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Cognitive Semantics
A cultural-historical perspective
The book presents two fundamental theories that characterize the cultural-historical perspective in cognitive semantics: the Four-Level Theory of Cognitive Development (FLTCD) and the Sociocultural Theory of Lexical Complexes (STLC) as well as their application to the analysis of specific material. In particular, the book analyzes the sociocultural history of the MACHINE metaphor, specifically its use in the texts of René Descartes and Francis Bacon. The practical embodiment of STLC is demonstrated through the analysis of lexical complexes such as otkryvat' ‘to open,’ kamen' ‘stone,’ and intelligencija ‘intelligentsia.’ In the final chapter of the monograph, FLTCD and STLC are used for the diachronic analysis of semantic change. The monograph will be of interest to a wide range of linguists, psychologists, cultural anthropologists, and philosophers who consider language as a sociocultural phenomenon.
[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 15] 2024. v, 242 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 2 January 2024
Published online on 2 January 2024
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Preface | pp. 1–4
- Part I. The four-level theory of cognitive development and its applications to cognitive semantics
- Chapter 1. An overview of the four-level theory of cognitive development | pp. 6–20
- Chapter 2. Cultural-historical psychology and the cognitive view of metonymy and metaphor | pp. 21–35
- Chapter 3. Cognitive style of early theoretical culture: The case of Ancient Greece | pp. 36–50
- Part II. A cultural-historical analysis of the concept of machine
- Chapter 4. A sociocultural history of the machine metaphor | pp. 52–65
- Chapter 5. The concept of machine in the philosophy of the early modern era: The case of Francis Bacon and René Descartes | pp. 66–80
- Part III. The sociocultural theory of lexical complexes
- Chapter 6. The theoretical foundations, basic postulates and framework of STLC | pp. 82–95
- Chapter 7. The conceptual structure of the lexical complex otkryvat’ in STLC | pp. 96–135
- Chapter 8. The conceptual structure of the lexical complex kamen’ in STLC | pp. 136–163
- Chapter 9. The conceptual structure of the lexical complex intelligencija in STLC | pp. 164–197
- Chapter 10. Regularity in semantic change: A view from a sociocultural perspective | pp. 198–214
- Conclusion | pp. 215–217
- References | pp. 219–240
- Index | pp. 241–242
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