目录

  • Introduction
    • ● Introduction
    • ● Exercises
    • ● 教学视频 认知语言学概念
  • Categorization and Categories
    • ● The classical theory
    • ● The prototype theory
    • ● Levels of categorization
    • ● Exercises
    • ● 教学视频  范畴理论
  • Conceptual Metaphor and Metonymy
    • ● Conceptual metaphor
    • ● Conceptual metonymy
    • ● Exercises
    • ● 教学视频  隐喻和转喻
  • Iconicity
    • ● iconicity of order
    • ● Iconicity of distance
    • ● Iconicity of complexity
    • ● Exercises
    • ● 教学视频  相似性
  • Grammaticalization
    • ● Grammaticalization
    • ● Exercises
    • ● 教学视频  语法化
Exercises

1.Draw pictures of prototypical examples and of objects on the borderline between the categories BOTTLE, GLASS, VASE and BOWL, and use themas stimuli for a naming task with your friends or family.(p24)

2.(p44)

3.Eskimos have many words for different types of snow, Aborigines fordifferent types of sand, and in Arabic one must choose from a wholerange of words which are subsumed under the Western category CAMEL(cf. Lyons 1981: 67). Can you explain these phenomena with the helpof the notion of ‘cultural model’?(p58)

4.Discuss the influence ofthe language user’s personal, geographical and social background on hischoice of basic level categories for plants, animals and technical appliances. Make use of the information about context, cognitive and cultural models in Section 1.3.(p76)