Language, Mind, and the Lexicon

The series «Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture» presents a forum for linguistic research on the interrelationship between language and culture. The series is interdisciplinary in nature and consists of monographs and collections of papers. The main purpose of the editors is to initiate a dialogue between linguistic science and neighboring disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, semiotics, literary studies, and intercultural communication.

This book is a collection of selected papers dealing with the interplay between language and mind, with an emphasis on the role of the lexicon in this relationship. The lexicon is a very important part of any contemporary linguistic model nowadays, and can be studied from different perspectives. However, the focus here will be on the lexicon as an interface between mind activity and the linguistic message in terms of meaning, both denotative and connotative, because the lexicon is perhaps the most important conceptual descriptive structure that can show how mind interacts with language.

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The Editors: Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano (Ph.D., Edinburgh University) is Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Zaragoza (Spain) and has been research fellow at UC Berkeley (1999-2001), the International Computer Science Institute (2000-2001), and the University of Deusto, Spain (2001-2003). She is especially interested in issues related to cross-linguistic polysemy, constructions, semantic change, semantic typology, sound symbolism, metaphor and metonymy, perception, space and motion.
Carlos Inchaurralde (Ph.D., Zaragoza University) is Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). His current research interests include cognitive linguistics (especially lexical categorization and metaphor theory), applied linguistics (language teaching, vocabulary research and corpora linguistics) and intercultural communication.
Jesús-M. Sánchez-García (Ph.D., Granada University) is Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at Córdoba University (Spain) - formerly at UAM (Autónoma University of Madrid) - and has been visiting researcher/scholar at Georgetown University (1993) and UC Berkeley (2000). His main research interests include theoretical and applied functional and cognitive linguistics, especially semantic and pragmatic aspects of lexical, conceptual and textual meaning; language, textual and cultural cognition and their relation to discourse and communication studies; as well as English-Spanish cross-linguistic and cross-cultural relations.

Inhalt
Contents: Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano/Carlos Inchaurralde/Jesús-M. Sánchez-García: Introduction Carlos Inchaurralde/Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano/Jesús Ma Sánchez-García/Ana Hornero/Ma José Luzón/Ma Ángeles Ruiz Moneva: CATLEX: A project for lexical categorisation in English Klaus-Uwe Panther: Conceptual Motivation in Language Structure and Use John R. Taylor: Metaphors of linguistic knowledge: The generative metaphor vs. the mental corpus Harry Howard: Simulated evolution of a radial category for the diminutive María Jesús González Fernández/Ricardo Maldonado Soto: Extensiones pragmáticas de la contraexpectación. Balance, reformulación y réplica Victoria Vázquez Rozas/Elena Rivas: Un análisis construccionista de la diacronía de gustar Wiltrud Mihatsch: How the basic level restricts hyponymy: trees and other plants Carmen Guarddon Anelo: De Preposiciones a Prefijos: Una Explicación Cognitiva a un Caso de Gramaticalización en Polaco Annalisa Baichi: Metaphictivity of the mind in motion Òscar Bladas: Los enunciados fraseológicos: una aproximación cognitiva Cristina Soriano/Javier Valenzuela: Looking at metaphors: a picture-word priming task as a test for the existence of conceptual metaphor Jesús-M. Sánchez-García/José-Manuel Martín-Morillas: Cognitive-cultural models and lexis: Violence construal in English.