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Book SynopsisCognitive semantics is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of meaning and mind. The Handbook of Cognitive Semantics is the first reference work in the field. Edited by Thomas Fuyin Li, with a detailed taxonomy of the field by Leonard Talmy, it provides an overview of the basic topics and recent developments. Since its origins, cognitive semantics has grown greatly in the range and depth of its research on conceptual structure in language. The Handbook shows that cognitive semantics has become a mature discipline that advances linguistic meaning to a central place in research on cognition. This is the first volume in a set of four. It contains the following parts: Part I: Conceptual Semantics Part II: Basic Issues
Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Foreword: A Taxonomy of Cognitive Semantics Leonard Talmy 2 Introducing Cognitive Semantics Fuyin Thomas Li Part 1 Conceptual Semantics 3 The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) Approach Cliff Goddard, Anna Wierzbicka, and Zhengdao Ye 4 Frame Semantics Esraʾ M. Abdelzaher 5 Conceptual Semantics Ronald W. Langacker 6 Embodied Semantics Daniel Casasanto 7 Simulation Semantics: How the Body Characterizes the Mind Nian Liu Part 2 Basic Issues 8 A Usage-Based Analysis of the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface Mira Ariel 9 Encyclopedic Knowledge and Linguistic Meaning Patrick Duffley 10 Meaning and Intersubjectivity Magdalena Rybarczyk and Michael Stevens Pérez 11 Cognitive Semantics: Conceptualization, Identity (Politics), and the Real World Peter Harder Appendix: Volumes Overview
