SubjectsLinguistics / Cognition and language

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Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition

Edited by Elina Druker, Vanessa Joosen and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer

ISSN 2212-9006
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Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts

Edited by Ning Yu and Hans-Georg Wolf

ISSN 1879-8047
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Cognitive Linguistics in Practice

Edited by Carita Paradis and Stefanie Wulff

ISSN 1388-6231
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Constructional Approaches to Language

Edited by Mirjam Fried and Remi van Trijp

ISSN 1573-594X
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Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research

Edited by Nanon Labrie and Ninke Stukker

ISSN 1566-7774
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Figurative Thought and Language

Edited by Angeliki Athanasiadou and Herbert L. Colston

ISSN 2405-6944
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Gesture Studies

Edited by Jürgen Streeck

ISSN 1874-6829
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Human Cognitive Processing

Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use

Edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther and Linda L. Thornburg

ISSN 1387-6724
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Iconicity in Language and Literature

Edited by Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg

ISSN 1873-5037
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ISSN 2210-4836
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Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching

Edited by Manfred Pienemann, Bruno Di Biase and Jörg-U. Keßler

ISSN 2210-6480
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Studies in Bilingualism

Edited by Fatih Bayram and Tihana Kraš

ISSN 0928-1533
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Studies in Narrative

Edited by Martin Dege

ISSN 1568-2706
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Trends in Language Acquisition Research

Edited by Shanley E.M. Allen and Evan Kidd

ISSN 1569-0644

Journals

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Cognitive Linguistic Studies

Edited by Xu Wen and Zoltán Kövecses

ISSN 2213-8722 | E‑ISSN 2213‑8730
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Constructions and Frames

Edited by Francesca Masini and Bracha Nir

ISSN 1876-1933 | E‑ISSN 1876‑1941
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Evolutionary Linguistic Theory

Edited by Ermenegildo Bidese and Eric Fuß

ISSN 2589-1588 | E‑ISSN 2589‑1596
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Gesture

Edited by Ruth Breckinridge Church and Olivier Le Guen

ISSN 1568-1475 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9773
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Interaction Studies

Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems

Edited by Kerstin Dautenhahn and Angelo Cangelosi

ISSN 1572-0373 | E‑ISSN 1572‑0381
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International Journal of Language and Culture

Edited by Esther Pascual and Vera da Silva Sinha

ISSN 2214-3157 | E‑ISSN 2214‑3165
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ISSN 0272-2690 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9889
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Language and Dialogue

Edited by Edda Weigand

ISSN 2210-4119 | E‑ISSN 2210‑4127
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Language, Interaction and Acquisition

Langage, Interaction et Acquisition

Edited by Sandra Benazzo, Marion Blondel, Helen Engemann, Marianne Gullberg, Henriëtte Hendriks, Martin Howard, Fabian Santiago, Anita Thomas and Georges Daniel Véronique

ISSN 1879-7865 | E‑ISSN 1879‑7873
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Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism

Edited by Holger Hopp and Tanja Kupisch

ISSN 1879-9264 | E‑ISSN 1879‑9272
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Metaphor and the Social World

Edited by Susan Nacey, Dennis Tay and Sarah Turner

ISSN 2210-4070 | E‑ISSN 2210‑4097
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Narrative Inquiry

Edited by Dorien Van De Mieroop and Allyssa McCabe

ISSN 1387-6740 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9935
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Pragmatics & Cognition

Edited by Elly Ifantidou and Louis de Saussure

ISSN 0929-0907 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9943
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Review of Cognitive Linguistics

Published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association

Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

ISSN 1877-9751 | E‑ISSN 1877‑976X
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Translation, Cognition & Behavior

Edited by Elena Davitti and Alper Kumcu

ISSN 2542-5277 | E‑ISSN 2542‑5285

Online Resource

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Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy

Edited by Antonio Barcelona and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

E‑ISSN 1877‑9638

Yearbook

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Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics

Published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association

Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

ISSN 1572-0268 | E‑ISSN 1572‑0276
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Basic Concepts and Models for Interpreter and Translator Training: Third edition

Daniel Gile

In the 1980s, Daniel Gile thought of the potential benefit for translation and interpreting students of simple conceptual building blocks that could help them make sense of their classroom experience and of their instructors’ advice, especially as regards recurring challenges. The first edition of… read more
[Benjamins Translation Library, 173] 2026. xxv, 370 pp. + index
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Contrasting English and Polish Emotion Clusters

Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Paul A. Wilson

Understanding how emotions are clustered and labelled across languages offers fascinating insights into cultural differences and universals. This book delves into this very topic, analysing similarities and contrasts between Polish and English grouping and categorising emotions.The book combines a… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 80] 2026. xx, 379 pp. + index
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Crises We Live By: A transdisciplinary study of crisis and its metaphors in their cultural context

Edited by Irene Leonardis

After an original foreword from Andreas Musolff setting the stage of the book, Crises We Live By offers a series of case studies that highlight different ways of conceptualizing and speaking about crisis, above all metaphorically. Its title echoes Lakoff and Johnson’s famous Metaphors We Live By… read more
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Literature as Experience-Inviting Discourse

Anders Pettersson

Literature as Experience-Inviting Discourse presents a general perspective on the art of literature, starting from the questions of what literature is, how it works, and what it is for. It is a main theme in the book that what we typically call literature is written to be read and freely… read more
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Metonymic Thinking All the Way Down: From discourse to the lexicon, and beyond

Edited by Carmen Portero Muñoz, Antonio Barcelona and Almudena Soto Nieto

Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 13:1 (2026) vi, 273 pp.
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Progress in Colour Studies: Colour Expression and Cognition

Edited by Carole P. Biggam, Domicele Jonauskaite, Mari Uusküla and Dimitris Mylonas

This volume presents recent research in colour studies with a particular focus on language, offering both continuity and innovation within the field. All chapters are developed from papers first presented at the Progress in Colour Studies 2022 (PICS2022) conference, held at Tallinn University,… read more
[Not in series, 244] 2026. viii, 226 pp.
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Task-Based Approaches to Teaching Additional Languages in Primary School

Veronika Timpe-Laughlin and Yuko Goto Butler

How can primary school children develop real communicative ability in an additional language? How can teachers move beyond isolated vocabulary and grammar practice toward meaningful language use that aligns with children’s cognitive, social, and developmental needs? This volume provides the first… read more
[Task-Based Language Teaching, 19] 2026. xv, 208 pp.
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Thinking and Speaking About Time: A cognitive linguistic approach

Edited by Rita Brdar Szabó and Mario Brdar

The last two decades have seen a series of publications focused on time. So, why another book? It now appears that a kairos moment has arrived to reconsider from a more holistic point of view the manifold ways in which we think about time and talk about it. The book is divided into four major… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 81] 2026. viii, 477 pp.
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This is the Thing: A cognitive/typological investigation into the concept of ‘thinghood’

Michael Fortescue

This monograph investigates for the first time words like ‘thing’ of maximal semantic generality across languages. Not all languages have exact equivalents of English ‘thing’ – in some, for instance, the nearest equivalent is an interrogative stem (‘what?’). Few languages extend their ‘thing’ words… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 79] 2026. ix, 220 pp.
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Advanced Quantitative Methods in Bi-/Multilingualism

Edited by Christos Pliatsikas, George Pontikas and Ian Cunnings

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 15:4 (2025) v, 175 pp.
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Aspects of Metaphor

Edited by Maria Theodoropoulou

Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 23:1 (2025) vi, 326 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics
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Becoming a Member in Social Worlds

: The interface of learning and socialization in L2 interactions

Edited by Klara Skogmyr Marian and Simona Pekarek Doehler

Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 16:1 (2025) v, 198 pp.
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Beyond Corpus Data — Complementary and Alternative Methods in Cognitive Linguistics

Edited by Anton Granvik, Veera Hatakka, Olli O. Silvennoinen, Riku Erkkilä and Eveliina Mäntylä

Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 23:2 (2025) vi, 357 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics
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COVID-19: Metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures

Edited by Xu Wen, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon and Zoltán Kövecses

The COVID-19 pandemic set off a maelstrom of social, cultural, and political changes—as well as some surprising linguistic ones. This volume explores these dramatic changes through the lens of Cognitive Linguistics, analysing noteworthy examples of pandemic discourse to reveal correspondences and… read more
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Cultural Conceptualizations of the SELF in Hong Kong English

Denisa Latić

This monograph offers a cultural-cognitive approach to the study of identity construction at a cultural group level and how it patterns language, exemplified with Hong Kong English. For this, cultural values, political ideology, language models, and reported self- and other-perception as… read more
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Cultural models of GENDER and HOMOSEXUALITY in Indian and Nigerian English

Anna Finzel

The study presented in this book explores the cultural models of GENDER and HOMOSEXUALITY in Indian and Nigerian English, drawing on the research fields of Cultural Linguistics, Cognitive Sociolinguistics and World Englishes. With the help of different methodologies and empirical data in the form… read more
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Embodied, Social, and Creative Dimensions of Metonymy

Edited by Marlene Johansson Falck and Thomas Wiben Jensen

Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 15:2 (2025) vi, 151 pp.
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Eyes on Text: Eye movements in reading and language processing

Cengiz Acartürk

Eyes on Text presents a contemporary overview of research on eye movements in reading and language processing by spinning around the heptagon of cognitive science, which consists of linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, anthropology, artificial intelligence, education in its corners. The book… read more
[Natural Language Processing, 16] 2025. xiii, 342 pp.
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Group Dynamics in Human–Robot Interaction

Edited by Alessandra Sciutti, Dario Pasquali, Giulia Belgiovine and Linda Lastrico

Special issue of Interaction Studies 26:3 (2025) v, 119 pp.
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Humans, Machines, and Embedded Translation

Edited by Sandra L. Halverson and Jean Nitzke

Special issue of Translation, Cognition & Behavior 8:2 (2025) v, 193 pp.
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Life Storytelling across Media and Contexts

Edited by Jarmila Mildorf and Zuzana Fonioková

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 35:2 (2025) v, 163 pp.
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Love, Sex, and the Sacred: A metaphor analysis of Hungarian folk songs

Veronika Szelid

Most Hungarian folksongs are about SEX – according to a widely accepted opinion of ethnographers. But what is SEX about? How is it connected to LOVE, and what does THE SACRED have to do with these? Drawing on Conceptual Metaphor Theory, this book reveals the profound connections between the three… read more
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Modality in the Architecture of Language

Edited by Ermenegildo Bidese and Manuela Caterina Moroni

Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 7:1/2 (2025) v, 207 pp.
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Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Human-AI Team Trust

Edited by Nicolo' Brandizzi, Morgan Elizabeth Bailey, Carolina Centeio Jorge, Myke C. Cohen, Francesco Frattolillo and Alan Richard Wagner

Special issue of Interaction Studies 26:2 (2025) vi, 235 pp.
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Multimodal Communication from a Construction Grammar Perspective

Edited by Kiki Nikiforidou and Mirjam Fried

The volume is of direct interest to scholars, from senior academics to PhD students, interested in linguistically relevant phonetic and gestural information and in the relationship between multimodal communication and grammar. It contains important work in a relatively new, dynamic and exploratory… read more
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 38] 2025. vi, 317 pp.
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Research Methods in Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies

Edited by Ana María Rojo López and Ricardo Muñoz Martín

As digital advancements reshape communication, researchers need interdisciplinary methods to understand the cognitive processes involved. This essential reference for advanced students and researchers provides a comprehensive introduction to innovative research methods in cognitive translation and… read more
[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 10] 2025. xxi, 352 pp.
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Second Language Cognitive Task Complexity: A research synthesis

Shoko Sasayama, Aleksandra Malicka and John M. Norris

This book addresses the topic of cognitive task complexity as it has been investigated in second language (L2) task-based research. This interest is premised on the notion that communication tasks may differ systematically in the types and amounts of cognitive complexity they present to L2… read more
[Task-Based Language Teaching, 18] 2025. xi, 295 pp.
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What makes a Figure: Rethinking figurativity

Edited by Herbert L. Colston

This volume presents works seeking to re-think the very nature and scope of figurativity, calling into attention some of the received tenets in accounts of figurativity, both as a holistic category and for individual types and families of figures, but also attempting to expand upon the current… read more
[Figurative Thought and Language, 19] 2025. vi, 322 pp.
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‘Only joking’: Negotiating offensive humour in interaction

Edited by Chi-Hé Elder, Eleni Kapogianni and Ibi Baxter-Webb

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 32:1 (2025) v, 260 pp.
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Applied Narratology

Edited by Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar, Laura Karttunen and Anna Ovaska

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 34:2 (2024) v, 199 pp.
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Beyond Disfluency: The interplay of speech, gesture, and interaction

Loulou Kosmala

This book pioneers a tridimensional approach to (dis)fluency, evaluating fluency across three different dimensions, mainly speech, gesture, and interaction. Drawing from an extensive video dataset covering different languages and speech genres in French and English, the present research goes beyond… read more
[Advances in Interaction Studies, 11] 2024. xii, 264 pp.
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Bringing Figurative Language into Real L2 Classrooms: The challenges of empirical testing

Edited by Ana M. Piquer-Píriz and Reyes Llopis-García

Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 22:2 (2024) vi, 316 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics
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Cognitive Approaches to Mind, Language, and Society: Theory and description

Edited by Mario Serrano-Losada and Daniela Pettersson-Traba

Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 11:1 (2024) vi, 249 pp.
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Cognitive Semantics: A cultural-historical perspective

Vladimir Glebkin

The book presents two fundamental theories that characterize the cultural-historical perspective in cognitive semantics: the Four-Level Theory of Cognitive Development (FLTCD) and the Sociocultural Theory of Lexical Complexes (STLC) as well as their application to the analysis of specific material.… read more
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A Construction Grammar of the English Language: CASA – a Constructionist Approach to Syntactic Analysis

Thomas Herbst and Thomas Hoffmann

The present book provides an introduction to the linguistic model of Construction Grammar, offering a full analysis of the grammar of the English language. It covers all levels of morpho-syntactic form-meaning units: including sentence types, tense and aspect, argument structure, phrases, idioms,… read more
[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 5] 2024. xv, 315 pp.
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Metaphor, Metonymy and Lexicogenesis

Andrew Goatly

This book investigates the interaction between new English lexis and metaphor/metonymy – figures meticulously defined and contrasted in terms of similarity/contiguity. It advances three main hypotheses: (i) derived lexis is more likely to be figurative in meaning and usage than the bases from which… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 78] 2024. xvii, 348 pp.
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Multifaceted Multilingualism

Edited by Kleanthes K. Grohmann

This volume collects research on language, cognition, and communication in multilingualism. Apart from theoretical concerns including grammatical description, language-specific analyses, and modeling of multilingualism, different fields of study and research interests center around three core… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 66] 2024. x, 434 pp.
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Perspectives on Input, Evidence, and Exposure in Language Acquisition: Studies in honour of Susanne E. Carroll

Edited by Lindsay Hracs

Emphasizing the necessity for theory-driven language acquisition research, the studies in this collection aim to formalize the kinds of information available to first and second language learners, as well as to shed light on how that information is used to solve a variety of learning problems. The… read more
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Processing in Bilingual Children

Edited by Chantal van Dijk, Jasmijn E. Bosch and Sharon Unsworth

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 14:4 (2024) v, 174 pp.
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Proverbs within Cognitive Linguistics: State of the art

Edited by Sadia Belkhir

The volume presents an innovative set of researches featuring theoretical and practical discussions of the proverb in cognition and culture. To date, there seems to be a need for state-of-the-art research into this subject matter. This volume aims at responding to this need. The chapters… read more
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Quo Vadis, Construction Grammar?

Edited by Hans C. Boas, Jaakko Leino and Benjamin Lyngfelt

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 16:2 (2024) v, 177 pp.
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Space, Time, World

Michael Fortescue

Although major cognitively based studies of SPACE and TIME in language have appeared in terms of “Frames of Reference”, these do not extend to a wide selection of the world’s languages, nor do they combine SPACE and TIME in the overarching concept of WORLD, which has its own corresponding frames of… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 77] 2024. viii, 223 pp
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The Speech Act(ion) of Commenting in Social Media and Beyond

Edited by Robert Külpmann and Rita Finkbeiner

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 31:2 (2024) v, 134 pp.
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Transformative Reading

Olivia Fialho

Transformative Reading belongs to a growing tradition of studies investigating the functions of aesthetic experiences in our lives. Philosophers, literary theorists, and psychologists have suggested that aesthetic experiences implicate and develop our sense of ourselves. Literary texts, as one such… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 42] 2024. xii, 263 pp.
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Translation and Interpreting at the Interface of Cognition and Emotion

Edited by Ana María Rojo López and Purificación Meseguer Cutillas

Special issue of Translation, Cognition & Behavior 7:1 (2024) v, 185 pp.
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Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Language Learning: The need for attention

Ulf Schütze

It is intriguing and challenging to learn a language by diving into the worlds of Virtual Reality (3-D environments, avatars, games) and Artificial Intelligence (chatbots, agents). What are the issues and benefits of these technological innovations? Taking readers on a journey through the brain,… read more
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 19] 2024. xv, 146 pp.
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Applying Embodied Cognition and Cognitive Linguistics to language teaching

Edited by Paolo Della Putta and Ferran Suñer

Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 21:1 (2023) vi, 330 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics
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Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies in the Early Twenty First Century

Edited by Adolfo M. García, Edinson Muñoz and Néstor Singer

Special issue of Translation, Cognition & Behavior 6:2 (2023) v, 166 pp.
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Current challenges in metaphor research

Edited by Nina Julich-Warpakowski and Paula Pérez-Sobrino

Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 13:1 (2023) vi, 143 pp.
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Developmental Profiles in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Theoretical and methodological implications

Silvia Silleresi

This book presents the current state of knowledge and recent advances on three topics in research on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): the (debated) existence of profiles of abilities, the role of bilingualism, and the impact of interactive technologies. It includes six chapters that cover: a review… read more
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Emotion in Texts for Children and Young Adults: Moving stories

Edited by Karen Coats and Gretchen Papazian

Emotion in Texts for Children and Young Adults: Moving stories takes up key issues in affect studies while putting forward new approaches and ways of thinking about the intricate entanglements of emotion, affect, and story in relation to the functions, processes, and influences of texts designed… read more
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Existential Constructions across Languages: Forms, meanings and functions

Edited by Laure Sarda and Ludovica Lena

This volume reflects the centrality of the existential construction in current linguistic research and offers studies that both consolidate and challenge established research agendas. It addresses (i) a variety of constructions related to ‘prototypical’ existentials (including the have-possessive… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 76] 2023. x, 352 pp.
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Fictive questions in the Zhuangzi: A cognitive rhetorical study

Mingjian Xiang

Rhetoric is intimately related to interaction and cognition. This book explores the cognitive underpinnings of rhetoric by presenting a case study of the rhetorical use of interactional structures, namely expository questions and rhetorical questions, in the classical Chinese tradition. Such… read more
[Figurative Thought and Language, 18] 2023. xiii, 206 pp.
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Issues in Diachronic Construction Morphology

Edited by Muriel Norde and Graeme Trousdale

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 15:2 (2023) v, 152 pp.
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A Life with Poetry: The development of poetic literacy

Joan Peskin and David I. Hanauer

This volume examines the development of poetic literacy including the specific processes used by expert poetry readers and professional poets. In doing so it provides a much needed synthesis of research findings across diverse domains such as human development, the scientific study of literature,… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 41] 2023. x, 194 pp.
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Memory and Narrative

Edited by Alma Jeftic, Thomas Van de Putte and Johana Wyss

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 33:2 (2023) v, 172 pp.
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Perception, Culture and Language

Edited by Judit Baranyiné Kóczy and Rita Brdar Szabó

Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 10:2 (2023) vi, 239 pp.
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Practices of Dialogue, Dialogues in Practice

Edited by Alain Létourneau, Geneviève Boivin and Nicolas Bencherki

Special issue of Language and Dialogue 13:2 (2023) v, 153 pp.
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Reconnecting Form and Meaning: In honour of Kristin Davidse

Edited by Caroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière, William B. McGregor and An Van linden

This volume is intended as a celebration of Kristin Davidse’s work and its impact within the broad traditions of cognitive, functional and usage-based grammars. Reflecting this wide functionalist lens, the contributions develop ideas central to Neo-Firthian theories of grammar (in particular,… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 230] 2023. vii, 305 pp.
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Slowing Metaphor Down: Elaborating Deliberate Metaphor Theory

Gerard J. Steen

If thinking can be fast or slow, metaphorical thinking can be fast and slow too. But metaphorical thinking does not occur as often and in the ways that many metaphor scholars today think. Slow metaphorical thinking does mean, however, that we can exert more control over metaphor than has previously… read more
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Structural Priming in the Grammatical Network

Tobias Ungerer

This book brings together research in cognitive linguistics and experimental psychology to construct a psychologically plausible account of grammar as a mental network. To explore the organisation of this network, the author examines evidence from structural priming, which occurs when speakers’… read more
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 35] 2023. xiii, 236 pp.
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Structural similarity across domains in third language acquisition

Edited by Nadine Kolb, Natalia Mitrofanova and Marit Westergaard

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:5 (2023) v, 136 pp.
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Terminology: Cognition, language and communication

Teresa Cabré

This volume brings together a selection of M. Teresa Cabré’s articles on terminology published after 1999 in journals of diverse nature and scope, many of which are difficult to access; articles in languages other than English are here provided in English translation. As a whole, these articles aim… read more
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Understanding Language and Cognition through Bilingualism: In honor of Ellen Bialystok

Edited by Gigi Luk, John A.E. Anderson and John G. Grundy

Bilingualism is a ubiquitous global phenomenon. Beyond being a language experience, bilingualism also entails a social experience, and it interacts with development and learning, with cognitive and neural consequences across the lifespan. The authors of this volume are world renowned experts across… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 64] 2023. vi, 394 pp.
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Vocal Interactivity in-and-between Humans, Animals and Robots

Edited by Mohamed Chetouani, Elodie F. Briefer, Angela Dassow, Ricard Marxer, Roger K. Moore, Nicolas Obin and Dan Stowell

Special issue of Interaction Studies 24:1 (2023) v, 192 pp.
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Analogy and Contrast in Language: Perspectives from Cognitive Linguistics

