EAN: 9783110238181

WINDOWS TO THE MIND GEBUNDEN

Cognitive linguists are convinced that the nature of linguistic structures is strongly
influenced by the way we experience and perceive the world and by how we conceptualize and
construe these experiences and perceptions in our minds. At the same time  the study of
linguistic structure and usage is credited with the potential to open windows to how our minds
work. The present volume collects papers investigating linguistic phenomena that reflect the
key cognitive processes of metaphor  metonymy and conceptual blending  which have proven to be
highly influential in linguistic conceptualization. Theoretical and methodological issues  such
as metaphor identification and the relevance of the target domain for children's understanding
of metaphor  are focused on in the first section. The second and third parts are devoted to the
application of the theoretical frameworks of the conceptual theory of metaphor and metonymy and
the theory of conceptual blending to linguistic data. The contributions critically explore the
explanatory potential of these theories  build bridges between them  link them with other
approaches and notions (such as construction grammar  common ground and stance evaluation)  and
uncover conceptual regularities and cognitive models that underlie and shape our language use
in specific domains. The linguistic structures under consideration span the range from
compounds and premodified noun phrases to constructions and texts such as jokes and political
speeches. Methods applied include psycholinguistic experiments  analyses of data culled from
authentic language corpora and discourse-analytical approaches.

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