... area traditionally devoted to pragmatics as well as semantics." * http://www.polyu.edu.hk/~cbs/jy/GnYwpweb.htm "Cognitive linguists seek to show how linguistic expressions evoke conceptual structures as natural reflections of cognitive abilities. One central cognitive ability is that of 'grounding', i.e. relating language (and other) events to the perspective of "the conceptualizer [who] chooses to construe the situation and portray it for expressive purposes" (Langacker 1991:315)." This site displays a paper written on "Cognitive semantics and Deictic Reference" by two university professors, which tries to show how cognitive semantics, and in particular Fauconnier's theory of mental spaces, provides an elegant way of modelling indexical reference. This paper also addresses a second major issue in cognitive semantics, that of how non-linguistic elements are represented in mental spaces. In addition, the authors show how mental space theory accommodates the non-demonstrative use of deictic forms, including even anomalous uses, which are problematic in other accounts. * http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/vyv/CSlecture10.pdf The site provides a lecture ...

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