tailieunhanh - The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Part 116

The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Part 116. 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. | 1120 SHERMAN WIICOX Consider once again the VERY-SLOW example. VERY-SLOW is multimor-phemic consisting of the base morpheme SLOW and a bound grammatical morpheme marking intensification. This bound morpheme is realized as a change in the movement of the base morpheme an initial hold is followed by the sudden release into a rapid motion. The same morpheme appears on other lexical roots such as VERY-SMART and VERY-FAST. While it is true as Klima and Bellugi noted that the form of VERY-SLOW is incongruent with the meaning of the lexical stem SLOW it is not true that the form of the intensifier morpheme is incongruent with its meaning. Intensity is a conceptually dependent notion relying on a prior conception of what is being intensified something is very slow or very hot or very big but not simply very tout court. In addition the abstract notion of intensity is often understood metaphorically by reference to more grounded concepts such as the sudden release of pent up pressure. A cognitive analysis shows that the construction VERY-SLOW is iconic in two ways. First it is iconic because the articulators directly represent the metaphorical conceptualization of intensity as a sudden release of pent up pressure. Second the nature of intensity as a conceptually dependent notion is also iconically represented change in how a movement is articulated relies on a prior conception of what movement was produced. The derivational morphology data is likewise iconic. The basis for nouns and verbs within Cognitive Linguistics lies in the conceptual distinction of objects and their interactions captured by the billiard-ball model. Nouns are regions in some domain Cognitive Grammar uses the term thing for the class of nouns. Verbs comprise a series of stative relations a stative relation being a single internally consistent configuration distributed continuously through conceived time the component states being scanned sequentially by the conceptualizer. This relation is said to .