Cognitive Linguistics Between Universality And Variation

Cognitive Linguistics Between Universality And Variation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Cognitive Linguistics Between Universality And Variation book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.

Cognitive Linguistics between Universality and Variation

Author : Mario Brdar,Milena Žic Fuchs,Ida Raffaelli
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443842860

Get Book

Cognitive Linguistics between Universality and Variation by Mario Brdar,Milena Žic Fuchs,Ida Raffaelli Pdf

“This volume takes up the challenge of assessing the present state of Cognitive Linguistics on the cutting edge between universality and variability. Claims of universality have never been explicitly articulated by cognitive linguists but studies on embodiment, motivation and cognitive processes such as metaphor, metonymy, and conceptual integration rely on general cognitive abilities and hence tacitly assume cross-linguistic commonalities. Variability within a language and across languages has received growing attention, especially in contrastive and corpus-based studies. Both perspectives are given ample space in the articles collected in the volume. “The present volume is the first to address the important issue of the position of Cognitive Linguistics between the poles of universality and variability. The editors’ insightful introduction draws compelling awareness to this as a yet unresolved question. At the same time, the fine contributions collected in the volume reflect state-of-the-art research in Cognitive Linguistics and point to innovative avenues for future research. The interdisciplinary range of subject areas, the new approaches pursued and the various methodologies employed makes this volume particularly valuable. It should be of great interest to scholars working in the fields of Cognitive Linguistics and in specific languages, particularly English and Slavic linguistics.” – Günter Radden, University of Hamburg

Metaphor in Culture

Author : Zoltán Kövecses
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781139444613

Get Book

Metaphor in Culture by Zoltán Kövecses Pdf

To what extent and in what ways is metaphorical thought relevant to an understanding of culture and society? More specifically: can the cognitive linguistic view of metaphor simultaneously explain both universality and diversity in metaphorical thought? Cognitive linguists have done important work on universal aspects of metaphor, but they have paid much less attention to why metaphors vary both interculturally and intraculturally as extensively as they do. In this book, Zoltán Kövecses proposes a new theory of metaphor variation. First, he identifies the major dimension of metaphor variation, that is, those social and cultural boundaries that signal discontinuities in human experience. Second, he describes which components, or aspects of conceptual metaphor are involved in metaphor variation, and how they are involved. Third, he isolates the main causes of metaphor variation. Fourth Professor Kövecses addresses the issue to the degree of cultural coherence in the interplay among conceptual metaphors, embodiment, and causes of metaphor variation.

Metaphorical Conceptualizations

Author : Ulrike Schröder,Milene Mendes de Oliveira,Adriana Maria Tenuta
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110688306

Get Book

Metaphorical Conceptualizations by Ulrike Schröder,Milene Mendes de Oliveira,Adriana Maria Tenuta Pdf

The book deals with the important shift that has been heralded in cognitive linguistics from mere universal matters to cultural and situational variation. The discussions examine cognitive and cultural linguistics’ theories in relation to the following areas of research: (i) metaphorical conceptualization; (ii) the influence of culture on metaphor, metonymy and conceptual blends; (iii) the impact of culture and cognition on metaphorical lexis; (iv) the interface of pragmatics and cognition when metaphor is studied in situ, that is, in face-to-face as well as in virtual multimodal interaction; (v) the application of insights from metaphorical conceptualizations to language teaching, and (vi) recent methods for revealing (inter)cultural metaphorical conceptualizations (corpus-based approaches, gesture studies, etc.). The book brings together cognitive, functional, and (inter)cultural approaches.

Cognitive Contact Linguistics

Author : Eline Zenner,Ad Backus,Esme Winter-Froemel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110616842

Get Book

Cognitive Contact Linguistics by Eline Zenner,Ad Backus,Esme Winter-Froemel Pdf

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.

