series: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]

Veröffentlicht von De Gruyter Mouton

Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]

Herausgegeben von: Dirk Geeraerts und Dagmar Divjak

ISSN: 1861-4132

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Honorary editor: Ronald W. Langacker

COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS RESEARCH offers a forum for the presentation of research within the perspective of cognitive linguistics. This rubric subsumes a variety of concerns and broadly compatible theoretical approaches that have a common basic outlook: that language is an integral facet of cognition which reflects the interaction of social, cultural, psychological, communicative and functional considerations, and which can only be understood in the context of a realistic view of acquisition, cognitive development and mental processing.

Cognitive linguistics thus eschews the imposition of artificial boundaries, both internal and external. Internally, it seeks a unified account of language structure that avoids such problematic dichotomies as lexicon versus grammar, morphology versus syntax, etc. Externally, it seeks to explicate language structure in terms of other facets of cognition on which it draws, as well as the communicative function it serves. Linguistic analysis can therefore profit from the insights of neighboring and overlapping disciplines such as sociology, cultural anthropology, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology and cognitive science.

To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

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book: Signed Language and Gesture Research in Cognitive Linguistics

Buch 2023

Signed Language and Gesture Research in Cognitive Linguistics

Terry Janzen, Barbara Shaffer

Band 67 in dieser Reihe

This volume represents the first time that researchers on signed language and gesture have come together with a coherent focus under the framework of cognitive linguistics. The pioneering work of Sherman Wilcox is highlighted throughout, scaffolding much of the research of these contributors. The five sections of the volume reflect critical areas of Dr. Wilcox’s own research in cognitive linguistics: Guiding research principles in signed language, gesture, and cognitive linguistics; iconicity across signed and spoken linguistics; multimodality; blending, depiction and metaphor in signed languages; and specific grammatical constructions as form-meaning pairings. The authors of this volume exemplify and continue Dr. Wilcox’s work of bridging signed and spoken language disciplines by contributing chapters that represent a multiplicity of perspectives on signed, spoken, and gesture data. This volume presents a unified collection of cognitive linguistics research by leading authors that will be of interest to readers in the fields of signed and spoken language linguistics, gesture studies, and general linguistics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110703788
ISBN:: 9783110703788
ISBN:: 9783110703672
ISBN:: 9783110703894
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Wichtige Linguisten
Fachgebiet:: Linguisten, andere
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Gebärdensprachforschung
Fachgebiet:: Multimodalität
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Making and Breaking of Classification Models in Linguistics

Buch 2024

The Making and Breaking of Classification Models in Linguistics

A Multimethod Perspective on Constructional Alternations

Jane Klavan

Band 66 in dieser Reihe

The book provides a methodological blueprint for the study of constructional alternations – using corpus-linguistic methods in combination with different types of experimental data. The book looks at a case study from Estonian. This morphologically rich language is typologically different from Indo-European languages such as English. Corpus-based studies allow us to detect patterns in the data and determine what is typical in the language. Experiments are needed to determine the upper and lower limits of human classification behaviour. They give us an idea of what is possible in a language and show how human classification behaviour is susceptible to more variation than corpus-based models lead us to believe. Corpora and forced choice data tell us that when we produce language, we prefer one construction. Acceptability judgement data tell us that when we comprehend language, we judge both constructions as acceptable. The book makes a theoretical contribution to the what, why, and how of constructional alternations.

　

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110668469
ISBN:: 9783110668469
ISBN:: 9783110665048
ISBN:: 9783110665185
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Quantitative, Computer- und Korpuslinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Europäische Sprachen, andere
Fachgebiet:: Europäische Sprachen, andere
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Diversity of Irony

Buch 2020

The Diversity of Irony

Angeliki Athanasiadou, Herbert L. Colston

Band 65 in dieser Reihe

Although the figure of irony has enjoyed extensive attention through important contributions to the diverse literatures addressing figurative thought and language, it still remains relatively in the background compared to other figures such as metaphor and metonymy. The present volume, together with a 2017 collection by Angeliki Athanasiadou and Herbert L. Colston, aims to the further exploration of verbal and situational irony, its gestural accompaniments, its comprehension and interpretation, its constructional diversity and its cooperation with other figures such as metaphor and hyperbole.

The present volume is a highly interesting collection of chapters dealing with both theoretical investigations and descriptive applications of a central figure pervading human thought and language. Its aim is to draw more attention to irony’s diversity and its concomitant connections to other aspects of figurativeness.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110652246
ISBN:: 9783110652246
ISBN:: 9783110777512
ISBN:: 9783110648478
ISBN:: 9783110648669
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Gespräch, Diskurs
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Kommunikationswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Kommunikation, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: What it Takes to Talk

Buch 2020

What it Takes to Talk

Exploring Developmental Cognitive Linguistics

Paul Ibbotson

Band 64 in dieser Reihe

This book puts cognition back at the heart of the language learning process and challenges the idea that language acquisition can be meaningfully understood as a purely linguistic phenomenon. For each domain placed under the spotlight - memory, attention, inhibition, categorisation, analogy and social cognition - the book examines how they shape the development of sounds, words and grammar. The unfolding cognitive and social world of the child interacts with, constrains, and predicts language use at its deepest levels. The conclusion is that language is special, not because it is an encapsulated module separate from the rest of cognition, but because of the forms it can take rather than the parts it is made of, and because it could be nature’s finest example of cognitive recycling and reuse.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110647914
ISBN:: 9783110647914
ISBN:: 9783110992038
ISBN:: 9783110644500
ISBN:: 9783110644418
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Dimensions of Diffusion and Diversity

Buch 2019

Dimensions of Diffusion and Diversity

Janice Fon

Band 63 in dieser Reihe

Variation is the norm in language. It is the universal trait that has never been embarrassed by counterexamples. As language is a joint product of human cognition and human society, the dimensions underlying language variation could potentially reveal the complexity of the human mind and defines us of what we are as cognitive and social beings, be it Austrians speaking German, or Nepalis speaking Dumi.

This volume includes eight papers highlighting three dimensions underlying language variation. The linguistic dimension explores how language changes across the physical time span and across linguistic breadth. The cognitive dimension examines how the human mind handles experiential frequency and life experiences, and how it copes with suboptimal processing faculties. Finally, the contextual dimension focuses on how language interacts with its ambiance, either in the form of geographical surroundings, or in the form of artistic styles. The uniqueness of this volume lies not only in its wide range of dimensions investigated, but also in its broad spectrum of languages covered. This enables us to form a fuller understanding of how language evolves and interacts with human cognition.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110610895
ISBN:: 9783110610895
ISBN:: 9783110735307
ISBN:: 9783110608236
ISBN:: 9783110608120
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Cognitive Contact Linguistics

Buch 2019

Cognitive Contact Linguistics

Placing Usage, Meaning and Mind at the Core of Contact-Induced Variation and Change

Eline Zenner, Ad Backus, Esme Winter-Froemel

Band 62 in dieser Reihe

This volume serves to illustrate the promising insights to be gained when cross-fertilizing Cognitive Linguistics and contact linguistics, which each hold crucial ingredients to an encompassing study of contact-induced variation and change.

Combining the study of the individual mind with the study of shared context, bridging research on experience and perspective with research on variation and change, and tackling the methodological complexities that this empirical approach to mental categorization entails, help us determine how the meaningful units that make up language are categorized and structured in the bi- and multilingual mind and, by extension, in any human mind.

Together, the ten papers in this volume reveal the complexities of the interaction between usage, meaning and mind in contact-induced variation and change, which we hope will inspire future research exploring the possibilities of the cross-fertilization we have labeled Cognitive Contact Linguistics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110619430
ISBN:: 9783110619430
ISBN:: 9783110707991
ISBN:: 9783110616842
ISBN:: 9783110616781
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Zwei- und Mehrsprachigkeit
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sprachkontakt
Fachgebiet:: Psycholinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Linguistic Taboo Revisited

Buch 2018

Linguistic Taboo Revisited

Novel Insights from Cognitive Perspectives

Andrea Pizarro Pedraza

Band 61 in dieser Reihe

Linguistic taboo has been relegated for a long time to a peripheral position within Linguistics, due to its social stigmatization and inherent linguistic complexity. Recently, though, there has been a renewed interest in revisiting the phenomenon, especially from cognitive frameworks. This volume is the first collection of papers dealing with linguistic taboo from that perspective.

