The present text, entitled Ten Lectures on Cognitive Modeling: Between Grammar and Language-based Inferencing by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, is a transcribed version of the lectures given by Professor Ruiz de Mendoza in November 2019 as the forum speaker for the 19th China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics.
The China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics (http://cifcl.buaa.edu.cn/) provides a forum for eminent international scholars to give lectures on their original contributions to the field of Cognitive Linguistics. It is a continuing program organized by several prestigious universities in Beijing. The following is a list of organizers for CIFCL 19.
Organizer:
Fuyin (Thomas) Li: PhD/Professor, Beihang University
Co-organizers:
Yihong Gao: PhD/Professor, Peking University
Baohui Shi: PhD/Professor, Beijing Forestry University
Yuan Gao: PhD/Professor, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xu Zhang: PhD/Professor, Beijing Language and Culture University
The text is published, accompanied by its audio disc counterpart, as one of the Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics. The transcriptions of the video, proofreading of the text and publication of the work in its present book form have involved many people’s strenuous efforts. The initial transcripts were completed by Cuiying Zhang, Shan Zuo, Wei Guo, Junjie Jin, Siqing Ma, Wangmeng Jiang and Wenjing Du. Junjie Jin and Shan Zuo made revisions to the whole text. We editors then made 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 double brackets [[…]]. To make the written version readable, even without watching the film, we’ve added a few “stage directions”, in italics also within double brackets: [[…]]. These describe what the speaker was doing, such as pointing at a slide, showing an object, etc. Professor Ruiz de Mendoza made final revisions to the transcriptions; the published version is the final version approved by the speaker.
Thomas Fuyin Li
Beihang University
Cuiying Zhang