Edited by Karolina Krawczak, Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Marcin Grygiel

Within cognitive and functional approaches to language structure and grammaticality, analogy and contrast represent two fundamental human cognitive capacities, which, up to now, have mostly been examined separately. This volume seeks to bridge that gap and in doing so it brings together… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 73] 2022. xi, 442 pp.
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Caused Accompanied Motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective

Edited by Anna Margetts, Sonja Riesberg and Birgit Hellwig

This volume investigates the linguistic expression of directed caused accompanied motion events, including verbal concepts like BRING and TAKE. Contributions explore how speakers conceptualise and describe these events across areally, genetically, and typologically diverse languages of the… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 134] 2022. viii, 437 pp.
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Child-Robot Interaction: Design, Evaluation, and Novel Solutions

Edited by Marta Couto, Shruti Chandra, Elmira Yadollahi and Vicky Charisi

Special issue of Interaction Studies 23:2 (2022) v, 204 pp.
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A Cognitive Perspective on Spatial Prepositions: Intertwining networks

Maria Brenda and Jolanta Mazurkiewicz-Sokołowska

A Cognitive Perspective on Spatial Prepositions: Intertwining networks is devoted to the issue of the relation between language and thought approached from the perspective of spatial relations encoded by four equivalent spatial prepositions – English to, German zu, Polish do and Russian к.… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 74] 2022. xiii, 242 pp.
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Collocations as a Language Resource: A functional and cognitive study in English phraseology

Sonja Poulsen

Are collocations problems or solutions to problems? If you take the perspective of the foreign learner, as in traditional phraseology, they are certainly challenging, and they have therefore been categorized as arbitrary, or even defective, deviations from an assumed norm of full compositionality.… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 71] 2022. xvi, 348 pp.
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Discourse-pragmatic markers, fillers and filled pauses: Pragmatic, cognitive, multimodal and sociolinguistic perspectives

Edited by Kate Beeching, Grant Howie, Minna Kirjavainen and Anna Piasecki

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 29:2 (2022) iii, 213 pp.
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Dynamism in Metaphor and Beyond

Edited by Herbert L. Colston, Teenie Matlock and Gerard J. Steen

The last half century witnessed an upheaval in scientific investigation of human meaning-making and meaning-sharing. Dynamism in Metaphor and Beyond, is offered as a snapshot of the status of this multidisciplinary endeavor—a peak under the umbrella of what Cognitive Linguistics, Psycholinguistics,… read more
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Figurative Thought and Language in Action

Edited by Mario Brdar and Rita Brdar Szabó

The contents of the volume prove the vitality of cognitive linguistic studies of figuration when combined with new research methodologies, in tandem with other disciplines, and also when applied to an ever broader range of topics. Individual chapters are concerned not only with some fundamental… read more
[Figurative Thought and Language, 16] 2022. vi, 287 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
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Figurativity and Human Ecology

Edited by Alexandra Bagasheva, Bozhil Hristov and Nelly Tincheva

Figurativity has attracted scholars’ attention for thousands of years and yet there are still open questions concerning its nature. Figurativity and Human Ecology endorses a view of figurativity as ubiquitous in human reasoning and language, and as a key example of how a human organism and its… read more
[Figurative Thought and Language, 17] 2022. vi, 307 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
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Figuring out Figuration: A cognitive linguistic account

María Sandra Peña-Cervel and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

This book combines explanatory breadth with analytical delicacy. It offers a comprehensive study of a broad array of traditional figures of speech by systematizing linguistic evidence of the cognitive processes underlying them. Such processes are explicitly linked to different communicative… read more
[Figurative Thought and Language, 14] 2022. ix, 296 pp.
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Introduction to Cognitive Pragmatics

Klaus-Uwe Panther

This textbook is designed for advanced (graduate and postgraduate) students, and will also be of interest to scholars. It blends a cognitive linguistic approach to language and language use with insights from contemporary pragmatics, the ultimate aim being to advance a unified model of cognitive… read more
[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 4] 2022. xxiii, 283 pp.
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Italian Sign Language from a Cognitive and Socio-semiotic Perspective: Implications for a general language theory

Virginia Volterra, Maria Roccaforte, Alessio Di Renzo and Sabina Fontana

This volume reveals new insights on the faculty of language. By proposing a new approach in the analysis and description of Italian Sign Language (LIS), that can be extended also to other sign languages, this book also enlightens some aspects of spoken languages, which were often overlooked in the… read more
[Gesture Studies, 9] 2022. vi, 220 pp.
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The Language of Food in Japanese: Cognitive perspectives and beyond

Edited by Kiyoko Toratani

Many studies on the language of food examine English or adopt discourse analysis. This volume makes a fresh attempt to analyze Japanese, focusing on non-discursive units. It offers state-of-the-art data-oriented studies, including methods of analysis in line with Cognitive Linguistics. It… read more
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Living Metaphors and Metonymies

Edited by Mario Brdar and Rita Brdar Szabó

Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 20:1 (2022) vi, 304 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics
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Modeling Irony: A cognitive-pragmatic account

Inés Lozano-Palacio and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

This book adopts a broad cognitive-pragmatic perspective on irony which sees ironic meaning as the result of complex inferential activity arising from conflicting conceptual scenarios. This view of irony is the basis for an analytically productive integrative account capable of bridging gaps among… read more
[Figurative Thought and Language, 12] 2022. ix, 173 pp.
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Motion Metaphors in Music Criticism: An empirical investigation of their conceptual motivation and their metaphoricity

Nina Julich-Warpakowski

The book explores (1) the motivation of motion expressions in Western classical music criticism in terms of conceptual metaphors (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980, 1999) in two corpus studies, and (2) their perceived degree of metaphoricity among musicians and non-musicians in a rating study. The results… read more
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The Multimodal Performance of Conversational Humor

Elisa Gironzetti

This volume is the first monograph exploring the functions of visual cues in humor, advocating for the development of a non-linguocentric theory of humor performance. It analyzes a corpus of dyadic, face-to-face interactions in Spanish and English to study the relationship between humor, smiling,… read more
[Figurative Thought and Language, 13] 2022. xix, 235 pp.
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Narratives as Social Practice in Organisational Contexts

Edited by Dorien Van De Mieroop, Jonathan Clifton and Stephanie Schnurr

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 32:1 (2022) vi, 243 pp.
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Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description: Deixis, asymmetries, constructions

Edited by Laure Sarda and Benjamin Fagard

The idea of this book on "Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description" comes from the observation that, over the last 30 years, much attention has been devoted to the manner/path divide in relation to the distinction between Verb-Framed and Satellite-Framed languages. This mainstream focus has… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 72] 2022. vii, 279 pp.
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Poetic Metaphors: Creativity and interpretation

Carina Rasse

Poetry pushes metaphor to the limit. Consider how many different, dynamic, and interconnected dimensions (e.g., text, rhyme, rhythm, sound, and many more) a poem has, and how they all play a role in the ways (metaphorical) meaning is constructed. There is probably no other genre that relies so much… read more
[Figurative Thought and Language, 15] 2022. xvii, 190 pp.
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Socially Acceptable Robot Behavior: Approaches for Learning, Adaptation and Evaluation

Edited by Oliver Roesler, Elahe Bagheri, Amir Aly, Silvia Rossi and Rachid Alami

Special issue of Interaction Studies 23:3 (2022) v, 198 pp.
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Sound–Emotion Interaction in Poetry: Rhythm, Phonemes, Voice Quality

Reuven Tsur † and Chen Gafni

This book is a collection of studies providing a unique view on two central aspects of poetry: sounds and emotive qualities, with emphasis on their interactions. The book addresses various theoretical and methodological issues related to topics like sound symbolism, poetic prosody, and voice… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 39] 2022. xv, 448 pp.
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Time Representations in the Perspective of Human Creativity

Edited by Anna Piata, Adriana Gordejuela and Daniel Alcaraz Carrión

In recent years, the study of the conceptualization of time has seen a considerable growth, providing a basis for exploring the cognitive foundation of metaphor. But if metaphorical representations of time are established in the cognitive system, how are they manipulated when humans are engaged in… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 75] 2022. viii, 245 pp.
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Variation and Grammaticalization of Verbal Constructions

Edited by Dániel Czicza and Gabriele Diewald

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 14:1 (2022) v, 223 pp.
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Visual Metaphors

Edited by Réka Benczes and Veronika Szelid

Whenever we think about the world – including its concrete and abstract entities – we typically see a series of so-called mental images in front of our eyes that aid us in everyday problem solving and navigating ourselves in the world. Visual metaphors, similarly to their linguistic counterparts,… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 124] 2022. vi, 284 pp.
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An Argumentative Analysis of the Emergence of Issues in Adult-Children Discussions

Rebecca G. Schär

This book traces the issue in argumentative discussions from its emergence to its evolution. The book makes use of naturally occurred data of spoken argumentation to investigate how an issue is raised and possibly negotiated in argumentative discussions between young children (aged 2 to 6 years)… read more
[Argumentation in Context, 19] 2021. xv, 160 pp.
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Bi-/Multilingualism and the Declining Brain

Edited by Christos Pliatsikas, Ana Inés Ansaldo and Toms Voits

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11:4 (2021) v, 158 pp.
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Building Categories in Interaction: Linguistic resources at work

Edited by Caterina Mauri, Ilaria Fiorentini and Eugenio Goria

This book addresses the topic of linguistic categorization from a novel perspective. While most of the early research has focused on how linguistic systems reflect some pre-existing ways of categorizing experience, the contributions included in this volume seek to understand how linguistic… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 220] 2021. vi, 467 pp.
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Cognitive Aphasiology – A Usage-Based Approach to Language in Aphasia

Rachel Hatchard

Aphasia is the most common acquired language disorder in adults, resulting from brain damage, usually stroke. This book firstly explains how aphasia research and clinical practice remain heavily influenced by rule-based, generative theory, and summarizes key shortcomings with this approach.… read more
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 31] 2021. xx, 311 pp.
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Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication

Edited by Wei-lun Lu, Naděžda Kudrnáčová and Laura A. Janda

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… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 119] 2021. v, 157 pp.
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Cultural-Linguistic Explorations into Spirituality, Emotionality, and Society

Edited by Hans-Georg Wolf, Denisa Latić and Anna Finzel

This book offers Cultural-Linguistic explorations into the diverse Lebenswelten of a wide range of cultural contexts, such as South Africa, Hungary, India, Nigeria, China, Romania, Iran, and Poland. The linguistic expedition sets out to explore three thematic segments that were, thus far,… read more
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Developments in Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies

Edited by Kairong Xiao and Sandra L. Halverson

Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 8:2 (2021) vi, 278 pp.
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Dynamic Variation in Second Language Acquisition: A language processing perspective

Bronwen Patricia Dyson

Dynamic Variation in Second Language Acquisition makes a cutting-edge contribution to knowledge about how second language learners develop their second language. Drawing comprehensively on Processability Theory’s theoretical understanding that individual variation dynamically interacts with ordered… read more
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Figurative Language – Intersubjectivity and Usage

Edited by Augusto Soares da Silva

Intersubjectivity and usage play central roles in figurative language and are pivotal notions for a cognitively realistic research on figures of thought, speech, and communication. This volume brings together thirteen studies that explore the relationship between figurativity, intersubjectivity and… read more
[Figurative Thought and Language, 11] 2021. xii, 442 pp.
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Linguistic Categories, Language Description and Linguistic Typology

Edited by Luca Alfieri, Giorgio Francesco Arcodia and Paolo Ramat

Few issues in the history of the language sciences have been an object of as much discussion and controversy as linguistic categories. The eleven articles included in this volume tackle the issue of categories from a wide range of perspectives and with different foci, in the context of the current… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 132] 2021. vi, 424 pp.
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Metaphor in Education: A multilingual perspective

Edited by Katrin Ahlgren, Anne Golden and Ulrika Magnusson

Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 11:2 (2021) vi, 191 pp.
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Methodology of Narrative Study: What the first thirty years of Narrative Inquiry have revealed

Edited by Allyssa McCabe and Dorien Van De Mieroop

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 31:1 (2021) vi, 262 pp.
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New Developments in Relevance Theory

Edited by Manuel Padilla Cruz and Agnieszka Piskorska

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 28:2 (2021) v, 218 pp.
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Polylogues on The Mental Lexicon: An exploration of fundamental issues and directions

Edited by Gary Libben †, Gonia Jarema and Victor Kuperman

From its beginnings, the study of the mental lexicon has been at the crossroads of research and scholarship. This volume presents a polylogue--a textual conversation of many voices. It is designed to capture the excitement within the field and generate a deeper understanding of key issues and… read more
[Not in series, 238] 2021. viii, 229 pp.
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Recurrent Gestures

Edited by Simon Harrison, Silva H. Ladewig and Jana Bressem

Special issue of Gesture 20:2 (2021) v, 177 pp.
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Research on Second Language Processing and Processing Instruction: Studies in honor of Bill VanPatten

Edited by Michael J. Leeser, Gregory D. Keating and Wynne Wong

This volume consists of a well-integrated collection of original research articles and theoretical/overview papers on second language (L2) input processing. The primary contributors are former students of Bill VanPatten from the past three decades, and the collection of articles is intended as a… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 62] 2021. viii, 359 pp.
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Sensory Experiences: Exploring meaning and the senses

Danièle Dubois, Caroline Cance, Matt Coler, Arthur Paté and Catherine Guastavino

Sensory Experiences: Exploring meaning and the senses describes the collective elaboration of a situated cognitive approach with an emphasis on the relations between language and cognition within and across different sensory modalities and practices. This approach, grounded in 40 years of empirical… read more
Other subjects Philosophy | Psycholinguistics
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Sex, Death & Politics: Taboos in Language

Edited by Melanie Keller, Philipp Striedl, Daniel Biro, Johanna Holzer and Benjamin Weber

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 28:1 (2021) v, 221 pp.
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Style and Reader Response: Minds, media, methods

Edited by Alice Bell, Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons and David Peplow

Style and Reader Response: Minds, media, methods profiles the diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches in reception-oriented research in stylistics. Collectively, the chapters investigate how real readers, players, audiences, and viewers respond to, experience, and interpret texts.… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 36] 2021. vii, 236 pp.
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Body Part Terms in Conceptualization and Language Usage

Edited by Iwona Kraska-Szlenk

The volume focuses on body part terms as the vehicle of embodied cognition and conceptualization. It explores the relationship between universal embodiment, language-specific cultural models and linguistic usage practices. The chapters of the volume add to the previous research in a novel way. The… read more
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Broader Perspectives on Motion Event Descriptions

Edited by Yo Matsumoto and Kazuhiro Kawachi

Human languages exhibit fascinating commonalities and variations in the ways they describe motion events. In this volume, the contributors present their research results concerning motion event descriptions in the languages that they investigate. The volume features new proposals based on a broad… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 69] 2020. vii, 324 pp.
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Child Bilingualism and Second Language Learning: Multidisciplinary perspectives

Edited by Fangfang Li, Karen E. Pollock and Robbin Gibb

This book focuses exclusively on child bilinguals or children exposed to a second language in various learning contexts. Through the presentation of research on how children learn the sound systems or lexicon in two languages and via different routes, the book aims to paint a comprehensive picture… read more
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 10] 2020. vii, 306 pp.
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Coherence

T. Givón

Coherence, connectivity and the fitting together of smaller parts into larger structures and a coherent whole is the hallmark of complex biologically-based systems. As a structure-internal constraint, coherence makes it possible for the parts to work together as a whole. As an external constraint,… read more
[Not in series, 230] 2020. xi, 293 pp.
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Construction Grammar across Borders

Edited by Tiago Timponi Torrent, Ely Edison da Silva Matos and Natália Sathler Sigiliano

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 12:1 (2020) v, 169 pp.
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Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition: How children use their environment to learn

Edited by Caroline F. Rowland, Anna L. Theakston, Ben Ambridge and Katherine E. Twomey

In recent years the field has seen an increasing realisation that the full complexity of language acquisition demands theories that (a) explain how children integrate information from multiple sources in the environment, (b) build linguistic representations at a number of different levels, and (c)… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 27] 2020. ix, 330 pp.
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Developing Narrative Comprehension: Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives

Edited by Ute Bohnacker and Natalia Gagarina

Comprehension of texts and understanding of questions is a cornerstone of successful human communication. Whilst reading comprehension has been thoroughly investigated in the last decade, there is surprisingly little research on children’s comprehension of picture stories, particularly for… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 61] 2020. vii, 341 pp.
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Drawing Attention to Metaphor: Case studies across time periods, cultures and modalities

Edited by Camilla Di Biase-Dyson and Markus Egg

The communicative act of drawing attention to metaphor is a relatively recent topic in metaphor studies and one that has remained contentious from a cognitive perspective. This book brings philologists of ancient languages together with metaphor experts from several modalities to interrogate… read more
[Figurative Thought and Language, 5] 2020. v, 265 pp.
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Emotion, Body and Mind across a Continent: Figurative representations of emotions in Australian Aboriginal languages

Edited by Maïa Ponsonnet, Dorothea Hoffmann and Isabel O'Keeffe

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 27:1 (2020) v, 312 pp.
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Errors and Interaction: A cognitive ethnography of emergency medicine

Sarah Bro Trasmundi

Trasmundi combines her background as a cognitive ethnographer with theory of radical embodied cognition and interaction to investigate how healthcare practitioners manage cognitive events in patient treatment and diagnosing that often lead to human errors. This interdisciplinary focus emphasises… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 309] 2020. xii, 246 pp.
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Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language

Edited by Annalisa Baicchi

This volume brings together twelve usage-based studies conducted by leading researchers in language and cognition that explore core issues of figurativeness from the Cognitive Linguistics perspective. The individual chapters reveal the central function of figurativeness in thought and its impact on… read more
[Figurative Thought and Language, 9] 2020. vii, 311 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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Grammar and Cognition: Dualistic models of language structure and language processing

Edited by Alexander Haselow and Gunther Kaltenböck

This volume brings together linguistic, psychological and neurological research in a discussion of the Cognitive Dualism Hypothesis, whose central idea is that human cognitive activity in general and linguistic cognition in particular cannot reasonably be reduced to a single, monolithic system of… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 70] 2020. vii, 358 pp.
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Historical Linguistics: A cognitive grammar introduction

Margaret E. Winters

This textbook serves a dual purpose. It is, first, a comprehensive introduction to historical linguistics, intended for both undergraduate and graduate students who have taken, at the least, an introductory course in linguistics. Secondly, unlike many such textbooks, this one is based in the… read more
[Not in series, 227] 2020. xvii, 241 pp.
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How the Brain Got Language – Towards a New Road Map

Edited by Michael A. Arbib

How did humans evolve biologically so that our brains and social interactions could support language processes, and how did cultural evolution lead to the invention of languages (signed as well as spoken)? This book addresses these questions through comparative (neuro)primatology – comparative… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 112] 2020. vii, 393 pp.
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Intercultural Pragmatics and Cultural Linguistics

Edited by Ulrike Schröder, Milene Mendes de Oliveira and Hans-Georg Wolf

Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 7:1 (2020) v, 145 pp.
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Language, Culture and Identity – Signs of Life

Edited by Vera da Silva Sinha, Ana Moreno-Núñez and Zhen Tian

The dynamics of language, culture and identity are a major focus for many linguists and cognitive and cultural researchers. This book explores the inextricable connection that language has with cultural identity and cultural practices, with a particular emphasis on how they contribute to shaping… read more
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Metaphor in Mental Healthcare

Edited by Dennis Tay

Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 10:2 (2020) vi, 166 pp.
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The Multilingual Challenge for the Construction and Transmission of Scientific Knowledge

Anne-Claude Berthoud and Laurent Gajo

Whereas it is now generally recognised that multilingualism is important for society, culture and the economy, the relevance of multilingualism for the world of science has still largely escaped attention. But science, too, is created and transmitted in and through communication. Today, the… read more
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Playing with Mental Models: Humour in the BBC comedy series The Office

Henri de Jongste

In this book, the author uses a mental-model theory of communication to investigate the acclaimed British situation comedy The Office. The approach taken is multi-disciplinary, and focuses on questions as:What are mental models and what role do they play in communication in general, and in creating… read more
[Topics in Humor Research, 9] 2020. xv, 301 pp.
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Producing Figurative Expression: Theoretical, experimental and practical perspectives

Edited by John Barnden and Andrew Gargett

This collection contains a selection of recent work on people’s production of figurative language (metaphoric, ironic, metonymic, hyperbolic, ...) and similarly of figurative expression in visual media and artefact design. The articles illuminate issues such as why and under what circumstances… read more
[Figurative Thought and Language, 10] 2020. viii, 549 pp.
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Translation and Affect: Essays on sticky affects and translational affective labour

Kaisa Koskinen

In an age of AI and automated translation, the affective remains a decisively human condition. Translation and Affect is a collection of essays that investigate the role of affects and emotions across the spectrum of translatorial activities and areas, from public service interpreting to… read more
[Benjamins Translation Library, 152] 2020. xii, 201 pp.
Other subjects Translation Studies
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Typical and Impaired Processing in Morphosyntax

Edited by Vincent Torrens

The present volume presents research on language processing and language disorders. Topics range across typical language processing, child developmental language disorders, adult neurodegenerative disorders and neurological bases of typical or impaired brains. The chapters cover a number of… read more
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Understanding Conversational Joking: A cognitive-pragmatic study based on Russian interactions

Nadine Thielemann

This book examines the diverse forms of conversational humor with the help of examples drawn from casual interactions among Russian speakers. It argues that neither an exclusively discourse-analytic perspective on the phenomenon nor an exclusively cognitive one can adequately account for… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 310] 2020. x, 287 pp.
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Understanding Deafness, Language and Cognitive Development: Essays in honour of Bencie Woll

Edited by Gary Morgan

The study of childhood deafness offers researchers many interesting insights into the role of experience and sensory inputs for the development of language and cognition. This volume provides a state of the art look at these questions and how they are being applied in the areas of clinical and… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 25] 2020. xv, 214 pp.
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Visual Metaphors

Edited by Réka Benczes and Veronika Szelid

Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 7:1 (2020) vi, 274 pp.
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Where Words Get their Meaning: Cognitive processing and distributional modelling of word meaning in first and second language

