Barbara Taraszka-Drożdż

List of John Benjamins publications in which Barbara Taraszka-Drożdż is involved.

Title

Motivation in Language: A cognitive perspective

Edited by Grzegorz Drożdż and Barbara Taraszka-Drożdż

Why do languages take the forms they do, and why do speakers choose particular expressions to construct meaning? This volume addresses these questions from a cognitive-linguistic perspective, viewing motivation as the outcome of interacting linguistic and extra-linguistic factors. Across twelve… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 83] 2027. vi, 314 pp. + index

Articles

Drożdż, Grzegorz and Barbara Taraszka-Drożdż 2027 Introduction: From classical debates on motivation to cognitive approaches Motivation in Language: A cognitive perspective, Drożdż, Grzegorz and Barbara Taraszka-Drożdż (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Chapter

Taraszka-Drożdż, Barbara 2027 Chapter 11. Motivation of painting conceptualizations in Polish discourse on music Motivation in Language: A cognitive perspective, Drożdż, Grzegorz and Barbara Taraszka-Drożdż (eds.), pp. 255–288 | Chapter

Music discourse is a complex form of discourse, largely due to its markedly metaphorical character. This chapter focuses on one recurrent type of such figurative language: the conceptualizations from the painting domain used to describe diverse facets in the musical domain. The study is… read more

Taraszka-Drożdż, Barbara 2016 Lexical and grammatical dimensions of metaphor – a Cognitive Grammar perspective Studies in Lexicogrammar: Theory and applications, Drożdż, Grzegorz (ed.), pp. 175–192 | Article

Metaphor – a popular issue in Cognitive Linguistics – is also a topic discussed within Cognitive Grammar (e.g. Langacker 2000, 2008). There, metaphor is viewed as a type of semantic extension that can be characterized at different levels of schematicity. This approach inevitably evokes the notion… read more