Construing Experience Through Meaning: A Language-based Approach to Cognition (Open linguistics series)

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
1.1 Meaning base......Page 16
1.2 Functional grammatics and functional semantics......Page 18
1.3 Metafunctional diversification......Page 22
1.4 The scope of the ideation base......Page 28
1.5 Guiding principles......Page 30
1.6 Codifying......Page 37
1.7 Realization......Page 40
1.8 Grammatical evidence......Page 41
1.9 Ways of representing semantic organization......Page 44
1.10 Organization of the remainder of the book......Page 62
2.1 Phenomena......Page 63
2.2 Sequences......Page 65
2.3 Figures......Page 67
2.4 Elements......Page 73
2.5 Participants......Page 74
2.6 Simple things......Page 75
2.7 Simple qualities......Page 77
2.8 Circumstances......Page 78
2.9 Processes......Page 79
2.10 Summary......Page 80
2.11 Construing experience in the ideation base......Page 81
2.12 Construal in the grammar: summary of grammatical evidence......Page 113
3.1 Natural logic of sequences and prepositional logic......Page 119
3.2 Expansion and projection......Page 121
3.3 Projection......Page 123
3.4 Expansion......Page 132
3.5 The relational character of sequences......Page 134
3.6 Sequences and text......Page 137
3.7 Sequences and grammar......Page 139
3.8 Conclusion......Page 141
4.2 Composition: domains of experience......Page 143
4.3 Composition: two models of participation......Page 164
4.4 Degree of participation......Page 180
4.5 Degree of involvement......Page 187
5.1 The primary types of element......Page 192
5.2 Similarities and differences between participants and processes......Page 193
5.3 Participants......Page 197
5.4 Processes......Page 228
5.5 Circumstances......Page 232
5.6 Major motifs in the ideation base......Page 237
6.1 Congruent and metaphorical variants......Page 242
6.2 The nature of grammatical metaphor......Page 247
6.3 How grammatical metaphor evolves: transcategorization......Page 257
6.4 Types of grammatical metaphor: elemental......Page 259
6.5 Syntagmatic and paradigmatic dimensions of grammatical metaphor......Page 264
6.6 Metaphor, transcategorization & rankshift: semogenic resources......Page 274
6.7 Interpretation of grammatical metaphor......Page 278
6.8 Representing grammatical metaphor......Page 293
7.1 Historical background......Page 312
7.2 Some general features compared......Page 314
7.3 Sequences......Page 316
7.4 Figures......Page 318
7.5 Elements......Page 320
7.6 Processes and things......Page 324
7.7 Grammatical metaphor......Page 327
7.8 The meaning base: concluding remarks......Page 329
8.1 General......Page 335
8.2 The language of the weather......Page 343
8.3. The language of recipes......Page 370
9.1 Organization of a generation system......Page 387
9.2 An example from recipe generation......Page 402
9.3 Ideation base supporting text base......Page 413
10.1 Logico-philosophical vs. rhetorical-ethnographic orientations......Page 430
10.2 Formal semantics......Page 434
10.3 Cognitive semantics......Page 439
10.4 Work on meaning in NLP......Page 444
10.5 Stratal perspectives on meaning......Page 452
11.1 Frames of reference......Page 456
11.2 The motif of distortion......Page 459
11.3 The status of qualities: an illustration......Page 463
12.1 Criteria for process typology......Page 481
12.2 Temporal profile: activities, accomplishments, achievements, and states......Page 484
12.3 Control (and stativity)......Page 491
12.4 Foley & Van Valin......Page 506
12.5 Inherent indeterminacy, and variation in systemic interpretations......Page 518
12.6 Conclusion......Page 520
13.1 Types of system-&-process......Page 522
13.2 Review of modes of meaning - metafunctional and metaphorical......Page 526
13.3 Indeterminacy and probability in language......Page 562
13.4 Polysystemicness......Page 577
14.1 Models embodied in the ideation base......Page 580
14.2 Sensing: the folk model......Page 592
14.3 From folks to scientists......Page 601
14.4 The model in mainstream cognitive science......Page 610
14.5 Beyond sensing- folk & scientific......Page 614
15.1 Language and other semiotic systems......Page 617
15.2 Construing experience: ontogenetic perspective......Page 626
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