Marianna Bolognesi

Words are not just labels for conceptual categories. Words construct conceptual categories, frame situations and influence behavior. Where do they get their meaning? This book describes how words acquire their meaning. The author argues that mechanisms based on associations, pattern detection, and… read more
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Anthropology of Gesture

Edited by Heather Brookes and Olivier Le Guen

Special issue of Gesture 18:2/3 (2019) vi, 282 pp.
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Bilingualism, Executive Function, and Beyond: Questions and insights

Edited by Irina A. Sekerina, Lauren Spradlin and Virginia Valian

The study of bilingualism has charted a dramatically new, important, and exciting course in the 21st century, benefiting from the integration in cognitive science of theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and cognitive psychology (especially work on the higher-level cognitive processes often… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 57] 2019. viii, 377 pp.
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Cognitive Linguistics and the Study of Chinese

Edited by Dingfang Shu, Hui Zhang and Lifei Zhang

Bringing together contributions from a group of prominent researchers, within a cognitive-linguistic framework, this volume sheds light on linguistic structures and usages characteristic of the Chinese language, including noun-verb inclusion, the conceptual spatialization of actions, existential… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 67] 2019. xv, 313 pp.
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Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication

Edited by Wei-lun Lu, Naděžda Kudrnáčová and Laura A. Janda

Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 17:1 (2019) vi, 301 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics
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Creativity in Language

Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Andrea Hollington, Nico Nassenstein and Anne Storch

Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 6:1 (2019) vi, 223 pp.
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Encoding Motion Events in Mandarin Chinese: A cognitive functional study

Jingxia Lin

This book is a corpus-based description and discussion of how Modern Mandarin Chinese encodes motion events, with a focus on how the distribution of verbal motion morphemes is closely associated with the meanings they lexicalize. The book is not only the first work that proposes a finer-grained… read more
[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 11] 2019. xvii, 209 pp.
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Experiencing Fictional Worlds

Edited by Benedict Neurohr and Lizzie Stewart-Shaw

Experiencing Fictional Worlds is not only the title of this book, but a challenge to reveal exactly what makes the “experience” of literature. This volume presents contributions drawing upon a range of theories and frameworks based on the text-as-world metaphor. This text-world approach is… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 32] 2019. xiii, 228 pp.
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Human Robot Collaborative Intelligence: Theory and applications

Edited by Chenguang Yang, Xiaofeng Liu, Junpei Zhong and Angelo Cangelosi

Special issue of Interaction Studies 20:1 (2019) vi, 204 pp.
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The Internal Context of Bilingual Processing

John Truscott and Michael Sharwood Smith

This book offers a broad-based account of bilingual processing, drawing on research findings and current thinking from various domains across cognitive science. The theoretical approach adopted is the Modular Cognition Framework in which language processing is characterized as an interaction… read more
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 8] 2019. xv, 327 pp.
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Metaphor Identification in Multiple Languages: MIPVU around the world

Edited by Susan Nacey, Aletta G. Dorst, Tina Krennmayr and W. Gudrun Reijnierse

This volume explores linguistic metaphor identification in a wide variety of languages and language families. The book is an essential read for anyone interested in researching language and metaphor, from students to experienced scholars. Its primary goals are to discuss the challenges involved in… read more
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
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Metaphor and Metonymy in the Digital Age: Theory and methods for building repositories of figurative language

Edited by Marianna Bolognesi, Mario Brdar and Kristina Š. Despot

This book describes methods, risks, and challenges involved in the construction of metaphor and metonymy digital repositories. The first part of this volume showcases established and new projects around the world in which metaphors and metonymies are harvested and classified. The second part… read more
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Metaphor and National Identity: Alternative conceptualization of the Treaty of Trianon

Orsolya Putz

Due to the Treaty of Trianon – which was signed at the end of World War 1 in 1920 – Hungary lost two thirds of its former territory, as well as the inhabitants of these areas. The book aims to reveal why the treaty still plays a role in Hungarian national identity construction, by studying the… read more
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The Neurocognition of Translation and Interpreting

Adolfo M. García

This groundbreaking work offers a comprehensive account of brain-based research on translation and interpreting. First, the volume introduces the methodological and conceptual pillars of psychobiological approaches vis-à-vis those of other cognitive frameworks. Next, it systematizes… read more
[Benjamins Translation Library, 147] 2019. xx, 268 pp.
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On the Role of Pragmatics in Construction Grammar

Edited by Rita Finkbeiner

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 11:2 (2019) v, 163 pp.
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Perception Metaphors

Edited by Laura J. Speed, Carolyn O'Meara, Lila San Roque and Asifa Majid

Metaphor allows us to think and talk about one thing in terms of another, ratcheting up our cognitive and expressive capacity. It gives us concrete terms for abstract phenomena, for example, ideas become things we can grasp or let go of. Perceptual experience—characterised as physical and… read more
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Perspectives on Abstract Concepts: Cognition, language and communication

Edited by Marianna Bolognesi and Gerard J. Steen

Human language is the most powerful communication system that evolution has produced. Within this system, we can talk about things we can physically see, such as cats and tables, but also about more abstract entities, such as theories and feelings. But how are these abstract concepts grounded in… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 65] 2019. xii, 315 pp.
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Psycholinguistic approaches to production and comprehension in bilingual adults and children

Edited by Maialen Iraola Azpiroz, Shanley E.M. Allen, Kalliopi Katsika and Leigh B. Fernandez

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:4/5 (2019) vi, 263 pp.
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Real Fictions: Fictionality, factuality and narrative strategies in contemporary storytelling

Edited by Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons and Mari Hatavara

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 29:2 (2019) v, 189 pp.
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Reference Point and Case: A Cognitive Grammar exploration of Korean

Chongwon Park

This monograph answers the rarely discussed questions of why complicated grammatical case phenomena exist in Korean and what the connection is between the case forms and their functions. The author argues that the case forms in Korean reflect patterns of the human cognitive process. While this… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 68] 2019. xx, 264 pp.
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Representing Wine – Sensory Perceptions, Communication and Cultures

Rosario Caballero, Ernesto Suárez-Toste and Carita Paradis

Wine culture is a complex phenomenon of increasing importance in modern society, and it combines the joys of wine appreciation with the frustrations of trying to verbally communicate sensory impressions. While wine appreciation is traditionally characterized as joyously convivial in its social… read more
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Researching L2 Task Performance and Pedagogy: In honour of Peter Skehan

Edited by Zhisheng (Edward) Wen and Mohammad Javad Ahmadian

This volume honours Peter Skehan’s landmark contributions to research in Task-Based Language Teaching. It offers state-of-the-art reviews as well as cutting-edge new research studies, all reflective of key theoretical and methodological issues in current research, such as the role and nature of… read more
[Task-Based Language Teaching, 13] 2019. xxiii, 328 pp.
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The Semantics of Dynamic Space in French: Descriptive, experimental and formal studies on motion expression

Edited by Michel Aurnague and Dejan Stosic

Research on the semantics of spatial markers in French is known mainly through Vandeloise’s (1986, 1991) work on static prepositions. However, interest in the expression of space in French goes back to the mid-1970s and focused first on verbs denoting changes in space, whose syntactic properties… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 66] 2019. ix, 396 pp.
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Sensory Linguistics: Language, perception and metaphor

Bodo Winter

One of the most fundamental capacities of language is the ability to express what speakers see, hear, feel, taste, and smell. Sensory Linguistics is the interdisciplinary study of how language relates to the senses. This book deals with such foundational questions as: Which semiotic strategies do… read more
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Social Cues in Robot Interaction, Trust and Acceptance

Edited by Alessandra Rossi, Kheng Lee Koay, Silvia Moros, Patrick Holthaus and Marcus Scheunemann

Special issue of Interaction Studies 20:3 (2019) v, 170 pp.
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Surprise at the Intersection of Phenomenology and Linguistics

Edited by Natalie Depraz and Agnès Celle

Surprise is treated as an affect in Aristotelian philosophy as well as in Cartesian philosophy. In experimental psychology, surprise is considered to be an emotion. In phenomenology, it is only addressed indirectly (Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas), with the important exception of Ricœur and Maldiney;… read more
[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 11] 2019. vi, 185 pp.
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Teachability and Learnability across Languages

Edited by Ragnar Arntzen, Gisela Håkansson, Arnstein Hjelde and Jörg-U. Keßler

Teachability and Learnability across Languages addresses key issues in second, foreign and heritage language acquisition, as well as in language teaching. Focusing on a Processability Theory perspective, it brings together empirical studies of language acquisition, language teaching, and language… read more
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“Self” in Language, Culture, and Cognition

Yanying Lu

This book explores socio-cultural meanings of ‘self’ in the Chinese language through analysing a range of conversations among Chinese immigrants to Australia qualitatively on the topics of individuality, social relationships and collective identity. If language, culture and cognition are major… read more
[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 10] 2019. xv, 178 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Applying Cognitive Linguistics: Figurative language in use, constructions and typology

Edited by Ana M. Piquer-Píriz and Rafael Alejo-González

In recent years, Cognitive Linguistics (CL) has established itself not only as a solid theoretical approach but also as an important source from which different applications to other fields have emerged. In this volume we identify some of the current, most relevant topics in applied CL-oriented… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 99] 2018. vi, 230 pp.
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Aspectuality across Languages: Event construal in speech and gesture

Edited by Alan Cienki and Olga K. Iriskhanova

The book provides a nuanced, multimodal perspective on how people express events via certain grammatical forms of verbs in speech and certain qualities of movement in manual gestures. The volume is the outcome of an international project that involved three teams: one each from France, Germany, and… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 62] 2018. xviii, 221 pp.
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Asymmetries, Mismatches and Construction Grammar

Edited by Nikos Koutsoukos, Kristel Van Goethem and Hendrik De Smet

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 10:2 (2018) v, 183 pp.
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Attention to Metaphor: From neurons to representations

Valentina Cuccio

The last decades of the twentieth century have witnessed a fundamental scientific discovery: the identification of mirror neurons and, consequently, the development of the Embodied Simulation theory. Neuroscientific data on the mechanism of Embodied Simulation and its role in conceptual and… read more
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Cognitive Perspectives on Genre

Edited by Carla Vergaro

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 25:3 (2018) v, 214 pp.
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Cognitive Rhetoric: The cognitive poetics of political discourse

Sam Browse

This book sets out a framework for investigating audience responses to political discourse. It starts from the premise that audiences are active participants who bring their own background knowledge and political standpoint to the communicative event. To operationalise this perspective, the volume… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 31] 2018. xi, 235 pp.
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Conceptual Metonymy: Methodological, theoretical, and descriptive issues

Edited by Olga Blanco Carrión, Antonio Barcelona and Rossella Pannain

The volume addresses a number of closely connected methodological, descriptive, and theoretical issues in the study of metonymy, and includes a series of case studies broadening our knowledge of the functioning of metonymy. As regards the methodological and descriptive issues, the book exhibits a… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 60] 2018. ix, 325 pp.
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The Dynamics of Lexical Innovation: Data, methods, models

Edited by Daphné Kerremans, Jelena Prokić, Quirin Würschinger and Hans-Jörg Schmid

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 25:1 (2018) v, 200 pp.
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Event Structure Metaphors through the Body: Translation from English to American Sign Language

Daniel R. Roush

How do the experiences of people who have different bodies (deaf versus hearing) shape their thoughts and metaphors? Do different linguistic modes of expression (signed versus spoken) have a shaping force as well? This book investigates the metaphorical production of culturally-Deaf translators who… read more
[Figurative Thought and Language, 4] 2018. xv, 224 pp.
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Evidence for Evidentiality

Edited by Ad Foolen, Helen de Hoop and Gijs Mulder

Statements are always under the threat of the potential counter-question How do you know? To pre-empt this question, language users often indicate what kind of access they had to the communicated content: Their own perception, inference from other information, ‘hearsay’, etc. Such expressions,… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 61] 2018. vii, 313 pp.
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Exploring the Situational Interface of Translation and Cognition

Edited by Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow and Birgitta Englund Dimitrova

The contributions of this volume explore the dynamics of the interface between the cognitive and situational levels in translation and interpreting. Until relatively recently, there has been an invisible line in translation and interpreting studies between cognitive research (e.g., into mental… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 101] 2018. v, 163 pp.
Other subjects Translation Studies
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Eye-tracking in Interaction: Studies on the role of eye gaze in dialogue

Edited by Geert Brône and Bert Oben

This volume presents a state-of-the-art of current research on the role of eye gaze in different types of interaction, including human-human and human-computer interaction. Approaching the phenomenon from different disciplinary and methodological angles, the chapters in the volume are united… read more
[Advances in Interaction Studies, 10] 2018. vi, 329 pp.
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How the Brain Got Language: Towards a New Road Map

Edited by Michael A. Arbib

Special issue of Interaction Studies 19:1/2 (2018) vii, 387 pp.
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Integrating dialogue

Edited by Răzvan Săftoiu and Adrian Pablé

Special issue of Language and Dialogue 8:1 (2018) v, 179 pp.
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Issues in Humour Cognition

Edited by Marta Dynel

Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 16:1 (2018) vi, 315 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics
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Landscape and Culture – Cross-linguistic Perspectives

Helen Bromhead

The relationship between landscape and culture seen through language is an exciting and increasingly explored area. This ground-breaking book contributes to the linguistic examination of both cross-cultural variation and unifying elements in geographical categorization. The study focuses on the… read more
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Language Learning, Discourse and Cognition: Studies in the tradition of Andrea Tyler

Edited by Lucy Pickering and Vyvyan Evans

Language Learning, Discourse and Cognition: Studies in the tradition of Andrea Tyler comprises a collection of original empirically and theoretically motivated studies at the nexus of discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics and second language learning. The thematic relationships between these… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 64] 2018. ix, 317 pp.
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Mental Models across Languages: The visual representation of baldness terms in German, English, and Japanese

Pawel Sickinger

This book presents a study that triangulates the meanings of expressions across English, German and Japanese via their perception-based conceptual representations. In an online experiment, native speakers of the three languages were asked to design visual representations of expressions referring to… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 63] 2018. xv, 328 pp.
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MetaNet

Edited by Miriam R.L. Petruck

The papers in this collection document the work of the first research project on metaphor that incorporates the findings of Frame Semantics, Conceptual Metaphor Theory, and Construction Grammar with Corpus Linguistics techniques for the analysis of linguistic expressions of metaphor in very large… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 100] 2018. vi, 198 pp.
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Methodologies for intra-sentential code-switching research

Edited by Amaia Munarriz-Ibarrola, M. Carmen Parafita Couto and Emma Vanden Wyngaerd

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:1 (2018) v, 161 pp.
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Progress in Colour Studies: Cognition, language and beyond

Edited by Lindsay W. MacDonald, Carole P. Biggam and Galina V. Paramei

This volume presents authoritative and up-to-date research in colour studies by specialists across a wide range of academic disciplines, including vision science, psychology, psycholinguistics, linguistics, anthropology, onomastics, philosophy, archaeology and design. The chapters have been… read more
[Not in series, 217] 2018. xx, 470 pp.
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Transcategoriality: A crosslinguistic perspective

Edited by Sylvie Hancil, Danh Thành Do-Hurinville and Huy Linh Dao

Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 5:1 (2018) v, 187 pp.
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Visual Metaphor: Structure and process

Edited by Gerard J. Steen

Metaphor has recently been reconceptualised as a fundamental part of the human conceptual system. It can hence be expressed in language but also in other modalities and media of communication, including gesture and body language, sound and music, and film and visuals. In spite of this theoretical… read more
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Writing Systems, Reading Processes, and Cross-Linguistic Influences: Reflections from the Chinese, Japanese and Korean Languages

Edited by Hye K. Pae

This book provides readers with a unique array of scholarly reflections on the writing systems of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean in relation to reading processes and data-driven interpretations of cross-language transfer. Distinctively broad in scope, topics addressed in this volume include word… read more
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 7] 2018. xii, 466 pp.
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The Abstraction Engine: Extracting patterns in language, mind and brain

Michael Fortescue

The main thesis of this book is that abstraction, far from being confined to higher forms of cognition, language and logical reasoning, has actually been a major driving force throughout the evolution of creatures with brains. It is manifest in emotive as well as rational thought. Wending its way… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 94] 2017. vi, 192 pp.
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Complexity Theory and Language Development: In celebration of Diane Larsen-Freeman

Edited by Lourdes Ortega and ZhaoHong Han

This volume is both a state-of-the-art display of current thinking on second language development as a complex system. It is also a tribute to Diane Larsen-Freeman for her decades of intellectual leadership in the academic disciplines of applied linguistics and second language acquisition. The… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 48] 2017. xv, 234 pp.
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Constructing Families of Constructions: Analytical perspectives and theoretical challenges

Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Alba Luzondo Oyón and Paula Pérez-Sobrino

Within Construction Grammar, this volume moves away from a compartmentalized view of constructions with the aim of providing a more holistic description of grammar. Thus, the book brings together analyses that look at constructional families within the “constructicon” of such languages as English,… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 58] 2017. vii, 342 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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Cultural Linguistic Contributions to World Englishes

Edited by Hans-Georg Wolf, Frank Polzenhagen and Arne Peters

Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 4:2 (2017) v, 152 pp.
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Cultural Linguistics: Cultural conceptualisations and language

Farzad Sharifian †

This ground-breaking book marks a milestone in the history of the newly developed field of Cultural Linguistics, a multidisciplinary area of research that explores the relationship between language and cultural conceptualisations. The most authoritative book in the field to date, it outlines the… read more
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Developmental Perspectives in Written Language and Literacy: In honor of Ludo Verhoeven

Edited by Eliane Segers and Paul van den Broek

Research on the development on written language and literacy is inherently multidisciplinary. In this book, leading researchers studying brain, cognition and behavior, come together in revealing how children develop written language and literacy, why they may experience difficulties, and which… read more
[Not in series, 206] 2017. xi, 447 pp.
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Dialogue and Ethics

Edited by Ronald C. Arnett and François Cooren

Special issue of Language and Dialogue 7:1 (2017) v, 133 pp.
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Epistemic Stance in Dialogue: Knowing, Unknowing, Believing

Andrzej Zuczkowski, Ramona Bongelli and Ilaria Riccioni

This volume presents a theoretical and practical model for analysing epistemic stance in dialogues, i.e. the positions both epistemic (commitment) and evidential (source of information) which speakers take in the here and now of communication with regard to the information they are conveying and… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 29] 2017. xiii, 311 pp.
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Evidentiality Revisited: Cognitive grammar, functional and discourse-pragmatic perspectives

Edited by Juana I. Marín-Arrese, Gerda Haßler and Marta Carretero

Evidentiality Revisited focuses on semantic-pragmatic based frameworks for the study of evidentials and evidential strategies in European languages (Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish). The book also presents discourse-pragmatic studies, with… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 271] 2017. vi, 320 pp.
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Expressing and Describing Surprise

Edited by Agnès Celle and Laure Lansari

Among emotions, surprise has been extensively studied in psychology. In linguistics, surprise, like other emotions, has mainly been studied through the syntactic patterns involving surprise lexemes. However, little has been done so far to correlate the reaction of surprise investigated in… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 92] 2017. v, 246 pp.
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Growing Old with Two Languages: Effects of Bilingualism on Cognitive Aging

Edited by Ellen Bialystok and Margot D. Sullivan

This collection brings together two areas of research that are currently receiving great attention in both scientific and public spheres: cognitive aging and bilingualism. With ongoing media focus on the aging population and the need for activities to forestall cognitive decline, experiences that… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 53] 2017. vi, 304 pp.
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How Grammar Links Concepts: Verb-mediated constructions, attribution, perspectivizing

Friedrich Ungerer

The proposed framework of concept linking combines insights of construction grammar with those of traditional functional descriptions to explain particularly challenging but often neglected areas of English grammar such as negation, modality, adverbials and non-finite constructions. To reach this… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 57] 2017. xiii, 325 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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Interaction and Iconicity in the Evolution of Language

Edited by Stefan Hartmann, Michael Pleyer, James Winters and Jordan Zlatev

Special issue of Interaction Studies 18:3 (2017) v, 173 pp.
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Irony in Language Use and Communication

Edited by Angeliki Athanasiadou and Herbert L. Colston

The volume provides original research and analyses of the multi-faceted conceptual and verbal process(es) of irony. Key topics explored include interdisciplinary perspectives and approaches to the study of irony. Collectively, the papers examine irony from psychology, embodiment studies,… read more
[Figurative Thought and Language, 1] 2017. x, 282 pp.
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L3 Syntactic Transfer: Models, new developments and implications

Edited by Tanja Angelovska and Angela Hahn

This book fills an existing gap in the field of third language acquisition (L3A) by bringing together theoretical, empirical, and practical accounts that contribute to informed teaching practices in multilingual classrooms. The volume is organised into three sections that focus on prominent… read more
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 5] 2017. x, 329 pp.
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Language Impairment in Bilingual Children: State of the art 2017

Edited by Theodoros Marinis, Sharon Armon-Lotem and George Pontikas

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:3/4 (2017) v, 211 pp.
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The Linguistic Expression of Mirativity

Edited by Agnès Celle and Anastasios Tsangalidis

Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 15:2 (2017) v, 271 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics
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Maps and Mapping in Children's Literature: Landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes

Edited by Nina Goga and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer

Maps and Mapping in Children’s Literature is the first comprehensive study that investigates the representation of maps in children’s books as well as the impact of mapping on the depiction of landscapes, seascapes, and cityscapes in children’s literature. The chapters in this volume pursue a… read more
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Metaphor Variation in Englishes around the World

Edited by Marcus Callies and Alexander Onysko

Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 4:1 (2017) v, 169 pp.
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Metaphor in Religion and Spirituality

Edited by Stephen Pihlaja

Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 7:1 (2017) v, 157 pp.
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Mixed Magic: Global-local dialogues in fairy tales for young readers

Anna Katrina Gutierrez

Mixed Magic: Global-local dialogues in fairy tales for young readers considers retellings and adaptations from a ‘glocal’ context: a framework focused on the reciprocal and cross-cultural exchange between global processes and local practices and their potential transformative effects. The study… read more
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Motion and Space across Languages: Theory and applications

Edited by Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano

This volume offers a unique combination of interdisciplinary research and a comprehensive overview of motion and space studies from a semantic typological perspective. The chapters present cutting-edge research covering central topics such as the status of semantic components in motion event… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 59] 2017. xiv, 460 pp.
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Storytelling in the Digital Age: New challenges

