Thoughts about thought (Verbal expressions for mental activity)

2024-12-02 Classification：language Click()
Author：Fortescue, M

Article Title：Thoughts about thought (Verbal expressions for mental activity)

Abstract：
This article compares verbal expressions for mental activity across a wide range of languages, extracting thereby a general framework for 'folk models of thinking' that can be related to Whitehead's processual analysis of cognition. The core concepts examined are 'understanding','knowing', 'remembering', 'thinking', and 'meaning'. It is argued that this domain is essentially organized along metonymic lines, as revealed by prevailing patterns of polysemy, although common metaphoric relationship are also widely observed. The metonymically--and causally-related subdomains correspond largely to natural experiential divisions, whereas metaphor is more language specific and varied. The status of 'thinking' as an indivisible 'basic' category is discussed.

Keywords:  mental activity verbs; folk models of thought; metaphor and metonymy; 'basic level' words

DOI: 10.1515/cogl.12.1.15

Source：COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS

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