The volume gathers 15 chapters, which provide novel insights into a broad range of taboo phenomena (euphemism, dysphemism, swearing, political correctness, coprolalia, etc.) from the fields of sexuality, diseases, death, war, ageing or religion. With a special focus on lexical semantics, the authors in the volume work within Cognitive Linguistics frameworks such as conceptual metaphor and metonymy, cultural conceptualization or cognitive sociolinguistics, but also at the interface of pragmatics, discourse analysis, applied linguistics, cognitive science or psychiatry.

This volume provides theoretical reflections and case studies based on new methods and data from varied languages (English, Spanish, Polish, Dutch, Persian, Gikũyũ and Egyptian Arabic). As such, it moves towards a new generation of linguistic taboo studies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110582758
ISBN:: 9783110582758
ISBN:: 9783110685152
ISBN:: 9783110580518
ISBN:: 9783110580310
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Cognitive, Social, and Individual Constraints on Linguistic Variation

Buch 2016

Cognitive, Social, and Individual Constraints on Linguistic Variation

A Case Study of Presentational 'Haber' Pluralization in Caribbean Spanish

Jeroen Claes

Band 60 in dieser Reihe

The present volume tries to answer the question: What constrains morphosyntactic variation? By analyzing the variable agreement of presentational haber (‘there to be’) in Caribbean Spanish with advanced statistical tools and theoretical constructs of Cognitive Sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and variationist sociolinguistics, it proposes an innovative theoretical model of the constraints that govern morphosyntactic variation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110524154
ISBN:: 9783110524154
ISBN:: 9783110521627
ISBN:: 9783110521702
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Variation in Metonymy

Buch 2016

Variation in Metonymy

Cross-linguistic, Historical and Lectal Perspectives

Weiwei Zhang

Band 59 in dieser Reihe

The monograph presents new findings and perspectives in the study of variation in metonymy, both theoretical and methodological. Theoretically, it sheds light on metonymy from an onomasiological perspective, which helps to discover the different conceptual or lexical "pathways" through which a concept or a group of concepts has been designated by going back to the source concepts. In addition, it broadens the perspective of Cognitive Linguistics research on metonymy by looking into how metonymic conceptualization and usage may vary along various dimensions. Three case studies explore significant variation in metonymy across different languages, time periods, genres and social lects. Methodologically, the monograph responds to the call in Cognitive Linguistics to adopt usage-based empirical methodologies. The case studies show that quantification and statistical techniques constitute essential parts of an empirical analysis based on corpus data. The empirical findings demonstrate the essential need to extend research on metonymy in a variationist Cognitive Linguistics direction by studying metonymy’s cultural, historical and social-lectal variation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110455830
ISBN:: 9783110455830
ISBN:: 9783110453652
ISBN:: 9783110453522
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Lexical Typology of Semantic Shifts

Buch 2016

The Lexical Typology of Semantic Shifts

Päivi Juvonen, Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm

Band 58 in dieser Reihe

The volume focuses on semantic shifts and motivation patterns in the lexicon. Its key feature is its lexico-typological orientation, i.e. a heavy emphasis on systematic cross-linguistic comparison. The book presents current theoretical and methodological trends in the study of semantic shifts and motivational patters based on an abundance of empirical findings across genetically, areally and typologically diverse languages.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110377675
ISBN:: 9783110377675
ISBN:: 9783110610673
ISBN:: 9783110393064
ISBN:: 9783110377521
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Viewpoint and the Fabric of Meaning

Buch 2016

Viewpoint and the Fabric of Meaning

Form and Use of Viewpoint Tools across Languages and Modalities

Barbara Dancygier, Wei-lun Lu, Arie Verhagen

Band 55 in dieser Reihe

This volume explores the cross-linguistic diversity, and possibly inconsistency, of the span of linguistic means that signal reported speech and thought. The integration of broad linguistic (viewpoint in conversation and narrative) and cognitive (theory of mind and understanding the inner life and thought of others) strategies for handling mixed points of view will be considered.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110365467
ISBN:: 9783110365467
ISBN:: 9783110578577
ISBN:: 9783110369076
ISBN:: 9783110393071
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Extending the Scope of Construction Grammar

Buch 2014

Extending the Scope of Construction Grammar

Ronny Boogaart, Timothy Colleman, Gijsbert Rutten

Band 54 in dieser Reihe

The field of constructionist linguistics is rapidly expanding, as research on a broad variety of language phenomena is increasingly informed by constructionist ideas about grammar. This volume is comprised of 11 original research articles representing several emerging new research directions in construction grammar, which, together, offer a rich picture of the various directions in which the field seems to be moving.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110366273
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036706-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036627-3
ISBN:: 9783110555042
ISBN:: 9783110393262
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Linguistic Profiles

Buch 2015

Linguistic Profiles

Going from Form to Meaning via Statistics

Julia Kuznetsova

Band 53 in dieser Reihe

The monograph investigates the relationship between form and meaning in different domains and centers on a group of methods referred to as “linguistic profiles” that have been developed recently by researchers at the University of Tromsø. These methods are based on the observation that there is a strong correlation between semantic and distributional properties of linguistic units. This book discusses grammatical, semantic, constructional, collostructional and diachronic profiles.

Linguistic profiles as a group of methods are based on recent developments in the area of cognitive and functional linguistics: 1) form in language always has a relation to meaning, 2) a categorical approach to language is replaced with an understanding of language as a gradient phenomenon, which is investigated via statistics, 3) grammar is seen as a usage-based phenomenon.
Throughout the book we see that each of the profiles determines a correlation between certain forms and certain meanings. By studying the distribution of different forms we can uncover the semantic restrictions standing behind them.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110361858
ISBN:: 9783110355536
ISBN:: 9783110361858
ISBN:: 9783110393484
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Quantitative, Computer- und Korpuslinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Metaphor and Metonymy across Time and Cultures

Buch 2015

Metaphor and Metonymy across Time and Cultures

Perspectives on the Sociohistorical Linguistics of Figurative Language

Javier E. Díaz-Vera

Band 52 in dieser Reihe

This volume offers new insights into figurative language and its pervasive role as a factor of linguistic change. The case studies included in this book explore some of the different ways new metaphoric and metonymic expressions emerge and spread among speech communities, and how these changes can be related to the need to encode ongoing social and cultural processes in the language. They cover a wide series of languages and historical stages.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110335453
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033543-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033545-3
ISBN:: 9783110555097
ISBN:: 9783110395396
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Nature of Rules, Regularities and Units in Language

Buch 2014

The Nature of Rules, Regularities and Units in Language

A Network Model of the Language System and of Language Use

Rolf Kreyer

Band 51 in dieser Reihe

Comprehensive networks of language make use of structures that go beyond the basic associative connections that can be found in the brain. The present study is an attempt to provide an account of language that restricts itself to structures of a neurophysiological kind, i.e. simple nodes, excitatory and inhibitory connections.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110318715
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031832-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031871-5
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Lexical Bootstrapping

Buch 2013

Lexical Bootstrapping

The Role of Lexis and Semantics in Child Language Development

Dagmar Bittner, Nadja Ruhlig

Band 50 in dieser Reihe

The internal bootstrapps for establishing the grammatical system of a human language build an essential topic in language acquisition research. The discussion of the last 20 years came up with the Lexical Bootstrapping Hypothesis which assigns lexical development the role of the central bootstrapping process. The volume presents work from different theoretical perspectives evaluating the strength and weaknesses of this hypothesis.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110308693
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030864-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030869-3
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Incipient Productivity

Buch 2012

Incipient Productivity

A Construction-Based Approach to Linguistic Creativity

Arne Zeschel

Band 49 in dieser Reihe

How do speakers vary established patterns of language use and adapt them to novel contexts of application? This study presents a usage-based approach to linguistic creativity: combining detailed qualitative with large-scale quantitative analyses of corpus data, it traces the emergence of partial productivity in clusters of conventional collocations.

