custom-leatherworks.com Contact Contact Email this page to a friend Send to a friend ____________________ Search John 3:16 Sketch Home Catalog Patterns Gallery Bible Covers CC's Pages Online Stores From Etymology to Pragmatics: Metaphorical and Cultural Aspects of Semantic Structure (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics) Item graphic Our Price: $29.99 Buy from Amazon.com FREE shipping on this item! Usually ships in 24 hours Also available New and Used from $20.00 here. Author: Eve Sweetser Paperback Edition: Reprint Number Of Pages: 186 Something else? Find ____________________ In [Books...............] Go! Also on this page... Read Product Description See Similar Products ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Book Description This book offers a new approach to the analysis of the multiple meanings of English modals, conjunctions, conditionals, and perception verbs. Although such ambiguities cannot easily be accounted for by feature-analyses of word meaning, Eve Sweetser's argument shows that they can be analyzed both readily and systematically. Meaning relationships in general cannot be understood independently of human cognitive structure, including the metaphorical and cultural aspects of that structure. Sweetser shows that both lexical polysemy and pragmatic ambiguity are shaped by our metaphorical folk understanding of epistemic processes and of speech interaction. Similar regularities can be shown to structure the contrast among root, epistemic and speech act uses of modal verbs, multiple uses of conjunctions and conditionals, and certain processes of historical change observed in Indo-European languages. Since polysemy is typically the intermediate step in semantic change, the same regularities observable in polysemy can be extended to an analysis of semantic change. [ ^Top ] ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Similar Products Concept, Image, and Symbol (Cognitive Linguistic Research) Spaces, Worlds, and Grammar (Cognitive Theory of Language and Culture Series) The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason The Poetics of Mind: Figurative Thought, Language, and Understanding Cognitive Linguistics (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) [ ^Top ] webmaster@custom-leatherworks.com Friends & Neighbors stitches Website design / implementation by... Visit allentech.net stitches [ ^Top ]