The present text, entitled Ten Lectures on Field Semantics and Semantic Typology by Jürgen Bohnemeyer is a transcribed version of the lectures given by Professor Jürgen Bohnemeyer, in June 2012 as the forum speaker for the 10th China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics.
The China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics (
Host:
Li Fuyin (Thomas): PhD/Professor, Beihang University
Co-organizers:
Liu Shisheng: PhD/Professor, Tsinghua University
Gao Yihong: PhD/Professor, Peking University
Shi Baohui: PhD/Professor, Beijing Forestry University
Lan Chun: PhD/Professor, Beijing Foreign Studies University
Wang Lifei: PhD/Professor, University of International Business and Economics
Professor Jürgen Bohnemeyer’s lecture series was mainly supported by the Beihang Grant for International Outstanding Scientists for 2012 (Project number: Z1267, Project organizer: Thomas Fuyin Li).
The text is published as one of the Eminent Linguists Lecture Series. The transcription of the audio, proofreading the text, and publication of the work in its present book form, has involved many people’s strenuous inputs. The initial drafts were completed by the following postgraduate students, in the order from lecture 1 to 10: Jin Hui, Hu Xiaofang, He Fengfeng, He Junxiu, Li Xing, Zhou Weilu, Bo Shaoying, Du Jun, Fu Hongxing, and Li Heng. Li Heng had revisions for the whole book. Then we editors did the word-by-word and line-by-line revisions. To improve the readability of the text, we have deleted the false starts, repetitions, fillers like now, so, you know, OK, and so on, again, of course, if you like, sort of, etc. Occasionally, the written version needs an additional word to be clear, a word that was not actually spoken in the lecture. We have added such words within single brackets […]. To make the written version readable, even without watching the film, we’ve added a few “stage directions”, in italics also within single brackets: […]. The stage direction describes what the speaker was doing, such as pointing at a slide, showing an object, etc. The speaker, professor Jürgen Bohnemeyer, and his Research Assistant, Randi E. Moore, did the final revisions. The published version is the final version approved by the speaker.
The publication of this book is sponsored by the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Program Funds of the Chinese Ministry of Education (Number: 09YJA740010).
Thomas Fuyin Li
Beihang University (BUAA)
Yan Ding
Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU)