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An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics (Learning About Language) by Friedrich Ungerer

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Book by Ungerer, Friedrich, Schmid, Hans-Jorg

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First published July 1, 1996

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April 12, 2024
Read for cognitive linguistics with Broersma. Covers all sorts of specialized concepts that I'll keep sifting through over the next week of class. I'll just leave one of my favorite statements from the book and one of the insights from my first discussion post.

Talking about metaphors in our language that have become so embedded (lexicalized) in everyday speech that we don't even think of them as metaphors:
"those [things in our cognition] that are most alive and most deeply entrenched, efficient, and powerful are those that are so automatic as to be unconscious and effortless" (117)
The distinction between expert models & naive models is fascinating; that its, the idea that we build models around "communal experience, and . . . 'wrong' assumptions" (55). It appears that we unavoidably, subconsciously build cognitive/cultural models for everything, even those things about which we have little information or that don't require our attention.

While I'm neither Catholic nor a short-order cook, I have threadbare models for both the liturgical motions of Mass and the frenzied activity of a Steak 'n Shake kitchen. Even though I've given these events/settings little thought, I have words and images that come to mind for them. These fuzzy mental maps don't seem to have much functional utility. Rather, they seem to arise out of a human tendency toward order & narrative.
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January 18, 2024
Interesting intro to cognitive linguistics but not for beginners - had to read this for uni
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April 14, 2016
More or less skipped the last 2 chapters or so. All in all it's a very interesting read, especially for people who are interested in (cognitive) linguistics, since it offers some basics and has a lot of exercises to help put theory into practice
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