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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.
MiLCC 7
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 linguistic processing,...
full descriptionSeptember 2018. vi, 167 pp.
CLSCC 12
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 presentation of...
full descriptionMarch 2020. vii, 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.
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.
MiLCC 3
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 solely devoted to...
full descriptionJuly 2015. ix, 329 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 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 16
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 issues of defining and...
full descriptionJuly 2022. vi, 287 pp.
FTL 17
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 perceived or imagined...
full descriptionNovember 2022. vi, 307 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.
FTL 6
How Metaphors Guide, Teach and Popularize Science
Edited by Anke Beger and Thomas H. Smith
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 essential functions of conceptual metaphor in the conduct of science, teaching of science, and how...
full descriptionApril 2020. vi, 332 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.
DAPSAC 87
The Language of Crisis
Metaphors, frames and discourses
Edited by Mimi Huang and Lise-Lotte Holmgreen
In times of crisis, how do people conceptualise and communicate their experiences through different forms and channels? How can original research in cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis and crisis studies advance our understanding of the ways in which we interact with and communicate about crisis events? In...
full descriptionJuly 2020. viii, 309 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.
CLSCC 13
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 personal identity. The...
full descriptionApril 2020. viii, 319 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.
MiLCC 5
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 metaphor have specific...
full descriptionFebruary 2016. vi, 289 pp.
CELCR 6
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 perspectives, and especially...
full descriptionJune 2005. x, 236 pp.
GS 3
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 which receive physical...
full descriptionJune 2008. ix, 306 pp.
MiLCC 1
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 as psychotherapy. On...
full descriptionJuly 2013. vii, 211 pp.
MiLCC 4
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 articles investigate...
full descriptionDecember 2015. xii, 319 pp.
MiLCC 2
Metaphors in Learner English
Susan Nacey
This volume presents results from a corpus-based investigation into the metaphorical production of foreign language learners, comparing texts written by Norwegian (L2) learners of English with those written by British (L1) students. Three types of questions are addressed. The first has empirically measured answers:...
full descriptionNovember 2013. xi, 279 pp.
CELCR 14
A Method for Linguistic Metaphor Identification
From MIP to MIPVU
Gerard J. Steen, Aletta G. Dorst, J. Berenike Herrmann, Anna A. Kaal, Tina Krennmayr and Tryntje Pasma
This book presents a complete method for the identification of metaphor in language at the level of word use. It is based on extensive methodological and empirical corpus-linguistic research in two languages, English and Dutch. The method is formulated as an explicit manual of instructions covering one chapter, the...
full descriptionJune 2010. xi, 238 pp.
MiLCC 6
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 particular ways they...
full descriptionMarch 2016. xiv, 269 pp.
FTL 12
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 disciplines and of...
full descriptionFebruary 2022. ix, 173 pp.
FTL 13
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, and gaze, and shows...
full descriptionApril 2022. xix, 235 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.
CELCR 19
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 relatively concrete—should be...
full descriptionFebruary 2019. vii, 382 pp.
FTL 7
Performing Metaphoric Creativity across Modes and Contexts
Edited by Laura Hidalgo-Downing and Blanca Kraljevic Mujic
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 on (re)contextualization across modes and socio-cultural contexts and on the performative...
full descriptionMay 2020. xi, 346 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.
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.
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.
CELCR 18
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 landslide, however,...
full descriptionDecember 2018. vii, 198 pp.
BCT 124
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, largely build on such...
full descriptionSeptember 2022. vi, 284 pp.
CLSCC 10
“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 roads, this book is the...
full descriptionNovember 2019. xv, 178 pp.
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