Edited by Anna De Fina and Sabina M. Perrino

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 27:2 (2017) vi, 209 pp.
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Studies in Figurative Thought and Language

Edited by Angeliki Athanasiadou

This volume contains original research and innovative analyses that deepen our understanding of figurative thought and language. The selected papers focus on the multi-faceted aspect of figuration, its function in thought, and its impact on areas of grammar and communication. Key topics explored… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 56] 2017. x, 327 pp.
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Understanding Second Language Processing: A focus on Processability Theory

Bronwen Patricia Dyson and Gisela Håkansson

This book aims to help researchers and teachers interested in language processing and Processability Theory (PT) to understand this theory and its applications. PT is an influential account of second language processing which hypothesizes that, due to the architecture of language processing,… read more
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 4] 2017. xi, 211 pp.
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Verb Phrase and Fluid Construction Grammar

Edited by Luc Steels and Katrien Beuls

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 9:2 (2017) v, 162 pp.
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Why Gesture?: How the hands function in speaking, thinking and communicating

Edited by Ruth Breckinridge Church, Martha W. Alibali and Spencer D. Kelly

Co-speech gestures are ubiquitous: when people speak, they almost always produce gestures. Gestures reflect content in the mind of the speaker, often under the radar and frequently using rich mental images that complement speech. What are gestures doing? Why do we use them? This book is the first… read more
[Gesture Studies, 7] 2017. vii, 433 pp.
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Aging and Bilingualism

Edited by Ellen Bialystok and Margot D. Sullivan

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 6:1/2 (2016) vi, 226 pp.
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Applying Cognitive Linguistics: Figurative language in use, constructions and typology

Edited by Ana M. Piquer-Píriz and Rafael Alejo-González

Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 14:1 (2016) vi, 245 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics
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Cognition, Language and Aging

Edited by Heather Harris Wright

Age-related changes in cognitive and language functions have been extensively researched over the past half-century. The older adult represents a unique population for studying cognition and language because of the many challenges that are presented with investigating this population, including… read more
[Not in series, 200] 2016. viii, 248 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Cognitive Control and Consequences of Multilingualism

Edited by John W. Schwieter

The human mind is a marvelous device that effectively regulates mental activities and facilitates amendable cognitive behaviour across several domains such as attention, memory, and language processing. For multilinguals, the mind also represents and manages more than one language system—a mental… read more
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 2] 2016. xvii, 453 pp.
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A Cognitive Grammar of Japanese Clause Structure

Toshiyuki Kumashiro

This volume represents the first comprehensive work on Japanese clause structure conducted within the framework of Cognitive Grammar. The author proposes schematic conceptual structures for the major constructions in the language and defines Japanese case marking and grammatical relations in purely… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 53] 2016. xxiii, 373 pp.
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Cognitive Individual Differences in Second Language Processing and Acquisition

Edited by Gisela Granena, Daniel O. Jackson and Yucel Yilmaz

Cognitive Individual Differences in Second Language Processing and Acquisition contains 14 chapters that focus on the role of cognitive IDs in L2 learning and processing. The book brings together theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of cognitive IDs, as well as empirical studies… read more
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 3] 2016. vi, 353 pp.
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Conceptualizations of Time

Edited by Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk

As time cannot be observed directly, it must be analyzed in terms of mental categories, which manifest themselves on various linguistic levels. In this interdisciplinary volume, novel approaches to time are proposed that consider temporality without time, on the one hand, and the coding of time in… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 52] 2016. xxi, 325 pp.
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Controversies, Communication and the Body

Edited by Joseph Lehmann

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 23:3 (2016) vi, 170 pp.
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The Conversation Frame: Forms and functions of fictive interaction

Edited by Esther Pascual and Sergeiy Sandler

This edited volume brings together the latest research on fictive interaction, that is the use of the frame of ordinary conversation as a means to structure cognition (talking to oneself), discourse (monologues organized as dialogues), and grammar (“why me? attitude”). This follows prior work on… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 55] 2016. xi, 384 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Developing, Modelling and Assessing Second Languages

Edited by Jörg-U. Keßler, Anke Lenzing and Mathias Liebner

This edited volume brings together the work of a number of researchers working in the framework of Processability Theory (PT), a psycholinguistic theory of second language acquisition (SLA) (Pienemann 1998; 2005). The aim of the volume is two-fold: It engages with current issues in both theory… read more
[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 5] 2016. xviii, 244 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Embodiment in Latin Semantics

Edited by William Michael Short

Embodiment in Latin Semantics introduces theories of embodied meaning developed in the cognitive sciences to the study of Latin semantics. Bringing together contributions from an international group of scholars, the volume demonstrates the pervasive role that embodied cognitive structures and… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 174] 2016. v, 271 pp.
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Exploring Discourse Strategies in Social and Cognitive Interaction: Multimodal and cross-linguistic perspectives

Edited by Manuela Romano and M. Dolores Porto

This volume offers readers interested in Discourse Analysis and/or Socio-Cognitive models of language a closer view of the relationship between discourse, cognition and society by disclosing how the cognitive mechanisms of discourse processing depend on shared knowledge and situated cognition. An… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 262] 2016. vi, 299 pp.
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MetaNet

Edited by Miriam R.L. Petruck

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 8:2 (2016) v, 192 pp.
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Metaphor and Communication

Edited by Elisabetta Gola and Francesca Ervas

This collection of papers presents different views on metaphor in communication. The overall aim is to show that the communicative dimension of metaphor cannot be reduced to its conceptual and/or linguistic dimension. The volume addresses two main questions: does the communicative dimension of… read more
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Mixing Metaphor

Edited by Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.

Mixing metaphors in speech, writing, and even gesture, is traditionally viewed as a sign of inconsistency in thought and language. Despite the prominence of mixed metaphors, there have been surprisingly few attempts to comprehensively explain why people mix their metaphors so frequently and in the… read more
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Modal Meaning in Construction Grammar

Edited by Bert Cappelle and Ilse Depraetere

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 8:1 (2016) vi, 129 pp.
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New Theoretical Insights into Untruthfulness

Edited by Marta Dynel

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 23:1 (2016) v, 208 pp.
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Perspectives on Narrativity and Narrative Perspectivization

Edited by Natalia Igl and Sonja Zeman

The book offers a novel approach to the question of how to model narrativity against the background of perspectivization. By bringing together contributions from neuro- and cognitive linguistics, literary studies, and picture theory, the volume uncovers basic mechanisms of perspectivization that… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 21] 2016. viii, 185 pp.
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Starting Over – The Language Development in Internationally-Adopted Children

Edited by Fred Genesee and Audrey Delcenserie

Internationally-adopted children are a unique population of language learners. They discontinue acquisition of their birth language when they are adopted by families that speak other languages. Their unique language learning history raises important practical, clinical and theoretical issues.… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 18] 2016. vii, 208 pp.
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Studies in Lexicogrammar: Theory and applications

Edited by Grzegorz Drożdż

The leitmotif, but not exclusive theme, of the present volume is Ronald Langacker’s (1987) thesis that “lexicon, morphology, and syntax form a continuum of symbolic units serving to structure conceptual content for expressive purposes”. The concept of the lexicogrammar continuum contrasts… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 54] 2016. vii, 284 pp.
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“Happiness” and “Pain” across Languages and Cultures

Edited by Cliff Goddard and Zhengdao Ye

In the fast-growing fields of happiness studies and pain research, which have attracted scholars from diverse disciplines including psychology, philosophy, medicine, and economics, this volume provides a much-needed cross-linguistic perspective. It centres on the question of how much ways of… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 84] 2016. vi, 145 pp.
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The Acquisition of Reference

Edited by Ludovica Serratrice and Shanley E.M. Allen

Referring to entities is one of the key functions of language; learning to understand and use the relevant referential expressions is one of children’s major linguistic achievements. The 13 chapters of this volume bring together a wealth of information on the acquisition of referential processes in… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 15] 2015. vi, 339 pp.
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Argument Structure in Usage-Based Construction Grammar: Experimental and corpus-based perspectives

Florent Perek

The argument structure of verbs, defined as the part of grammar that deals with how participants in verbal events are expressed in clauses, is a classical topic in linguistics that has received considerable attention in the literature. This book investigates argument structure in English from a… read more
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 17] 2015. x, 246 pp.
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Coordination, Collaboration and Cooperation: Interdisciplinary perspectives

Edited by Federica Amici and Lucas M. Bietti

Special issue of Interaction Studies 16:3 (2015) xii, 220 pp.
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Creating Social Orientation Through Language: A socio-cognitive theory of situated social meaning

Andreas Langlotz

This monograph develops a new socio-cognitive theory of sense-making for analyzing the creative management of situated social meaning. Drawing on cognitive-linguistic and social-interactional heuristics in an innovative way, the book both theorizes and demonstrates how embodied cognizers create… read more
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Demonstratives and Possessives with Attitude: An intersubjectively-oriented empirical study

Magdalena Rybarczyk

Linking grammatical analyses with ideas about a shareable reality, this book investigates some fascinating ways in which nominal reference is exploited to meet interpersonal and rhetorical goals. It focuses on the use of demonstrative and possessive determiners in Polish discourse and proposes that… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 51] 2015. xxii, 226 pp.
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Describing Cognitive Processes in Translation: Acts and events

Edited by Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow, Birgitta Englund Dimitrova, Séverine Hubscher-Davidson and Ulf Norberg

This volume addresses translation as an act and an event, having as its main focus the cognitive and mental processes of the translating or interpreting individual in the act of translating, while opening up wider perspectives by including the social situation in explorations of the translation… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 77] 2015. v, 151 pp.
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Diachronic Construction Grammar

Edited by Jóhanna Barðdal, Elena Smirnova, Lotte Sommerer and Spike Gildea

Construction Grammar as a framework offers a new perspective on traditional historical questions in diachronic linguistics and language change: how do new constructions arise, how should competition in diachronic variation be accounted for, how do constructions fall into disuse, and how do… read more
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 18] 2015. xi, 263 pp.
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Elicited Metaphor Analysis in Educational Discourse

Edited by Wan Wan and Graham Low

The ability to recognise, discuss and evaluate one’s educational beliefs and working practices in metaphoric terms has for several years been seen as a highly valuable tool for increasing self-awareness, facilitating learning (or teaching), and/or predicting behaviour. This is the first edited book… read more
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Emotion in Language: Theory – research – application

Edited by Ulrike M. Lüdtke

The miracle of children's language development and the joy of expressive language on the one hand and the vulnerability of language and the sorrow and grief caused by its distortion or even loss in people with aphasia or dementia on the other hand show us the inseparability of emotion and language… read more
[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 10] 2015. xi, 458 pp.
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Expressing and Describing Surprise

Edited by Agnès Celle and Laure Lansari

Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 13:2 (2015) vi, 250 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics
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How to do Linguistics with R: Data exploration and statistical analysis

Natalia Levshina

This book provides a linguist with a statistical toolkit for exploration and analysis of linguistic data. It employs R, a free software environment for statistical computing, which is increasingly popular among linguists. How to do Linguistics with R: Data exploration and statistical analysis is… read more
[Not in series, 195] 2015. xi, 443 pp.
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Impersonals and other Agent Defocusing Constructions in French

Michel Achard

This book investigates French impersonals as a functional category. Any structure whose agent is defocused and whose predicate describes a situation stable enough to be generally available should be considered impersonal. In addition to il impersonals, the category also includes demonstrative… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 50] 2015. ix, 372 pp.
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Language Endangerment: Disappearing metaphors and shifting conceptualizations

Edited by Elisabeth Piirainen and Ari Sherris

Languages and language varieties around the globe have been diminishing at an astonishing rate. Despite great efforts at language documentation, scholarship on metaphors and figurative units – often particularly fragile parts of language – has been largely neglected until recently. This book, like… read more
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Language Structure and Environment: Social, cultural, and natural factors

Edited by Rik De Busser and Randy J. LaPolla

Language Structure and Environment is a broad introduction to how languages are shaped by their environment. It makes the argument that the social, cultural, and natural environment of speakers influences the structures and development of the languages they speak. After a general overview, the… read more
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Metaphor in Specialist Discourse

Edited by J. Berenike Herrmann and Tony Berber Sardinha

Metaphor in Specialist Discourse presents multiple perspectives on metaphor use in specialist and popularized discourse contexts. Using genre and register as starting parameters for deeper exploration, and pushing the boundaries further to open up new areas and possibilities, ten independent… read more
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The Mighty Child: Time and power in children's literature

Clémentine Beauvais

The Mighty Child offers an existentialist approach to the theorization and criticism of children’s literature, nuancing the academic claim that children’s literature, specifically defined as ‘didactic’, alienates childhood from adulthood and disempowers its implied child reader. This volume… read more
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Multimodality and Cognitive Linguistics

Edited by María Jesús Pinar Sanz

The aim of this volume is to advance our theoretical and empirical understanding of the relationship between Multimodality and Cognitive Linguistics. The innovative nature of the volume in relation to those existing in the field lies in the fact that it brings together contributions from three of… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 78] 2015. x, 212 pp.
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On the Interaction of Constructions with Register and Genre

Edited by Kerstin Fischer and Kiki Nikiforidou

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 7:2 (2015) v, 243 pp.
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Phonological and Phonetic Considerations of Lexical Processing

Edited by Gonia Jarema and Gary Libben †

The human ability to understand and produce spoken words is fascinating in its complexity. People often vary in how they pronounce a word. They may need to recognize words spoken with an accent quite different from their own. And, in order to understand a word of a second or foreign language, they… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 80] 2015. ix, 233 pp.
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Psycholinguistic and Cognitive Inquiries into Translation and Interpreting

Edited by Aline Ferreira and John W. Schwieter

Psycholinguistic and Cognitive Inquiries into Translation and Interpreting presents perspectives and original studies that aim to diversify traditional approaches in translation and interpreting research and improve the quality and generalizability of the field. The volume is divided into two… read more
[Benjamins Translation Library, 115] 2015. vii, 206 pp.
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Semantics: From meaning to text. Volume 3

Igor Mel’čuk

This book presents an innovative and novel approach to linguistic semantics, starting from the idea that language can be described as a mechanism for the expression of linguistic Meanings as particular surface forms, or Texts. Semantics is specifically that system of rules that ensures a transition… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 168] 2015. xx, 546 pp.
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The Semantics of Chinese Music: Analysing selected Chinese musical concepts

Adrian Tien

Music is a widely enjoyed human experience. It is, therefore, natural that we have wanted to describe, document, analyse and, somehow, grasp it in language. This book surveys a representative selection of musical concepts in Chinese language, i.e. words that describe, or refer to, aspects of… read more
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The Semantics of German Verb Prefixes

Robert B. Dewell

The Semantics of German Verb Prefixes is the most comprehensive study ever undertaken in this area of German grammar. Using an extensive collection of naturally occurring data, the author proposes an image-schematic interpretation for each of the productive prefixes be-, ver-, er-, ent-, zer-, um-,… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 49] 2015. xiii, 284 pp.
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Sensory Adjectives in the Discourse of Food: A frame-semantic approach to language and perception

Catherine Diederich

Sensory Adjectives in the Discourse of Food presents a frame-based analysis of sensory descriptors. This book investigates the identification and usefulness of conceptual frames in three respects: First, an analysis of scientific language use shows that a semantic interpretation of the adjectives… read more
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Subjects in Constructions – Canonical and Non-Canonical

Edited by Marja-Liisa Helasvuo and Tuomas Huumo

This volume analyzes constructions with non-canonical subjects in individual languages and cross-linguistically, drawing on insights from cognitive and discourse-functional linguistics. Prototypical subjects have often been characterized in terms of their semantic, syntactic and discourse features,… read more
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 16] 2015. viii, 324 pp.
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Tales from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea: Psycholinguistic and anthropological linguistic analyses of tales told by Trobriand children and adults

Gunter Senft

This volume presents 22 tales from the Trobriand Islands told by children (boys between the age of 5 and 9 years) and adults. The monograph is motivated not only by the anthropological linguistic aim to present a broad and quite unique collection of tales with the thematic approach to illustrate… read more
[Culture and Language Use, 16] 2015. xviii, 299 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Theoretical and Methodological Developments in Processability Theory

Edited by Kristof Baten, Aafke Buyl, Katja Lochtman and Mieke Van Herreweghe

This edited volume is devoted to expanding the theoretical basis of Processability Theory, a theory of second language development that combines insights in the way speakers generate language and store their language knowledge to predict, describe and explain developmental sequences (Pienemann… read more
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The political impact of metaphors

Edited by Julien Perrez and Min Reuchamps

Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 5:2 (2015) v, 130 pp.
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Certainty and Uncertainty in Dialogue

Edited by Andrzej Zuczkowski

Special issue of Language and Dialogue 4:1 (2014) v, 162 pp.
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Certainty-uncertainty – and the Attitudinal Space in Between

Edited by Sibilla Cantarini, Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss

The selected papers of this volume cover five main topics, namely ‘Certainty: The conceptual differential’; ‘(Un)Certainty as attitudinality’; ‘Dialogical exchange and speech acts’; ‘Onomasiology’; and ‘Applications in exegesis and religious discourse’. By examining the general theme of the… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 165] 2014. x, 365 pp.
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Cognitive Modeling: A linguistic perspective

Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez and Alicia Galera Masegosa

This monograph studies cognitive operations on cognitive models across levels and domains of meaning construction. It explores in what way the same set of cognitive operations, either in isolation or in combination, account for meaning representation whether obtained on the basis of inferential… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 45] 2014. ix, 250 pp.
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Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Social and cultural variation in cognition and language use

Edited by Martin Pütz, Justyna A. Robinson and Monika Reif

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… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 59] 2014. v, 214 pp.
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Colour Studies: A broad spectrum

Edited by Wendy Anderson, Carole P. Biggam, Carole Hough and Christian Kay

This volume presents some of the latest research in colour studies by specialists across a wide range of academic disciplines. Many are represented here, including anthropology, archaeology, the fine arts, linguistics, onomastics, philosophy, psychology and vision science. The chapters have been… read more
[Not in series, 191] 2014. xiv, 417 pp.
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Contexts of Subordination: Cognitive, typological and discourse perspectives

Edited by Laura Visapää, Jyrki Kalliokoski and Helena Sorva

Contexts of Subordination: Cognitive, typological and discourse perspectives is a collection of articles that approaches linguistic subordination as a semantico-grammatical and pragmatic phenomenon. The volume brings together cognitive, interactional and typological perspectives, and is… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 249] 2014. viii, 288 pp.
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Creativity, Cognition and Material Culture

Edited by Lambros Malafouris, Chris Gosden and Karenleigh A. Overmann

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 22:1 (2014) v, 181 pp.
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Diagrammatic Reasoning

Edited by Riccardo Fusaroli and Kristian Tylén

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 22:2 (2014) v, 107 pp.
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Exploring Functional-Cognitive Space

Christopher S. Butler and Francisco Gonzálvez-García

This book, intended primarily for researchers and advanced students, expands greatly on previous work by the authors exploring the topography of the multidimensional “functional-cognitive space” within which functional, cognitive and/or constructionist approaches to language can be located. The… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 157] 2014. xviii, 579 pp.
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Fictive Interaction: The conversation frame in thought, language, and discourse

Esther Pascual

Language is intimately related to interaction. The question arises: Is the structure of interaction somehow mirrored in language structure and use? This book suggests a positive answer to this question by examining the ubiquitous phenomenon of fictive interaction, in which non-genuine… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 47] 2014. xiv, 243 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Frames of Understanding in Text and Discourse: Theoretical foundations and descriptive applications

Alexander Ziem

How do words mean? What is the nature of meaning? How can we grasp a word’s meaning? The frame-semantic approach developed in this book offers some well-founded answers to such long-standing, but still controversial issues. Following Charles Fillmore’s definition of frames as both organizers of… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 48] 2014. xii, 428 pp.
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Frames, constructions, and computation

Edited by Lars Borin, Gerard de Melo, Karin Friberg Heppin and Tiago Timponi Torrent

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 6:1 (2014) v, 135 pp.
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From Gesture in Conversation to Visible Action as Utterance: Essays in honor of Adam Kendon

Edited by Mandana Seyfeddinipur and Marianne Gullberg

Language use is fundamentally multimodal. Speakers use their hands to point to locations, to represent content and to comment on ongoing talk; they position their bodies to show their orientation and stance in interaction; they use facial displays to comment on what is being said; and they engage… read more
[Not in series, 188] 2014. ix, 379 pp.
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Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity

Edited by Maurice Nevile, Pentti Haddington, Trine Heinemann and Mirka Rauniomaa

Objects are essential for how, together, people create and experience social life and relate to the physical environment around them. Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity presents studies which use video recordings of real-life settings to explore how objects feature… read more
[Not in series, 186] 2014. vii, 393 pp.
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The Language of Emotions: The case of Dalabon (Australia)

Maïa Ponsonnet

The Language of Emotions: The case of Dalabon (Australia) is the first extensive study of the linguistic encoding of emotions in an Australian language, and further, in an endangered, non-European language. Based on first-hand data collected using innovative methods, the monograph describes and… read more
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Literary Conceptualizations of Growth: Metaphors and cognition in adolescent literature

Roberta Trites

Literary Conceptualizations of Growth explores those processes through which maturation is represented in adolescent literature by examining how concepts of growth manifest themselves in adolescent literature and by interrogating how the concept of growth structures scholars’ ability to think about… read more
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Mental Model Ascription by Intelligent Agents

Edited by Marjorie McShane

Special issue of Interaction Studies 15:3 (2014) xi, 120 pp.
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Multiactivity in Social Interaction: Beyond multitasking

Edited by Pentti Haddington, Tiina Keisanen, Lorenza Mondada and Maurice Nevile

Doing more than one thing at the same time – a phenomenon that is often called ‘multitasking’ – is characteristic to many situations in everyday and professional life. Although we all experience it, its real time features remain understudied. Multiactivity in Social Interaction: Beyond multitasking… read more
[Not in series, 187] 2014. vii, 289 pp.
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Multilingual Cognition and Language Use: Processing and typological perspectives

Edited by Luna Filipović and Martin Pütz

This volume provides a multifaceted view of certain key themes in multilingualism research today and offers future directions for this research area in the context of the multilingual development of individuals and societies. The selection of studied languages is eclectic (e.g. Amondawa, Cantonese,… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 44] 2014. x, 337 pp.
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Parsing to Learn

Edited by Laurent Dekydtspotter and Claire Renaud

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 4:2 (2014) vi, 152pp.
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Phraseological Substitutions in Newspaper Headlines: “More than Meats the Eye”

Sylvia Jaki

The major purpose of newspaper headlines is to trigger the reader’s interest. A popular way to achieve this goal is the use of phraseological modifications. Based on previous findings from various linguistic disciplines, this book provides an interdisciplinary approach to shed light on the… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 46] 2014. xvi, 243 pp.
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Pragmatic Competence and Relevance

Elly Ifantidou

This book probes into under-researched issues in L2 pragmatics. Firstly, pragmatic competence, pragmatic awareness and metapragmatic awareness are re-defined and clearly distinguished on theoretical grounds. Secondly, pragmatic competence and its manifestations are evaluated on empirical grounds by… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 245] 2014. x, 228 pp.
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Reading for Learning: Cognitive approaches to children's literature

Maria Nikolajeva

How does reading fiction affect young people? How can they transfer fictional experience into real life? Why do they care about fictional characters? How does fiction enhance young people's sense of self-hood? Supported by cognitive psychology and brain research, this ground-breaking book is the… read more
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Reflections on Constructions across Grammars

Edited by Martin Hilpert and Jan-Ola Östman

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 6:2 (2014) v, 201 pp.
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Romance Perspectives on Construction Grammar

Edited by Hans C. Boas and Francisco Gonzálvez-García

The chapters in this book show how the different flavors of Construction Grammar provide illuminating insights into the syntax, semantics, pragmatics and discourse-functional properties of specific phenomena in Romance languages such as (Castilian) Spanish, French, Romanian, and Latin from a… read more
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 15] 2014. x, 316 pp.
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The Spatial Language of Time: Metaphor, metonymy, and frames of reference

Kevin Ezra Moore

The Spatial Language of Time presents a crosslinguistically valid state-of-the-art analysis of space-to-time metaphors, using data mostly from English and Wolof (Africa) but additionally from Japanese and other languages. Metaphors are analyzed in terms of their most direct motivation by basic… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 42] 2014. xxv, 340 pp.
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Theory and Data in Cognitive Linguistics

Edited by Nikolas Gisborne and Willem B. Hollmann

Cognitive linguistics has an honourable tradition of paying respect to naturally occurring language data and there have been fruitful interactions between corpus data and aspects of linguistic structure and meaning. More recently, dialect data and sociolinguistic data collection methods/theoretical… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 67] 2014. v, 262 pp.
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Usage-based Approaches to Japanese Grammar: Towards the understanding of human language

Edited by Kaori Kabata and Tsuyoshi Ono

This volume brings together papers that take usage-based approaches to study the nature of human language, with a focus on the grammar of Japanese. The 12 chapters provide a rich array of data and methodologies, with topics ranging from phonology, modality, and grammatical morphemes, to sentential… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 156] 2014. ix, 308 pp.
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Advances in Frame Semantics

Edited by Mirjam Fried and Kiki Nikiforidou

This volume presents some of the latest research in Frame Semantics, including work in computational lexicography as developed within the FrameNet project. Using varied material from English, Italian, and Japanese, the contributions collectively expand the theoretical, conceptual, and computational… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 58] 2013. v, 209 pp.
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Asymmetry and adaptation in social interaction: A micro-analytic perspective

Edited by Iris Nomikou, Karola Pitsch and Katharina Rohlfing

Special issue of Interaction Studies 14:2 (2013) xii, 178 pp.
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Chinese Language Narration: Culture, cognition, and emotion

Edited by Allyssa McCabe and Chien-ju Chang

Chinese Language Narration: Culture, cognition, and emotion is a collection of papers presenting original research on narration in Mandarin, especially as it contrasts to what is known regarding narration in English. One chapter addresses dinner table conversation between Chinese immigrant parents… read more
[Studies in Narrative, 19] 2013. viii, 213 pp.
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Communication in Humans and Other Animals

Gisela Håkansson and Jennie Westander

Communication is a basic behaviour, found across animal species. Human language is often thought of as a unique system, which separates humans from other animals. This textbook serves as a guide to different types of communication, and suggests that each is unique in its own way: human verbal and… read more
[Advances in Interaction Studies, 4] 2013. xi, 242 pp.
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Developments in Linguistic Humour Theory

Edited by Marta Dynel

This volume presents recent developments in the linguistics of humour. It depicts new theoretical proposals for capturing different humorous forms and phenomena central to humour research, thereby extending its scope. The 15 contributions critically survey and develop the existing interpretative… read more
[Topics in Humor Research, 1] 2013. xiv, 425 pp.
Other subjects Humor studies | Pragmatics
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Fictions of Adolescent Carnality: Sexy sinners and delinquent deviants

Lydia Kokkola

Fictions of Adolescent Carnality considers one of the most controversial topics related to adolescents: their experience of desire. In fiction for adolescents, carnal desire is variously presented as a source of angst, an overwhelming experience over which one has no control, bestial, disgusting… read more
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Frames and Constructions in Metaphoric Language

Karen Sullivan

Frames and constructions in metaphoric language shows how linguistic metaphor piggybacks on certain patterns of constructional meaning that have already been identified and studied in non-metaphoric language. Recognition of these shared semantic structures, and comparison of their roles in… read more
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 14] 2013. vii, 184 pp.
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Gaze in human-robot communication

Guest-edited by Frank Broz, Hagen Lehmann, Bilge Mutlu and Yukiko Nakano

Special issue of Interaction Studies 14:3 (2013) xv, 179 pp.
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Literary Linguistics

Edited by Anja Müller-Wood

Special issue of Language and Dialogue 3:1 (2013) v, 163 pp.
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Metaphor across Time and Conceptual Space: The interplay of embodiment and cultural models

James J. Mischler, III

Contemporary linguistic forms are partially the product of their historical antecedents, and the same is true for cognitive conceptualization. The book presents the results of several diachronic corpus studies of conceptual metaphor in a longitudinal and empirical “mixed methods” design, employing… read more
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Metaphor and Metonymy revisited beyond the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: Recent developments and applications

Edited by Francisco Gonzálvez-García, María Sandra Peña-Cervel and Lorena Pérez-Hernández

The contributions in this volume go beyond the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor complementing it in a number of relevant ways. Some of the papers argue for a more dynamic, interdisciplinary approach to metaphor looking into it from semiotic, psychological and socio-cultural perspectives. Other… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 56] 2013. vi, 318 pp.
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Metaphor in Psychotherapy: A descriptive and prescriptive analysis

Dennis Tay

This book represents a bold attempt to address contemporary issues in both metaphor and psychotherapy research. On one hand, metaphor research is increasingly concerned not just with describing metaphors in discourse, but how they could be used more adroitly in purposive ‘real world’ contexts such… read more
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Metaphorical creativity across modes

Edited by Laura Hidalgo-Downing and Blanca Kraljevic Mujic

Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 3:2 (2013) v, 137 pp.
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Multimodality and Cognitive Linguistics

Edited by María Jesús Pinar Sanz

Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 11:2 (2013) vi, 206 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics
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Semantics: From meaning to text. Volume 2

Igor Mel’čuk

This book presents an innovative approach to linguistic semantics, starting from the idea that language is a mechanism for the expression of linguistic meanings as particular surface forms (texts). Semantics is that system of rules that ensures a transition from a Semantic Representation of the… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 135] 2013. xvi, 400 pp.
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Sensitive periods, language aptitude, and ultimate L2 attainment

Edited by Gisela Granena and Mike Long

Research on second language acquisition (SLA) has identified language aptitude and age of onset (AO), i.e., the age at which learners are first meaningfully exposed to the L2, as robust predictors of rate of classroom language learning and level of ultimate L2 attainment in naturalistic settings,… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 35] 2013. xv, 295 pp.
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Variation and Change in the Encoding of Motion Events

Edited by Juliana Goschler and Anatol Stefanowitsch

The linguistic typology of motion event encoding is one of the central topics in Cognitive Linguistics. A vast body of typological, contrastive, and psycholinguistic research has shown the potential, but also the limitations of the original distinction between verb-framed and satellite-framed… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 41] 2013. x, 251 pp.
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Where do nouns come from?

Edited by John B. Haviland

Special issue of Gesture 13:3 (2013) v, 175 pp.
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Writing and the Mind

Edited by David R. Olson and Marcelo Dascal †

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 21:3 (2013) v, 148 pp.
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Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement

Edited by Sabine C. Koch, Thomas Fuchs, Michela Summa and Cornelia Müller

Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement is an interdisciplinary volume with contributions from philosophers, cognitive scientists, and movement therapists. Part one provides the phenomenologically grounded definition of body memory with its different typologies. Part two follows the aim to integrate… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 84] 2012. vii, 468 pp.
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A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of the English Imperative: With special reference to Japanese imperatives

Hidemitsu Takahashi

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… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 35] 2012. xvii, 242 pp.
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Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Social and cultural variation in cognition and language use

Edited by Martin Pütz, Justyna A. Robinson and Monika Reif

Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 10:2 (2012) v, 213 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics
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Constructions in French

Edited by Myriam Bouveret and Dominique Legallois

The book Constructions in French is the first collected volume to focus on French syntax from a constructionist perspective. It has been written with two kinds of readers in mind: for readers interested in the relationship between the French linguistic tradition and cognitive linguistics, and for… read more
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 13] 2012. vi, 287 pp.
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Creative Dynamics: Diagrammatic strategies in narrative

Christina Ljungberg

How do readers make sense of a picture, a photograph, or a map in literary narratives in which visual signs play a critical role? How do authors accomplish their various objectives in constructing such complex texts? What strategies and techniques do they use to project fictional worlds and to… read more
[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 11] 2012. vii, 190 pp.
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Culture – Language – Cognition

Edited by Marcelo Dascal †

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 20:2 (2012) vi, 198 pp.
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Developments in Primate Gesture Research

Edited by Simone Pika and Katja Liebal

The book is a themed, mutually referenced collection of articles from a very high-powered set of authors based on the workshop on “Current developments in non-human primate gesture research”, which was held in July 2010 at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. The motivation… read more
[Gesture Studies, 6] 2012. xiii, 256 pp.
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Dialogue and Representation

Edited by Alain Létourneau and François Cooren

Special issue of Language and Dialogue 2:1 (2012) vi, 189 pp.
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Empiricism and the Foundations of Psychology

John-Michael Kuczynski

Intended for philosophically minded psychologists and psychologically minded philosophers, this book identifies the ways that psychology has hobbled itself by adhering too strictly to empiricism, this being the doctrine that all knowledge is observation-based. In the first part of this two-part… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 87] 2012. viii, 477 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Semantics
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Endangered Metaphors

Edited by Anna Idström and Elisabeth Piirainen

When the last speaker of a language dies, s/he takes to oblivion the memories, associations and the rich imagery this language community has once lived by. The cultural heritage encoded in conventional linguistic metaphors, handed down through generations, will be lost forever. This volume consists… read more
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Epistemics of the Virtual

Johan F. Hoorn

Proposing a new theory of fiction, this work reviews the confusion about perceived realism, metaphor, virtual worlds and the seemingly obvious distinction between what is true and what is false. The rise of new media, new technology, and creative products and services requires a new examination of… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 12] 2012. x, 231 pp.
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Evaluating Cognitive Competences in Interaction

Edited by Gitte Rasmussen, Catherine E. Brouwer and Dennis Day

Evaluation is a part of everyday life. Competences, knowledge and skills are assessed in ordinary as well as in institutional settings like hospitals, clinics and schools. This volume investigates how evaluations are being carried out interactionally. More specifically, it explores how people… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 225] 2012. v, 238 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Language as Social Coordination: An evolutionary perspective

Edited by Joanna Raczaszek-Leonardi and Stephen J. Cowley

Special issue of Interaction Studies 13:1 (2012) xvi, 145 pp.
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Metaphor in Use: Context, culture, and communication

Edited by Fiona MacArthur, José Luis Oncins-Martínez, Manuel Sánchez-García and Ana M. Piquer-Píriz

Metaphor is a fascinating phenomenon, but it is also complex and multi-faceted, varying in how it is manifested in different modes of expression, languages, cultures, or time-scales. How then can we reliably identify metaphors in different contexts? How does the language or culture of speakers and… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 38] 2012. x, 379 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Methodological and Analytic Frontiers in Lexical Research

Edited by Gary Libben †, Gonia Jarema and Chris Westbury

The study of how words are represented and processed in the mind has served as a meeting ground for research in psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience. Right now, this domain of study is in the midst of astonishing developments. At the core of these developments are the methodological and… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 47] 2012. x, 465 pp.
Other subjects Lexicography | Psycholinguistics
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Moving Ourselves, Moving Others: Motion and emotion in intersubjectivity, consciousness and language

Edited by Ad Foolen, Ulrike M. Lüdtke, Timothy P. Racine and Jordan Zlatev

The close relationship between motion (bodily movement) and emotion (feelings) is not an etymological coincidence. While moving ourselves, we move others; in observing others move – we are moved ourselves. The fundamentally interpersonal nature of mind and language has recently received due… read more
[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 6] 2012. viii, 492 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Playing by Ear and the Tip of the Tongue: Precategorial information in poetry

Reuven Tsur †

In our everyday life we are flooded by a pandemonium of information which consciousness organizes into more easily manageable phonetic and semantic categories. In poetry reading, however, the total effect of a poem is not only obtained by some of these categories but also by precategorial… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 14] 2012. xi, 310 pp.
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Practical Theories and Empirical Practice: A linguistic perspective

Edited by Andrea C. Schalley

There is a perceived tension between empirical and theoretical approaches to the study of language. Many recent works in the discipline emphasise that linguistics is an ‘empirical science’. This volume argues for a nuanced view, highlighting that theory and practice necessarily and as a matter of… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 40] 2012. xi, 338 pp.
Other subjects Psycholinguistics
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Quotatives: Cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary perspectives

Edited by Isabelle Buchstaller and Ingrid van Alphen

Research on quotation has yielded a rich and diverse knowledge-base. Scientific interest has been sparked particularly by the recent emergence of new quotative forms in typologically related and unrelated languages (i.e. English be like, Hebrew kazé, Japanese mitai-na).The present collection gives… read more
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Semantics: From meaning to text. Volume 1

Igor Mel’čuk

This book presents an innovative and novel approach to linguistic semantics, beginning with the idea that language can be described as a system for the expression of linguistic Meanings as particular surface forms or Texts. Semantics is specifically that system of rules that ensures a correct… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 129] 2012. xxi, 436 pp.
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Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Linguistic diversity

Edited by Luna Filipović and Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt

This volume offers novel insights into linguistic diversity in the domains of spatial and temporal reference, searching for uniformity amongst diversity. A number of authors discuss expression of dynamic spatial relations cross-linguistically in a vast range of typologically different languages… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 36] 2012. xv, 492 pp.
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Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Language, culture, and cognition

Edited by Luna Filipović and Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt

This is an interdisciplinary volume that focuses on the central topic of the representation of events, namely cross-cultural differences in representing time and space, as well as various aspects of the conceptualisation of space and time. It brings together research on space and time from a… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 37] 2012. xiii, 363 pp.
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Advances in Frame Semantics

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 3:1 (2011) v, 154 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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Avian Cognition and Social Interaction

Edited by Irene M. Pepperberg

Special issue of Interaction Studies 12:2 (2011) v, 177 pp.
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Bi-Directionality in the Cognitive Sciences: Avenues, challenges, and limitations

Edited by Marcus Callies, Wolfram R. Keller and Astrid Lohöfer

Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of the human mind. As far as the exact relationship between the cognitive sciences and other fields is concerned, however, it appears that interdisciplinary exchange often remains unrealized, possibly because of the uni-directional application of… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 30] 2011. viii, 313 pp.
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Cognitive Approaches to Tense, Aspect, and Epistemic Modality

Edited by Adeline Patard and Frank Brisard

This volume addresses problems of semantics regarding the analysis of tense and aspect (TA) markers in a variety of languages, including Arabic, Croatian, English, French, German, Russian, Thai, and Turkish. Its main interest goes out to epistemic uses of such markers, whereby epistemic modality is… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 29] 2011. ix, 319 pp.
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Cognitive Linguistics: Convergence and Expansion

Edited by Mario Brdar, Stefan Th. Gries and Milena Žic Fuchs

Cognitive Linguistics is not a unified theory of language but rather a set of flexible and mutually compatible theoretical frameworks. Whether these frameworks can or should stabilize into a unified theory is open to debate. One set of contributions to the volume focuses on evidence that… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 32] 2011. vii, 362 pp.
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Colouring Meaning: Collocation and connotation in figurative language

Gill Philip

Primarily focused on idioms and other figurative phraseology, Colouring Meaning describes how the meanings of established phrases are enhanced, refocused and modified in everyday language use. Unlike many studies of creativity in language, this book-length survey addresses the matter at several… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 43] 2011. xiii, 232 pp.
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Converging Evidence: Methodological and theoretical issues for linguistic research

Edited by Doris Schönefeld

The volume argues for the use of multi-methodological strategies in linguistic research. In its lead chapter, in addition, the thorny issue of phenomenological pluralism is explored in detail. From a usage-based perspective, the individual chapters demonstrate methodological pluralism in the… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 33] 2011. x, 352 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
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Critical Discourse Studies in Context and Cognition

Edited by Christopher Hart

Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) is an exciting research enterprise in which scholars are concerned with the discursive reproduction of power and inequality. However, researchers in CDS are increasingly recognising the need to investigate the cognitive dimensions of discourse and context if they… read more
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Cultural Conceptualisations and Language: Theoretical framework and applications

Farzad Sharifian †

This book presents a multidisciplinary theoretical model of cultural conceptualisations and language. Viewing language as firmly grounded in cultural cognition, the model draws on analytical tools and theoretical advancements in several disciplines, including cognitive linguistics, cognitive… read more
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Defining Metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics: Towards a consensus view

Edited by Réka Benczes, Antonio Barcelona and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

While cognitive linguists are essentially in agreement on both the conceptual nature and the fundamental importance of metonymy, there remain disagreements on a number of specific but, nevertheless, crucial issues. Research questions include: Is metonymy a relationship between “entities” or… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 28] 2011. viii, 284 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics
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Distributed Language

Edited by Stephen J. Cowley

The volume presents language as fully integrated with human existence. On this view, language is not essentially ‘symbolic’, not represented inside minds or brains, and most certainly not determined by micro-social rules and norms. Rather, language is part of our ecology. It emerges when bodies… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 34] 2011. ix, 220 pp.
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Elements of Meaning in Gesture

Geneviève Calbris

Summarizing her pioneering work on the semiotic analysis of gestures in conversational settings, Geneviève Calbris offers a comprehensive account of her unique perspective on the relationship between gesture, speech, and thought. She highlights the various functions of gesture and especially shows… read more
[Gesture Studies, 5] 2011. xx, 378 pp.
Other subjects Gesture Studies | Pragmatics
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Embodiment via Body Parts: Studies from various languages and cultures

Edited by Zouhair Maalej and Ning Yu

Research on the “embodiment hypothesis” within cognitive linguistics and beyond is growing steadily aiming to bridge language, culture, and cognition. This volume seeks to address the question regarding what specific roles individual body parts play in the embodied conceptualization of emotions,… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 31] 2011. ix, 258 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | Typology
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First language attrition/L'attrition de la langue première

Edited by Monika S. Schmid and Barbara Köpke

Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 2:2 (2011) v, 157 pp.
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Homo Symbolicus: The dawn of language, imagination and spirituality

Edited by Christopher S. Henshilwood and Francesco d'Errico

The emergence of symbolic culture, classically identified with the European cave paintings of the Ice Age, is now seen, in the light of recent groundbreaking discoveries, as a complex nonlinear process taking root in a remote past and in different regions of the planet. In this book the… read more
[Not in series, 168] 2011. xi, 237 pp.
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Integrating Gestures: The interdisciplinary nature of gesture

Edited by Gale Stam and Mika Ishino

Gestures are ubiquitous and natural in our everyday life. They convey information about culture, discourse, thought, intentionality, emotion, intersubjectivity, cognition, and first and second language acquisition. Additionally, they are used by non-human primates to communicate with their peers… read more
[Gesture Studies, 4] 2011. viii, 372 pp. | Open Access logo open access
Other subjects Gesture Studies
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The Meaning of Particle / Prefix Constructions in German

Robert B. Dewell

This is really two books in one: a valuable reference resource, and a groundbreaking case study that represents a new approach to constructional semantics. It presents a detailed descriptive survey, using extensive examples collected from the Internet, of German verb constructions in which the… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 34] 2011. xiii, 336 pp.
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Metaphor and metonymy revisited beyond the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: Recent developments and applications

Edited by Francisco Gonzálvez-García, María Sandra Peña-Cervel and Lorena Pérez-Hernández

Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 9:1 (2011) iv, 339 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics
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Motivation in Grammar and the Lexicon

Edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther and Günter Radden

Language structure and use are largely shaped by cognitive processes such as categorizing, framing, inferencing, associative (metonymic), and analogical (metaphorical) thinking, and – mediated through cognition – by bodily experience, emotion, perception, action, social/communicative interaction,… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 27] 2011. vii, 306 pp.
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New Directions in Colour Studies

Edited by Carole P. Biggam, Carole Hough, Christian Kay and David R. Simmons

Colour studies attracts an increasingly wide range of scholars from across the academic world. Contributions to the present volume offer a broad perspective on the field, ranging from studies of individual languages through papers on art, architecture and heraldry to psychological examinations of… read more
[Not in series, 167] 2011. xii, 462 pp.
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Primate Communication and Human Language: Vocalisation, gestures, imitation and deixis in humans and non-humans

Edited by Anne Vilain, Jean-Luc Schwartz, Christian Abry and Jacques Vauclair

After a long period where it has been conceived as iconoclastic and almost forbidden, the question of language origins is now at the centre of a rich debate, confronting acute proposals and original theories. Most importantly, the debate is nourished by a large set of experimental data from… read more
[Advances in Interaction Studies, 1] 2011. vi, 239 pp.
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Prosody and Humor

Edited by Salvatore Attardo, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 19:2 (2011) vi, 194 pp.
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Second Language Task Complexity: Researching the Cognition Hypothesis of language learning and performance

Edited by Peter Robinson

Understanding how task complexity affects second language learning, interaction and spoken and written performance is essential to informed decisions about task design and sequencing in TBLT programs. The chapters in this volume all examine evidence for claims of the Cognition Hypothesis that… read more
[Task-Based Language Teaching, 2] 2011. xii, 345 pp.
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Technology Enhanced Learning and Cognition

Edited by Itiel E. Dror

The use of technology in learning has increased dramatically. Training and education is now utilizing and almost integrated with the World Wide Web, podcasts, mobile and distant learning, interactive videos, serious games, and a whole range of e-learning. However, has such technology enhanced… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 27] 2011. ix, 265 pp.
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Applied Cognitive Linguistics in Second Language Learning and Teaching. AILA Review, Volume 23

Edited by Jeannette Littlemore and Constanze Juchem-Grundmann

This volume of the AILA Review focuses on the substantial contribution Cognitive Linguistics can make to language teaching. After almost three decades of empirical research into the motivated aspects of language, Cognitive Linguistic findings are gradually being applied to Second Language… read more
[AILA Review, 23] 2010. 178 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics
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Beyond Narrative Coherence

Edited by Matti Hyvärinen, Lars-Christer Hydén, Marja Saarenheimo and Maria Tamboukou

Beyond Narrative Coherence reconsiders the way we understand and work with narratives. Even though narrators tend to strive for coherence, they also add complexity, challenge canonical scripts, and survey lives by telling highly perplexing and contradictory stories. Many narratives remain… read more
[Studies in Narrative, 11] 2010. vi, 196 pp.
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Cognitive Processing in Second Language Acquisition: Inside the learner's mind

Edited by Martin Pütz and Laura Sicola

This edited volume represents state of the field research linking cognition and second language acquisition, reflecting the experience of the learner when engaged in noticing, input/output processing, retrieval, and even attrition of target forms. Contributions are both theoretical and practical,… read more
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Corpus, Cognition and Causative Constructions

Gaëtanelle Gilquin

English causative constructions with cause, get, have and make are often mistakenly presented as (quasi-)synonymous and more or less interchangeable. This book demonstrates the value of corpus linguistics in identifying the syntactic, semantic, lexical and stylistic features that are distinctive… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 39] 2010. xvii, 326 pp.
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The Emergence of Consciousness: A top-down, social phenomenon?

Edited by Jonathan Cole and Marcelo Dascal †

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 18:3 (2010) vi, 148 pp.
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Experimental Semiotics: A new approach for studying the emergence and the evolution of human communication

Edited by Bruno Galantucci and Simon Garrod

Special issue of Interaction Studies 11:1 (2010) v, 159 pp.
Other subjects Evolution of language
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Human–Animal Interaction

Edited by Márta Gácsi and Ádám Miklósi

Special issue of Interaction Studies 11:3 (2010) ca. 160 pp.
Other subjects Evolution of language
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Language Acquisition across Linguistic and Cognitive Systems

Edited by Michèle Kail and Maya Hickmann †

How and why do all children learn language? Why do some have difficulties while others are early language learners? What are the consequences of early bilingualism? Is it possible to reach native-like competence in a foreign language? Although we still cannot fully answer these questions, research… read more
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Lexical Pragmatics and Theory of Mind: The acquisition of connectives

Sandrine Zufferey

The concept of theory of mind (ToM), a hot topic in cognitive psychology for the past twenty-five years, has gained increasing importance in the fields of linguistics and pragmatics. However, even though the relationship between ToM and verbal communication is now recognized, the extent, causality… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 201] 2010. ix, 192 pp.
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The Linguistics Enterprise: From knowledge of language to knowledge in linguistics

Edited by Martin B.H. Everaert, Tom Lentz, Hannah N.M. De Mulder, Øystein Nilsen and Arjen Zondervan

Linguistics investigates the systems underlying language, speech, and language use. Linguists seek to develop an understanding of the rules and laws that govern the structure and use of particular languages and the manner in which these interact with internal systems and processes (interpretation,… read more
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 150] 2010. ix, 379 pp.
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Researching and Applying Metaphor in the Real World

Edited by Graham Low, Zazie Todd, Alice Deignan and Lynne Cameron

It has become increasingly clear that metaphor needs to be explored in terms of the social and discourse context in which it is used, especially where the aim is to address real-world problems. The notion of 'real world' metaphor research has been developed to describe this important area of… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 26] 2010. xii, 385 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Semantics
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Stylistic Use of Phraseological Units in Discourse

Anita Naciscione

Stylistic Use of Phraseaological Units in Discourse received honourable mention of the ESSE Book Award 2012 in the field of English Language and Linguistics.This interdisciplinary study presents the cutting-edge state of theoretical and applied research in the fascinating field of phraseology. The… read more
[Not in series, 159] 2010. xiii, 292 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Translation and Cognition

Edited by Gregory M. Shreve and Erik Angelone

Translation and Cognition assesses the state of the art in cognitive translation and interpreting studies by examining three important trends: methodological innovation, the evolution of research design, and the continuing integration of translation process research results with the core findings… read more
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Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 7

Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

The Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics (published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association) aims to establish itself as an international forum for the publication of high-quality original research on all areas of linguistic enquiry from a cognitive perspective.… read more
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics
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Basic Concepts and Models for Interpreter and Translator Training: Revised edition

Daniel Gile

Basic Concepts and Models for Interpreter and Translator Training is a systematically corrected, enhanced and updated avatar of a book (1995) which is widely used in T&I training programmes worldwide and widely quoted in the international Translation Studies community. It provides readers with the… read more
[Benjamins Translation Library, 8] 2009. xv, 283 pp.
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Becoming Eloquent: Advances in the emergence of language, human cognition, and modern cultures

Edited by Francesco d'Errico and Jean-Marie Hombert

Few topics of scientific enquiry have attracted more attention in the last decade than the origin and evolution of language. Few have offered an equivalent intellectual challenge for interdisciplinary collaborations between linguistics, cognitive science, prehistoric archaeology,… read more
[Not in series, 152] 2009. vi, 289 pp.
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Cognition and Pragmatics

Edited by Dominiek Sandra, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While other volumes select philosophical, grammatical, social, variational, interactional, or… read more
[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 3] 2009. xvii, 399 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Declarative and Procedural Determinants of Second Languages

Michel Paradis

This volume is the outcome of the author’s observations and puzzlement over seventeen years of teaching English and French as second languages, followed by 30 years of research into the neurolinguistic aspects of bilingualism. It examines, within the framework of a neurolinguistic theory of… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 40] 2009. xii, 219 pp.
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Distributed Language

Edited by Stephen J. Cowley

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 17:3 (2009) v, 207 pp.

Formulaic Language: Volume 1: Distribution and historical change, Volume 2: Acquisition, loss, psychological reality, and functional explanations. 2 vols. set

Edited by Roberta Corrigan, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen Wheatley

This two volume collection on formulaic language is among the first ones in the field. The authors of the present book represent a diverse group of international scholars in linguistics and psychology. The language data analyzed are similarly diverse, including languages such as Arabic, Japanese,… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 82-83] 2009. 724 pp.
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Formulaic Language: Volume 2. Acquisition, loss, psychological reality, and functional explanations

Edited by Roberta Corrigan, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen Wheatley

This book is the second of the two-volume collection of papers on formulaic language. The collection is among the first in the field. The authors of the papers in this volume represent a diverse group of international scholars in linguistics and psychology. The language data analyzed come from a… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 83] 2009. xxiv, 361 pp.
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From Body to Meaning in Culture: Papers on cognitive semantic studies of Chinese

Ning Yu

From the perspective of Cognitive Semantics and Conceptual Metaphor Theory, this collection of papers looks at the relationship between language, body, culture, and cognition. In particular, it looks into the embodied nature of human language and cognition as arising from and situated in the… read more
[Not in series, 149] 2009. xvi, 310 pp.
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From Interaction to Symbol: A systems view of the evolution of signs and communication

Piotr Sadowski

Against the background of jargon-ridden and often obscure semiotic literature Sadowski’s book offers a reader-friendly yet rigorous account of human communication and its evolution from animal and primate behaviour. What is specifically human about the way we exchange information with other people,… read more
[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 8] 2009. xxi, 300 pp.
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The Genesis of Syntactic Complexity: Diachrony, ontogeny, neuro-cognition, evolution

T. Givón

Complex hierarchic syntax is a hallmark of human language. The highest level of syntactic complexity, recursive-embedded clauses, has been singled out by some for a special status as the evolutionary apex of the uniquely - human language faculty - evolutionary yet mysteriously immune to Darwinian… read more
[Not in series, 146] 2009. xviii, 366 pp.
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Gesturecraft: The manu-facture of meaning

Jürgen Streeck

The craft of gesture is part of the practical equipment with which we inhabit and understand the world together. Drawing on micro-ethnographic research in diverse interaction settings, this book explores the communicative ecologies in which hand-gestures appear: illuminating the world around us,… read more
[Gesture Studies, 2] 2009. xii, 235 pp.
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The Motivated Syntax of Arbitrary Signs: Cognitive constraints on Spanish clitic clustering

Erica C. García

This detailed study challenges the claim that syntax is arbitrary and autonomous, as well as the assumption that Spanish clitic clusters constitute grammaticalized units. Diverse--apparently unrelated--restrictions on clitic clustering in both simplex VP's and Accusative cum Infinitive structures… read more
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New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics

Edited by Vyvyan Evans and Stéphanie Pourcel

Nearly three decades since the publication of the seminal Metaphors We Live By, Cognitive Linguistics is now a mature theoretical and empirical enterprise, with a voluminous associated literature. It is arguably the most rapidly expanding ‘school’ in modern linguistics, and one of the most exciting… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 24] 2009. xi, 519 pp.
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Psyche and the Literary Muses: The contribution of literary content to scientific psychology

Martin S. Lindauer

Psyche and the Literary Muses focuses on the psychology of literature from an empirical point of view, rather than the more typical psychoanalytic position, and concentrates on literary content rather than readers or writers. The book centers on the author’s quantitative studies of brief literary… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 7] 2009. xiii, 209 pp.
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Robots in the Wild: Exploring human-robot interaction in naturalistic environments

Edited by Kerstin Dautenhahn

Special issue of Interaction Studies 10:3 (2009) vi, 239 pp.
Other subjects Evolution of language
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Social Animal Cognition

Edited by Tetsuro Matsuzawa

Special issue of Interaction Studies 10:2 (2009) 170 pp.
Other subjects Evolution of language
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Symbol Grounding

Edited by Tony Belpaeme, Stephen J. Cowley and Karl F. MacDorman

When explaining cognition one must explain how representations in the mind, or symbols, become meaningful by connecting to the external world. This process of connecting symbols with sensorimotor experiences is known as symbol grounding. The classical view of symbol grounding is that it is an… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 21] 2009. v, 167 pp.
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Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 6

Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

The Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics (published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association) aims to establish itself as an international forum for the publication of high-quality original research on all areas of linguistic enquiry from a cognitive perspective.… read more
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics
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Cognition Distributed: How cognitive technology extends our minds

Edited by Itiel E. Dror and Stevan Harnad

Our species has been a maker and user of tools for over two million years, but "cognitive technology" began with language. Cognition is thinking, and thinking has been "distributed" for at least the two hundred millennia that we have been using speech to interact and collaborate, allowing us to do… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 16] 2008. xiii, 258 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology
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Confronting Metaphor in Use: An applied linguistic approach

Edited by Mara Sophia Zanotto, Lynne Cameron and Marilda C. Cavalcanti

It is timely for researchers to approach metaphor as social and situated, as a matter of language and discourse, and not just as a matter of thought. Over the last twenty five years, scholars have come to appreciate in depth the cognitive, motivated and embodied nature of metaphor, but have tended… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 173] 2008. vii, 315 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Pragmatics
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Developmental Psycholinguistics: On-line methods in children’s language processing

Edited by Irina A. Sekerina, Eva M. Fernández and Harald Clahsen

How do infants and young children coordinate information in real time to arrive at sentence meaning from the words and structure of the sentence and from the nonlinguistic context? This volume introduces readers to an emerging field of research, experimental developmental psycholinguistics, and to… read more
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 44] 2008. xviii, 190 pp.
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Early Language Development: Bridging brain and behaviour

Edited by Angela D. Friederici and Guillaume Thierry

This book establishes a dialog between experimental psychology and electrophysiology in the study of infant language development. On the one hand, traditional methods of investigation into language development have reached a high level of refinement despite being confined to observing infants’… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 5] 2008. xiv, 263 pp.
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Holophrasis vs Compositionality in the Emergence of Protolanguage

Edited by Michael A. Arbib and Derek Bickerton

Special issue of Interaction Studies 9:1 (2008) 184 pp.
Other subjects Evolution of language
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Human and Robot Interactive Communication

Edited by Kerstin Dautenhahn

Special issue of Interaction Studies 9:2 (2008) 232 pp.
Other subjects Evolution of language
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Incomplete Acquisition in Bilingualism: Re-examining the Age Factor

Silvina Montrul

Age effects have played a particularly prominent role in some theoretical perspectives on second language acquisition. This book takes an entirely new perspective on this issue by re-examining these theories in light of the existence of apparently similar non-native outcomes in adult heritage… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 39] 2008. x, 312 pp.
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Learning Technologies and Cognition

Edited by Itiel E. Dror

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 16:2 (2008) 232 pp.
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Mental Spaces in Discourse and Interaction

Edited by Todd Oakley and Anders Hougaard

The cognitive theory of mental spaces and conceptual integration (MSCI) is a twenty-year-old, cross-disciplinary enterprise that presently unfolds in academic circles on many levels of reflection and research. One important area of inquiry where MSCI can be of immediate use is in the pragmatics of… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 170] 2008. vi, 262 pp.
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Metaphor and Gesture

Edited by Alan Cienki and Cornelia Müller

This volume is the first to offer an overview on metaphor and gesture — a new multi-disciplinary area of research. Scholars of metaphor have been paying increasing attention to spontaneous gestures with speech; meanwhile, researchers in gesture studies have been focussing on the abstract ideas… read more
[Gesture Studies, 3] 2008. ix, 306 pp.
Other subjects Gesture Studies
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Metaphors for Learning: Cross-cultural Perspectives

Edited by Erich A. Berendt

In Contemporary Metaphor Theory (CMT) research has predominantly focused on the English language with few studies of others and even less systematic comparative work. This volume focuses on the discourse domain of LEARNING (formal, technical and informal aspects) and brings together a variety of… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 22] 2008. ix, 249 pp.
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Productivity: Evidence from Case and Argument Structure in Icelandic

Jóhanna Barðdal

Productivity of argument structure constructions is a new emerging field within cognitive-functional linguistics. The term productivity as used in linguistic research contains at least three subconcepts: ‘extensibility’, ‘regularity’, and ‘generality’. The focus in this study of case and argument… read more
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 8] 2008. xiii, 209 pp.
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The Shared Mind: Perspectives on intersubjectivity

Edited by Jordan Zlatev, Timothy P. Racine, Chris Sinha and Esa Itkonen

The cognitive and language sciences are increasingly oriented towards the social dimension of human cognition and communication. The hitherto dominant approach in modern cognitive science has viewed “social cognition” through the prism of the traditional philosophical puzzle of how individuals… read more
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Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 5

Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

The Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics (published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association) aims to establish itself as an international forum for the publication of high-quality original research on all areas of linguistic enquiry from a cognitive perspective.… read more
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics
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Anthropology of Color: Interdisciplinary multilevel modeling

Edited by Robert E. MacLaury, Galina V. Paramei and Don Dedrick

The field of color categorization has always been intrinsically multi- and inter-disciplinary, since its beginnings in the nineteenth century. The main contribution of this book is to foster a new level of integration among different approaches to the anthropological study of color. The editors… read more
[Not in series, 137] 2007. xx, 485 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Applied Cultural Linguistics: Implications for second language learning and intercultural communication

Edited by Farzad Sharifian † and Gary B. Palmer

Research in the relatively new field of cultural linguistics has implications for second language learning and intercultural communication. This volume is the first of its kind to bring together studies that examine the implications for applied programs of research in these domains. Collectively,… read more
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The Categorization of Spatial Entities in Language and Cognition

Edited by Michel Aurnague, Maya Hickmann † and Laure Vieu

Despite a growing interest for space in language, most research has focused on spatial markers specifying the static or dynamic relationships among entities (verbs, prepositions, postpositions, case markings…). Little attention has been paid to the very properties of spatial entities, their status… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 20] 2007. viii, 371 pp.
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Cognitive English Grammar

Günter Radden and René Dirven †

Cognitive English Grammar is designed to be used as a textbook in courses of English and general linguistics. It introduces the reader to cognitive linguistic theory and shows that Cognitive Grammar helps us to gain a better understanding of the grammar of English. The notions of motivation and… read more
[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 2] 2007. xiv, 374 pp.
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Cognitive Technologies and the Pragmatics of Cognition

Edited by Itiel E. Dror

Technology has long been a helpful aid in human cognitive activities. With its growing sophistication and usage, technology is now taking a more intrinsic and active role in human cognition. The shift from an external aid to being an internal component of cognitive processing reflects a revolution… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 12] 2007. xii, 186 pp.
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Creativity and Convention: The pragmatics of everyday figurative speech

Rosa E. Vega Moreno

This book offers a pragmatic account of the interpretation of everyday metaphorical and idiomatic expressions. Using the framework of Relevance Theory, it reanalyses the results of recent experimental research on figurative utterances and provides a novel account of the interplay of creativity and… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 156] 2007. xii, 249 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Embodiment in Cognition and Culture

Edited by John Michael Krois, Mats Rosengren, Angela Steidele and Dirk Westerkamp

This volume shows that the notions of embodied or situated cognition, which have transformed the scientific study of intelligence have the potential to reorient cultural studies as well. The essays adapt and amplify embodied cognition in such different fields as art history, literature, history of… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 71] 2007. xxii, 304 pp.
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Finding Metaphor in Grammar and Usage: A methodological analysis of theory and research

Gerard J. Steen

Cognitive linguists have proposed that metaphor is not just a matter of language but of thought, and that metaphorical thought displays a high degree of conventionalization. In order to produce converging evidence for this theory of metaphor, a wide range of data is currently being studied with a… read more
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics
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Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates

Edited by Katja Liebal, Cornelia Müller and Simone Pika

Research into gestures represents a multifaceted field comprising a wide range of disciplines and research topics, varying methods and approaches, and even different species such as humans, apes and monkeys. The aim of this volume (originally published as a Special Issue of Gesture 5:1/2 (2005)) is… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 10] 2007. xiv, 284 pp.
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Gesture and the Dynamic Dimension of Language: Essays in honor of David McNeill

Edited by Susan D. Duncan, Justine Cassell and Elena T. Levy

Each of the 21 chapters in this volume reflects a view of language as a dynamic phenomenon with emergent structure, and in each, gesture is approached as part of language, not an adjunct to it. In this, all of the authors have been influenced by David McNeill's methods for studying natural… read more
[Gesture Studies, 1] 2007. vi, 328 pp.
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Insistent Images

Edited by Elżbieta Tabakowska, Christina Ljungberg and Olga Fischer

Insistent Images presents a number of new departures dealing with iconicity on the conceptual and the structural levels. On the level of structure, the interface between different aspects of iconicity, lexical meaning and grammar is discussed in reference to both spoken and signed languages. Novel… read more
[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 5] 2007. xiii, 361 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax
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The Language of Memory in a Crosslinguistic Perspective

Edited by Mengistu Amberber

This book offers, for the first time, a detailed comparative study of how speakers of different languages express memory concepts. While there is a robust body of psycholinguistic research that bears on how memory and language are related, there is no comparative study of how speakers themselves… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 21] 2007. xii, 284 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | Semantics
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The Language of Pain: Expression or description?

Chryssoula Lascaratou

How is the universal, yet private and subjective, experience of pain talked about by different people in everyday encounters? What does the analysis of pain-related lexico-phraseological choices, grammatical structures, and linguistic metaphors reveal as to how pain is perceived and experienced?… read more
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Mechanicism and Autonomy: What Can Robotics Teach Us About Human Cognition and Action?

