Review article

Meaning in Cognitive Linguistics

Nina Tuđman Vuković ; Filozofski fakultet, Zagreb

Abstract

The paper gives an overview of the Cognitive Linguistic approach to meaning, given that meaning
plays a central role in language. From the very beginnings, Cognitive Linguistics has focused
its attention on how meaning is constructed in language, primarily by means of conceptualization,
resulting in linguistic structures which ’have’ meaning. A short survey is given of image schemas,
processes of meaning construal, symbolization, and usage based models. These and other concepts
described in the paper are built into the theoretical foundations of cognitive linguistics and serve
as a starting point for cognitive semantic analyses, whose number has also been on the increas in
Croatia. Particular attention is paid to issues raised by the cognitive linguistic approach to lexical
meaning and the recent quantitative approaches in cognitive lexical semantics.

Keywords

linguistic meaning; lexical semantics; Cognitive Linguistics

Hrčak ID:

38141

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/38141

Publication date:

19.6.2009.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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