Language Diversity and Cognitive Representations

Author : Catherine Fuchs,Stéphane Robert
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999-11-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789027284501

Get Book

Language Diversity and Cognitive Representations by Catherine Fuchs,Stéphane Robert Pdf

Significant new developments in brain activity research have revived the debate on the universality of language and its neural basis. Within this debate, the question of language diversity and its implications for cognition remains central and controversial. It is here investigated in an original multimodal approach, covering various aspects of cross-linguistic variation, differences between spoken, signed and drum languages, between normal speech and pathological speech, and also between language and music, as revealed in electric brain activity associated with language processing. The various contributions (linguistic, anthropological, psychological and neurophysical) on the nature and status of variation and invariants in language provides evidence for complex interactions between language-specific processes and general cognitive faculties. This overview of some recent trends in cognitive linguistics opens up a promising new research area in the humanities as well as in the cognitive sciences.

Cognitive Sociolinguistics

Author : Gitte Kristiansen,René Dirven
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110199154

Get Book

Cognitive Sociolinguistics by Gitte Kristiansen,René Dirven Pdf

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.

Cognitive Sociolinguistics

Author : Martin Pütz,Justyna A. Robinson,Monika Reif
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270276

Get Book

Cognitive Sociolinguistics by Martin Pütz,Justyna A. Robinson,Monika Reif Pdf

This volume is intended to be a contribution to the rapidly growing field of research into Cognitive Sociolinguistics which draws on the convergence of methods and theoretical frameworks typically associated with Cognitive Linguistics and Sociolinguistics. The papers in this volume, written by internationally renowned scholars in the fields of sociolinguistics (e.g. Labov) and cognitive sociolinguistics, seek to explore and systematize the key theoretical and epistemological bases for the emergence of this socio-cognitive paradigm. More specifically, the papers, originally published in Review of Cognitive Linguistics 10:2 (2012), focus on terms and concepts which are foundational to the discussion of Cognitive Sociolinguistics such as the role of cognition in the sociolinguistic enterprise; the social recontextualization of cognition; variability in cognitive systems; usage-based conceptions of language; pragmatic variation and cultural models of thought; cultural conceptualizations and lexicography as well as cognitive processing models and perceptual dialectology. All the papers are anchored in instrumental empirical data analysis. The volume provides a welcome contribution to the field for anyone interested in Cognitive Linguistics and its new developments. The seven papers included in this book were originally presented at the 34th International LAUD Symposium on Cognitive Sociolinguistics, which took place in March 2010 at the University of Koblenz-Landau (Germany).

A Cognitive Linguistic Study of The Use Of Creative Figurative Language in American Political Discourse

Author : Sanja Berberović,Nihada Delibegović Džanić
Publisher : Livre de Lyon
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9782382362235

Get Book

A Cognitive Linguistic Study of The Use Of Creative Figurative Language in American Political Discourse by Sanja Berberović,Nihada Delibegović Džanić Pdf

A Cognitive Linguistic Study of The Use Of Creative Figurative Language in American Political Discourse

The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics

Author : Wen Xu,John R. Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351034692

Get Book

The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics by Wen Xu,John R. Taylor Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics provides a comprehensive introduction and essential reference work to cognitive linguistics. It encompasses a wide range of perspectives and approaches, covering all the key areas of cognitive linguistics and drawing on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research in pragmatics, discourse analysis, biolinguistics, ecolinguistics, evolutionary linguistics, neuroscience, language pedagogy, and translation studies. The forty-three chapters, written by international specialists in the field, cover four major areas: • Basic theories and hypotheses, including cognitive semantics, cognitive grammar, construction grammar, frame semantics, natural semantic metalanguage, and word grammar; • Central topics, including embodiment, image schemas, categorization, metaphor and metonymy, construal, iconicity, motivation, constructionalization, intersubjectivity, grounding, multimodality, cognitive pragmatics, cognitive poetics, humor, and linguistic synaesthesia, among others; • Interfaces between cognitive linguistics and other areas of linguistic study, including cultural linguistics, linguistic typology, figurative language, signed languages, gesture, language acquisition and pedagogy, translation studies, and digital lexicography; • New directions in cognitive linguistics, demonstrating the relevance of the approach to social, diachronic, neuroscientific, biological, ecological, multimodal, and quantitative studies. The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics is an indispensable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and for all researchers working in this area.

