The Conceptual Structure(s) of Modality: Essences and Ideologies : a Study in Linguistic (meta-)categorizationThis study takes George Lakoff's dictum seriously that arguments about conclusions will be pointless unless there is agreement on the premises. Subscribing to the view that linguistic categorization is necessarily theory-driven, it reconstructs and assesses, on the basis of domain-independent parameters derived from General Systems Theory and Leonard Talmy's Overlapping Systems Model of Cognitive Organization, hegemonic western conceptualizations of modality. Arguing against such propositional models of modality, the book outlines, modifies, and extends conceptualizations from a Cognitive Linguistics point of view, grounding «modality» especially on Talmy's Imaging System of Force Dynamics. The authors conceive of modality as an experientially and perceptually motivated radial category of Image Schemata, ultimately challenging the categorial status of modality as a cognitively motivated category. |
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abstract Agonist alternative alternative Linguistic analysis assessment attention basic cate causal ceptual Chapter characterized Classical clause Cognitive Grammar Cognitive Linguistics Cognitive Models cognitive systems components conceived Conceptual Metaphor conceptual structure conceptual system conceptualization of Modality Conversational Background correlated dality English entity Epistemic Modality Essence event Event-Frame evoked example experience fact Fictivity Force Dynamics function GIVÓN Grammar Hegemonic hence human Idealized Cognitive Models Image Schemata Imaging System Implicature implicit instance instantiations of modality interaction knowledge KRATZER's LAKOFF LANGACKER LANGACKER's language lexical linguistic representations meaning MEDIN MEDIN/ORTONY MEDIN/ROSS Mental Model Mental Space metaphorical Modal Verbs motivated Negation Non-Epistemic notion Objectivist objects parameter patterns perceptual pertains polysemy possible potential pragmatic presupposes principles properties proposition Psychological Essentialism reality Reductionism reference relation relevant respect schematic scientific semantic sense sentence similarity speaker specific subcategories syntactic Systems Theory TALMY TALMY's Theory tion tive types veridicality status