Meaning in Mind and Society

Cognitive Linguistics is becoming increasingly oriented towards the social dimension. This book describes this development and discusses some central issues for the emerging socio-cognitive synthesis. Mapping out the territory from individual embodied meaning to discourse struggles, it suggests principles for an analysis of the relation between conceptual and social processes.

Review:

Overall, the book is a main contribution to CL studies and research onsocio-cultural and socio-political niches. The technical style and highlyscientific argumentation make this book especially apt for linguists andscholars interested not only in cognitive studies but also in philosophical andsociolinguistic studies. In sum, Harder's work represents a way of furtheringthe limits of linguistics, semantics, and also Begriffsgeschichte , orconceptual history (cf. Koselleck 2002), through its social turn and newfunctional features of conceptual levels of both mind and meaning. Avi Weizmann in Linguist List 23.2341