Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics As an Empirical Science

The volume contains transcribed versions of lectures that Janda delivered as part of the July 2011 China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics. Among her topics are from cognitive linguistics to cultural linguistics: how cognitive categories reflect culture, metaphor in grammar: conceptualization of time, grammatical profiles: what inflectional forms tell us about lexicon and grammar, whether semantic maps reveal a universal underlying conceptual space, pedagogical applications of research into embodied grammar, and linguistic concepts as prototype-based categories: reexamining allomorphy. Other material, such as handouts and visual aids, are available online. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Laura A. Janda (PhD 1984) is Professor of Russian Linguistics at UiT the Arctic University of Norway. Her special areas of interest are the factors associated with the grammatical categories of case and aspect and their investigation using corpus data.