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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Toward a Cognitive Semantics: Typology and Process in Concept Structuring (Language, Speech, and Communication) (Volume 2)
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262700972
• ISBN 13: 9780262700979
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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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).