toward a Cognitive Semantics: Typology and ...

Publisher: MIT Press

Publication Date: 2003

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Book Type: book

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Synopsis:

In this two-volume set, Talmy approaches the question of how language organizes conceptual material both at a general level and by analyzing a crucial set of particular conceptual domains: space and time, motion and location, causation and force interaction, and attention and viewpoint.

About the Author:

Leonard Talmy is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Director Emeritus of the Center for Cognitive Science at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He is the author of Toward a Cognitive Semantics, volume 1, Concept Structuring Systems, and volume 2, Typology and Process in Concept Structuring (MIT Press).