PROCESS, IMAGE, AND MEANING -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- 1. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- PROLOGUE -- PART ONE. THE MEANING OF SENTENCES -- CHAPTER 1. MEANING AND REALITY -- 1 Concepts of meaning -- 1.1 Historical background -- 1.2 Modern theories of meaning -- 2 Meaning and imagination -- 3 Meaning and the impact of dynamical systems theory for semantics -- 4 Ecological realism and cognitive meaning -- 4.1 Ecological realism and Fodor's critique -- 4.2 The philosophical position of situation semantics -- 4.3 The experiential realism of cognitive semantics -- 4.4 The programme of realistic semantics -- 5 Levels of analysis in a realistic semantics -- 5.1 The methodological separation of syntax and semantics -- 5.2 The separation of form and substance -- 5.3 The level of pragmatics in a realistic model of meaning -- 6 The relevance of Einstein's relativity principle and quantum dynamics for a theory of meaning -- 6.1 Relativistic principles in the study of mind and language -- 6.2 Quantum dynamics in mind and language -- CHAPTER 2. A CRITICAL REVIEW OF SOME PROPOSALS FOR A SEMANTICS USING IMAGE- AND PROCESS-SCHEMATA -- 1 Talmy's imaging systems and his "force dynamics" -- 2 The image schemata proposed by George Lakoff -- 3 Techniques of imaginistic representation by Langacker -- 4 Spatial domains and matrices (proposals by Langacker and Talmy) -- 5 A criticism of imaginistic representations in the style of Talmy, Lakoff and Langacker -- 6 The representation of motion verbs in situation semantics -- CHAPTER 3. PROCESS AND IMAGE SCHEMATA IN THE LEXICON AND IN BASIC SYNTAX -- 1 Order phenomena in the ecology of man -- 2 Transitions between equilibrium phases and semantic schemata -- 3 The meaning of verbs -- 3.1 What is the meaning of verbs?.

3.2 A cognitive behavioural framework for the analysis of verbs -- 3.3 Process semantics of the verbs of bodily motion -- 3.4 Process semantics of the verbs of action by one agent -- 3.4.1 The creation, the destruction and the regeneration of entities -- 3.4.2 The effect of an agent on the state of entities in its environment. -- 3.5 Process semantics of the verbs referring to the interaction of agents -- 3.5.1 The configurational structure of "giving" -- 3.5.2 The energetic (intentional) structure of "giving" -- 3.6 Elaboration of the basic ecological patterns in the semantics of verbs -- 3.6.1 Multi-modularity -- 3.6.2 Evaluation -- 3.6.3 Onomatopoeic "meaning" of verbs -- 4 Predication and basic syntax -- 4.1 Strong coupling in predication -- 4.2 Weak coupling in predication -- 5. Syntactic constituency and stable dynamic schemata -- CHAPTER 4. MULTISTABILITY, CHAOS AND DISSIPATIVE STRUCTURES IN MEANING -- 1 Ambiguity and multistability in linguistic meaning (in relation to perceptual multistability) -- 1.1 A rough Classification of perceptual multistability -- 1.1.1 Immediate bistabilities in perception -- 1.1.2 The perception of textures -- 1.1.3 The spatial rotation in mental imagination -- 1.2 Ambiguities in the lexicon: some basic aspects -- 1.3 Perceptual scales underlying lexical ambiguity -- 1.4 Lexical ambiguity based on an emotional scale -- 1.5 Morphological and syntactic ambiguities -- 1.6 Semantic scales underlying syntactic ambiguity -- 1.7 Control-shift as an ambiguity of complex syntax -- 1.8 Textual ambiguities -- 2 Chaotic dynamics in the syntax and semantics of nominal structures -- 2.1 A linear network analysis and the indeterminacy of recursiveness in the noun phrase -- 2.1.1 Recursive application of the same modifier -- 2.1.2 Recursive application of different modifiers of the same category.