Edited by Maria Eunice Quilici Gonzalez, Willem F.G. Haselager and Itiel E. Dror

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 15:3 (2007) 224 pp.
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Mental States: Volume 1: Evolution, function, nature

Edited by Andrea C. Schalley and Drew Khlentzos

Collecting the work of linguists, psychologists, neuroscientists, archaeologists, artificial intelligence researchers and philosophers this volume presents a richly varied picture of the nature and function of mental states. Starting from questions about the cognitive capacities of the early… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 92] 2007. xii, 304 pp.
Other subjects Evolution of language | Semantics
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Mental States: Volume 2: Language and cognitive structure

Edited by Andrea C. Schalley and Drew Khlentzos

The contributions to this volume focus on what language and language use reveals about cognitive structure and underlying cognitive categories. Wide-ranging and thought-provoking essays from linguists and psychologists within this volume investigate the insights conceptual categorization can give… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 93] 2007. x, 362 pp.
Other subjects Semantics

Mental States: Volume 1: Evolution, function, nature; Volume 2: Language and cognitive structure (set)

Edited by Andrea C. Schalley and Drew Khlentzos

Volume I: Collecting the work of linguists, psychologists, neuroscientists, artificial intelligence researchers and philosophers this volume presents a richly varied picture of the nature and function of mental states. Volume II: The contributions to this volume focus on what language and language… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 92-93] 2007. xii, 304 pp. & x, 362 pp.
Other subjects Evolution of language | Semantics
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Methods in Cognitive Linguistics

Edited by Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Irene Mittelberg †, Seana Coulson and Michael J. Spivey

Methods in Cognitive Linguistics is an introduction to empirical methodology for language researchers. Intended as a handbook to exploring the empirical dimension of the theoretical questions raised by Cognitive Linguistics, the volume presents guidelines for employing methods from a variety of… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 18] 2007. xxviii, 452 pp.
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Narrative – State of the Art

Edited by Michael Bamberg

Narrative – State of the Art which was originally published as a Special Issue of Narrative Inquiry 16:1 (2006) is edited by Michael Bamberg and contains 24 chapters (with a brief introduction by the editor) that look back and take stock of developments in narrative theorizing and empirical work… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 6] 2007. vi, 271 pp.
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Power and Narrative

Edited by Lisa Lau and Shari Daya

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 17:1 (2007) vii, 158 pp.
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Pragmatic Interfaces

Edited by Louis de Saussure and Peter J. Schulz

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 15:1 (2007) 236 pp.
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Psychological Benchmarks of Human–Robot Interaction

Edited by Peter H. Kahn, Jr. and Karl F. MacDorman

Special issue of Interaction Studies 8:3 (2007) 166 pp.
Other subjects Evolution of language
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Speaking of Colors and Odors

Edited by Martina Plümacher and Peter Holz

How to speak of colors and odors? In many cases, we have to think about an adequate description of a perceived odor or shade of color. Words are not fluently available.The contributions discuss color and odor perception and its linguistic representation from different disciplinary angles: from… read more
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Semiotics
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Symbol Grounding

Edited by Tony Belpaeme, Stephen J. Cowley and Karl F. MacDorman

Special issue of Interaction Studies 8:1 (2007) 180 pp.
Other subjects Evolution of language
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Washing the Brain – Metaphor and Hidden Ideology

Andrew Goatly

Contemporary metaphor theory has recently begun to address the relation between metaphor, culture and ideology. In this wide-ranging book, Andrew Goatly, using lexical data from his database Metalude, investigates how conceptual metaphor themes construct our thinking and social behaviour in fields… read more
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Semantics
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Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 4

Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

The Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics (published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association) aims to establish itself as an international forum for the publication of high-quality original research on all areas of linguistic enquiry from a cognitive perspective.… read more
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics
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Cognitive Linguistics Investigations: Across languages, fields and philosophical boundaries

Edited by June Luchjenbroers

The total body of papers presented in this volume captures research across a variety of languages and language groups, to show how particular elements of linguistic description draw on otherwise separate aspects (or fields) of linguistic investigation. As such, this volume captures a diversity of… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 15] 2006. xiii, 334 pp.
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Distributed Cognition

Edited by Stevan Harnad and Itiel E. Dror

Cognition is thinking, and thinking has been distributed for millions of years – for as long as our species has had language and tools to help us interact and collaborate and achieve far more than any of us could have done individually. But something radically new is happening to distributed… read more
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 14:2 (2006) 268 pp.
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Epigenetic robotics

Edited by Giorgio Metta and Luc Berthouze

Special issue of Interaction Studies 7:2 (2006) iv, 169 pp.
Other subjects Evolution of language
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Linear Unit Grammar: Integrating speech and writing

John McH. Sinclair and Anna Mauranen

People have a natural propensity to understand language text as a succession of smallish chunks, whether they are reading, writing, speaking or listening. Linguists have found that this propensity can shed light on the nature and structure of language, and there are many studies which attempt to… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 25] 2006. xxii, 185 pp.
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Narrative – State of the Art

Edited by Michael Bamberg

This special issue Narrative – State of the Art is edited by Michael Bamberg and contains 24 articles that look back and take stock of developments in narrative theorizing and empirical work with narratives. The attempt has been made to bring together researchers from different disciplines, with… read more
Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 16:1 (2006) 236 pp
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Point of View in Plays: A cognitive stylistic approach to viewpoint in drama and other text-types

Dan McIntyre

This is the first book-length study of how point of view is manifested linguistically in dramatic texts. It examines such issues as how readers process the shifts in viewpoint that can occur within such texts. Using insights from cognitive linguistics, the book aims to explain how the analysis of… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 3] 2006. xii, 203 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
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Progress in Colour Studies: Volume II. Psychological aspects

Edited by Nicola Pitchford and Carole P. Biggam

The study of colour attracts researchers from a wide range of disciplines from both the sciences and the arts. Along with its companion volume, Progress in Colour Studies 1: Language and Culture, this book offers a fascinating insight into current issues and research into colour. Most of the papers… read more
[Not in series, PICS 2] 2006. xiv, 237 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology
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Signs, Mind, and Reality: A theory of language as the folk model of the world

Sebastian Shaumyan

The book presents a new science of semiotic linguistics. The goal of semiotic linguistics is to discover what characterizes language as an intermediary between the mind and reality so that language creates the picture of reality we perceive. The cornerstone of semiotic linguistics is the discovery… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 65] 2006. xxvii, 315 pp.
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Space in Languages: Linguistic Systems and Cognitive Categories

Edited by Maya Hickmann † and Stéphane Robert

Space is presently the focus of much research and debate across disciplines, including linguistics, anthropology, psychology, and philosophy. One strong feature of this collection is to bring together theoretical and empirical contributions from these varied scientific traditions, with the… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 66] 2006. x, 361 pp.
Other subjects Semantics | Typology
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‘Kubla Khan’ – Poetic Structure, Hypnotic Quality and Cognitive Style: A study in mental, vocal and critical performance

Reuven Tsur †

This book endorses Coleridge's statement: "nothing can permanently please which does not contain in itself the reason why it is so". It conceives 'Kubla Khan' as of a hypnotic poem, in which the "obtrusive rhythms" produce a hypnotic, emotionally heightened response, giving false security to the… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 16] 2006. xii, 252 pp.
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Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 3

Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

The Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics (published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association) aims to establish itself as an international forum for the publication of high-quality original research on all areas of linguistic enquiry from a cognitive perspective.… read more
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics

Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy

Edited by Antonio Barcelona and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

The Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy (METBIB) is an online bibliography which brings together references to publications on metaphor, metonymy, and other figurative language, starting from 1990. It covers monographs, journal articles, book series, dissertations, theses, proceedings, working… read more
[Online Resources Collection, MetBib] 2005. ca. 10.000 records
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Cognitive Technologies and the Pragmatics of Cognition

Edited by Itiel E. Dror

For more information on the Special Series devoted to Technology & Cognition, please see: Special Issues read more
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 13:3 (2005) 220 pp.
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Construction Grammars: Cognitive grounding and theoretical extensions

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Mirjam Fried

The notion ‘construction’ has become indispensable in present-day linguistics and in language studies in general. This volume extends the traditional domain of Construction Grammar (CxG) in several directions, all with a cognitive basis. Addressing a number of issues (such as coercion, discourse… read more
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 3] 2005. viii, 325 pp.
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Context as Other Minds: The Pragmatics of Sociality, Cognition and Communication

T. Givón

Givon's new book re-casts pragmatics, and most conspicuously the pragmatics of sociality and communication, in neuro-cognitive, bio-adaptive, evolutionary terms. The fact that context, the core notion of pragmatics, is a framing operation undertaken on the fly through judgements of relevance, has… read more
[Not in series, 130] 2005. xvi, 283 pp.
Other subjects Philosophy | Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax
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Making Minds I

Edited by Petra Hauf and Friedrich Försterling

Special issue of Interaction Studies 6:1 (2005) 149 pp.
Other subjects Evolution of language
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Making Minds II

Edited by Petra Hauf

Special issue of Interaction Studies 6:3 (2005) 176 pp.
Other subjects Evolution of language
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Manipulation and Ideologies in the Twentieth Century: Discourse, language, mind

Edited by Louis de Saussure and Peter J. Schulz

This book is a collection of 12 papers dealing with manipulation and ideology in the 20th century, mostly with reference to political speeches by the leaders of major totalitarian regimes, but also addressing propaganda within contemporary right-wing populism and western ideological rhetoric. This… read more
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics

Alice Deignan

Metaphor is a topical issue across a number of disciplines, wherever researchers are concerned with how speakers and writers package and process messages. This book is addressed at readers from diverse academic backgrounds who are interested in ways of researching metaphor from different… read more
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Origins of Language: Constraints on hypotheses

Sverker Johansson

Sverker Johansson has written an unusual book on language origins, with its emphasis on empirical evidence rather than theory-building. This is a book for the student or researcher who prefers solid data and well-supported conclusions, over speculative scenarios. Much that has been written on the… read more
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Outside-In — Inside-Out

Edited by Costantino Maeder, Olga Fischer and William J. Herlofsky

This fourth volume of the Iconicity series is like its predecessors devoted to the study of iconicity in language and literature in all its forms. Many of the papers turn the notion of iconicity ‘inside-out’, some suggesting that ‘less-is-more’; others focus on the cognitive factors ‘inside’ the… read more
[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 4] 2005. x, 427 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax
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Planning and Task Performance in a Second Language

Edited by Rod Ellis

The last decade has seen a growing body of research investigating various aspects of L2 learners’ performance of tasks. This book focuses on one task implementation variable: planning. It considers theories of how opportunities to plan a task affect performance and tests claims derived from these… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 11] 2005. viii, 313 pp.
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The Pragmatics of Making it Explicit: On Robert B. Brandom

Edited by Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 13:1 (2005) 257 pp.
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Topics in Signed Language Interpreting: Theory and practice

Edited by Terry Janzen

Interpreters who work with signed languages and those who work strictly with spoken languages share many of the same issues regarding their training, skill sets, and fundamentals of practice. Yet interpreting into and from signed languages presents unique challenges for the interpreter, who works… read more
[Benjamins Translation Library, 63] 2005. xii, 362 pp.
Other subjects Interpreting | Signed languages
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UG and External Systems: Language, brain and computation

Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo

This book explores the interaction of the grammar with the external systems, conceptual-intentional and sensori-motor. The papers in the Language section include configurational analyses of the interface properties of depictives, clitic clusters, imperatives, conditionals, clefts, as well as… read more
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 75] 2005. xviii, 398 pp.
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Vocalize to Localize

Edited by Christian Abry, Anne Vilain and Jean-Luc Schwartz

Special issue of Interaction Studies 5:3 (2005) 125 pp.
Other subjects Evolution of language
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Vocalize to Localize II

Edited by Christian Abry, Anne Vilain and Jean-Luc Schwartz

Special issue of Interaction Studies 6:2 (2005) iv, 191 pp.
Other subjects Evolution of language
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Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 2

Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

The Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics (published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association) aims to establish itself as an international forum for the publication of high-quality original research on all areas of linguistic enquiry from a cognitive perspective.… read more
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics
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Brain and Being: At the boundary between science, philosophy, language and arts

Edited by Gordon G. Globus †, Karl H. Pribram and Giuseppe Vitiello

This book results from a group meeting held at the Institute for Scientific Exchange in Torino, Italy. The central aim was for scientists to “think together” in new ways with those in the humanities inspired by quantum theory and especially quantum brain theory. These fields of inquiry have… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 58] 2004. xii, 354 pp.
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Categorization in the History of English

Edited by Christian Kay and Jeremy J. Smith

The papers in this volume are linked by a common concern, which is at the centre of current linguistic enquiry: how do we classify and categorize linguistic data, and how does this process add to our understanding of linguistic change? The scene is set by Aitchison’s paper on the development of… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 261] 2004. viii, 268 pp.
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Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics: Second revised edition

Edited by René Dirven † and Marjolijn H. Verspoor

Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics is designed as a comprehensive introductory text for first and second-year university students of language and linguistics. It provides a chapter on each of the more established areas in linguistics such as lexicology, morphology, syntax, phonetics… read more
[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 1] 2004. xii, 277 pp.
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Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis

Edited by Ellen Contini-Morava, Robert S. Kirsner and Betsy Rodríguez-Bachiller

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… read more
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Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective

Edited by Mirjam Fried and Jan-Ola Östman

This volume gives an easily accessible, yet comprehensive, sophisticated, and example-rich introduction to Construction Grammar as it has been developed from the early 1980’s by Charles J. Fillmore and his associates. It also provides a succinct account of the historical and intellectual background… read more
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 2] 2004. vi, 209 pp.
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Inference and Anticipation in Simultaneous Interpreting: A probability-prediction model

Ghelly V. Chernov

Until now, Ghelly Chernov’s work on the theory of simultaneous interpretation (SI) was mostly accessible only to a Russian-speaking readership. Finally, Chernov’s major work, originally published in Russia in 1987 under the title Основы Синхронного Перевода (Introduction to Simultaneous… read more
[Benjamins Translation Library, 57] 2004. xxx, 266 pp.
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Seduction, Community, Speech: A Festschrift for Herman Parret

Edited by Frank Brisard, Michael Meeuwis and Bart Vandenabeele

This volume unites various contributions reflecting the intellectual interests exhibited by Professor Herman Parret (Institute of Philosophy, Leuven), who has continued to observe, and often critically assess, ongoing developments in pragmatics throughout his career. In fact, Parret’s contributions… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 127] 2004. vi, 202 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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The Structure of Time: Language, meaning and temporal cognition

Vyvyan Evans

One of the most enigmatic aspects of experience concerns time. Since pre-Socratic times scholars have speculated about the nature of time, asking questions such as: What is time? Where does it come from? Where does it go? The central proposal of The Structure of Time is that time, at base,… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 12] 2004. x, 286 pp.
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(In)vulnerable Domains in Multilingualism

Edited by Natascha Müller

The focus of this collection of essays is on the acquisition of so called vulnerable and invulnerable grammatical domains in multilingualism. Language acquisition is studied from a comparative perspective, mostly in the framework of generative grammar. Different types of multilingualism are… read more
[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 1] 2003. xiv, 374 pp.
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Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 1

Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

The Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics (published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association) aims to establish itself as an international forum for the publication of high-quality original research on all areas of linguistic enquiry from a cognitive perspective.… read more
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics
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Deictic Conceptualisation of Space, Time and Person

Edited by Friedrich Lenz

This volume is a collection of articles which present the results of investigations into the grammar, semantics and pragmatics of deictic expressions in several languages. Special emphasis is placed on contrastive studies that take cognitive and cultural context into account. Both the empirical and… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 112] 2003. xiv, 279 pp.
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Interpretation and Understanding

Marcelo Dascal †

Our species has been hunting for meaning ever since we departed from our cousins in the evolutionary tree. We developed sophisticated forms of communication. Yet, as much as they can convey meaning and foster understanding, they can also hide meaning and prevent comprehension. Indeed, we can never… read more
[Not in series, 120] 2003. xxii, 714 pp.
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Motivation in Language: Studies in honor of Günter Radden

Edited by Hubert Cuyckens, Thomas Berg, René Dirven † and Klaus-Uwe Panther

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… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 243] 2003. xxvi, 403 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics
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Multiple Analogies in Science and Philosophy

Cameron Shelley

A multiple analogy is a structured comparison in which several sources are likened to a target. In Multiple analogies in science and philosophy, Shelley provides a thorough account of the cognitive representations and processes that participate in multiple analogy formation. Through analysis of… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 11] 2003. xvi, 167 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Philosophy
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Rethinking Communicative Interaction: New interdisciplinary horizons

Edited by Colin B. Grant

This volume breaks open traditional disciplinary confines and approaches the full complexity of communicative interaction from an impressive range of exciting state-of-the-art perspectives in social psychology, conversation analysis, hermeneutics, constructivist psychology, communication theory,… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 116] 2003. viii, 330 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Analogical Modeling: An exemplar-based approach to language

Edited by Royal Skousen, Deryle Lonsdale and Dilworth B. Parkinson

Analogical Modeling (AM) is an exemplar-based general theory of description that uses both neighbors and non-neighbors (under certain well-defined conditions of homogeneity) to predict language behavior. This book provides a basic introduction to AM, compares the theory with nearest-neighbor… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 10] 2002. x, 416 pp.
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Cognitive Stylistics: Language and cognition in text analysis

Edited by Elena Semino and Jonathan Culpeper

This book represents the state of the art in cognitive stylistics a rapidly expanding field at the interface between linguistics, literary studies and cognitive science. The twelve chapters combine linguistic analysis with insights from cognitive psychology and cognitive linguistics in order to… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 1] 2002. xvi, 333 pp.
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Consciousness Emerging: The dynamics of perception, imagination, action, memory, thought, and language

Renate Bartsch

This study of the workings of neural networks in perception and understanding of situations and simple sentences shows that, and how, distributed conceptual constituents are bound together in episodes within an interactive/dynamic architecture of sensorial and pre-motor maps, and maps of conceptual… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 39] 2002. x, 256 pp.
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Essays in Speech Act Theory

Edited by Daniel Vanderveken and Susumu Kubo

Any study of communication must take into account the nature and role of speech acts in a broad context. This book addresses questions such as:- What do we mean?- How do we say it? and- How is it understood?in the broad context of universal, socio-cultural and psychological issues that bear on… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 77] 2002. vi, 345 pp.
Other subjects Philosophy | Pragmatics
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The Grammar of Causation and Interpersonal Manipulation

Edited by Masayoshi Shibatani

This volume presents fifteen original papers dealing with various aspects of causative constructions ranging from morphology to semantics with emphasis on language data from Central and South America. Informed by a better understanding of how different constructions are positioned both… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 48] 2002. xviii, 551 pp.
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Language, Vision and Music: Selected papers from the 8th International Workshop on the Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing, Galway, 1999

Edited by Paul Mc Kevitt, Seán Ó Nualláin and Conn Mulvihill

Language, vision and music: what common cognitive patterns underlie our competence in these disparate modes of thought? Language (natural & formal), vision and music seem to share at least the following attributes: a hierarchical organisation of constituents, recursivity, metaphor, the possibility… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 35] 2002. xii, 433 pp.
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Signal, Meaning, and Message: Perspectives on sign-based linguistics

Edited by Wallis Reid, Ricardo Otheguy and Nancy Stern

This is the second volume of papers on sign-based linguistics to emerge from Columbia School linguistics conferences. One set of articles offers semantic analyses of grammatical features of specific languages: English full-verb inversion; Serbo-Croatian deictic pronouns; English auxiliary do;… read more
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Unfolding Perceptual Continua

Edited by Liliana Albertazzi

The book analyses the differences between the mathematical interpretation and the phenomenological intuition of the continuum. The basic idea is that the continuity of the experience of space and time originates in phenomenic movement. The problem of consciousness and of the spaces of… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 41] 2002. vi, 296 pp.
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Epistemic Modality, Language, and Conceptualization: A cognitive-pragmatic perspective

Jan Nuyts

The relationship between language and conceptualization remains one of the major puzzles in language research. This monograph addresses this issue by means of an in depth corpus based and experimental investigation of the major types of expressions of epistemic modality in Dutch, German and English. read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 5] 2001. xx, 428 pp.
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Language and Ideology: Volume 1: theoretical cognitive approaches

Edited by René Dirven †, Bruce Hawkins and Esra Sandikcioglu

Together with its sister volume on Descriptive Cognitive Approaches, this volume explores the contribution which cognitive linguistics can make to the identification and analysis of overt and hidden ideologies. As a theory of language which sees language as the accumulation of the conventionalised… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 204] 2001. vi, 301 pp.
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Language and Ideology: Volume 2: descriptive cognitive approaches

Edited by René Dirven †, Roslyn M. Frank and Cornelia Ilie

Together with its sister volume on Theoretical Cognitive Approaches, this volume explores the contribution which cognitive linguistics can make to the identification and analysis of overt and hidden ideologies. This volume shows that descriptive tools which cognitive linguistics developed for the… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 205] 2001. vi, 267 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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The Motivated Sign

Edited by Olga Fischer and Max Nänny

This volume, a sequel to Form Miming Meaning (1999), offers a selection of papers given at the second international symposium on iconicity (Amsterdam 1999). In the light of semiotic, linguistic and literary theory the studies gathered here investigate how iconicity works on all levels of language,… read more
[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 2] 2001. xiv, 387 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax
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Pattern and Process: A Whiteheadian perspective on linguistics

Michael Fortescue

The purpose of this book is to illustrate the relevance to linguistics today of Whitehead’s philosophy of organism. Although largely ignored by linguists, Whitehead has in fact much to say as regards the cognitive processes underpinning language pattern. His theory of symbolism conceives of… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 6] 2001. viii, 311 pp.
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Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997

Edited by Hubert Cuyckens and Britta E. Zawada

In Cognitive Linguistics, polysemy is regarded as a categorizing phenomenon; i.e., related meanings of words form categories centering around a prototype and bearing family resemblance relations to one another. Under this polysemy = categorization view, the scope of investigation has been gradually… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 177] 2001. xxvii, 296 pp.
Other subjects Semantics
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The Structure of Arguments

Izchak M. Schlesinger, Tamar Keren-Portnoy and Tamar Parush

An important tool for scientific study in any field is a formal language in which the phenomena can be described and hypotheses formulated. In this book a formal notation is developed for the description of the cognitive structure of arguments. The analyses based on this notation are more… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 7] 2001. xx, 263 pp.
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Syntax: An Introduction. Volume I

T. Givón

This new edition of Syntax: A functional-typological introduction is at many points radically revised. In the previous edition (1984) the author deliberately chose to de-emphasize the more formal aspects of syntactic structure, in favor of a more comprehensive treatment of the semantic and… read more
[Not in series, SYN 1] 2001. xviii, 500 pp.
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Syntax: An Introduction. Volume II

T. Givón

This new edition of Syntax: A functional-typological introduction is at many points radically revised. In the previous edition (1984) the author deliberately chose to de-emphasize the more formal aspects of syntactic structure, in favor of a more comprehensive treatment of the semantic and… read more
[Not in series, SYN 2] 2001. x, 406 pp.

