Ten Lectures on Applied Cognitive Linguistics

260 Pages·2018·3.986 MB·English

by  John R. Taylor

Ten Lectures on Applied Cognitive Linguistics
Distinguished Lectures in
Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by
Fuyin (Thomas) Li (Beihang University, Beijing)
Guest Editor
Yuan Gao (Beihang University, Beijing)
Editorial Assistants
Jing Du, Hongxia Jia and Lin Yu (doctoral students at Beihang University)
Editorial Board
Jürgen Bohnemeyer (State University of New York at Buffalo) – Alan Cienki
(Vrije Universiteit (VU), Amsterdam, Netherlands and Moscow State
Linguistic University, Russia) – William Croft (University of New Mexico at
Albuquerque, USA) – Ewa Dąbrowska (Northumbria University, UK) –
Gilles Fauconnier (University of California at San Diego, USA) – Dirk Geeraerts
(University of Leuven, Belgium) – Nikolas Gisborne (The University of
Edinburgh, UK) – Cliff Goddard (Griffith University, Australia) – Stefan Gries
(University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) – Laura A. Janda
(University of Tromsø, Norway) – Zoltán Kövecses (Eötvös Loránd University,
Hungary) – George Lakoff (University of California at Berkeley, USA) –
Ronald W. Langacker (University of California at San Diego, USA) – Chris Sinha
(Hunan University, China) – Leonard Talmy (State University of New York at
Buffalo, USA) – John R. Taylor (University of Otago, New Zealand) –
Mark Turner (Case Western Reserve University, USA) – Sherman Wilcox
(University of New Mexico, USA) – Phillip Wolff (Emory University, USA)
Jeffrey M. Zacks (Washington University, USA)
Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics publishes the keynote lectures series given by
prominent international scholars at the China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics

since 2004. Each volume contains the transcripts of 10 lectures under one theme given by an ac-
knowledged expert on a subject and readers have access to the audio recordings of the lectures
through links in the e-book and QR codes in the printed volume. This series provides a unique
course on the broad subject of Cognitive Linguistics. Speakers include George Lakoff, Ronald

Langacker, Leonard Talmy, Laura Janda, Dirk Geeraerts, Ewa Dąbrowska and many others.

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Ten Lectures on Applied Cognitive
Linguistics
By
John R. Taylor

LEIDEN | BOSTON
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Taylor, John R., 1944– author.
Title: Ten lectures on applied cognitive linguistics / by John R. Taylor.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Identifiers: LCCN 2017054591 (print) | LCCN 2017057130 (ebook) |
 ISBN 9789004347564 (E-book) | ISBN 9789004347557 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Cognitive grammar. | Categorization (Linguistics) | Applied linguistics.
Classification: LCC P165 (ebook) | LCC P165 .T39 2018 (print) |
 DDC 415.01/835—dc23
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Contents
Note on Supplementary Material VII
Preface viii
About the Author ix
1 Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics and What It Might Offer the
Language Teaching Profession 1
2 Categorizations 28
3 Rules (1) 56
4 Rules (2) 81
5 The Encyclopedic Scope of Semantics 99
6 Construal of Space 124
7 Metaphor, Metonymy, and Blending 145
8 Nouns and Nominals 168
9 Tense and Aspect in English 186
10 Where Do Phonemes Come from? A View from the Bottom 207
About the Series Editor 245
Websites for Cognitive Linguistics and CIFCL Speakers 246

Note on Supplementary Material
All original audio-recordings and other supplementary material, such as
handouts and powerpoint presentations for the lecture series, have been made
available online and are referenced via unique DOI numbers on the website
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which can be accessed by a mouse-click.
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cense and are reproduced with kind permission from the authors. The record-
ings are courtesy of the China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics
(http://cifcl.buaa.edu.cn/), funded by the Beihang University Grant for
International Outstanding Scholars.

The complete collection of lectures by John R. Taylor can be accessed via

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m9.figshare.c.3916474.
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Preface
The present text, entitled Ten Lectures on Applied Cognitive Linguistics, is a tran-
scribed version of lectures given by John Taylor in Beijing in November 2005.
Prof. Taylor’s lectures are part of a lecture series hosted by the Department of
Foreign Languages and the Research Institute of Foreign Languages of Beihang
University. This text is one of the Eminent Linguists Lecture Series, edited by
us. It is our hope that the publication of this text—accompanied by its video-
disc counterpart—will encourage cognitive linguistic studies in the Chinese
mainland.
Professor Taylor’s Ten Lectures on Applied Cognitive Linguistics was support-
ed by Beihang Grant for International Outstanding Scientists (program number:
PT0522, program organizer: Thomas Fuyin Li). The series lectures were co-
sponsored by the English Departments of Tsinghua University, Beijing Normal
University, Beijing Foreign Studies University, and Beijing Language University.
As editors of the Eminent Linguists Lecture Series, we express our truest
gratitude to Professor Neil Clancy and Professor Taylor for their proofreading
of the transcripts. However, any errors or discrepancies between the printed
version and the video remain our responsibility.
Thomas Fuyin
LiBeihang University (BUAA)
[email protected]
About the Author
John R Taylor is currently Professor of Linguistics at the University of Otago,
New Zealand. Dr. Taylor earned his PhD from Trier University, Germany. He
taught at several universities including the University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, and the University of Trier. His Research Expertise includes
Cognitive Linguistics, with special focus on morphology, phonology, and se-
mantics; metatheoretical issues; and applications in language pedagogy. He
has published over 100 book chapters and articles on internationally presti-
gious journals. His book Linguistic Categorization: Prototypes in Linguistic
Theory (1989, 1995, 2003) has now been translated into many languages. He
is the author of Possessives in English: An Exploration in Cognitive Grammar
(1996) and Cognitive Grammar (2002). Taylor is an Editor of the Monograph
Series Cognitive Linguistics Research, published by Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin.
In the present lecture series, Taylor made a successful application of theories
in Cognitive Linguistics in language pedagogy.