Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics as an Empirical Science

340 Pages·2018·4.558 MB·English

by  Laura A. Janda

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics as an Empirical Science
Distinguished Lectures in
Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by
Fuyin (Thomas) Li (Beihang University, Beijing)
Guest Editor
Yan Ding (Beijing Jiaotong University)
Editorial Assistants
Jing Du, Hongxia Jia and Mengmin Xu (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
(Uit the Arctic University of 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 Cognitive
Linguistics as an Empirical
Science
By
Laura A. Janda

LEIDEN | BOSTON
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Janda, Laura A. author.
Title: Ten lectures on cognitive linguistics as an empirical science / by
Laura A. Janda.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018. | Series: Distinguished lectures
in cognitive linguistics ; 13
Identifiers: LCCN 2018005015 (print) | LCCN 2018005585 (ebook) | ISBN
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Subjects: LCSH: Cognitive grammar.
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Contents
Note on Supplementary Material vii
Preface viii
About the Author x
1 From Cognitive Linguistics to Cultural Linguistics: How Cognitive
Categories Reflect Culture 1
2 Conceptual Overlap and the Illusion of Semantic Emptiness 32
3 Metaphor in Grammar: Conceptualization of Time 65
4 Metonymy in Grammar: Word Formation 101
5 Constructional Profiles: What Constructions Tell Us about the
Meanings of Words 142
6 Grammatical Profiles: What Inflectional Forms Tell Us about
Lexicon and Grammar 170
7 Semantic Maps: Do They Reveal a Universal Underlying Conceptual
Space? 215
8 Pedagogical Applications of Research into Embodied Grammar 246
9 Linguistic Concepts as Prototype-Based Categories: Reexamining
Allomorphy 271
10 The Paradigm as a Radial Category 300
About the Series Editor 325
Websites for Cognitive Linguistics and CIFCL Speakers 326

Preface
The present text, entitled Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistic as an Empirical
Sience by Laura A. Janda is a transcribed version of the lectures given by
Professor Laura A. Janda in July 2011 as one of the forum speakers for the 9th
China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics.
The China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics provides a forum for
eminent international scholars to talk to Chinese audiences. It is a continuing
program organized by a number of prestigious universities in Beijing. The fol-
lowing is a list of organizers for CIFCL9.
Host: Professor Li Fuyin (Thomas), Beihang University
Co-organizers:
Professor Liu Shisheng, Tsinghua University
Professor Gao Yihong, Peking University
Professor Shi Baohui, Beijing Forestry University
Dr. Tian Cong, Capital Normal University
Professor Gao Yuan, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Professor Janda’s lecture series was mainly supported by the Beihang Grant for
International Outstanding Scientists for 2011 (Project number: Z1055, Project or-
ganizer: Thomas Fuyin Li).
The text is published, accompanied by its videodisc counterpart and Chinese
guide, as one of the Eminent Linguists Lecture Series. The transcription of the
video, proofreading the text, writing the Chinese guide, and publication of
the work in its present book form, has involved many people’s strenuous in-
puts. The initial drafts were completed by the following postgraduate students:
Dou Miaomiao, Li Hui, Wu Yue, Yang Lvna, Zhang Dongbing, Zhang Hongyu,
Zhao Jingyuan, Zhang zuan, Hu Xiaofang. Yang Jingpeng did a revision for the
whole book. Then we editors did the word-by-word and line-by-line revision.
To improve the readability of the text, we have deleted the false starts, repeti-
tions, fillers like now, so, you know, OK, and so on, again, of course, if you like,
sort of, etc. Occasionally, the written version needs an additional word to be
clear, a word that was not actually spoken in the lecture. We have added such

words within single brackets […]. To make the written version readable, even
without watching the film, we’ve added a few “stage instructions”, in italics also

within single brackets: […]. The stage instruction describes what the speaker

was doing, such as pointing at a slide, showing an object, etc. The speaker,
Preface ix
professor Janda did the final revision. The published version is the final version
approved by the speaker.
The publication of this book is sponsored by the Humanities and Social
Sciences Research Program Funds of the Chinese Ministry of Education
(Number: 09YJA740010)
Thomas Fuyin Li
Beihang University (BUAA)
[email protected]
Yan Ding
Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU)
[email protected]
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 web site
www.figshare.com. They may be accessed via a QR code for the print version of
this book. In the e-book both the QR code and dynamic links will be available
which can be accessed by a mouse-click.
The material can be accessed on figshare.com through a PC internet brows-
er or via mobile devices such as a smartphone or tablet. To listen to the audio-
recording on hand-held devices, the QR code that appears at the beginning of
each chapter should be scanned with a smart phone or tablet. A QR reader/
scanner and audio player should be installed on these devices. Alternatively,
for the e-book version, one can simply click on the QR code provided to be
redirected to the appropriate website.
This book has been made with the intent that the book and the audio are
both available and usable as separate entities. Both are complemented by the
availability of the actual files of the presentations and material provided as
hand-outs at the time these lectures were given. All rights and permission
remain with the authors of the respective works, the audio-recording and
supplementary material are made available in Open Access via a CC-BY-NC li-
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 Laura A. Janda can be accessed

through scanning this QR code and the following dynamic link: https://

doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3969288.
© Laura A. Janda. Reproduced with kind permission from the author by Koninklijke
brill nv, leiden, 2018 | doi 1�.1163/9789004363519_001