Contents
Part I Views， commitment， foudations and assumptions
1 Views and commitment
1.1Three views
1.1 Experiential view
1.2 Prominent view
1.3 Attentional view
1.2 Two commitments
2 Foundations and assumptions
2.1 Foundations
2.1.1 Sensation and perception
2.1.2 Types of experience
2.1.3 Cognition and cognitive economy
2.2 Assumptions of language

Part II Concept and category
3.1 Conceptualized, concept and concept structure
3.1 Conceptualization and concept
3.1 Conceptualization
3.2 Concept
3.2 onceptual structure
3.2.1 Definition
3.2.2 What does conceptual structure look like ?
3.2.3 Conceptual structure and semantic structure
4. Categorization and prototype category
4.1 Categorization
4.1.1 Definitions
4.1.2 Principles, rules and operation of categorization
4.1.3 Functions
4.1.4 Two dimensions
4.2 Prototype category
4.2.1 Fanily resemblabce
4.2.2 Definitions of prototype category
4.2.3 Fuzziness of prototype category
4.2.4 Types of categories
4.2.5 Attribute structure of prototype category
4.2.6 Prototype
4.2.7 Basic-level category
4.2.8 Problem with prototype category theory
4.3 Concept and category

Part II Theories of conceptual knowledge structures
5. Image schema
5.1 Image and schema
5.2 Image schema
5.2.1 Definitions of image schema
5.2.2 Classification of image schema
5.2.3 Properties of image schema
5.2.4 An inventory of image schema
5.2.5 Illustration of some image schemas
5.3 Limitations
6. Cognitive model and cultural model
6.1 Culture
6.1.1 Definitions from the cognitive perpective
6.1.2 Classifications
6.1.3 Attributes and characteristics
6.2 Cognitive model and idealized cognitive model
6.2.1 Definitions and characteristics of cognitive model
6.2.2 Definitions and principles of idealized cognitive model
6.3 Culture model
6.3.1 Definition
6.3.2 Two types
6.4 Connection and distinction of cultural model and cognitive model
6.5 Major influences of culture on cognition
7. Frame and domain
7.1 Frame
7.1.1 Definition
7.1.2 Two basic components
7.1.3 Event frame
7.1.4 Speech event frame
7.2 Conceptual domain
7.2.1 Definition
7.2.2 Classification
7.2.3 Connection and distinction between image schema and basic domain
7.2.4 Two more characteristics of domain
7.2.5 Profile and base organisation
7.2.6 Active zones
7.3 Connection and distinction of Fillmore’s theory of frame semantics and Langacker’s theory ofdomain
8. Encyclopedic knowledge network and formal unit concept frame
8.1 Encyclopedic knowledge network
8.1.1 Basis of encyclopedic semantics
8.1.2 Definition of encyclopedic knowledge network
8.1.3 Types of encyl;opedic knowledge
8.1.4 Four continua
8.1.5 Conventionality versus non-conventionality
8.1.6 Influences of the types of encyclopedic knowledge upon centrality
8.1.7 Distinction between encyclopedic meaning and contextual meaning
8.2 Formal unit concept frame
8.2.1 Conceptual segmentation
8.2.2 Lexical concept and formal unit concept
8.2.3 Definition of formal unit concept frame
8.2.4 Application fields
8.3 The connection and distinction between the two guys
8.3.1 Connection
8.3.2 Distinction
9. Mental space
9.1 Definitions
9.2 Complex relationship between language and cognition
9.3 Meaning construction
9.3.1 General introductions
9.3.2 The architecture of the process of meaning construction
9.3.3 Dynamic nature of meaning construction

