Perspectives on abstract concepts : cognition, language and communication /

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Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]
Description:	xii, 315 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Human cognitive processing (HCP) : cognitive foundations of language structure and use, 1387-6724 ; volume 65 Human cognitive processing ; v. 65.
Subject:	Cognitive grammar. Abstraction. Concepts. Psycholinguistics. Abstraction. Cognitive grammar. Concepts. Psycholinguistics.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11894111

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Other authors / contributors:	Bolognesi, Marianna, editor. Steen, Gerard, editor.
ISBN:	9789027203182 9027203180 9789027262523
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Human language is the most powerful communication system that evolution has produced. Within this system, we can talk about things we can physically see, such as cats and tables, but also about more abstract entities, such as theories and feelings. But how are these abstract concepts grounded in human cognition and represented in the mind? How are they constructed in language? And how are they used in natural communication settings? This book addresses these questions through a collection of studies that relate to various theoretical frameworks, ranging from Conceptual Metaphor Theory to Words as Social Tools. Contributors investigate how abstract concepts are grounded in the mind, represented in language, and used in verbal discourse. This richness is matched by a range of methods used throughout the volume, from neuroimaging to computational modeling, and from behavioral experiments to corpus analyses"--
Other form:	Online version: Perspectives on abstract concepts Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019] 9789027262523

Table of Contents:

1. List of contributors
2. Acknowledgments
3. Introduction
4. Partnbsp;I. Abstract concepts in the mind
5. Chapternbsp;1. The relevance of specific semantic categories in investigating the neural bases of abstract and concrete semantics
6. Chapternbsp;2. Abstract concepts and the activation of mouth-hand effectors
7. Chapternbsp;3. Inferential processing with concrete vs. abstract words and visual cortex
8. Chapternbsp;4. Are abstract concepts grounded in bodily mimesis?
9. Chapternbsp;5. Is the acoustic modality relevant for abstract concepts?
10. Partnbsp;II. Abstract concepts in language
11. Chapternbsp;6. Determinants of abstractness and concreteness and their persuasive effects
12. Chapternbsp;7. Acceptability properties of abstract senses in copredication
13. Chapternbsp;8. Different degrees of abstraction from visual cues in processing concrete nouns
14. Chapternbsp;9. Cognitive and linguistic aspects of composition in German particle verbs
15. Chapternbsp;10. Metaphor in action
16. Partnbsp;III. Abstract concepts in communication
17. Chapternbsp;11. Abstract concepts in development
18. Chapternbsp;12. The development of the abstract scientific concept of heat energy in a naturalistic classroom setting
19. Chapternbsp;13. Time domain matrix modeling in cognitive linguistic research
20. Analytical index

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