An authoritative general introduction to cognitive linguistics, this book provides up-to-date coverage of all areas of the field and sets in context recent developments within cognitive semantics and cognitive approaches to grammar.
This book introduces the field of cognitive linguistics, presenting its theoretical foundations and the arguments supporting it.
The books are designed for students of linguistics and those who are studying language as part of a wider course. Cognitive Linguistics explores the idea that language reflects our experience of the world.
The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics provides a comprehensive introduction and essential reference work to cognitive linguistics.
... 'Flowing waters or teeming crowds: mental models of electricity', in D. Gentner and A. Stevens (eds), Mental Models. ... Gibbs, Raymond W. and Teenie Matlock (2001) 'Psycholinguistic perspectives on polysemy', in H. Cuyckens and B.
He drove home to his hotel room. 2.13. Nesting: An interaction of categories A number of what can be considered “meta-properties” govern the behavior of categories of grammatical notions, in general and with respect to one another.
This alphabetic guide gives an up-to-date introduction to the key terms in cognitive linguistics, covering all the major theories, approaches, ideas and many of the relevant theoretical constructs.
The book looks at key concepts, such as embodiment, salience, entrenchment, construal, categorization, and collaborative communication, and discusses their genesis and implications for cognitive linguistic research.
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 ...
This book explores the importance of Cognitive Linguistics for specialized language within the context of Frame-based Terminology (FBT).
The key topics discussed in this book illustrate the breadth of cognitive linguistic research and include semantic typology, space, fictive motion, argument structure constructions, and prototype effects in grammar.