tailieunhanh - The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Part 104

The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Part 104. In the past decade, Cognitive Linguistics has developed into one of the most dynamic and attractive frameworks within theoretical and descriptive linguistics The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics is a major new reference that presents a comprehensive overview of the main theoretical concepts and descriptive/theoretical models of Cognitive Linguistics, and covers its various subfields, theoretical as well as applied. | 1000 STEFAN GRGNDELAERS DIRK SEEELMAN AND DIRK GEERAERTS The overall structure then of onomasiological research within Cognitive Linguistics looks as in figure . Within each box the boldface captions identify the qualitative aspects whereas the other captions identify the quantitative approaches. The arrows pointing away from the boxes indicate that both boxes constitute input for the processes that play at the pragmatic level an act of naming may draw from the potential provided by the lexicogenetic mechanisms or it may consist of choosing among alternatives that are already there. The arrows pointing toward the boxes indicate how the pragmatic choices may lead to change. These processes will primarily affect the actual synchronic structures through the addition or removal of senses or items shifts in the variational value of expressions or changes in the salience of certain options. Secondarily hence the dotted arrow a change may affect the lexicogenetic mechanisms for instance when a particular lexicalization pattern becomes more popular. Onomasiological research at the usage level in other words is central to the whole onomasiological enterprise it mediates between what is virtual and what is actual it combines the traditional qualitative approaches and the recent quantitative innovations it naturally includes an interest in the nonreferential variational values of lexical items and it makes the invisible hand visible. So how could we make the usage-based sociolexicological approach more concrete 5. SOCIOLEXICOLOGY AND BEYOND Central to a sociolexicological approach is the distinction between conceptual and formal onomasiological variation. Whereas conceptual onomasiological variation involves the choice of different conceptual categories formal onomasiolo-gical variation merely involves the use of different names for the same conceptual category. The names jeans and trousers for denim leisure wear trousers to give an example constitute an instance of .