Dirk Geeraerts (ed.)( 2006). Cognitive Linguistics: basic reading, [C]. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter,.
This book contains the basic theories of cognitive linguistics, such as cognitive linguistics, grammatical construal, prototype theory, conceptual metaphor, and so on. All of the sections is written by famous scholars who are academic in cognitive linguistics, so readers can easily understand every part of this book because of the specific explanations and simple words. Besides, the introduction to the theories of cognitive linguistics, the last parts mention some new trends of cognitive linguistics, and the most important one is the social-cognitive linguistics which really takes a great role in leading cognitive linguistics to combine social linguistics and achieve more in language investigation. Anyhow, this is a very good basic and simple reading book on cognitive linguistics, especially to the beginners to grasp the main part of cognitive linguistics.
Contents
Interdiction
Chapter 1 Cognitive Grammar
Chapter 2 Grammar construal
Chapter 3 Radial Network
Chapter 4 Prototype theory
Chapter 5 Schematic network
Chapter 6 Conceptual metaphor
Chapter 7 Image schema
Chapter 8 metonymy
Chapter 9 Mental spaces
Chapter 10 Frame semantics
Chapter 11 Construction Grammar
Chapter 12 Usage-based linguistics
