Cognitive Linguistics: Current Applications and Future Perspectives is
an up-to-date survey of recent research in Cognitive Linguistics and
its applications by prominent researchers. The volume brings together
generally accessible syntheses and special studies of Cognitive
Linguistics strands in a sizable format and is thus an asset not only
to the Cognitive Linguistics community, but also to neighbouring
disciplines and linguists in general. The volume covers a wide range of
fields and combines wide accessibility with a highly specific
information value.
Key features:
- An excellent source for the study of Applied Cognitive Linguistics,
one of the most popular and fastest growing areas in Linguistics.
- Authoritative and detailed survey articles by leading scholars in the field.
- Accessible to a general audience, yet also characterized by a highly specific information value.
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Cognitive Linguistics, the branch of linguistics that tries to "make one's account of human language accord with what is generally known about the mind and the brain," has become one of the most flourishing fields of contemporary linguistics. The chapters address many classic topics of Cognitive Linguistics. These topics include studies on the semantics of specific words (including polysemy and synonymy) as well as semantic characteristics of particular syntactic patterns / constructions (including constructional synonymy and the schematicity of constructions), the analysis of causatives, transitivity, and image-schematic aspects of posture verbs.
The book testifies of the great tolerance of Cognitive Linguists
towards internal variety within itself and towards external interaction
with major linguistic subdisciplines. Internally, it opens up the broad
variety of CL strands and the cognitive unity between convergent
linguistic disciplines. Externally, it provides a wide overview of the
connections between cognition and social, psychological, pragmatic, and
discourse-oriented dimensions of language, which will make this book
attractive to scholars from different persuasions. The book is thus
expected to raise productive debate inside and outside the CL
community. Furthermore, the book examines interdisciplinary connections
from the point of view of the internal dynamics of CL research itself.
CL is rapidly developing into different compatible frameworks with
extensions into levels of linguistics description like discourse,
pragmatics, and sociolinguistics among others that have only recently
been taken into account in this orientation.
The book covers two general topics: (i) the relationship between the
embodied nature of language, cultural models, and social action; (ii)
the role of metaphor and metonymy in inferential activity and as
generators of discourse ties. More specific topics are the nature and
scope of constructional meaning, language variation and cultural
models; discourse acts; the relationship between communication and
cognition, the argumentative role of metaphor in discourse, the role of
mental spaces in linguistic processing, and the role of empirical work
in CL research. These features endow the book with internal unity and
consistency while preserving the identity of each of the contributions
therein.
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