A student which has successfully completed the course is expected to
- State the main tenets of cognitive semantics
- State the main lines of division between the cognitive and formal semantics traditions.
- Describe the cognitive semantics approach to polysemy
- Be able to expose, in detail, at least one theory in cognitive semantics
- Describe and illustrate the following concepts:
- semantic frame
- conceptual metaphor
- image schema
- conceptual domain
- metonymy
- prototype
- force dynamics
- profiling
- construal
- mental space
- conceptual integration