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Annual review of cognitive linguistics: <\/strong>Volume 1. Ed. by Francisco Jos\u00e9 Ruiz de Mendoza Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez<\/strong>. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2003. Pp. iv, 289. ISBN 9781588114273<\/a>. $125.<\/div>\n

Reviewed by Eve Lacivita<\/strong>, Northeastern Illinois University<\/em><\/p>\n

The Annual review of cognitive linguistics<\/em> compiles publications related to the discipline of cognitive linguistics (CL). The 2003 volume includes eleven articles, an interview with George Lakoff<\/strong>, and two book reviews.<\/p>\n

In \u2018Toward a corpus-based identification of prototypical instances of constructions\u2019, Stefan Th. Gries<\/strong> proposes a corpus-based method to identify prototypical instances of categories and quantify similarity between category members. In \u2018Entering in Spanish: Conceptual and semantic properties of entrar en\/a<\/em>\u2019, Iraide Ibarretxe-Antu\u00f1ano<\/strong> responds to Sotaro Kita\u2019s previous work that challenged the universality of primitives. Kita had demonstrated that some primitives are absent in Japanese entering events. Here, Ibarretxe-Antu\u00f1ano explores the same events in Spanish and finds that they are conceptualized as motion involving a boundary crossing, in which the nature of the crossing and its force dynamic relationship influence which verb is used.<\/p>\n

In \u2018The construal of atemporalisation in complement clauses in English\u2019, Zeki Hamawand <\/strong>argues that atemporal complementizers have conceptual as well as syntactic functions when indicating \u00a0a speaker\u2019s construal of a situation. Hamawand also explores polysemy in complementizers, assigning prototypical and peripheral meanings to several forms. In \u2018Talking about space: Image metaphor in architectural discourse\u2019, Rosario Caballero<\/strong> challenges the treatment of image metaphor as a special case independent of conceptual metaphor. She argues that in architecture, image metaphor is not arbitrary but necessary, due to the challenge of describing space. Moreover, Caballero provides evidence for conventionalized, productive image metaphor in architectural reviews.<\/p>\n

Ana Ortigosa Pastor<\/strong> uses construction grammar to describe the grammatical construction of several temporal adverbs, including syntactic, pragmatic, and semantic information in \u2018Temporal deictic adverbs: A constructionist approach\u2019. In \u2018Lexical creativity and the organization of the lexicon\u2019, Teresa Vall\u00e8s<\/strong> uses Catalan neologisms to explore the hypothesis that lexical creativity reflects the organization of the mental lexicon. Additionally, Vall\u00e8s incorporates morphological segmentation to demonstrate lexical relationships among neologisms.<\/p>\n

Alexander V. Kravchenko<\/strong> disputes the separation of semantics and semiotics in \u2018The ontology of signs as linguistic and non-linguistic entities: A cognitive perspective\u2019. He proposes an account of semiosis that considers grammar an autopoietic cognitive activity resulting from experience and interpretation, rather than a modular set of rules. In \u2018The use of literally<\/em>: Vice or virtue?\u2019, Brigitte Nerlich<\/strong> and Pedro J. Chamizo Dom\u00ednguez<\/strong> explore the uses of literally<\/em>, particularly its much-criticized application to a nonliteral event, such as I saw journalists becoming animals, literally<\/em>. They conclude that the disputed use provides value by intensifying a metaphoric phrase such that the phrase is interpreted in its strongest possible sense.<\/p>\n

In \u2018Is the notion of linguistic competence<\/em> relevant in Cognitive Linguistics?\u2019 Carita Paradis<\/strong> discusses the usefulness of the concept of linguistic competence. Paradis argues that no boundary can be established between linguistic and encyclopedic knowledge, and moreover, that this distinction is irrelevant to CL, because it presupposes modularity, which CL does not admit. An interview with George Lakoff, conducted by Jes\u00fas S\u00e1nchez Garc\u00eda<\/strong><\/strong>, focuses on the neural theory of language (NTL) as an integrated theory of CL. NTL uses characterizations of the chemical workings of the brain to describe how properties of neural systems are manifested in grammars. Lakoff predicts that NTL will be adequate to describe most aspects of language use and anticipates a map of the mind on par with the genome project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Annual review of cognitive linguistics: Volume 1. Ed. by Francisco Jos\u00e9 Ruiz de Mendoza Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2003. Pp. iv, 289. ISBN 9781588114273. $125. Reviewed by Eve Lacivita, Northeastern Illinois University The Annual review of cognitive linguistics compiles publications related to the discipline of cognitive linguistics (CL). The 2003 volume includes eleven articles, an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}