Cultural Conceptualizations in Language and Communication

Author : Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030427344

Get Book

Cultural Conceptualizations in Language and Communication by Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk Pdf

The book comprises a selection of papers concerning the general theme of cultural conceptualizations in language. The focus of Part 1, which includes four papers, is on Metaphor and Culture, discussing general as well as language-specific metaphoricity. Part 2, which also includes three papers, is on Cultural Models, dealing with phenomena relating to family and home, nation and kinship, blood, and death in different cultures. Six papers in Part 3, which refers to questions of Identity and Cultural Stereotypes, both in general language and in literature, discuss identity in native and migration contexts and take up motifs of journey and migration, as well as social and cultural stereotypes and prejudice in transforming contexts. Three papers in the last Part 4 of the book, Linguistic Concepts, Meanings, and Interaction, focus on the semantic interpretation of the changes and differences which occur in their intra- as well as inter-linguistic contexts.

Cognitive Sociolinguistics Revisited

Author : Gitte Kristiansen,Karlien Franco,Stefano De Pascale,Laura Rosseel,Weiwei Zhang
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110733945

Get Book

Cognitive Sociolinguistics Revisited by Gitte Kristiansen,Karlien Franco,Stefano De Pascale,Laura Rosseel,Weiwei Zhang Pdf

Cognitive Sociolinguistics draws on the rich theoretical framework of Cognitive Linguistics and focuses on the social factors that underlie the variability of meaning and conceptualization. In the last decade, the field has expanded in various way. The current volume takes stock of current and emerging advances in the field in short academic contributions. The studies collected in this book have a usage-based approach to language variation and change, drawing on the theoretical framework of Cognitive Linguistics and are sensitive to social variation, be it cross-linguistic or language-internal. Three types of contributions are collected in this book. First, it contains theoretical overview papers on the domains that have witnessed expansion in recent years. Second, it presents novel research ideas in proof-of-concept contributions, aimed at blue-sky research and out-of-the-box linguistic analyses. Third, it showcases recent empirical studies within the field. By combining these three types of contributions, the book provides an encompassing overview of novel developments in the field of Cognitive Sociolinguistics.

English Modality

Author : Juana I. Marín-Arrese,Marta Carretero,Jorge Arús Hita,Johan van der Auwera
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110286328

Get Book

English Modality by Juana I. Marín-Arrese,Marta Carretero,Jorge Arús Hita,Johan van der Auwera Pdf

The book presents new issues and areas of work in modality and evidentiality in English(es), and in relation to other European languages (French, Galician, Lithuanian, Spanish). Given the complexity of the relations among modal and evidential expressions, their constant diachronic evolution, and the variation found in different English-speaking areas, and in different genres and discourse domains, the volume addresses the following issues: the conceptual nature of modality, the relationship between the domains of modality and evidentiality, the evolution and current status of the modal auxiliaries and other modal expressions, the relationship with neighbouring grammatical categories (tense, aspect, mood), and the variation in different discourse domains and genres, in modelling stance and discourse identities.

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Evolutionary Linguistics

Author : Arie Verhagen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004422353

Get Book

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Evolutionary Linguistics by Arie Verhagen Pdf

Conceiving of language and cognition as biological phenomena, these lectures provide and illustrate a coherent, integrated theoretical framework for studying essentially any aspect of language systems, language use, language change, and language evolution.

The Lexical Typology of Semantic Shifts

Author : Päivi Juvonen,Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110377675

Get Book

The Lexical Typology of Semantic Shifts by Päivi Juvonen,Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm Pdf

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.

Ten Lectures on the Elaboration of Cognitive Grammar

Author : Ronald Langacker
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004347472

Get Book

Ten Lectures on the Elaboration of Cognitive Grammar by Ronald Langacker Pdf

This book reviews the basic claims and descriptive constructs of Cognitive Grammar, outlines major themes in its ongoing development, and applies these notions to central problems in grammatical analysis.