Syntax: An introduction. 2 Volumes (set)

T. Givón

This new edition of Syntax: A functional-typological introduction is at many points radically revised. In the previous edition (1984) the author deliberately chose to de-emphasize the more formal aspects of syntactic structure, in favor of a more comprehensive treatment of the semantic and… read more
[Not in series, SYN S] 2001. xviii, 500 pp. & x, 406 pp.
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Text Representation: Linguistic and psycholinguistic aspects

Edited by Ted J.M. Sanders, Joost Schilperoord and Wilbert Spooren

This book brings together linguistics and psycholinguistics. Text representation is considered a cognitive entity: a mental construct that plays a crucial role in both text production and text understanding.The focus is on referential and relational coherence and the role of linguistic… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 8] 2001. viii, 363 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Pragmatics
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The Caldron of Consciousness: Motivation, affect and self-organization — An anthology

Edited by Ralph D. Ellis and Natika Newton

These new studies by prominent neuroscientists, psychologists and philosophers work toward a coherent framework for understanding emotion and its contribution to the functioning of consciousness in general, as an aspect of self-organizing, embodied subjects. Distinguishing consciousness from… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 16] 2000. xxii, 276 pp.
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Complementation: Cognitive and functional perspectives

Edited by Kaoru Horie

Complementation, i.e. predication encoded in argument slots, is well-renowned for its syntactic and semantic variability across languages. As such, it poses a tantalizing descriptive/explanatory challenge to linguists of any theoretical persuasion.Recent developments in Cognitive and… read more
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Constructions in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the Fifth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997

Edited by Ad Foolen and Frederike van der Leek

This volume contains selected papers from the 5th ICLC, Amsterdam 1997. The papers present cognitive analyses of a variety of constructions (phrasal verbs, prepositional phrases, transitivity, accusative versus dative objects, possessives, gerunds, passives, causatives, conditionals), in a variety… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 178] 2000. xvi, 338 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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Explorations in Linguistic Relativity

Edited by Martin Pütz and Marjolijn H. Verspoor

About a century after the year Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1941) was born, his theory complex is still the object of keen interest to linguists. Rencently, scholars have argued that it was not his theory complex itself, but an over-simplified, reduced section taken out of context that has become known… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 199] 2000. xvi, 369 pp.
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Facial Information Processing: A multidisciplinary perspective

Itiel E. Dror and Sarah V. Stevenage

Research in areas from psychology through computer science to neuroscience and clinical case studies. read more
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 8:1 (2000) viii, 276 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Pragmatics

Forms and functions: Volume 1: Reflexives; Volume 2: Reciprocals. 2 Volumes (set)

Edited by Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Traci Walker

Volume 1: The importance of reflexive markers in the study of language structure cannot be underestimated: they participate in the coding of the argument structure of a clause; in the coding of semantic relations between arguments and verbs; in the coding of the relationship between arguments; in… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 40-41] 2000. xiv, 286 pp. & xii, 201 pp.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Typology
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Functional Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition: Papers in honor of Sydney M. Lamb

Edited by David G. Lockwood, Peter H. Fries and James E. Copeland

This volume contains functional approaches to the description of language and culture, and language and cultural change. The approaches taken by the authors range from cognitive approaches including Stratificational grammar to more socially oriented ones including Systemic Functional linguistics.… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 163] 2000. xxxiv, 656 pp.
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Language Processing and Simultaneous Interpreting: Interdisciplinary perspectives

Edited by Birgitta Englund Dimitrova and Kenneth Hyltenstam

This volume brings together papers from the areas of psychology, general linguistics, psycholinguistics, as well as from simultaneous interpreting. Their common focus is how theories and methodologies from various disciplines can be applied to the study of simultaneous interpreting, and also to… read more
[Benjamins Translation Library, 40] 2000. xvi, 164 pp.
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Meaning and Cognition: A multidisciplinary approach

Edited by Liliana Albertazzi

The aim of this book is to present significant aspects of cognitive grammar by adopting an interdisciplinary approach. The book provides an interplay of contributions by some exponents of cognitive grammar (Langacker, Croft, Wood, Geeraerts, Kövecses, Wildgen), and philosophers of language… read more
Other subjects Philosophy | Semantics
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Poetic Effects: A relevance theory perspective

Adrian Pilkington

Poetic Effects: A Relevance Theory Perspective offers a pragmatic account of the effects achieved by the poetic use of rhetorical tropes and schemes. It contributes to the pragmatics of poetic style by developing work on stylistic effects in relevance theory. It also contributes to literary studies… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 75] 2000. xiv, 209 pp.
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Pragmatic Meaning and Cognition

Sophia Marmaridou

This book provides a good overview of philosophical and cognitive approaches to language use and meaning. A synthesis of such approaches leads to a dynamic concept of pragmatic meaning which is on the one hand grounded in cognition and motivated by linguistic and cultural convention and, on the… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 72] 2000. xii, 322 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Semantics
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Pragmatics in Speech and Language Pathology: Studies in clinical applications

Edited by Nicole Müller

The selected contributions in this volume bring together applications of pragmatics in speech and language pathology, as well as discussions of the applicability of different theoretical strands of the study of human linguistic interaction and its cognitive bases to the field of communication… read more
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Reciprocals: Forms and functions. Volume 2

Edited by Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Traci Walker

The theoretical issues addressed in the present volume are semantic and cognitive properties of reciprocal events, syntactic properties of reciprocals, and the relationship of reciprocals to other grammatical categories. Several papers discuss the history of reciprocal constructions, offering… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 41] 2000. xii, 201 pp.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Typology
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Spatial Cognition: Foundations and applications

Edited by Seán Ó Nualláin

Spatial Cognition brings together psychology, computer science, linguistics and geography, discussing how people think about space (our internal cognitive maps and spatial perception) and how we communicate about space, for instance giving route directions or using spatial metaphors. The… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 26] 2000. xvi, 366 pp.
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Tapping and Mapping the Processes of Translation and Interpreting: Outlooks on empirical research

Edited by Sonja Tirkkonen-Condit and Riitta Jääskeläinen

This volume brings together cognitive psychologists, interpreting scholars and translation researchers, who look at the process phenomena involved in translation and interpreting (T/I) from various linguistic vantage points.The focus is on methodology and the problems that loom large in a… read more
[Benjamins Translation Library, 37] 2000. x, 176 pp.
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Towards New Ways of Terminology Description: The sociocognitive approach

Rita Temmerman

Based on an empirical study of categorisation and lexicalisation processes in a corpus of scientific publications on the life sciences, Rita Temmerman questions the validity of traditional terminology theory. Her findings are that the traditional approach impedes a pragmatic and realistic… read more
Other subjects Lexicography | Semantics | Terminology
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Animacy and Reference: A cognitive approach to corpus linguistics

Mutsumi Yamamoto

The concept of ‘animacy’ concerns the fundamental and cognitive question of the extent to which we recognize and express living things as saliently human-like or animal-like.In Animacy and Reference Mutsumi Yamamoto pursues two main objectives: First, to establish a conceptual framework of animacy,… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 46] 1999. xviii, 278 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics

Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics

René Dirven † and Marjolijn H. Verspoor

Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics is designed as a comprehensive introductory text for first and second-year university students of language and linguistics. It provides a chapter on each of the more established areas in linguistics such as lexicology, morphology, syntax, phonetics… read more
[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 1 (1999)] 1999. xiv, 300 pp.
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Cognitive Semantics: Meaning and cognition

Edited by Jens Allwood and Peter Gärdenfors

Toward the end of the 20th century, there is both a dissatisfaction with existing formal semantic theories and a wish to preserve insights from other semantic traditions. Cognitive semantics, the latest of the major trends which have dominated the century, attempts to do this by focusing on meaning… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 55] 1999. x, 201 pp.
Other subjects Semantics
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Cultural, Psychological and Typological Issues in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers of the bi-annual ICLA meeting in Albuquerque, July 1995

Edited by Masako K. Hiraga, Chris Sinha and Sherman Wilcox

Cognitive linguistics is nothing if not an interdisciplinary and comparative enterprise. This collection addresses both the implications OF and the implications FOR cognitive linguistics of psycholinguistic, computational, neuroscientific, cross-cultural and cross-linguistic research.
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[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 152] 1999. vii, 338 pp.
Other subjects Psycholinguistics | Typology
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Discourse Studies in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, July 1997

Edited by Karen Van Hoek, Andrej A. Kibrik and Leo Noordman

This volume presents selected papers from the 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference within the area of discourse analysis.The topics addressed include pronominal anaphora in English and Russian narratives, the subtleties of the definite article in English and Spanish, the use of… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 176] 1999. vi, 187 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Form Miming Meaning

Edited by Max Nänny and Olga Fischer

The recent past has seen an increasing interest in iconicity especially among linguists. This collection puts the interdisciplinary study of iconic dimensions (comprising what has been termed ‘imagic iconicity’, as well as ‘diagrammatic iconicity’, i.e. iconicity of a more abstract and less… read more
[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 1] 1999. xxxvi, 443 pp.
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Language Diversity and Cognitive Representations

Edited by Catherine Fuchs and Stéphane Robert

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… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 3] 1999. x, 229 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Semiotics
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Languages of Sentiment: Cultural constructions of emotional substrates

Edited by Gary B. Palmer and Debra J. Occhi

Working from Radcliffe-Brown’s landmark concept of social sentiments, anthropologists and linguists examine pragmatic and cognitive dimensions of emotion-language in several societies. Introductory and concluding chapters devote special attention to emotional consciousness. Chapters cover language… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 18] 1999. vi, 272 pp.
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Lexical and Syntactical Constructions and the Construction of Meaning: Proceedings of the bi-annual ICLA meeting in Albuquerque, July 1995

Edited by Marjolijn H. Verspoor, Kee Dong Lee and Eve Sweetser

The basic tenet of cognitive linguistics is that every linguistic expression is a construal relation. The first section of this volume focuses on issues of such construal and presentation of information, including figure-ground relations, image-schematic structures, and the role of syntactic… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 150] 1999. xii, 454 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax
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Linguistic Attractors: The cognitive dynamics of language acquisition and change

David L. Cooper

The interdisciplinary linguistic attractor model portrays language processing as linked sequences of fractal sets, and examines the changing dynamics of such sets for individuals as well as the speech community they comprise. Its motivation stems from human anatomic constraints and several… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 2] 1999. xv, 375 pp.
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Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997

Edited by Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. and Gerard J. Steen

This book contains a selection of refereed and revised papers originally presented at the 5th ICLC. After an introduction by the editors, the book opens with a long-needed chapter on historical precedents for the Cognitive Linguistic theory of metaphor. Two chapters demonstrate the method of… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 175] 1999. viii, 226 pp.
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Metonymy in Language and Thought

Edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther and Günter Radden

Metonymy in Language and Thought gives a state-of-the-art account of metonymic research. The contributions have different disciplinary and theoretical backgrounds in linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology and literary studies. However, they share the assumption that metonymy is a cognitive… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 4] 1999. vii, 423 pp.
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Pathways of the Brain: The neurocognitive basis of language

Sydney M. Lamb

The brain is the organ of knowledge and organizer of our abilities, our means of recognizing a face in a crowd, of conversing about anything we experience or imagine, of forming thoughts and developing ideas, of instantly understanding words coming rapidly in conversation. How does it manage all… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 170] 1999. xii, 416 pp.
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The Concept of Reference in the Cognitive Sciences

Edited by Amichai Kronfeld and Lawrence D. Roberts

An interdisciplinary look at the concept of reference, using perspectives from the philosophy of language and mind, logic and formal semantics, to developmental psychology and cognitive science. read more
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 6:1/2 (1998) vii, 364 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Pragmatics
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The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: A perspective from Chinese

Ning Yu

This comparative study of Chinese and English metaphor contributes to the search for metaphoric universals by placing the contemporary theory of metaphor in a broad cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective. The author explores to what degree abstract reasoning is metaphorical and which… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 1] 1998. x, 278 pp.
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Lexical Perspectives on Transitivity and Ergativity: Causative constructions in English

Maarten Lemmens

Fusing insights from cognitive grammar, systemic-functional grammar and Government & Binding, the present work elaborates and refines Davidse’s view that the English grammar of lexical causatives is governed by the transitive and ergative paradigms, two distinct models of causation (Davidse 1991,… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 166] 1998. xii, 268 pp.
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The Linguistics of Giving

Edited by John Newman

In this collection of papers twelve linguists explore a range of interesting properties of ‘give’ verbs. The volume offers an in-depth look at many morphological, syntactic, and semantic properties of ‘give’ verbs, including both literal and figurative senses, across languages. Topics include: an… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 36] 1998. xv, 384 pp.
Other subjects Semantics | Typology
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The Cognitive System of the French Verb

John Hewson

This study is based on the writings and teaching of Gustave Guillaume (1883-1960), one of the earliest proponents of what is today called Cognitive Linguistics. It offers (1) a much needed presentation in English of Guillaume’s view of the French system, (2) the clarifications added by his… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 147] 1997. xii, 187 pp.
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Conversation: Cognitive, communicative and social perspectives

Edited by T. Givón

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… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 34] 1997. viii, 302 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Discourse and Perspective in Cognitive Linguistics

Edited by Wolf-Andreas Liebert, Gisela Redeker and Linda R. Waugh

Cognitive models, perspectives, and the construction of situated meaning have always been core concepts in Cognitive Linguistics. The papers in this volume present applications of those concepts to the study of discourse phenomena like the use and interpretation of metaphors, modal expressions,… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 151] 1997. xiv, 272 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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Language Structure, Discourse and the Access to Consciousness

Edited by Maxim I. Stamenov

The focus of this collective volume is on the mutual determination of language structure, discourse patterns and the accessibility to consciousness of mental contents of different types of organization and complexity. The contributions address the following problems, among others: the history of… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 12] 1997. xii, 364 pp.
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The Language of Emotions: Conceptualization, expression, and theoretical foundation

Edited by Susanne Niemeier and René Dirven †

Since the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Darwin's The Language of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), emotionology has become a respectable and even thriving research domain again. The domain of human emotions is most important for mankind, emotions being right in the center of our… read more
[Not in series, 85] 1997. xviii, 337 pp.
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Anglicisms, Neologisms and Dynamic French

Michael D. Picone

This comprehensive study of Anglicisms in the context of accelerated neological activity in Contemporary Metropolitan French not only provides detailed documentation and description of a fascinating topic, but opens up new vistas on issues of general linguistic interest: the effects of technology… read more
[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 18] 1996. xii, 462 pp.
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On Language and Consciousness

Ray Jackendoff and Wallace Chafe

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 4:1 (1996) viii, 217 pp.
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The Whorf Theory Complex: A critical reconstruction

Penny Lee

At last — a comprehensive account of the ideas of Benjamin Lee Whorf which not only explains the nature and logic of the linguistic relativity principle but also situates it within a larger ‘theory complex’ delineated in fascinating detail. Whorf’s almost unknown unpublished writings (as well as… read more
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By Word of Mouth: Metaphor, metonymy and linguistic action in a cognitive perspective

Louis Goossens, Paul Pauwels, Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn, Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen and Johan Vanparys

This volume contains seven synchronic and diachronic empirical investigations into the expression and conceptualization of linguistic action in English, focusing on figurative extensions. The following issues are explored: Source domains, and their relation to the complexities of linguistic action… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 33] 1995. xii, 254 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Cognition and Representation in Linguistic Theory

Antoine Culioli

The objective of this book is to better acquaint English-speaking linguistics with a corpus of texts hitherto untranslated, containing the cognitive-based research in formal linguistics of one of the most important theoreticians in the field: Antoine Culioli (b. 1924). Culioli's viewpoint is… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 112] 1995. x, 161 pp.
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Functionalism and Grammar

T. Givón

This book is Prof. Givón's long-awaited critical examination of the fundamental theoretical and methodological underpinnings of the functionalist approach to grammar. It challenges functionalists to take their own medicine and establish non-circular empirical definitions of both 'function' and… read more
[Not in series, 74] 1995. xvii, 486 pp.
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Japanese Psycholinguistics: A classified and annotated research bibliography

Joseph F. Kess and Tadao Miyamoto

This classified and annotated research bibliography is meant to serve as an introduction to the rich field of Japanese psycholinguistics, by providing an exhaustive inventory of what has been done in or about Japanese in a psycholinguistic sense. Thus, this volume captures the tradition of… read more
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Language Contact and Language Conflict

Edited by Martin Pütz

The selected articles compiled in the present volume are based on contributions prepared for the 17th International L.A.U.D. (Linguistic Agency University of Duisburg) Symposium held at the University of Duisburg on 23-27 March 1992. The 13 papers in this book focus on problems and issues of… read more
[Not in series, 71] 1994. xviii, 256 pp.
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The Bilingual Lexicon

Edited by Robert Schreuder and Bert Weltens

In the study of bilingualism, the lexical level of language is of prime importance because, in practical terms, vocabulary acquisition is an essential prerequisite for the development of skill in language use; from a theoretical point of view, the mental lexicon, as a bridge between form and… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 6] 1993. viii, 307 pp.
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Perspectives on Language and Conceptualization

Edited by Jan Nuyts and Eric Pederson

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 8] 1993. 207 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
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Symbolism and Reality: A study in the nature of mind

Charles W. Morris

Charles W. Morris' doctoral thesis Symbolism and Reality, written in 1925 at Chicago under George H. Mead, has never before been published. It sets out to prove that thought and mind are not entities, nor even processes involving a psychical substance distinguishable from the rest of reality, but… read more
[Foundations of Semiotics, 15] 1993. xxv, 128 pp.
Other subjects Semiotics
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Linguistics and Psychoanalysis: Freud, Saussure, Hjelmslev, Lacan and others

Michel Arrivé

If you read or reread Freud, it is difficult not to find on a single page references to language: from speech to text, from slip of the tongue to word play, from letter to meaning-passing inevitably through the strange notion of literal meaning, that fascinated Freud. In short, the unconscious is… read more
[Semiotic Crossroads, 4] 1992. xvi, 178 pp.
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Functional Grammar: A Field Approach

Alexander V. Bondarko

Every grammar has to a greater or lesser extent a functional aspect. In this book, Bondarko provides a comprehensive discourse on the theoretical foundations of grammar, concentrating on functional-semantic fields, with emphasis on the diversity of their structural types. Criteria for… read more
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Serial Verbs: Grammatical, Comparative and Cognitive Approaches

Edited by Claire Lefebvre

The papers in this volume offer several analyses of verb serialization written within various theoretical frameworks: grammatical, comparative and cognitive/functional. They cover a wide range of language families. All authors address two basic questions about verb serialization: First, what is the… read more
Other subjects Syntax | Typology

Syntax: A functional-typological introduction. Volume II

T. Givón

The long-awaited second volume of the two-volume work on syntax from a functional-typological perspective. Grammar is viewed as a non-arbitrary language-processing device, to be understood in terms of the various substantive parameters relevant to language: Communicative function, cognitive… read more
[Not in series, 50] 1991. xxvi, 554 pp.
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Untersuchungen über die Grundfragen des Sprachlebens: Reprint from the 1885 edition

Philipp Wegener (1848–1916)

Newly edited by Konrad Koerner (University of Ottawa), with an introduction by Clemens Knobloch (Universitat Siegen)The importance of Wegener's Untersuchungen uber die Grundfragen des Sprachlebens can only be compared to that of Karl Buhler's Sprachtheorie. Even now, however, Wegener's work remains… read more
[Classics in Psycholinguistics, 5] 1991. lii, viii, 214 pp.
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Topics in Cognitive Linguistics

Edited by Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn

This volume presents new developments in cognitive grammar and explores its descriptive and explanatory potential with respect to a wide range of language phenomena. These include the formation and use of locationals, causative constructions, adjectival and nominal expressions of oriented space,… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 50] 1988. x, 704 pp.
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Coherence and Grounding in Discourse: Outcome of a Symposium, Eugene, Oregon, June 1984

Russell S. Tomlin

This volume seeks to expand our understanding of the relation holding between discourse relations, cognitive units, and linguistic coding. The twenty contributions in this collection explore one or more of the following themes: How point of view, or the salience of information in discourse, affects… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 11] 1987. viii, 512 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax
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Orthography and Phonology

Edited by Philip A. Luelsdorff

Collected here are eleven papers devoted to various aspects of the orthography/phonology interface. Topics include spelling-to-sound correspondence for English, French, and Russian, the design of a generative phonology for orthography data-base access, the linguistic sign and orthographic and… read more
[Not in series, 29] 1987. xi, 238 pp.
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Language and Logic: A speculative and condition-theoretic study

Johan van der Auwera

In this volume Van der Auwera attempts to clarify the idea that language reflects both mind and reality and to elucidate the reflection idea by turning it into the cornerstone of a linguistic theory of meaning. read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond Companion Series, 2] 1985. xiv, 256 pp.
Other subjects Philosophy | Pragmatics | Semantics
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Scientific and Humanistic Dimensions of Language: Festschrift for Robert Lado. On the Occasion of his 70th Birthday

Edited by Kurt R. Jankowsky

The volume has been written by a great variety of scholars and educators. Not only are the authors literally from all four corners of the world; they also represent, in spite of the large body of shared professional viewpoints and objectives, many different, even diverging, approaches,… read more
[Not in series, 22] 1985. lii, 614 pp.
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The Ubiquity of Metaphor: Metaphor in language and thought

Edited by Wolf Paprotté and René Dirven †

This volume brings together a number of articles representative of the present outlook on the importance of metaphors, and of the work done on metaphors in several domains of (psycho)linguistics. The first part of the volume deals with metaphor and the system of language. The second part offers… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 29] 1985. iii, 628 pp.
Other subjects Psycholinguistics | Semiotics
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Foundations for a Science of Language

Gustave Guillaume (1883–1960)

This volume presents, for the first time in English, a representative view of Gustave Guillaume's thought. The texts, drawn mainly from his manuscript notes for lectures at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris, were selected as far as possible for their accessibility, as requiring no prior… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 31] 1984. xxiv, 175 pp.
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Prolegomena to Inferential Discourse Processing

Roger Van de Velde

This book shows that in reading verbal texts human reasoning is responsible for the recognition and construction of different forms of organization. On the one hand, it spells out in what ways human thinking succeeds in recognizing the surface form of grammatical organization which is… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond, V:2] 1984. vii, 100 pp.
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What is Meaning?: Studies in the Development of Significance (1903)

Victoria Lady Welby

In "What is Meaning" (1903) the author elaborates on the fundamental tenets of her theory of sign, to which she gave the overall term ‘significs’. One of the main obstacles to an adequate theory of meaning, in Lady Welby’s opinion, is the unfounded assumption of fixed sign meaning. "There is,… read more
[Foundations of Semiotics, 2] 1983. xlii, xxxii, 321 pp.
Other subjects Semiotics | Semiotics
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Contexts of Understanding

Herman Parret

This essay deals with the difficulty of understanding understanding, taking the understanding of natural language fragments as a paradigm. read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond, I:6] 1980. viii, 109 pp.
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Experimentelle Untersuchungen über die psychologischen Grundlagen der sprachlichen Analogiebildung (1901): New edition

Albert Thumb (1865–1915) and Karl Marbe (1869–1953)

Fac simile edition with a Foreword by E. F. K. Koerner and an Introduction by David J. Murray. The appendix contains Erwin A. Esper’s A Contribution to the Experimental Study of Analogy (1918). read more
[Classics in Psycholinguistics, 1] 1978. lxiii, 108 pp.
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