In:Perspectives on Abstract Concepts: Cognition, language and communication
Edited by Marianna Bolognesi and Gerard J. Steen
[Human Cognitive Processing 65] 2019
► pp. vii–viii
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Published online: 6 June 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.65.toc
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Table of contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Marianna Bolognesi
Gerard J. Steen
Part I.Abstract concepts in the mind: Conceptual processing and cognitive grounding of abstract concepts
Chapter 1.The relevance of specific semantic categories in investigating the neural bases of abstract and concrete semantics
Felix R. Dreyer
Friedemann Pulvermüller
Chapter 2.Abstract concepts and the activation of mouth-hand effectors
Claudia Mazzuca
Anna Maria Borghi
Chapter 3.Inferential processing with concrete vs. abstract words and visual cortex
Fabrizio Calzavarini
Chapter 4.Are abstract concepts grounded in bodily mimesis?
Anna Jelec
Chapter 5.Is the acoustic modality relevant for abstract concepts? A study with the Extrinsic Simon task
Elisa Scerrati
Luisa Lugli
Roberto Nicoletti
Anna Maria Borghi
Part II.Abstract concepts in language: Insights from psycholinguistics and lexical semantics
Chapter 6.Determinants of abstractness and concreteness and their persuasive effects
Lettica Hustinx
Wilbert Spooren
Chapter 7.Acceptability properties of abstract senses in copredication
Elliot Murphy
Chapter 8.Different degrees of abstraction from visual cues in processing concrete nouns
Francesca Franzon
Chiara Zanini
Chapter 9.Cognitive and linguistic aspects of composition in German particle verbs
Sylvia Springorum
Hans Kamp
Sabine Schulte im Walde
Chapter 10.Metaphor in action: Action verbs and abstract meaning
Alessandro Panunzi
Paola Vernillo
Part III.Abstract concepts in communication: Corpus analyses and spontaneous production of words referring to abstract concepts
Chapter 11.Abstract concepts in development: Spontaneous production of word-formation in Swedish child language
Maria Rosenberg
Chapter 12.The development of the abstract scientific concept of heat energy in a naturalistic classroom setting
Sally Zacharias
Chapter 13.Time domain matrix modeling in cognitive linguistic research
Ievgeniia Bondarenko
Analytical index