2.1.3 Recursive application of different modifiers of different categories. -- 2.2 General feedback machines and recursiveness in the noun phrase -- 2.3 Indeterminacy and order in Noun + Noun compositions -- 3 Dissipative processes and vagueness in meaning -- 3.1 Semantic vagueness and variability -- 3.2 Metaphors and. metonymies as diffusive processes of meaning -- 4 Collective images and cultural symbols: speculations about archetypes -- CHAPTER 5. GLOBAL REPRESENTATIONAL SPACES -- 1 Two basic principles -- 2 A short description of the principal domains -- 2.1 A basic set of semantic roles -- 2.2 The domain: locomotion in space-time -- 2.3 The domain: change in a quality space -- 2.4 The domain: action and interaction -- 2.5 The domain: communicative and perceptual action -- 2.6 The domain: mental action -- 2.7 The special domain of speech acts -- 3 The impact of modality and propositional attitudes -- CHAPTER 6. BETWEEN SENTENCES AND NARRATIVE TEXTS -- 1 Negation -- 1.1 Strong negation -- 1.2 Weak negation with a vague predicate -- 1.3 Weak negation in the context of a category mistake -- 2 Conjunction and quantification -- 3 Dynamic consequence and implication -- PART TWO. THE MEANING OF ORAL NARRATIVES -- CHAPTER 7. NARRATIVE ANALYSIS AND AN IMAGINISTIC SYNTAX OF TEXTS -- 1 How to account for the "reality patterns" in oral narratives -- 2 Some notions from discrete dynamics -- 2.1 The notion of a discrete vector as a representation of motion and change -- 2.2 Cellular automata and dynamical systems -- 3 The basic vocabulary of imaginistic units -- 3.1 The space of imaginistic units and the notion of a unit vector -- 3.2 The set of basic monovalent imaginistic units -- 3.3 The set of bivalent imaginistic units. -- 3.4 The set of trivalent imaginistic units -- 4 The basic syntax of imaginistic units -- 4.1 The local syntax of imaginistic units.

4.2 The global syntax of imaginistic units and some typical sequential patterns found in narratives -- 4.2.1 Parallel developments of protagonistic and antagonistic forces -- 4.2.2 Characteristic patterns of bivalent units -- 4.2.3 Trivalent units and the game of transfer/interaction -- 4.3 A relativistic frame for textual dynamics -- 5 Three types of narratives and their imaginistic structure -- 5.1 Empirical criteria for the classification of narrative units -- 5.2 Oral narratives of personal experience: a rich analysis at the local level -- 5.3 The textual structures in the oral narrative -- 5.4 Retelling in a textual experiment -- 5.5 The dynamic organization of a fairy tale -- 6 The imaginistic representation of negation, conjunction and anaphors -- 6.1 Negation in an imaginistic grammar of narratives -- 6.2 Conjunction of units and conjunction of several basic units in one unit -- 6.3 Anaphoric processes in imaginistic syntax -- CHAPTER 8. THE SEMANTIC INTERPRETATION OF IMAGINISTIC SYNTAX -- 1 A semantic interpretation of the basic vector space -- 1.1 The dimension t (text progression) of the vector space -- 1.2 The dimension r (referential space) of the vector space -- 2 The semantic interpretation of the imaginistic units (1-20) -- 2.1. Units without referential instability -- 2.2 Monovalent units with one referential instability (type: "fold", A2) -- 2.3 Monovalent units with one referential instability (type: "cusp", A3) -- 2.4 Bivalent units with one referential instability (type: "cusp", A3) -- 2.5 Trivalent units with two referential instabilities (type: "butterfly", A5) -- 3 The interpretation of syntactic principles in a semantic component -- 3.1 The principle of broken symmetry -- 3.2 The principle of dynamic coherence -- 3.3 The principle of temporal uniqueness -- CHAPTER 9. INFORMATION BASED ANALYSIS OF TEXTUAL DYNAMICS.

1 Language and the flow of information -- 2 The encoding of imaginistic information in an attribute-valuenotation -- 3 Textual dynamics beyond imaginistic syntax -- 3.1 Analysis of the syntactic projection of semantic roles in a short narrative -- 3.2 The thematic coherence and dynamics in a short narrative -- 3.3 Imaginistic dynamics and іmaginistic coherence -- 3.4 The analysis of semantic complexity in a longer narrative -- CHAPTER 10. CONVERSATIONAL DYNAMICS AND THE PRAGMATICS OF NARRATIVES -- 1 Conversational dynamics and the place of narratives in theconversational frame -- 2 The internal pragmatics of oral narratives -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- NAMES INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX.