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AiCR 94
The Abstraction EngineExtracting patterns in language, mind and brain
Michael Fortescue
April 2017. vi, 192 pp.
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... read more
CLSCC 12
Body Part Terms in Conceptualization and Language Usage
Edited by Iwona Kraska-Szlenk
March 2020. vii, 311 pp.
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... read more
HCP 69
Broader Perspectives on Motion Event Descriptions
Edited by Yo Matsumoto and Kazuhiro Kawachi
August 2020. vii, 324 pp.
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... read more
HCP 71
Collocations as a Language ResourceA functional and cognitive study in English phraseology
Sonja Poulsen
April 2022. xvi, 348 pp.
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... read more
AiCR 95
Consciousness and ObjectA mind-object identity physicalist theory
Riccardo Manzotti
October 2017. xv, 254 pp.
What is the conscious mind? What is experience? In 1968, David Armstrong asked “What is a man?” and replied that a man is “a certain sort of material object”. This book starts from his question but proceeds along a different path.read more
CLSCC 14
Cultural-Linguistic Explorations into Spirituality, Emotionality, and Society
Edited by Hans-Georg Wolf, Denisa Latić and Anna Finzel
September 2021. vii, 279 pp.
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... read more
FTL 5
Drawing Attention to MetaphorCase studies across time periods, cultures and modalities
Edited by Camilla Di Biase-Dyson and Markus Egg
April 2020. v, 265 pp.
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... read more
MiLCC 9
Dynamism in Metaphor and Beyond
Edited by Herbert L. Colston, Teenie Matlock and Gerard J. Steen
September 2022. vii, 359 pp.
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... read more
FTL 11
Figurative Language – Intersubjectivity and Usage
Edited by Augusto Soares da Silva
May 2021. xii, 442 pp.
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... read more
FTL 9
Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language
Edited by Annalisa Baicchi
August 2020. vii, 311 pp.
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... read more
FTL 16
Figurative Thought and Language in Action
Edited by Mario Brdar and Rita Brdar-Szabó
July 2022. vi, 287 pp.
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.read more
FTL 14
Figuring out FigurationA cognitive linguistic account
María Sandra Peña-Cervel and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
May 2022. ix, 296 pp.
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.... read more
P&bns 321
How Emotions Are Made in Talk
Edited by Jessica S. Robles and Ann Weatherall
May 2021. xvii, 292 pp.
How Emotions Are Made in Talk brings together an exciting collection of cutting-edge interactional research examining emotions and affectivity as social actions. The international selection of scholars draw on... read more
FTL 6
How Metaphors Guide, Teach and Popularize Science
Edited by Anke Beger and Thomas H. Smith
April 2020. vi, 332 pp.
Metaphors are essential to scientists themselves and strongly influence science communication. Through careful analyses of metaphors actually used in science texts, recordings, and videos, this book explores the... read more
P&bns 326
Intersubjectivity in ActionStudies in language and social interaction
Edited by Jan Lindström, Ritva Laury, Anssi Peräkylä and Marja-Leena Sorjonen
November 2021. vi, 437 pp.
Intersubjectivity is a precondition for human life – for social organization as well as for individual development and well-being. Through empirical examination of social interactions in everyday and institutional settings, the... read more
CLiP 4
Introduction to Cognitive Pragmatics
Klaus-Uwe Panther
March 2022. xxiii, 283 pp.
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... read more
CELCR 25
The Language of Food in JapaneseCognitive perspectives and beyond
Edited by Kiyoko Toratani
February 2022. x, 347 pp.
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,... read more
CLSCC 13
Language, Culture and Identity – Signs of Life
Edited by Vera da Silva Sinha, Ana Moreno-Núñez and Zhen Tian
April 2020. viii, 319 pp.
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... read more
TSL 131
The Linguistics of OlfactionTypological and Diachronic Approaches to Synchronic Diversity
Edited by Łukasz Jędrzejowski and Przemysław Staniewski
April 2021. xiii, 481 pp.