Focusing on English and German intensification constructions, it proceeds in three steps: having first inventoried the lexical means (of a given semantic type) that are recruited for signalling intensity in both languages, collostructional analysis is then used to identify entrenched intensity collocations involving these formatives in three different syntactic constructions. Third, multi-rater manual classification methods as well as distribution-based automatic classification methods are employed to uncover semantic generalisations over the attested types on different levels of abstraction.

Collocational expansion is shown to proceed through local analogies within sets of semantically similar stored instances of a construction. Synthesising insights from research on language acquisition, variation and change, it is thus argued that creative extensions of linguistic conventions are intrinsically bound up with aspects of memory and repetition.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110274844
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027001-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027484-4
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Quantitative, Computer- und Korpuslinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Windows to the Mind

Buch 2011

Windows to the Mind

Metaphor, Metonymy and Conceptual Blending

Sandra Handl, Hans-Jörg Schmid

Band 48 in dieser Reihe

Cognitive linguists are convinced that the nature of linguistic structures is strongly influenced by the way we experience and perceive the world and by how we conceptualize and construe these experiences and perceptions in our minds. At the same time, the study of linguistic structure and usage is credited with the potential to open windows to how our minds work. The present volume collects papers investigating linguistic phenomena that reflect the key cognitive processes of metaphor, metonymy and conceptual blending, which have proven to be highly influential in linguistic conceptualization.

Theoretical and methodological issues, such as metaphor identification and the relevance of the target domain for children's understanding of metaphor, are focused on in the first section. The second and third parts are devoted to the application of the theoretical frameworks of the conceptual theory of metaphor and metonymy and the theory of conceptual blending to linguistic data. The contributions critically explore the explanatory potential of these theories, build bridges between them, link them with other approaches and notions (such as construction grammar, common ground and stance/evaluation), and uncover conceptual regularities and cognitive models that underlie and shape our language use in specific domains. The linguistic structures under consideration span the range from compounds and premodified noun phrases to constructions and texts such as jokes and political speeches. Methods applied include psycholinguistic experiments, analyses of data culled from authentic language corpora and discourse-analytical approaches.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110238198
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023818-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023819-8
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Psycholinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Historical Cognitive Linguistics

Buch 2011

Historical Cognitive Linguistics

Margaret E. Winters, Heli Tissari, Kathryn Allan

Band 47 in dieser Reihe

The volume explores the ways in which language change is studied within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics, a semantics-based theory of language production and perception. The eleven chapters explore two kinds of changes: firstly, those which involve mental prototypes or 'best instances' of particular concepts and extensions of these prototypes, and secondly, those which relate to conceptual networks, for example via metaphor or metonymy. More specifically, the papers address syntactic and lexical change, as well as the evolution of language and changes in the expression - usually metaphoric - of emotions.

In presenting a wide range of current work of this kind, the volume demonstrates the value of cross-fertilization between historical and cognitive linguistics, and is intended to open the way for further related research. The included papers are of particular relevance to those working in metaphor theory and syntactic / semantic change within Cognitive Linguistics, but will also be of interest to other historical linguists and those studying cognitive semantics and metaphor from a synchronic viewpoint.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110226447
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022643-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022644-7
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Quantitative Methods in Cognitive Semantics: Corpus-Driven Approaches

Buch 2010

Quantitative Methods in Cognitive Semantics: Corpus-Driven Approaches

Dylan Glynn, Kerstin Fischer

Band 46 in dieser Reihe

In line with the increasing use of empirical methods in Cognitive Linguistics, the current volume explores the uses of quantitative, in particular corpus-driven, techniques for the study of meaning. It shows how these techniques contribute to the core theoretical issues of Cognitive Semantics as well as how they inform semantic analysis. The research presented in the volume constitutes an important step towards an Empirical Cognitive Semantics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110226423
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022641-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022642-3
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Quantitative, Computer- und Korpuslinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics

Buch 2010

Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics

Dirk Geeraerts, Gitte Kristiansen, Yves Peirsman

Band 45 in dieser Reihe

Cognitive Sociolinguistics is a novel and burgeoning field of research which seeks to foster investigation into the socio-cognitive dimensions of language at a usage-based level. Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics brings together ten studies into the social and conceptual aspects of language-internal variation. All ten contributions rely on a firm empirical basis in the form of advanced corpus-based techniques, experimental methods and survey-based research, or a combination of these. The search for methods that may adequately unravel the complex and multivariate dimensions intervening in the interplay between conceptual meaning and variationist factors is thus another characteristic of the volume. In terms of its descriptive scope, the volume covers three main areas: lexical and lexical-semantic variation, constructional variation, and research on lectal attitudes and acquisition. It thus illustrates how Cognitive Sociolinguistics studies both the variation of meaning, and the meaning of variation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110226461
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022645-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022646-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Causal Categories in Discourse and Cognition

Buch 2009

Causal Categories in Discourse and Cognition

Ted Sanders, Eve Sweetser

Band 44 in dieser Reihe

All languages of the world provide their speakers with linguistic means to express causal relations in discourse. Causal connectives and causative auxiliaries are among the salient markers of causal construals. Cognitive scientists and linguists are interested in how much of this causal modeling is specific to a given culture and language, and how much is characteristic of general human cognition. Speakers of English, for example, can choose between because and since or between therefore and so. How different are these from the choices made by Dutch speakers, who speak a closely related language, but (unlike English speakers) have a dedicated marker for non-volitional causality (daardoor)?

The central question in this volume is: What parameters of categorization shape the use of causal connectives and auxiliary verbs across languages? The book discusses how differences between even quite closely related languages (English, Dutch, Polish) can help us to elaborate the typology of levels and categories of causation represented in language. In addition, the volume demonstrates convergence of linguistic, corpus-linguistic and psycholinguistic methodologies in determining cognitive categories of causality. The basic notion of causality appears to be an ideal linguistic phenomenon to provide an overview of methods and, perhaps more importantly, invoke a discussion on the most adequate methodological approaches to study fundamental issues in language and cognition.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110224429
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022441-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022442-9
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Diskursanalyse
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Structuring the Lexicon

Buch 2010

Structuring the Lexicon

A Clustered Model for Near-Synonymy

Dagmar Divjak

Band 43 in dieser Reihe

Given that we lack sensory-motor experience for abstract concepts, how do we find out what they mean? How far can we get by tracking frequency distributions in input? The volume tackles the question of what language has to offer the language learner in his/her quest for meaning, and explicitly addresses how semantic knowledge may be distributed along the continuum from "grammar" to "lexicon". Focus is on the synonymy of constructions and lexemes, a meaning relation that has been largely ignored in Western linguistics.

Frequency in all its guises plays a major part in this book. Approaching meaning from a usage-based perspective, a radically distributional approach to quantifying meaning is proposed that encompasses both the constructional and lexical level. Statistical data analysis, relatively new in the field of linguistics, yields a cognitively realistic, clustered model that encourages re-evaluating existing accounts of near-synonymy. Theoretical concepts spanning a range of cognitive linguistic frameworks, i.e. Cognitive Grammar, Radical Construction Grammar and Prototype Theory, account for the complexity of the data and lead to a re-appraisal of traditional semantic theory.

Built on a solid empirical foundation, this network account of synonymy at the constructional and lexical level enriches our understanding of established aspects of the cognitive model of language, serving as catalyst for their further development and refinement. The theoretically informed combination of descriptive accuracy and methodological innovation makes the book a worthwhile read for cognitive linguists and psycholinguists alike.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110220599
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022058-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022059-9
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Quantitative, Computer- und Korpuslinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Europäische Sprachen, andere
Fachgebiet:: Slavische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Investigations in Cognitive Grammar

Buch 2009

Investigations in Cognitive Grammar

Ronald W. Langacker

Band 42 in dieser Reihe

This volume makes accessible a substantial range of recent research in Cognitive Grammar. From disparate sources, it brings together a dozen innovative papers, revised and integrated to form a coherent whole. This work continues the ongoing program of progressively articulating the theoretical framework and showing its descriptive application to varied grammatical phenomena.

