posted on 2020-06-24, 16:14authored byFrancisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
These
lectures deal with the role of cognitive modelling in language-based meaning
construction. To make meaning people use a small set of principles which they apply
to different types of conceptual characterizations. This yields predictable
meaning effects, which, when stably associated with specific grammatical
patterns, result in constructions or fixed form-meaning parings. This means
that constructional meaning can be described on the basis of the same principles
that people use to make inferences. This way of looking at pragmatics and grammar
through cognition allows us to relate a broad range of pragmatic and grammatical
phenomena, among them argument-structure characterizations, implicational,
illocutionary, and discourse structure, and such figures of speech as metaphor,
metonymy, hyperbole, and irony.