Discourse and the Continuity of Reference
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Discourse and the Continuity of Reference

Representing Mental Categorization

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Discourse and the Continuity of Reference

Representing Mental Categorization

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. List of figures
  3. 1 Introduction
  4. 1.1 Reference and categorization
  5. 1.2 Cognitive linguistics
  6. 1.3 Non-focussed objectives
  7. 1.4 Overview
  8. 2 Philosophical issues in reference and truth
  9. 2.1 Prom intension to extension
  10. 2.2 The inextricability vs. the inscrutability of language
  11. 2.3 The collective achievement of intensions
  12. 2.4 The acquisition of knowledge and language
  13. 2.5 Joining referential realism with referential holism
  14. 2.6 Wittgensteinā€™s empirical fallacy
  15. 2.7 From linguistic object to the objective subject
  16. 2.8 Intersubjectivizing empirical knowledge
  17. 2.9 Mutual knowledge vs. relevance
  18. 2.10 Chomskyā€™s empirical paradox
  19. 2.11 Linguistic competence as the atomistic residue
  20. 2.12 The mind as a black box
  21. 2.13 The encyclopedic unity of linguistic knowledge
  22. 2.14 Conclusion
  23. 3 Psychological theories of reference and categorization
  24. 3.1 Gibsonā€™s approach to ecological realism
  25. 3.2 Neisserā€™s ecological approach
  26. 3.3 Piagetā€™s constructivism
  27. 3.4 Johnson-Lairdā€™s mental model theory
  28. 3.5 Conclusion
  29. 4 Selecting the psychological model of reference
  30. 4.1 The economical abstraction of prototypes
  31. 4.2 The economical processing of prototypes
  32. 4.3 The semantic priority of information processing
  33. 4.4 Categorization and reference
  34. 4.5 Conclusion
  35. 5 Representing mental categorization
  36. 5.1 The speakersā€™ VOLITION
  37. 5.2 Prototypes and schemata
  38. 5.3 Centre vs. periphery of a conceptual region
  39. 5.4 Linguistic vs. encyclopedic meaning
  40. 5.5 Top-down inheritance
  41. 5.6 Categorization and the continuity of reference
  42. 5.7 Categorization and referential integration
  43. 5.8 The hierarchical representation of categorization
  44. 5.9 Schematizing along the conceptual type hierarchy
  45. 5.10 The unification-based formalism
  46. 5.11 Distinguishing lexical vagueness from polysemy
  47. 5.12 Different types of lexical vagueness
  48. 5.13 Polysemy across basic cognitive domains
  49. 5.14 The lexical representation of basic cognitive domains
  50. 5.15 Autonomous vs. dependent predications
  51. 5.16 Conclusion
  52. 6 Domains of the conceptual type hierarchy
  53. 6.1 Nominal predications
  54. 6.2 Relational predications
  55. 6.3 Conclusion
  56. 7 Representing discourse domains
  57. 7.1 Schemata, frames, and scripts
  58. 7.2 Discourse representation by mental models
  59. 7.3 Relating image schemata and mental models
  60. 7.4 Inferring implicit information
  61. 7.5 Conclusion
  62. 8 Metonymy and metaphor as universals
  63. 8.1 Metonymy as domain representation
  64. 8.2 Langackerā€™s billiard-ball model
  65. 8.3 Metaphors as extensions across domains
  66. 8.4 Metaphorical models of abstract domains
  67. 8.5 Conclusion
  68. 9 Contextual functions
  69. 9.1 The interaction between lexicon and grammar
  70. 9.2 Contextual selection
  71. 9.3 Contextual configuration
  72. 9.4 Contextual shift
  73. 9.5 Contextual inference
  74. 9.6 Conclusion
  75. 10 Representing token vs. type reference
  76. 10.1 Reference as a cross-linguistic phenomenon
  77. 10.2 The functional unity of reference
  78. 10.3 Reference to an instance of a type
  79. 10.4 Reference in different valency relations
  80. 10.5 Type reference to prototypes
  81. 10.6 Type reference against the profile-base relation
  82. 10.7 Type reference to COUNT entities
  83. 10.8 Conclusion
  84. 11 General conclusions and perspectives
  85. 11.1 Achievements of this work
  86. 11.2 Perspectives
  87. References
  88. Index