The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Part 48. In the past decade, Cognitive Linguistics has developed into one of the most dynamic and attractive frameworks within theoretical and descriptive linguistics The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics is a major new reference that presents a comprehensive overview of the main theoretical concepts and descriptive/theoretical models of Cognitive Linguistics, and covers its various subfields, theoretical as well as applied. | 440 RONALD W. LANGACKER content residing instead in certain basic cognitive abilities. A thing is any product of grouping and reification. The grouping of constitutive entities is ubiquitous in perception and cognition effected often quite automatically on the basis of similarity or contiguity. In the following display for instance we automatically perceive four groups of three xs not just twelve xs xxx xxx xxx xxx . By reification is meant the manipulation of a group as a unitary entity for higher-level cognitive purposes. In the preceding display the groups are reified when each is treated as a single entity for the purpose of counting so that four higher-order things are observed. Many nouns profile things obviously formed from constitutive entities in this fashion group set stack team alphabet orchestra collection and so on. Physical objects the category prototype are precisely the case where grouping and reification are too low-level and automatic to be consciously A group results from conceptualizing entities together as part of a single mental experience. A mental operation that brings entities together an assessment that interconnects them in some fashion constitutes the conception of a While some relationships obtain at a single instant others evolve and typically change through time. A temporally evolving relationship is most naturally accessed by sequential scanning in which the component states the relationships obtaining at successive points in time are serially accessed as in viewing a motion picture. A relationship sequentially scanned through time is called a process used in Cognitive Grammar for the schematic definition of verbs. Verbs have a high degree of temporality for sequential scanning reinforces the profiled relationship s temporal evolution and thereby makes it salient. Relationships with a lesser degree of temporality are said to be A relationship can be atemporal either because it consists of .
