Ten lectures on cognitive evolutionary linguistics / by Arie Verhagen.

"In these lectures, Arie Verhagen presents a version of cognitive linguistics that adheres to both the generalization and cognitive commitments that characterized the field from the start, and a biological commitment: understanding language as adaptive behavior of (human) organisms in the niche...

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Main Author: Verhagen, Arie (Author)
Corporate Author: China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Series:Distinguished lectures in cognitive linguistics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Note on Supplementary Material
  • Preface by the Series Editor
  • Preface by the Author
  • About the Author
  • Lecture 1 Usage-based Cognitive Linguistics, Entrenchment and Conventionality
  • Lecture 2 The Biological Lens
  • Behavior, Cognition, Grammar, Meaning
  • Lecture 3 The World View of Cultures
  • Individuals, Communities, and Linguistic Relativity
  • Lecture 4 Language as a Tool for Social Cognition 1
  • Inferential, Cooperative Communication
  • Lecture 5 Language as a Tool for Social Cognition 2
  • Complements and Perspective Management
  • Lecture 6 Cognition and Semantic Change
  • The "Folk Model of the Mind" vs. Variation and Change in Causality Marking
  • Lecture 7 On the Origins of Language 1
  • Cognition and the Emergence of Sound Structure and Its Diversity
  • Lecture 8 On the Origins of Language 2
  • The Cultural Evolution of Words and Constructions
  • Lecture 9 The Dynamics of Language and Social Cognition
  • Dialogues, Narratives, and Mind Reading
  • Lecture 10 Towards an Integrated Science of Language, Cognition, Behavior, and Society
  • References
  • About the Series Editor