Toward a Cognitive Semantics: Volume 1: Concept Structuring Systems

by Leonard Talmy

Book Overview

In this two-volume set, Talmy approaches the question of how language organizes conceptual material both at a general level and by analyzing a crucial set of particular conceptual domains: space and time, motion and location, causation and force interaction, and attention and viewpoint.

One of a two-volume set defining the field of cognitive semantics. Leonard Talmy approaches the question of how language organizes conceptual material both...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262700964
• ISBN13: 9780262700962
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 573 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.0" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher