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Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis

Author : Ellen Contini-Morava,Robert S. Kirsner,Betsy Rodriguez-Bachiller
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902721560X

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Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis by Ellen Contini-Morava,Robert S. Kirsner,Betsy Rodriguez-Bachiller Pdf

"This volume is the product of a Columbia School Linguistics Conference held at Rutgers University in October 1999, where the plenary speaker was Ronald W. Langacker, a founder of Cognitive Linguistics. The goal of the book is to promote two kinds of dialogue. First, dialogue between Cognitive Grammar and the particular sign-based approach to language known as the Columbia School." "The second kind of dialogue is that among several sign-based approaches themselves and also between them and two competitors: grammaticalization theory and generic functionalism. Topics range from phonology to discourse. Analytical problems are taken from a wide range of languages including English, German, Guarani, Hebrew, Hualapai, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Mandarin, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Urdu, and Yaqui."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Usage-Based Approaches to Language Change

Author : Evie Coussé,Ferdinand von Mengden
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270092

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Usage-Based Approaches to Language Change by Evie Coussé,Ferdinand von Mengden Pdf

Usage-based approaches to language have gained increasing attention in the last two decades. The importance of change and variation has always been recognized in this framework, but has never received central attention. It is the main aim of this book to fill this gap. Once we recognize that usage is crucial for our understanding of language and linguistic structures, language change and variation inevitably take centre stage in linguistic analysis. Along these lines, the volume presents eight studies by international authors that discuss various approaches to studying language change from a usage-based perspective. Both theoretical issues and empirical case studies are well-represented in this collection. The case studies cover a variety of different languages – ranging from historically well-studied European languages via Japanese to the Amazonian isolate Yurakaré with no written history at all. The book provides new insights relevant for scholars interested in both functional and cognitive linguistic theory, in historical linguists and in language typology.

Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication

Author : Wei-lun Lu,Naděžda Kudrnáčová,Laura A. Janda
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027258878

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Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication by Wei-lun Lu,Naděžda Kudrnáčová,Laura A. Janda Pdf

The studies in the present volume illustrate the current state-of-the-art in the corpus-based approach in cognitive linguistics, which seeks to motivate linguistic phenomena through the combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis. By focusing on language use in different contexts from a variety of perspectives, each of the contributions in this volume presents its own unique take on the intertwined relationship between language, thought, and communication. Thus, each article shows how a combination of quantitative and qualitative analytical techniques helps shed new light on old issues, reflecting the usage-based nature of cognitive linguistics and illustrating the explanatory adequacy of corpus-based methods. Originally published as special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 17:1 (2019).

Approaches to Language, Culture, and Cognition

Author : M. Yamaguchi,D. Tay,B. Blount
Publisher : Springer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137274823

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Approaches to Language, Culture, and Cognition by M. Yamaguchi,D. Tay,B. Blount Pdf

Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition aims to bring cognitive linguistics and linguistic anthropology closer together, calling for further investigations of language and culture from cognitively-informed perspectives against the backdrop of the current trend of linguistic anthropology.

Discourse Analysis and Evaluation

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004484535

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Discourse Analysis and Evaluation by Anonim Pdf

Functional approaches to the study of language may not only be used to characterize discourse structures, but also to assess their communicative quality. In fact, discourse analysis and evaluation are conceptually related activities. In this volume the link between analysis and evaluation is explored in seven studies discussing a variety of discourse genres like package inserts, telephone openings, survey interviews, meetings, government brochures and direct mail letters. The analytical concepts used stem from different strands of research into language, including cognitive linguistics, pragmalinguistics, conversational analysis and persuasion research.

A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of the English Imperative

Author : Hidemitsu Takahashi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027274762

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A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of the English Imperative by Hidemitsu Takahashi Pdf

This volume offers the first comprehensive description of English imperatives made from a Cognitive Linguistic perspective. It proposes a new way of explaining the meaning and function of the imperative independently of illocutionary act classifications, which allows for quantifying the strength of imperative force in terms of parameters and numerical values. Furthermore, the book applies the theory of Construction Grammar to account for the felicity of imperatives in complex sentences. The model of description explains explicitly a wide range of phenomena, including frequency of use, prototypical vs. non-prototypical uses of the English imperative and the choice between longer vs. shorter directives including the imperative. A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of the English Imperative: With Special Reference to Japanese Imperatives is intended for both researchers and students interested in the English imperative and Directive Speech Acts at large and for the linguists working within the Cognitive Linguistics and/or Construction Grammar approach.

Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Text and Discourse

Author : Hart Christopher Hart
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781474450010

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Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Text and Discourse by Hart Christopher Hart Pdf

Drawing on range of text genres including novels, poems, health forums, holiday guestbooks, prayers, political songs and news stories, each chapter uses cognitive linguistics to shed light on the meanings and meaning-making processes invoked when we encounter texts belonging to different literary and political genres. The book presents new insights into the workings of textual phenomena such as metaphor, viewpoint and deixis and also sheds light on more elusive, epiphenomenal qualities such as a text's ambience, atmosphere, power, ideology or persuasiveness. It also takes new strides in cognitive text analysis by exploiting experimental and ethnographic methods to empirically investigate readers' reception of, and resistance to, texts.

The New Psychology of Language

Author : Michael Tomasello
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135663698

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The New Psychology of Language by Michael Tomasello Pdf

From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of modern linguistics is too formal and mathematical to be of much use. The newly emerging approaches to language termed, "Functional and Cognitive Linguistics," however, are much less formally oriented. Instead, functional and cognitive approaches to language structure are typically couched in terms already familiar to cognitive scientists: perception, attention, conceptualization, meaning, symbols, categories, schemas, perspectives, discourse context, social interaction, and communicative goals. The account of human linguistic competence emerging from this new paradigm should be extremely useful to scientists studying how human beings (not formal devices) comprehend, produce, and acquire natural languages. The current volume brings together 10 of the most important linguists in cognitive and functional linguistics whose work is often not easily available to those outside the field. In original contributions, each of these scholars focuses on an important aspect of human linguistic competence, with a special eye to readers who are not professional linguists. Of special importance to all of the contributions are the cognitive and social interactional processes that constitute human linguistic communication. The book is of special interest to psychologists, cognitive scientists, psycholinguists, and developmental psycholinguists, in addition to linguists taking a more psychological approach to language.

Current Approaches to Metaphor Analysis in Discourse

Author : Ignasi Navarro i Ferrando
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110629460

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Current Approaches to Metaphor Analysis in Discourse by Ignasi Navarro i Ferrando Pdf

This volume takes up the challenge of surveying the present state of a variety of approaches to the identification, analysis and interpretation of metaphor across communication channels, situational contexts, genres and social spheres. It reflects three foremost trends of present metaphor research, namely the communicative approach, the cognitive modelling approach and the multimodality approach. These trends are considered as areas of research emerging on the ground of the Conceptual Metaphor Theory, initiated by Lakoff. The book intends to show their concomitances as well as mark their diversifying paths. The aim is to bring about and make apparent the many connections among assumingly different trends stemming from CMT. Whereas discrepancies between communicative and conceptual perspectives might seem irredeemable, the book emphasizes and claims that the background framework of CMT provides a solid foundation for collaboration and mutual influence. Consequently, the analysis of metaphor usage in context may provide insights for cognitive modelling proposals. The analysis of cognitive configuration of conceptual domains may, in turn, illuminate our understanding of communicative decisions in discourse. The integration of multimodal metaphor analysis puts forward the idea that diverse modal manifestations of metaphor reveal the symbiosis between communicative and cognitive stances. The various subject areas and methodologies illuminate the scene of current research in the field. The poignant contributions open far reaching avenues into the realm of human thought and discourse.

The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics

Author : Barbara Dancygier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1427 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108146135

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The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics by Barbara Dancygier Pdf

The best survey of cognitive linguistics available, this Handbook provides a thorough explanation of its rich methodology, key results, and interdisciplinary context. With in-depth coverage of the research questions, basic concepts, and various theoretical approaches, the Handbook addresses newly emerging subfields and shows their contribution to the discipline. The Handbook introduces fields of study that have become central to cognitive linguistics, such as conceptual mappings and construction grammar. It explains all the main areas of linguistic analysis traditionally expected in a full linguistics framework, and includes fields of study such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics, diachronic studies, and corpus linguistics. Setting linguistic facts within the context of many other disciplines, the Handbook will be welcomed by researchers and students in a broad range of disciplines, including linguistics, cognitive science, neuroscience, gesture studies, computational linguistics, and multimodal studies.

Interaction and Cognition in Linguistics

Author : Carlos Inchaurralde,Celia Florén
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : IND:30000086863192

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Interaction and Cognition in Linguistics by Carlos Inchaurralde,Celia Florén Pdf

The present book is a collection of selected papers held at the 11th Susanne Hübner Seminar from the 26th of February to the 1st of March 2001 in Zaragoza, Spain. The papers included in this volume address several issues connected with the relationship between what seems to be 'external' and 'internal' in human language usage. By 'external' is meant here communication, and more concretely, interaction; by 'internal', processing and conceptualization, that is to say, cognition. These two sides coincide with the subject-matter of two of the most active paradigms of linguistic research nowadays: pragmatics and cognitive linguistics, and the two main sections of this volume reflect two possible entry points to this dichotomy. The first section, Interacting, clearly puts the emphasis on interaction itself, whereas the second section, The system behind, is concerned with metaphor, metonymy and categorization processes.

Biology of Cognition and Linguistic Analysis

Author : Aleksandr Vladimirovich Kravchenko
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Autopoiesis
ISBN : 3631566476

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Biology of Cognition and Linguistic Analysis by Aleksandr Vladimirovich Kravchenko Pdf

This book is an attempt to re-evaluate some basic assumptions about language, communication, and cognition in the light of the new epistemology of autopoiesis as the theory of the living. Starting with a critique of common myths about language and communication, the author goes on to argue for a new understanding of language and cognition as functional adaptive activities in a consensual domain of interactions. He shows that such understanding is, in fact, what marks a variety of theoretical and empirical frameworks in contemporary non-Cartesian cognitive science; thus, cognitive science is in the process of working out new epistemological foundations for the study of language and cognition. In Part Two, the traditional concept of grammar is reassessed from the vantage point of autopoietic epistemology, and an analysis of specific grammatical phenomena in English and Russian is undertaken, revealing common cognitive mechanisms at work in linguistic categories.

Conversation

Author : T. Givón
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1997-05-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027275790

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Conversation by T. Givón Pdf

The papers in this volume were originally presented at the Symposium on Conversation, held at the University of New Mexico in July 1995. The symposium brought together scholars who work on face-to-face communication from a variety of perspectives: social, cultural, cognitive and communicative. Our aim for both the symposium and this volume has been to challenge some of the prevailing dichotomies in discourse studies: First, the cleavage between the study of information flow and the study of social interaction. Second, the theoretical division between speech-situation models and cognitive models. Third, the methodological split between the study of spontaneous conversation in natural context and the study of speech production and comprehension under controlled experimental conditions. And fourth, the rigid genre distinction between narrative and conversational discourse. All four dichotomies have been useful either methodologically or historically. But important as they may have been in the past, the time has perhaps come to work toward an integrated approach to the study of human communication, one that will be less dependent on narrow reductions. Both the ontological primacy and the methodological challenge of natural face-to-face communication are self evident. Human language has evolved, is acquired, and is practiced most commonly in the context of face-to-face communication. Most past theory-building in either linguistics or psychology has not benefited from the study of face-to-face communication, a fact that is regrettable and demands rectification. We hope that this volume tilts in the right direction.

Complexity Applications in Language and Communication Sciences

Author : Àngels Massip-Bonet,Gemma Bel-Enguix,Albert Bastardas-Boada
Publisher : Springer
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030045982

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Complexity Applications in Language and Communication Sciences by Àngels Massip-Bonet,Gemma Bel-Enguix,Albert Bastardas-Boada Pdf

This book offers insights on the study of natural language as a complex adaptive system. It discusses a new way to tackle the problem of language modeling, and provides clues on how the close relation between natural language and some biological structures can be very fruitful for science. The book examines the theoretical framework and then applies its main principles to various areas of linguistics. It discusses applications in language contact, language change, diachronic linguistics, and the potential enhancement of classical approaches to historical linguistics by means of new methodologies used in physics, biology, and agent systems theory. It shows how studying language evolution and change using computational simulations enables to integrate social structures in the evolution of language, and how this can give rise to a new way to approach sociolinguistics. Finally, it explores applications for discourse analysis, semantics and cognition.

Language in Use

Author : Andrea E. Tyler,Mari Takada,Yiyoung Kim,Diana Marinova
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1589013565

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Language in Use by Andrea E. Tyler,Mari Takada,Yiyoung Kim,Diana Marinova Pdf

Language in Use creatively brings together, for the first time, perspectives from cognitive linguistics, language acquisition, discourse analysis, and linguistic anthropology. The physical distance between nations and continents, and the boundaries between different theories and subfields within linguistics have made it difficult to recognize the possibilities of how research from each of these fields can challenge, inform, and enrich the others. This book aims to make those boundaries more transparent and encourages more collaborative research. The unifying theme is studying how language is used in context and explores how language is shaped by the nature of human cognition and social-cultural activity. Language in Use examines language processing and first language learning and illuminates the insights that discourse and usage-based models provide in issues of second language learning. Using a diverse array of methodologies, it examines how speakers employ various discourse-level resources to structure interaction and create meaning. Finally, it addresses issues of language use and creation of social identity. Unique in approach and wide-ranging in application, the contributions in this volume place emphasis on the analysis of actual discourse and the insights that analyses of such data bring to language learning as well as how language shapes and reflects social identity—making it an invaluable addition to the library of anyone interested in cutting-edge linguistics.