This volume presents novel cross-linguistic insights into how olfactory experiences are expressed in typologically (un-)related languages both from a synchronic and from a diachronic perspective. It contains a general... read more
CELCR 22
Metaphor Identification in Multiple LanguagesMIPVU around the world
Edited by Susan Nacey, Aletta G. Dorst, Tina Krennmayr and W. Gudrun Reijnierse
November 2019. vi, 330 pp.
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... read more
MiLCC 8
Metaphor and Metonymy in the Digital AgeTheory and methods for building repositories of figurative language
Edited by Marianna Bolognesi, Mario Brdar and Kristina Š. Despot
August 2019. x, 263 pp.
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... read more
CLSCC 11
Metaphor and National IdentityAlternative conceptualization of the Treaty of Trianon
Orsolya Putz
December 2019. xvii, 276 pp.
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... read more
FTL 12
Modeling IronyA cognitive-pragmatic account
Inés Lozano-Palacio and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
February 2022. ix, 173 pp.
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... read more
FTL 13
The Multimodal Performance of Conversational Humor
Elisa Gironzetti
April 2022. xix, 235 pp.
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... read more
HCP 72
Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event DescriptionDeixis, asymmetries, constructions
Edited by Laure Sarda and Benjamin Fagard
July 2022. vii, 279 pp.
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... read more
CELCR 19
Perception Metaphors
Edited by Laura J. Speed, Carolyn O'Meara, Lila San Roque and Asifa Majid
February 2019. vii, 382 pp.
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... read more
FTL 7
Performing Metaphoric Creativity across Modes and Contexts
Edited by Laura Hidalgo-Downing and Blanca Kraljevic Mujic
May 2020. xi, 346 pp.
The creative potentiality of metaphor is one of the central themes in research on creativity. The present volume offers a space for the interdisciplinary discussion of the relationship between metaphor and creativity by focusing... read more
FTL 15
Poetic MetaphorsCreativity and interpretation
Carina Rasse
June 2022. xvii, 190 pp.
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)... read more
P&bns 319
The Pragmatics of Adaptability
Edited by N. Daniel Silva and Jacob L. Mey
March 2021. vi, 358 pp.
Humans are adaptive beings. Gradually, we have produced the fundamental capacities for our cooperation, recognition of intentions, and interaction which led to the development of language and culture. The present collective... read more
FTL 10
Producing Figurative ExpressionTheoretical, experimental and practical perspectives
Edited by John Barnden and Andrew Gargett
December 2020. viii, 549 pp.
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... read more
P&bns 323
Questioning and Answering Practices across Contexts and Cultures
Edited by Cornelia Ilie
July 2021. vi, 316 pp.
This book showcases innovative research about the multi-functional and dynamic interrelatedness of questioning and answering practices in institution- and culture-specific interactions ranging from under-explored to extensively... read more
FTL 8
Relevance Theory, Figuration, and Continuity in Pragmatics
Edited by Agnieszka Piskorska
May 2020. vii, 357 pp.
The chapters in this volume apply the methodology of relevance theory to develop accounts of various pragmatic phenomena which can be associated with the broadly conceived notion of style. Some of them are devoted to central... read more
CELCR 21
Representing Wine – Sensory Perceptions, Communication and Cultures
Rosario Caballero, Ernesto Suárez-Toste and Carita Paradis
October 2019. xii, 234 pp.
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... read more
CELCR 24
Sensory ExperiencesExploring meaning and the senses
Danièle Dubois, Caroline Cance, Matt Coler, Arthur Paté and Catherine Guastavino
December 2021. xxv, 598 pp.
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... read more
CELCR 20
Sensory LinguisticsLanguage, perception and metaphor
Bodo Winter
April 2019. xiv, 289 pp.
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... read more
CELCR 12
The Shared MindPerspectives on intersubjectivity
Edited by Jordan Zlatev, Timothy P. Racine, Chris Sinha and Esa Itkonen
June 2008. xiii, 391 pp.
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... read more
CELCR 23
Where Words Get their MeaningCognitive processing and distributional modelling of word meaning in first and second language
Marianna Bolognesi
November 2020. xi, 208 pp.
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... read more
CLSCC 10
“Self” in Language, Culture, and Cognition
Yanying Lu
November 2019. xv, 178 pp.
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... read more