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Preliminary Material -- How Language Structures Concepts -- Force Dynamics in Language and Cognition -- How Spoken and Signed Language Structure Space Differently: A Neural Model -- Fictive Motion in Language and ‘Ception’ -- The Attentional System of Language -- Introspection as a Methodology in Linguistics -- Relating Language to Other Cognitive Systems -- How Languages Represent Motion Events: Typologies and Universals -- A Typology of Event Integration in Language -- Digitalization in the Evolution of Language -- About the Series Editor -- Websites for Cognitive Linguistics and cifcl Speakers.

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In his ten Beijing lectures, Leonard Talmy represents the range of his work in cognitive semantics. The central concern of this approach is the linguistic representation of conceptual structure, that is, the patterns in which and processes by which conceptual content is organized in language. The lectures examine the semantics of grammar, force dynamics, a typology of how motion events are represented, factive versus fictive motion, a typology of event integration, differences in how spoken and signed language structure space, the attention system of language, introspection as a methodology in linguistics, the relation of language to other cognitive systems, and digitalization in the Evolution of language.

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