Cover not available

In:Studies in Lexicogrammar: Theory and applications
Edited by Grzegorz Drożdż
[Human Cognitive Processing 54] 2016
► pp. 75–92

Get fulltext from our e-platform
JBE logo with link
PDF logo with download linkDownload Book PDF
authorization required

Virtual lexicogrammar

ORCiD logo with link
Published online: 4 August 2016
DOI logo with link
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.54.04gla
In this chapter, a proposal is made to anchor considerations on the lexicon-grammar continuity in the notions of metonymy and virtuality. In cognitive linguistics, as discussed subsequently in the chapter, metonymy is viewed as operating at the very heart of language, i.e. within the linguistic sign. But rather than being an ultimate prime, it is shown here to derive from a more fundamental phenomenon of the virtual as real – this is linked with Ronald Langacker’s idea of the indeterminacy of grammatical coding. Following this, a view of lexicogrammar is proposed such that metonymy-qua-virtuality operates at all levels of linguistic complexity because it operates within the very network of relationships between linguistic form, conceptualization, and the real world.
References (43)
Bergen, B. 2012. Louder than words: The new science of how the mind makes meaning. New York: Basic Books.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Castells, M. 1996. The rise of the network society: The information age: Economy, society and culture, Vol. I. Malden, MA; Oxford, UK: Blackwell.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Castells, M., & Catterall, B. 2001. The making of the network society. London: Institute of Contemporary Arts.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Crocker, S. 2001. Into the interval: On Deleuze’s reversal of time and movement. Continental Philosophy Review, 34, 45–67. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Croft, W. 2005. Logical and typological arguments for radical construction grammar. In J.-O. Östman & M. Fried (Eds.), Construction grammars: Cognitive grounding and theoretical extensions (273–314). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
de Saussure, Ferdinand. 1966[1916]. Course in general linguistics. Ch. Bally, A. Sechehaye, in collaboration with A. Riedlinger (Eds.), Transl. W. Baskin. New York & Toronto & London: McGraw–Hill.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Deleuze, G. 1988[1966]. Bergsonism. Transl. H. Tomlinson & B. Habberjam. New York: Zone Books.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 1994[1968]. Difference and repetition. Transl. P. Patton. New York: Columbia University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Echard, W. 2006. Sensible virtual selves: Bodies, instruments and the becoming-concrete of music. Contemporary Music Review, 25(1/2), 7–16. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Esposito, J. 2002. Virtuality. In J. Queiroz & R. Gudwin (Eds.), Digital encyclopedia of Charles Peirce. [URL] (accessed January 15, 2014).Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Fillmore, C., Kay, P., & O’Connor, M.C. 1988. Regularity and idiomaticity in grammatical constructions: The case of ‘let alone’. Language, 64(3), 501–538. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Gallese, V., & Sinigaglia, C. 2011. What is so special about embodied simulation. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 15(11), 512–519. (accessed December 3, 2015)Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Gaugusch, A. 2001. (Re)constructing (virtual) reality. In A. Riegler, M. Peschl, K. Edlinger, G. Fleck, & W. Feigl (Eds.), Virtual reality: Cognitive foundations, technological issues and philosophical implications (221–230). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Głaz, A., & Prorok, K. 2014. Of triangles, trapeziums and ethnolinguists. The linguistic worldview revisited. In M. Kuźniak, A. Libura, & M. Szawerna (Eds.), From conceptual metaphor theory to cognitive ethnolinguistics: Patterns of imagery in language (207–228). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Goldberg, A. 1995. Constructions: A Construction grammar approach to argument structure. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Halliday, M.A.K. 1961. Categories of a theory of grammar. Word, 17(3), 242–292. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2002. On grammar . In J. Webster (Ed.), Collected works of M.A.K. Halliday. London & New York: Continuum.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Heger, K. 1969. L’analyse sémantique du signe linguistique. Langue française, 4, 44–66. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Hudson, R. 2007a. Language networks: The new word grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2007b. Word grammar. In D. Geeraerts & H. Cuyckens (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of cognitive linguistics (509–539) Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Keysers, C., Kohler, E, Umilta, M.A., Nanetti, L., Fogassi, L., & Gallese, V. 2003. Audioviosual mirror neurons and action recognition. Experimental Brain Research, 153, 628–636. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Lakoff, G. 1987. Women, fire, and dangerous things: What categories reveal about the mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Langacker, R.W. 1987. Foundations of cognitive grammar. Vol. 1: Theoretical prerequisites. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 1991. Foundations of cognitive grammar. Vol. 2: Descriptive application. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 1993. Reference point constructions. Cognitive Linguistics, 4, 1–38. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 1999. Virtual reality. In S.J. Hwang & A. Lommel (Eds.), LACUS forum XXV (41–69). Fullerton, CA: LACUS. [Reprinted in Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, 29(2), 77–103.]Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2005. Two problems virtually resolved. In D. Stanulewicz, R. Kalisz, W. Kürschner, & C. Klaus (Eds.), De lingua et litteris: Studia in honorem Casimiri Andreae Sroka (65–70). Gdańsk: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2008. Cognitive grammar: A basic introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2009. Investigations in cognitive grammar. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2014. Culture and cognition, lexicon and grammar. In M. Yamaguchi, D. Tay, & B. Blount (Eds.), Approaches to language, culture, and cognition: The intersection of cognitive linguistics and linguistic anthropology (27–47). Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Łozowski, P. 2002. Deconstructing the world-view: From actuality to virtuality in cognitive linguistics. In B. Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk & K. Turewicz (Eds.), Cognitive linguistics today (65–79). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Massumi, B. 2002. Parables for the virtual: Movement, affect, sensation. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Ogden, C.K., & Richards, I.A. 1923. The meaning of meaning: A study of the influence of language upon thought and of the science of symbolism. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Ortiz, M.J., & Moya, J.A. 2015. The action cam phenomenon: A new trend in audiovisual production. Communication and Society, 28(3), 51–64. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Peirce, Ch. S. 1902. Virtual. In J.M. Baldwin (Ed.), Dictionary of philosophy and psychology, Vol. 2 (763). New York: Macmillan.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 1998[1899]. The first rule of logic. In The Peirce Edition Project (Ed.), The essential Peirce: Selected philosophical writings, Vol. 2 (1893–1913) (42–56). Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Radden, G., & Kövecses, Z. 1999. Towards a theory of metonymy. In K.-U. Panther & G. Radden (Eds.), Metonymy in language and thought (17–59). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Ryan, M.-L. 2001. Narrative as virtual reality: Immersion and interactivity in literature and electronic media. Baltimore & London: John Hopkins University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Scotus, J.D. 1975[1307]. God and creatures: The quodlibetel questions. Transl. F. Alluntis & A.B. Wolter. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Warren, B. 1999. Aspects of referential metonymy. In K.-U. Panther & G. Radden (Eds.), Metonymy in language and thought (121–135). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Wiedermann, J. 2003. Mirror neurons, embodied cognitive agents and imitation learning. Computing and Informatics, 22, 545–559.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Wright, B. 2004. The reality of the virtual. Film. Olive film opus.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Zabel, G. 2014. Through the looking glass: Philosophical reflections on the art of virtual worlds. In M. Grimshaw (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of virtuality (407–419). Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Mobile Menu Logo with link to supplementary files background Layer 1 prag Twitter_Logo_Blue