Motivation in Language
Studies in honor of Günter Radden
Editors
This volume contributes to the now one-century old question, ‘Is the link between forms and meanings in language essentially arbitrary, as Saussure put it, or is it on the contrary also considerably motivated?’ The greater part of the papers (Sections 1–3) analyze linguistic phenomena in which not arbitrary, but cognitively motivated links between form and meaning play a role. As such, the contributions in Section 1 examine selected aspects of motivation in the continuum between lexicon and grammar; the contributions in Section 2 study the factors underlying the range of (semantic) variants that attach to a particular lexical item; and papers in Section 3 look at motivating factors in linguistic items situated in and conceptualizing the socio-cultural domain. A smaller set of papers in Section 4 point to the role which learner motivation and attitudinal motivation may play in applied linguistics domains.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 243] 2003. xxvi, 403 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Editors' foreword | p. vii
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Acknowledgments | p. viv
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In search of conceptual structure: Five milestones in the work of Günter RaddenRené Dirven | p. xiii
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Section 1: Motivation in lexico-grammar
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Extreme subjectification: English tense and modalsRonald W. Langacker | pp. 3–26
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Meaning and contextJohn R. Taylor | pp. 27–48
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Lexical rules vs. constructions: A false dichotomyWilliam A. Croft | pp. 49–68
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Schemas and lexical blendsSuzanne Kemmer | pp. 69–97
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Valency and diathesisHeinz Vater | pp. 99–122
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To get or to be? Use and acquisition of get- versus be-passives: Evidence from children and adultsKerstin Meints | pp. 123–150
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Section 2: Motivation in the lexicon
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Space and time in Polish: The preposition za and the verbal prefix za-Elżbieta Tabakowska | pp. 153–177
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Functions of the preposition kuom in DholuoMechthild Reh | pp. 179–201
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Grammaticalization of postpositions in GermanClaudio di Meola | pp. 203–222
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Metonymy in cognitive linguistics: An analysis and a few modest proposalsAntonio Barcelona | pp. 223–255
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Section 3: Motivation in socio-cultural conceptualizations
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How language is conceptualized and metaphorized in Japanese: An essay in language ideologyYoshihiko Ikegami | pp. 259–271
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The ever-stifling essentialism: Language and conflict in Poland (1991–1993)Karol Janicki | pp. 273–295
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Motion metaphorized in the economic domainOlaf Jäkel | pp. 297–318
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Section 4: Motivation in applied linguistics
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English in the world and English in the schoolWillis J. Edmondson and Juliane House | pp. 321–345
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Attitudes towards Luganda, Kiswahili, English, and mother tongue as media of instruction in UgandaMeike Sprenger-Tasch | pp. 347–366
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Style labels in monolingual English learner’s dictionariesWolfgang Hünig | pp. 367–389
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Name Index | pp. 391–396
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Subject Index | pp. 397–403
“[...] there is no doubt that the volume under review constitutes a major addition to the study of non-arbitrary aspects of linguistic phenomena and that it will be of interest not only for cognitive linguists but also for a wider audience of functional and typological linguists. It is well worth reading, and re-reading, because it offers a unique insight into the multifacted nature of the phenomenon of motivation.”
Mario Brdar, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University, Croatia, in Jezikoslovye Vol. 8:2 (2007)
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