Showing all 38 titles.
HCP 73
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 cutting-edge theoretical and...
full descriptionOctober 2022. xi, 442 pp.
HCP 69
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 range of data...
full descriptionAugust 2020. vii, 324 pp.
CAL 31
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. Crucially, it demonstrates...
full descriptionOctober 2021. xx, 311 pp.
CLiP 2
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 meaningfulness are...
full descriptionJuly 2007. xiv, 374 pp.
CLiP 1
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 and phonology,...
full descriptionJune 2004. xii, 277 pp.
HCP 74
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. Regarding these prepositions...
full descriptionOctober 2022. xiii, 242 pp.
BCT 119
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 variety of...
full descriptionAugust 2021. v, 157 pp.
CLSCC 14
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, under-researched from a...
full descriptionSeptember 2021. vii, 279 pp.
MiLCC 9
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, Figurative Language...
full descriptionSeptember 2022. vii, 359 pp.
HCP 76
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 construction), and...
full descriptionJuly 2023. x, 352 pp.
FTL 18
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 questions are generally...
full descriptionMay 2023. xiii, 206 pp.
FTL 11
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 usage from the...
full descriptionMay 2021. xii, 442 pp.
FTL 14
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 consequences, thus bringing...
full descriptionMay 2022. ix, 296 pp.
HCP 70
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 mental processing,...
full descriptionNovember 2020. vii, 358 pp.
Z 227
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 theoretical framework of...
full descriptionMay 2020. xvii, 241 pp.
Z 195
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 unique in its scope,...
full descriptionNovember 2015. xi, 443 pp.
CLiP 4
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 pragmatics. Basic...
full descriptionMarch 2022. xxiii, 283 pp.
CELCR 25
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 orchestrates relatable and...
full descriptionFebruary 2022. x, 347 pp.
CELCR 22
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 applying the...
full descriptionNovember 2019. vi, 330 pp.
HCP 72
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 left aside other...
full descriptionJuly 2022. vii, 279 pp.
CLiP 3
Phonology
A cognitive grammar introduction
Geoffrey S. Nathan
This textbook introduces the reader to the field of phonology, from allophones to faithfulness and exemplars. It assumes no prior knowledge of the field, and includes a brief review chapter on phonetics. It is written within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics, but covers a wide range of historical and contemporary...
full descriptionSeptember 2008. x, 171 pp.
FTL 15
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 on the creator’s...
full descriptionJune 2022. xvii, 190 pp.
Z 238
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 debates for established...
full descriptionOctober 2021. viii, 229 pp.
CELCR 21
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 dimension, sensory...
full descriptionOctober 2019. xii, 234 pp.
CELCR 24
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 research, is a...
full descriptionDecember 2021. xxv, 598 pp.
CELCR 20
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 speakers use to...
full descriptionApril 2019. xiv, 289 pp.
CELCR 12
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 solve the problem of...
full descriptionJune 2008. xiii, 391 pp.
CELCR 26
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 been acknowledged....
full descriptionJune 2023. xv, 355 pp.
CAL 35
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’ processing of a...
full descriptionJuly 2023. xiii, 236 pp.
LAL 36
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. Contributions to the...
full descriptionFebruary 2021. vii, 236 pp.
HCP 75
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 creative expression?...
full descriptionNovember 2022. viii, 245 pp.