Part IV Theories of cognitive operations
10. Conceptual metaphor
10.1 Resemblance metaphor
10.1.1 Schematic form
10.1.2 Basis
10.1.3 Definition
10.1.4 Image metaphor
10.2 Conceptual metaphor
10.2.1 Focus and significance
10.2.2 Definitions
10.2.3 Most common target and source domains and their characteristics
10.2.4 Metaphorical entailments
10.2.5 Conceptual metaphor system
10.2.6 Conceptual metaphor and image schema
10.2.7 Characteristics
10.2.8 Major problems
11. Conceptual metonymy
11.1 Definitions
11.1.1 By Lakoff & Johnson (1980)
11.1.2 By Langacker (1993)
11.1.3 By Kovecses & Radden (1998)
11.1.4 By Croft (1993)
11.1.5 By Croft & Cruse (2004:48)
11.1.6 By Evans & Green (2006:314)
11.1.7 By Panther (2006)
11.1.8 Conclusion
11.2 Classification
11.2.1 Part-whole/whole-part relationship
11.2.2 Part-part relationships
11.2.3 Simple and compound metonymy
11.3 Properties and characteristics
11.3.1 Properties
11.3.2 Characteristics
11.4 Cognitive principles for selection of a source/vehicle
11.5 Differences between conceptual metaphor and metonymy
11.5.1 Metonymy represented by the formula B for A
11.5.2 Metonymy functioning as a reference differently form metaphor
11.5.3 Metonymy motivated by physical or causal associations
11.5.4 Metonymy : not a cross-domain mapping
12. Conceptual blending
12.1 Objective of conceptual blending theory
12.2 Network of conceptual blending
12.2.1 Illustration of the basic network of conceptual blending
12.2.2 Difference between mental space and conceptual domain
12.2.3 Composition of integration network
12.2.4 Kinds of integration network
12.2.5 Application to a non-linguistic example of meaning construction
12.3 Constitutive processes and consequences
12.4 Goals of conceptual blending achieved by compressing
12.4.1 Vital relations
12.4.2 Types of vital relations and teir compressions
12.4.3 Disintegration and decompressions
12.5 Multiple blending
12.6 Constraints on the theory
12.6.1 Governing principles
12.6.2 Brief discussion of two principles
12.7 Indentification and complementation of conceptual blending theory and conceptual metaphor theory
12.7.1 Identification
12.7.2 Complementation

Part V Cognitive approaches to form and meaning
13 Talmy’s approach to grammar
13.1 Grammatical meaning is schematis
13.2 Primary basic domains and conceptual alternativity
13.2.1 SPACE and TIME domains
13.2.2 Conceptual alternativity
13.3 Conceptual structuring system
13.3.1 Comfigurational structure system
13.3.2 Attentional system
13.3.3 Perspectival system
13.3.4 Force-dynamics system
14 Langacker’s approach to grammar
14.1 Conceptual basis of word classes
14.1.1 Nominal predication
14.1.2 Relational predication
14.2 Attention
14.2.1 Selection : profiling
14.2.2 Perspective : trajectory-landmark organization and deixis
14.2.3 Abstraction : profiling
14.3 Force-dynamics
14.4 Categorization and polysemy in grammar : the network conception
15 Construction grammar
15.1 Construction
15.1.1 Definitions
15.1.2 Properties
15.1.3 Similarities and differences between the definitions of Langacker and Goldberg
15.2 Constructional approaches to grammar developed within cognitive linguistics
15.2.1 Construction grammar by Goldberg
15.2.2 Corft’s approach
15.2.3 Embodied construction grammar by Bergen & Chang
15.3 Comparison among constructional approaches to grammar
16 Grammaticalisation
16.1 General introduction
16.1.1 Definition
16.1.2 Nature
16.1.3 Renewal process
16.1.4 Patterns
16.2 Three cognitive theories of grammaticalisation
16.2.1 Metaphorical extension approach
16.2.2 Invited inferencing theory
16.2.3 Langacker’s subjectification approach
16.3 Comparison among the approaches : taking bevgoing to as an example

Appendix 1 Referential key points of the answers to the pre-lecture questions
Appendix 2 Referential key points of the answers to the in-lecture questions
Appendix 3 Instances of students’ after-lecture research practices
References
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