A number of major topics are examined in depth through multiple chapters viewing them from different perspectives: grammatical constructions (their general nature, their metonymic basis, their role in grammaticization), nominal grounding (quantifiers, possessives, impersonal it), clausal grounding (its relation to nominal grounding, an epistemic account of tense, a systemic view of the English auxiliary), the "control cycle" (an abstract cognitive model with many linguistic manifestations), finite clauses (their internal structure and external grammar), and complex sentences (complementation, subordination, coordination). In each case the presentation builds from fundamentals and introduces the background needed for comprehension. At the same time, by bringing fresh approaches and new descriptive insights to classic problems, it represents a significant advance in understanding grammar and indicates future directions of theory and research in the Cognitive Grammar framework.

The book is of great interest to students and practitioners of cognitive linguistics and to scholars in related areas.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110214369
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021434-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021436-9
ISBN:: 9783110214352
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Meaning in Mind and Society

Buch 2010

Meaning in Mind and Society

A Functional Contribution to the Social Turn in Cognitive Linguistics

Peter Harder

Band 41 in dieser Reihe

Meaning is embodied - but it is also social. If Cognitive Linguistics is to be a complete theory of language in use, it must cover the whole spectrum from grounded cognition to discourse struggles and bullshit. This book tries to show how.

Cognitive Linguistics knocked down the wall between language and the experiential content of the human mind. Frame semantics, embodiment, conceptual construal, figure-ground organization, metaphorical mapping, and mental spaces are among the results of this breakthrough, which at the same time provided cognitive science as a whole with an essential human dimension. A new phase began when Cognitive Linguistics started to see itself as part of the wider movement of 'usage-based' linguistics. Bringing about an alliance between mind and discourse, it complemented the conceptual dimension that had been dominant until then with a 'use' dimension - thereby living up to the explicit 'experiential' commitment of Cognitive Linguistics. This outward expansion is continuing: The focus on 'meaning construction', which began with the theory of blending, highlights emergent, online effects rather than underlying mappings. Cognitive Linguistics is integrating the evolutionary perspective, which links up individual and population-based features of language. The empirical obligations incurred by this expansion have led to greatly increased attention to corpus and experimental methods, especially in relation to sociolinguistic and language acquisition research.

The book describes this development and goes on to discuss the foundational challenge that it creates for Cognitive Linguistics as it begins to cover issues that are also central to types of discourse analysis focusing on social processes of determination. The book argues for a synthesis based on a renewed Cognitive Linguistics, which can accommodate everything from bodily grounding to deconstructible floating signifiers in an integrated complete picture, which also covers the roles of arbitrariness and structure.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110216059
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020510-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021605-9
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Pragmatik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Diskursanalyse
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Abstract Phonology in a Concrete Model

Buch 2008

Abstract Phonology in a Concrete Model

Cognitive Linguistics and the Morphology-Phonology Interface

Tore Nesset

Band 40 in dieser Reihe

This book is relevant for phonologists, morphologists, Slavists and cognitive linguists, and addresses two questions: How can the morphology-phonology interface be accommodated in cognitive linguistics? Do morphophonological alternations have a meaning? These questions are explored via a comprehensive analysis of stem alternations in Russian verbs. The analysis is couched in R.W. Langacker's Cognitive Grammar framework, and the book offers comparisons to other varieties of cognitive linguistics, such as Construction Grammar and Conceptual Integration. The proposed analysis is furthermore compared to rule-based and constraint-based approaches to phonology in generative grammar.

Without resorting to underlying representations or procedural rules, the Cognitive Linguistics framework facilitates an insightful approach to abstract phonology, offering the important advantage of restrictiveness. Cognitive Grammar provides an analysis of an entire morphophonological system in terms of a parsimonious set of theoretical constructs that all have cognitive motivation. No ad hoc machinery is invoked, and the analysis yields strong empirical predictions. Another advantage is that Cognitive Grammar can identify the meaning of morphophonological alternations. For example, it is argued that stem alternations in Russian verbs conspire to signal non-past meaning.

This book is accessible to a broad readership and offers a welcome contribution to phonology and morphology, which have been understudied in cognitive linguistics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110208368
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020361-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020836-8
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Europäische Sprachen, andere
Fachgebiet:: Slavische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Phonologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Cognitive Sociolinguistics

Buch 2008

Cognitive Sociolinguistics

Language Variation, Cultural Models, Social Systems

Gitte Kristiansen, René Dirven

Band 39 in dieser Reihe

A union of Cognitive Linguistics and Sociolinguistics was bound to happen. Both proclaim a usage-based approach to language and aim to analyse actual language use in objective ways.

Whereas Sociolinguistics is by nature on the outlook for language in its variety, CL can no longer afford to ignore social variation in language as it manifests itself in the usage data. Nor can it fail to adopt an empirical methodology that reflects variation as it actually occurs, beyond the limited knowledge of the individual observer. Conversely, while CL can only benefit from a heightened sensitivity to social aspects, the rich, bottom-up theoretical framework it has developed is likely to contribute to a much better understanding of the meaning of variationist phenomena.

The volume brings together fifteen chapters written by prominent scholars testifying of rich empirical and theoretizing research into the social aspects of language variation. Taking a broad view on Cognitive Sociolinguistics, the volume covers three main areas: corpus-based research on language variation, cognitive cultural models, and the ideologies of sociopolitical and socio-economic systems.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110199154
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019625-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019915-4
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Cognitive Paths into the Slavic Domain

Buch 2007

Cognitive Paths into the Slavic Domain

Dagmar Divjak, Agata Kochanska

Band 38 in dieser Reihe

The volume presents an overview of recent cognitive linguistic research on Slavic languages. Slavic languages, with their rich inflectional morphology in both the nominal and the verbal system, provide an important testing ground for a linguistic theory that seeks to motivate linguistic structure.

Therefore, the volume touches upon a wide range of phenomena: it addresses issues related to the semantics of grammatical case, tense, aspect, voice and word order, it looks into grammaticalization and language change and discusses sound symbolism. At the same time, the analyses presented address a variety of theoretically important issues. Take for example the role of virtual entities in language or that of iconic motivation in grammar, the importance of metaphor for grammaticalization or that of subjectification for motivating synchronic polysemy and diachronic language change, as well as the myriad of patterns available to encode events in a non-canonical way or to convey the speaker's epistemic stance with respect to the communicated content. In addition, the analyses are couched in a variety of cognitive linguistic frameworks, such as cognitive grammar, mental space theory, construction grammar, frame semantics, grammaticalization theory, as well as prototype semantics.

All in all, the analyses presented in this volume enrich the understanding of established aspects of the cognitive model of language and may serve as catalysts for their further development and refinement, making the volume a worthwhile read for Slavic and cognitive linguists alike.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110198799
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019620-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019879-9
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Europäische Sprachen, andere
Fachgebiet:: Slavische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Language in the Context of Use

Buch 2008

Language in the Context of Use

Discourse and Cognitive Approaches to Language

Andrea Tyler, Yiyoung Kim, Mari Takada

Band 37 in dieser Reihe

The volume explores key convergences between cognitive and discourse approaches to language and language learning, both first and second. The emphasis is on the role of language as it is used in everyday interaction and as it reflects everyday cognition. The contributors share a usage-based perspective on language - whether they are examining grammar or metaphor or interactional dynamics - which situates language as part of a broader range of systems which underlie the organization of social life and human thought.

While sharing fundamental assumptions about language, the particulars of the areas of inquiry and emphases of those engaged in discourse analysis versus cognitive linguistics are diverse enough that, historically, many have tended to remain unaware of the interrelations among these approaches. Thus, researchers have also largely overlooked the possibilities of how work from each perspective can challenge, inform, and enrich the other.

The papers in the volume make a unique contribution by more consciously searching for connections between the two broad approaches. The results are a set of dynamic, thought-provoking analyses that add considerably to our understanding of language and language learning. The papers represent a rich range of frameworks within a usage-based approach to language. Cognitive Grammar, Mental Space and Blending Theory, Construction Grammar, ethnomethodology, and interactional sociolinguistics are just some of the frameworks used by the researchers in this volume. The particular subjects of inquiry are also quite varied and include first and second language learning, signed language, syntactic phenomena, interactional regulation and dynamics, discourse markers, metaphor theory, polysemy, language processing and humor.

The volume is of interests to researchers in cognitive linguistics, discourse and conversational analysis, and first and second language learning, as well as signed languages.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110199123
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019619-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019912-3
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sprachdidaktik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Space, Time, and the Use of Language

Buch 2007

Space, Time, and the Use of Language

An Investigation of Relationships

Thora Tenbrink

Band 36 in dieser Reihe

Does temporal language depend on spatial language? This widespread view is intuitively appealing since spatial and temporal expressions are often similar or identical. Also, metaphors consistently express temporal phenomena in terms of spatial language, pointing to a close semantic and conceptual relationship. But what about the application of the two kinds of linguistic expressions in natural discourse?

The book draws together findings on terms that describe the relation of objects or events to each other (such as in front / behind, before / after, etc.), highlighting the relationship between cognition and language usage. Using the method of cognitively motivated discourse analysis, novel empirical results are presented to complement earlier findings. The detailed investigation of a selected range of terms that appear to be parallel in space and time highlights both similarities and fundamental differences in their application. As a result, a new picture emerges: The concepts of space and time are represented in language usage in various systematic ways, reflecting how we understand the world - and at the same time reflecting how our concepts of space and time differ fundamentally.

The volume contributes to a debate that has been of interest for cognitive linguists for several decades, concerning the understanding of transfer processes between two conceptually intertwined domains. The specific contribution of this work consists of addressing the novel question of how such processes come into play in the actual application of relevant expressions in natural discourse. By adopting established approaches from Discourse Analysis for issues that are deeply rooted in interdisciplinary research in Cognitive Science, insights are drawn together from two hitherto largely unrelated fields of research to approach the topic from an original perspective, leading to a deeper understanding of the relationship between the domains of space and time and their expression in language.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110198829
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019520-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019882-9
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Pragmatik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Diskursanalyse
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Volume 2 Sociocultural Situatedness

Buch 2008

Volume 2 Sociocultural Situatedness

Roslyn M. Frank, René Dirven, Tom Ziemke, Enrique Bernárdez

Teil des mehrbändigen Werks Body, Language and Mind

Band 35.2 in dieser Reihe

The contributions contained in the second volume of the two-volume set Body, Language and Mind introduce and elaborate upon the concept of sociocultural situatedness, understood broadly as the way in which minds and cognitive processes are shaped, both individually and collectively, by their interaction with socioculturally contextualized structures and practices; and, furthermore, how these structures interact, contextually, with language and can become embodied in it.

Drawing on theoretical concepts and analytical tools within the purview of cognitive linguistics and related fields, the volume explores the relationship between body, language and mind, focusing on the complex mutually reinforcing relationships holding between the sociocultural contextualisation of language and, inversely, the linguistic contextualisation of culure. Stated differently, the notion of sociocultural situatedness allows for language to be seen as a cultural activity and at the same time as a subtle mechanism for organizing culture and thought.

The volume offers a representative, multi- and interdisciplinary collection of new papers on sociocultural situatedness, bringing together for the first time a wide variety of perspectives and case studies directed explicitly to elucidating the analytical potential of this concept for cognitive linguists and other researchers working in allied fields such as AI, discourse studies and cognitive anthropology. The book brings together several core issues related to the notion of sociocultural situatedness, some of which have been addressed previously, although to a large degree sporadically and from a variety of disciplinary perspectives without fully exploring the possible analytical advantages of this concept as a tool for investigating the role of culturally entrenched schemata in cognition and language.

In short, this is the first comprehensive survey of sociocultural situatedness theory.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110199116
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019618-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019911-6
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Volume 1 Embodiment

Buch 2007

Volume 1 Embodiment

Tom Ziemke, Jordan Zlatev, Roslyn M. Frank

Teil des mehrbändigen Werks Body, Language and Mind

Band 35.1 in dieser Reihe

The first volume of the two-volume set Body, Language and Mind focuses on the concept of embodiment, understood in most general terms as "the bodily basis of phenomena such as meaning, mind, cognition and language". The volume offers a representative, multi- and interdisciplinary state-of-the-art collection of papers on embodiment and brings together a large variety of different perspectives, from cognitive linguistics, cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, semiotics and artificial intelligence.

Being envisioned as a reader of sorts in theoretical and empirical research on embodiment, the book revolves around several core issues that have been addressed previously, to a large degree independently, in various disciplines. In particular the volume illustrates the diversity of notions of embodiment that has arisen in various disciplines over the last twenty years, and addresses the question how these different interpretations relate to each other, i.e. are they different aspects of or different perspectives on the same phenomena, or do they actually contradict each other? For this purpose, several aspects of cognition and language, such as phenomenal experience, perception, action, conceptualization, communication, meaning creation, social interaction and culture, are illuminated from the perspective of different theories of embodiment.

The contributions are integrated through cross-connections between individual authors’ papers and through an introductory essay that identifies the different strands of research, the central issues that they share, and the synergies that can be gained from addressing embodiment from an interdisciplinary perspective.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110207507
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019327-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020750-7
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Cognitive Linguistics: Basic Readings

Buch 2006

Cognitive Linguistics: Basic Readings

Dirk Geeraerts

Band 34 in dieser Reihe

Over the past decade, Cognitive Linguistics has grown to be one of the most broadly appealing and dynamic frameworks for the study of natural language. Essentially, this new school of linguistics focuses on the meaning side of language: linguistic form is analysed as an expression of meaning. And meaning itself is not something that exists in isolation, but it is integrated with the full spectrum of human experience: the fact that we are embodied beings just as much as the fact that we are cultural beings.

Cognitive Linguistics: Basic Readings brings together twelve foundational articles, each of which introduces one of the basic concepts of Cognitive Linguistics, like conceptual metaphor, image schemas, mental spaces, construction grammar, prototypicality and radial sets. The collection features the founding fathers of Cognitive Linguistics: George Lakoff, Ron Langacker, Len Talmy, Gilles Fauconnier, and Charles Fillmore, together with some of the most influential younger scholars. By its choice of seminal papers and leading authors, Basic Readings is specifically suited for an introductory course in Cognitive Linguistics. This is further supported by a general introduction to the theory and, specifically, the practice of Cognitive Linguistics and by trajectories for further reading that start out from the individual chapters.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110199901
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019084-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019990-1
ISBN:: 9783110190854
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Words and Other Wonders

Buch 2006

Words and Other Wonders

Papers on Lexical and Semantic Topics

Dirk Geeraerts

Band 33 in dieser Reihe

Cognitive Linguistics has given a major impetus to the study of semantics and the lexicon. The present volume brings together seventeen previously published papers that testify to the fruitfulness of Cognitive Linguistics for the study of lexical and semantic topics. Spanning the period from the late 1980s to recent years, the collection features a number of papers that may be considered classics within the field of cognitive linguistic lexicology.

The papers are grouped in thematic sections. The first section deals with prototypicality as a theoretical and practical model of semantic description. The second section discusses polysemy and criteria for distinguishing between meanings. The third section tackles questions of meaning description beyond the level of words, on the level of idioms and constructions. The following section casts the net even wider, dealing with the cultural aspects of meaning. Moving away from the theoretical and descriptive perspective towards applied concerns, the fifth section looks at lexicography from the point of view of Cognitive Linguistics. The final section has a metatheoretical orientation: it discusses the history and methodology of lexical semantics.

Each paper is preceded by a newly written introduction that situates the text against the period in which it was first published, but that also points to further developments, in the author's own research or in Cognitive Linguistics at large.

The variety of topics dealt with make this book an excellent introduction to the broad field of lexicological and lexical semantic research.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110219128
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019042-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021912-8
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Cognitive Linguistics

Buch 2005

Cognitive Linguistics

Internal Dynamics and Interdisciplinary Interaction

M. Sandra Peña Cervel, Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

Band 32 in dieser Reihe

The book testifies of the great tolerance of Cognitive Linguists towards internal variety within itself and towards external interaction with major linguistic subdisciplines. Internally, it opens up the broad variety of CL strands and the cognitive unity between convergent linguistic disciplines. Externally, it provides a wide overview of the connections between cognition and social, psychological, pragmatic, and discourse-oriented dimensions of language, which will make this book attractive to scholars from different persuasions. The book is thus expected to raise productive debate inside and outside the CL community. Furthermore, the book examines interdisciplinary connections from the point of view of the internal dynamics of CL research itself. CL is rapidly developing into different compatible frameworks with extensions into levels of linguistics description like discourse, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics among others that have only recently been taken into account in this orientation.

The book covers two general topics: (i) the relationship between the embodied nature of language, cultural models, and social action; (ii) the role of metaphor and metonymy in inferential activity and as generators of discourse ties. More specific topics are the nature and scope of constructional meaning, language variation and cultural models; discourse acts; the relationship between communication and cognition, the argumentative role of metaphor in discourse, the role of mental spaces in linguistic processing, and the role of empirical work in CL research. These features endow the book with internal unity and consistency while preserving the identity of each of the contributions therein.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197716
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018617-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019771-6
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Subjectification

Buch 2006

Subjectification

Various Paths to Subjectivity

Angeliki Athanasiadou, Costas Canakis, Bert Cornillie

Band 31 in dieser Reihe

Subjectification is a widespread phenomenon and has emerged as a most pervasive tendency in diachronic semantic change (Traugott) and in synchronic semantic extension (Langacker). Its importance is increasingly valued despite the fact that it is an area that has been treated differently by different scholars. One of the book's objectives is to generate a clearer understanding of the two major models of subjectivity, to see where they can meet but also where intrinsic differences present barriers to any integration. Another objective is to speculate on whether the notions of subjectivity and subjectification have reshaped our understanding of grammar.

The goals of the volume are the following:

The volume brings together contributions dealing with particular areas of grammar in the framework of subjectivity and subjectification. Starting with Stein and Wright's 1995 edition, publications on the specific process have broadened the scope of this research. Indeed, the question 'how far have we come?', addressed in the introduction, has become central in reaching a clearer understanding of the above framework and even expanding it.
Individual papers explore not only wider questions and implications on the theoretical status of subjectivity and subjectification in language, but are empirically supported by thorough and extensive data from different languages (Asian languages, German, Spanish, Greek, Dutch, English). These studies of particular areas of grammar (modals, adjectives) or of levels of analysis (syntax) can help implement or adapt the existing accounts of subjectivity made in the literature.
The challenge for every single paper is to show whether the two major approaches (Langacker's and Traugott's) can possibly be integrated or whether they are fundamentally different. The papers also investigate into the questions whether we have a continuum from highly subjective to more objective, whether subjective need be opposed to objective, or whether subjective may also be understood in contrast to neutral (which is often the case in Traugott's examples of grammaticalization). Furthermore, the issue of intersubjectivity, i.e., putting the addressee's perspective onstage, is also discussed.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110892970
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018530-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089297-0
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Semantics of Polysemy

Buch 2005

The Semantics of Polysemy

Reading Meaning in English and Warlpiri

Nick Riemer

Band 30 in dieser Reihe

This book, addressed primarily to students and researchers in semantics, cognitive linguistics, English, and Australian languages, is a comparative study of the polysemy patterns displayed by percussion/impact ('hitting') verbs in English and Warlpiri (Pama-Nyungan, Central Australia).

The opening chapters develop a novel theoretical orientation for the study of polysemy via a close examination of two theoretical traditions under the broader cognitivist umbrella: Langackerian and Lakovian Cognitive Semantics and Wierzbickian Natural Semantic Metalanguage. Arguments are offered which problematize attempts in these traditions to ground the analysis of meaning either in cognitive or neurological reality, or in the existence of universal synonymy relations within the lexicon. Instead, an interpretative rather than a scientific construal of linguistic theorizing is sketched, in the context of a close examination of certain key issues in the contemporary study of polysemy such as sense individuation, the role of reference in linguistic categorization, and the demarcation between metaphor and metonymy.

The later chapters present a detailed typology of the polysemous senses of English and Warlpiri percussion/impact (or P/I) verbs based on a diachronically deep corpus of dictionary citations from Middle to contemporary English, and on a large corpus of Warlpiri citations. Limited to the operations of metaphor and of three categories of metonymy, this typology posits just four types of basic relation between extended and core meanings. As a result, the phenomenon of polysemy and semantic extension emerges as amenable to strikingly concise description.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197556
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018397-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019755-6
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: From Perception to Meaning

Buch 2005

From Perception to Meaning

Image Schemas in Cognitive Linguistics

Beate Hampe, Joseph E. Grady

Band 29 in dieser Reihe

The 1987 landmark publications by G. Lakoff and M. Johnson made image schema one of the cornerstone concepts of the emerging experientialist paradigm of Cognitive Linguistics, a framework founded upon the rejection of the mind-body dichotomy and stressing the fundamentally embodied nature of meaning, imagination and reason - hence language. Conceived of as the pre-linguistic, dynamic and highly schematic gestalts arising directly from motor movement, object manipulation, and perceptual interaction, image schemas served to anchor abstract reasoning and imagination to sensori-motor patterns in the conceptual theory of metaphor.

Being itself informed by preceding crosslinguistic work on semantic primitives in the linguistic representations of spatial relations (carried out by L. Talmy, R. Langacker, and others), the notion has inspired a large amount of subsequent research and debate on diverse issues ranging from the meaning, structure and acquisition of natural languages to the embodied mind itself.

From Perception to Meaning is the first survey of current image-schema theory and offers a collection of original and innovative essays by leading scholars, many of whom have shaped the theory from the very beginning. The edition unites essays on major issues in recent research on image-schemas - from aspects of their definition and linguistic formalization, their psychological status and neural grounding to their role as semantic universals and primitives in language acquisition. The book will thus not only be welcomed by linguists of a cognitive orientation, but will prove relevant to philosophers, psychologists, and anthropologists interested in language, and indeed to anyone studying the embodied mind.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197532
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018311-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019753-2
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Neurolinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Studies in Linguistic Motivation

Buch Nur in gedruckter Form 2004

Studies in Linguistic Motivation

Günter Radden, Klaus-Uwe Panther

Band 28 in dieser Reihe

How much of language is motivated? Recently, cognitive and functional linguists have proposed new solutions to this intriguing question. The thirteen articles collected in this volume cover various aspects of motivation in grammar and in the lexicon.

The phenomena discussed in the contributions can be grouped into four types of motivation, which, along with other types, are explicated in the introductory chapter: ecological motivation, i.e. motivation of a linguistic unit due to its place, or "ecological niche," within a system; genetic motivation, i.e. motivation of present-day linguistic behavior or structure due to historical factors; experiential motivation, i.e. motivation that is based on embodied experience; and cognitive motivation, i.e. motivation that is based on human knowledge and cognitive operations such as metonymy and metaphor. The languages studied in some detail include Afrikaans, Croatian, Dutch, English, French, German, Hausa, and Hungarian.

This volume makes a strong case for the pervasiveness of motivation in natural language. It will be of interest to teachers, researchers and students of linguistics, especially of functional and cognitive linguistics.

ISBN:: 9783110182453
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Funktionale grammatische Theorien
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Discourse Markers in Colombian Spanish

Buch Nur in gedruckter Form 2005

Discourse Markers in Colombian Spanish

A Study in Polysemy

Catherine E. Travis

Band 27 in dieser Reihe

This book presents a semantic analysis of a set of four functionally related discourse markers that are particularly frequent in conversational Colombian Spanish. A corpus of four hours of spontaneous conversation is used to study the markers bueno 'well, OK', pues 'well, then', o sea 'I mean, that is to say' and entonces 'so, then'.

Through a detailed analysis of numerous examples drawn from the corpus, and employing both quantitative and qualitative techniques, it is demonstrated that, contrary to popular belief, discourse markers are not just functional particles with indeterminate or context-based semantics. Rather, they have inherent meanings which can be identified and exhaustively defined with an appropriate semantic methodology, such as is provided by the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach. This study illustrates that this approach, which has been widely applied to the semantics of the lexicon and the grammar, can be extended to the semantics of discourse-based features, supporting the notion that meaning of all aspects of language forms one semantic system.

This research also has implications for the study of polysemy, in that it operationalizes the little understood, but classical definition of polysemy of items with 'a shared element of meaning', and it demonstrates that the polysemous relations of discourse markers are centered around an invariant core that can be identified on the basis of their use in discourse. As one of the first corpus-based studies to present a semantic account of the multifunctional nature of discourse markers this book makes an important contribution to research on the relationship between semantics and discourse-pragmatics, and polysemy in discourse.

ISBN:: 9783110181616
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Amerikanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Amerikanische Sprachen, andere
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Diskursanalyse
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: A Cognitive-Functional Approach to Nominalization in English

Buch 2003

A Cognitive-Functional Approach to Nominalization in English

Liesbet Heyvaert

Band 26 in dieser Reihe

The book presents a systematic theoretical account of the fundamental constructional mechanisms that underlie deverbal nominalization in general, and it makes an original descriptive contribution by discussing a number of nominalization systems in detail.

The main theoretical motif is that nominalization strongly calls for a functional rather than purely structural approach. The book goes more deeply into a number of functional constructs needed to model nominalization (drawn from Cognitive Grammar and Systemic-Functional Grammar) and it elaborates on the internal functional organization of nominal and clausal structure [e.g. the notions of type specification, instantiation and grounding (Langacker 1991) are discussed in detail and shown to be crucial for the analysis of deverbal nominalization]. It is argued that deverbal nominalizations are basically re-classifications of verbal predicates into nominal constructions. This re-classification either applies at word rank or it involves the rank shift (Halliday 1966) of a clause-like unit, with its internal structure preserved (e.g. signing the contract quickly). The re-classified unit then adopts a specific nominal strategy, with some form of nominal determination and quantification (e.g. her signing the contract quickly).

The descriptive part of the book zooms in on nominalizations that are derived at word rank (deverbal -er nominals) and on nominalizations applying to 'a temporal clausal heads' (e.g. John's playing the piano) and finite clauses. Of the gerundive and finite types of nominalization, those that function in factive contexts are focused on. In the analysis of deverbal -er nominals a case is made for a 'subject' analysis of the system and an elaborate discussion of the clausal middle construction (e.g. this book reads easily) - which is argued to show systematic resemblances with non-agentive -er nominals - is included. Of the remaining nominalization types (John's playing the piano; playing the piano; the fact that he plays the piano; that he plays the piano ), especially the nominal behaviour (e.g. proper name vs. common noun strategy) and (in the case of gerundive nominals) the various structural and semantic subtypes that can be distinguished among them are discussed.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110903706
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017809-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090370-6
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Morphologie
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: English Inversion

Buch 2003

English Inversion

A Ground-before-Figure Construction

Rong Chen

Band 25 in dieser Reihe

The book provides an account of English inversion, a construction that displays perplexing idiosyncrasies at the level of semantics, phonology, syntax, and pragmatics. Basing his central argument on the claim that inversion is a linguistic representation of a Ground-before-Figure model, the author develops an elegant solution to a hitherto unsolved multidimensional linguistic puzzle and, in the process, supports the theoretical position that a cognitive approach best suits the multidimensionality of language itself. Engagingly written, the book will appeal to linguists of all persuasions and to any reader curious about the relationship between language and cognition.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110895100
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017810-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089510-0
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Cognitive Models in Language and Thought

Buch 2003

Cognitive Models in Language and Thought

Ideology, Metaphors and Meanings

René Dirven, Roslyn Frank, Martin Pütz

Band 24 in dieser Reihe

The volume offers a number of representative papers on cognitive models that are invoked when people deal with questions of social identity, political and economic manipulation, and more general issues such as the genomic discourse.

In line with the well-known volume Cultural Models in Language and Thought by Holland and Quinn (1987), the volume shows that Cognitive Linguistics has further explored the idea that we think about social reality in terms of models - 'cognitive/cultural models' or 'folk theories'. As in cultural models, the present volume demonstrates that the technical apparatus of Cognitive Linguistics can be used to analyze the various ways our conception of social reality is shaped by underlying cognitive and/or cultural models or patterns of thought, and also looks into how this is done. The new inroad the volume wants to pursue is the deliberate and explicit orientation towards a cognitive sociolinguistics, or more generally, a cognitive semiotics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110892901
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017792-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089290-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Cognitive Approaches to Lexical Semantics

Buch 2003

Cognitive Approaches to Lexical Semantics

Hubert Cuyckens, René Dirven, John R. Taylor

Band 23 in dieser Reihe

This collected volume presents radically new directions which are emerging in cognitive lexical semantics research. A number of papers re-ignite the polysemy vs. monosemy debate, and testify to the fact that polysemy is no longer simply taken for granted, but is currently a much more contested issue than it was in the 1980s and 1990s. Other papers offer fresh perspectives on the prototype structure of lexical categories, while generally accepted notions about the radial network structure of categories are questioned in papers on the development of word meaning in child language acquisition and in diachrony. Additional topics include the interaction of lexical and constructional meaning, and the relationship between word meanings and the contexts in which the words are encountered.

This book is of interest to semanticists and cognitive linguists, as well as to scholars working in the broader field of cognitive science.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110219074
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017709-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021907-4
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The English Change Network

Buch 2003

The English Change Network

Forcing Changes into Schemas

Cristiano Broccias

Band 22 in dieser Reihe

This book introduces the notion of change construction and systematically studies, within a Cognitive Grammar framework, the rich inventory of its instantiations in English, from well-known structures such as the so-called resultative construction to a variety of largely ignored types such as asymmetric resultatives, sublexical change constructions and mildly causal constructions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110901207
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017646-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090120-7
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Grounding

Buch 2002

Grounding

The Epistemic Footing of Deixis and Reference

Frank Brisard

Band 21 in dieser Reihe

This compilation of invited contributions, gathering an international collection of cognitive and functional linguists, offers an outline of original empirical work carried out in grounding theory. Grounding is a central notion in cognitive grammar that addresses the linking of semantic content to contextual factors that constitute the subjective ground (or situation of speech). The volume illustrates a growing concern with the application of cognitive grammar to constructions establishing deixis and reference. It proposes a double focus on nominal and clausal grounding, as well as on ways of integrating analyses across these domains.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110899801
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017369-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089980-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast

Buch 2002

Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast

René Dirven, Ralf Pörings

Band 20 in dieser Reihe

The book elaborates one of Roman Jakobson's many brilliant ideas, i.e. his insight that the two cognitive strategies of the metaphoric and the metonymic are the end-points on a continuum of conceptualization processes. This elaboration is achieved on the background of Lakoff and Johnson's twodomain approach, i.e. the mapping of a source onto a target domain of conceptualization. Further approaches dwell on different stretches of this metaphor-metonymy continuum. Still other papers probe into the specialized conceptual division of labor associated with both modes of thought. Two new breakthroughs in the cognitive linguistics approach to metaphor and metonymy have recently been developed: one is the three-domain approach, which concentrates on the new blends that become possible after the integration or the blending of source and target domain elements; the other is the approach in terms of primary scenes and subscenes which often determine the way source and target domains interact.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110219197
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017374-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021919-7
ISBN:: 9783110173734
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: II Language Pedagogy

Buch 2001

II Language Pedagogy

Teil des mehrbändigen Werks Applied Cognitive Linguistics

Band 19.2 in dieser Reihe

As a usage-based language theory, cognitive linguistics is predestined to have an impact on applied research in such areas as language in society, ideology, language acquisition, language pedagogy.

The present volumes are a first systematic attempt to carve out pathways from the links between language and cognition to the fields of language acquisition and language pedagogy and to deal with them in one coherent framework: applied cognitive linguistics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110866254
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017222-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086625-4
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: I Theory and Language Acquisition

Buch 2001

I Theory and Language Acquisition

Martin Pütz, Susanne Niemeier

Teil des mehrbändigen Werks Applied Cognitive Linguistics

Band 19.1 in dieser Reihe

As a usage-based language theory, cognitive linguistics is predestined to have an impact on applied research in such areas as language in society, ideology, language acquisition, language pedagogy.

The present volumes are a first systematic attempt to carve out pathways from the links between language and cognition to the fields of language acquisition and language pedagogy and to deal with them in one coherent framework: applied cognitive linguistics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110866247
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017221-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086624-7
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Zweitspracherwerb
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Cognitive Linguistics and Non-Indo-European Languages

Buch 2003

Cognitive Linguistics and Non-Indo-European Languages

Eugene H. Casad, Gary B. Palmer

Band 18 in dieser Reihe

This book applies the theory of cognitive linguistics to the analysis of a variety of grammatical phenomena in non-Indo-European languages. In previous studies of languages from non-Indo-European families, cognitive linguistics has been remarkably useful in explaining non-prototypical structures as well as more common ones. The book expands that effort into a new set of families and languages.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197150
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017371-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019715-0
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Europäische Sprachen, andere
Fachgebiet:: Europäische Sprachen, andere
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Emotions in Crosslinguistic Perspective

Buch 2001

Emotions in Crosslinguistic Perspective

Jean Harkins, Anna Wierzbicka

Band 17 in dieser Reihe

This volume aims to enrich the current interdisciplinary theoretical discussion of human emo-tions by presenting studies based on extensive linguistic data from a wide range of languages of the world. Each language-specific study gives detailed semantic descriptions of the meanings of culturally salient emotion words and expressions, offering fascinating insights into people's emotional lives in diverse cultures including Amharic, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lao, Malay, Mbula, Polish and Russian.

The book is unique in its emphasis on empirical language data, analyzed in a framework free of ethnocentrism and not dependent upon English emotion terms, but relying instead on independently established conceptual universals. Students of languages and cultures, psychology and cognition will find this volume a rich resource of description and analysis of emotional meanings in cultural context.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110880168
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017064-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-088016-8
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Kontrastive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: A Cognitive Approach to the Verb

Buch 2001

A Cognitive Approach to the Verb

Morphological and Constructional Perspectivs

Hanne Gram Simonsen, Rolf Theil Endresen

Band 16 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110817461
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017031-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081746-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Morphologie
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Cognitive Linguistics

Buch 1999

Cognitive Linguistics

Foundations, Scope, and Methodology

Theo Janssen, Gisela Redeker

Band 15 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110803464
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016163-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080346-4
ISBN:: 9783110161649
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Grammar and Conceptualization

Buch 1999

Grammar and Conceptualization

Ronald W. Langacker

Band 14 in dieser Reihe

Grammar and Conceptualization documents some major developments in the theory of cognitive grammar during the last decade. By further articulating the framework and showing its application to numerous domains of linguistic structure, this book substantiates the claim that lexicon, morphology, and syntax form a gradation consisting of assemblies of symbolic structures (form-meaning pairings).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110800524
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016604-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080052-4
ISBN:: 9783110166033
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Historical Semantics and Cognition

Buch 1999

Historical Semantics and Cognition

Andreas Blank, Peter Koch

Band 13 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110804195
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016614-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080419-5
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Historische Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Issues in Cognitive Linguistics

Buch 1999

Issues in Cognitive Linguistics

1993 Proceedings of the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference

Leon de Stadler, Christoph Eyrich

Band 12 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110811933
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015219-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081193-3
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Representation of Cognitive Structures

Buch 1998

Representation of Cognitive Structures

Syntax and Semantics of French Sentential Complements

Michel Achard

Band 11 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110805956
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015760-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080595-6
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Romanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Französisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Speaking of Emotions

Buch 1998

Speaking of Emotions

Conceptualisation and Expression

Angeliki Athanasiadou, Elzbieta Tabakowska

Band 10 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110806007
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015767-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080600-7
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Gespräch, Diskurs
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Cognitive Semantics and the Polish Dative

Buch 1997

Cognitive Semantics and the Polish Dative

Ewa Dabrowska

Band 9 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110814781
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015218-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081478-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Europäische Sprachen, andere
Fachgebiet:: Slavische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Construal of Space in Language and Thought

Buch 1996

The Construal of Space in Language and Thought

Martin Pütz, René Dirven

Band 8 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110821611
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015243-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-082161-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 1996

Give

A Cognitive Linguistic Study

John Newman

Band 7 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110823714
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014894-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-082371-4
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Sprachphilosophie
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Cognitive Linguistics in the Redwoods

Buch 1996

Cognitive Linguistics in the Redwoods

The Expansion of a New Paradigm in Linguistics

Eugene H. Casad

Band 6 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110811421
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014358-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081142-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Structure of Lexical Variation

Buch 1994

The Structure of Lexical Variation

Meaning, Naming, and Context

Dirk Geeraerts, Stefan Grondelaers, Peter Bakema

Band 5 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110873061
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014387-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087306-1
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: A Geography of Case Semantics

Buch 1993

A Geography of Case Semantics

The Czech Dative and the Russian Instrumental

Laura A. Janda

Band 4 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110867930
ISBN:: 978-3-11-012672-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086793-0
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Europäische Sprachen, andere
Fachgebiet:: Slavische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Semantik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Conceptualizations and Mental Processing in Language

Buch 1993

Conceptualizations and Mental Processing in Language

Richard A. Geiger, Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn

Band 3 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110857108
ISBN:: 978-3-11-012714-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-085710-8
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Psycholinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Grammar in Mind and Brain

Buch 1992

Grammar in Mind and Brain

Explorations in Cognitive Syntax

Paul D. Deane

Band 2 in dieser Reihe

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110886535
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013183-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-088653-5
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Psycholinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Concept, Image, and Symbol

Buch 2002

Concept, Image, and Symbol

The Cognitive Basis of Grammar

Ronald W. Langacker

Band 1 in dieser Reihe

This classic research monograph develops and illustrates the theory of linguistic structure known as Cognitive Grammar, and applies it to representative phenomena in English and other languages. Cognitive grammar views language as an integral facet of cognition and claims that grammatical structure cannot be understood or revealingly described independently of semantic considerations.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110857733
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017280-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-085773-3
ISBN:: 9783110128635
ISBN:: 9783110125993
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Metonymy in Grammar and Discourse Comprehension

Buch Noch nicht erschienen 2025

Metonymy in Grammar and Discourse Comprehension

Five Case Studies

Antonio Barcelona

Band 57 in dieser Reihe

This volume, written by a foremost expert, is a fascinating contribution to cognitive-linguistic research on metonymy analyzing authentic texts. Its five studies expand current metonymy theory by providing evidence that metonymies regularly occur at more than one analytical level of the same utterance and that they chain to each other in discourse following certain patterns. Several analytical notions are developed or refined, such as "inferential / metonymic chain", "cascading", "salience factor grid", etc. The role of metonymy in numerous constructional forms and meanings and in discourse-pragmatic meaning is clearly demonstrated in the book.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111570310
ISBN:: 9783111570310
ISBN:: 9783111569604
ISBN:: 9783111569277
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Gespräch, Diskurs
Fachgebiet:: Morphologie
Fachgebiet:: Syntax
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

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