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.
In this volume leading researchers present new work on the semantics
and pragmatics of adjectives and adverbs, and their interfaces with
syntax. Its concerns include the semantics of gradability; the
relationship between adjectival scales and verbal aspect; the
relationship between meaning and
the positions of adjectives and
adverbs in nominal and verbal projections; and the fine-grained
semantics of different subclasses of adverbs and adverbs. Its goals are
to provide a comprehensive vision of the linguistically significant
structural and interpretive properties of adjectives and
adverbs, to
highlight the similarities between these two categories, and to signal
the importance of a careful and detailed integration of lexical and
compositional semantics.
The editors open the book with an
overview of current research before introducing and contextualizing the
remaining chapters. The work is aimed at scholars and advanced students
of syntax, semantics, formal pragmatics, and discourse. It will also
appeal to researchers in philosophy,
psycholinguistics, and language acquisition interested in the syntax and semantics of adjectives and adverbs.
In this volume leading researchers present new work on the semantics
and pragmatics of adjectives and adverbs, and their interfaces with
syntax. Its concerns include the semantics of gradability; the
relationship between adjectival scales and verbal aspect; the
relationship between meaning and
