Comparative Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access Systems: 4th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2003, Trondheim, Norway, August ... Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
By Carol Peters, Julio Gonzalo, Martin Braschler, Michael Kluck
* Publisher:Springer
* Number Of Pages:702
* Publication Date:2005-01-12
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:3540240179
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9783540240174
Product Description:
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the 4th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2003, held in Trondheim, Norway in August 2003.
The 61 revised papers presented together with an introduction were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on mainly cross-language experiments, mono lingual experiments, domain-specific document retrieval, interactive cross-language retrieval, cross-language question answering, cross-language image retrieval, and cross-language spoken document retrieval.
Landscape and Englishness (Spatial Practices 1) (Spatial Practices: An Interdisciplinary Series Cultural Hist)
By Robert Burden; Stephan Kohl (Eds.)
* Publisher:Editions Rodopi BV
* Number Of Pages:266
* Publication Date:2006-10-15
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9042021020
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789042021020
Product Description:
In the papers collected in this, the first volume of the Spatial Practices series, Englishness is reflected in the spaces it occupies or dwells in. Broadly influenced by a renewed and growing interest in questions of cultural identity, its emergence in Victorian theories and fictions of nationality, and the new cultural geography, the papers cover a rich variety of spaces and places which have been appropriated for cultural meanings: the rural countryside and farmland of the Home Counties in the early nineteenth century as Arcadian idyll in Cobbett, as the land to die for in war propaganda, and as nostalgia for a unified, organic English culture in Lawrence, Morton and Priestley’s travel writing, but also in the Shell Tourist Guides to motoring in rural England; English moorland; the sacred geographies of monuments in Hardy and others; the traditional seaside deconstructed in Martin Parr’s photography, and the sea as English Victorian imperial territory and its symbolic breezes in Froude’s travel writing. The English landscape is also a paradigm for the description of other places in D. H. Lawrence’s travel writing or for the colonial territory itself in Rushdie’s writing India, a displacement of other landscapes. This collection of papers examines the assumption that constructions of rural England provide the basis for an understanding of Englishness. Contents: The Spatial Practices Series Notes on Contributors Robert BURDEN: Introduction: Englishness and Spatial Practices Theory Chris THURGAR-DAWSON: Negotiating Englishness: Choropoetics, Reciprocal Spatial Realities and Holistic Spatial Semantics in William Renton’s ‘The Fork of the Road’ (1876) Christoph SCHUBERT: The Vertical Axis in Landscape Description: Elaborations of the Image Schemas UP and DOWN 19th Century and Before Ralph PORDZIK: England’s Domestic Others: The Tourist Construction of Agriculture and Landscape in William Cobbett’s Rural Rides (1830) Patrick PARRINDER: Character, Identity, and Nationality in the English Novel Bernhard KLEIN: “The natural home of Englishmen”: Froude’s Oceana and the Writing of the Sea Silvia MERGENTHAL: “The Architecture of the Devil”: Stonehenge, Englishness, English Fiction 20th Century Robert BURDEN: Home Thoughts from Abroad: Cultural Difference and the Critique of Modernity in D. H. Lawrence’s Twilight in Italy (1916) and Other Travel Writing Ben KNIGHTS: In Search of England: Travelogue and Nation Between the Wars Stephan KOHL: Rural England: An Invention of the Motor Industries? Christine BERBERICH: This Green and Pleasant Land: Cultural Constructions of Englishness Contemporary Merle T諲NIES: Foregrounding Boundary Zones: Martin Parr’s Photographic (De-) Constructions of Englishness Ruth HELYER: “England as a pure, white Palladian mansion set upon a hill above a silver winding river”: Fiction’s Alternative Histories
Contrastive Rhetoric: Reaching to intercultural rhetoric (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series)
By Ulla Connor, Ed Nagelhout, William V. Rozycki
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
* Number Of Pages:324
* Publication Date:2008-01-09
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027254133
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027254139
Product Description:
This volume explores the field of contrastive rhetoric, the study of how a person's first language and culture influence his or her writing in a second language. The book presents a comprehensive view of the research in this field and presents sound advice for dealing with cross-cultural issues in writing classes. The goal is to help teachers become aware of the factors influencing their students' attempts to compose effective texts and to draw on the resources individual learners bring to the task. This is a solid reference for researchers and teachers in the area of second language writing.
Summary: $158? Blocks most students from buying it.
Rating: 3
This text was assigned for my gradate contrastive rhetoric course, but my entire class is stuck reading it on an ereader from the library that is temperamental at best. Why? The $158 price tag for a 300+ page book makes this a tough buy.
The chapters (thus far) provide some excellent descriptions and new directions in CR. It is a must read for someone trying to enter the conversation on CR, but for now I'm sticking to the electronic version and reloading my browser when it crashes. For the content, this book should be in the $40-$60 range in Hardcover and $30-$50 in Paperback.
Great book....horrible price (boo hiss).
Summary: The state-of-the-art book everybody demanded
Rating: 5
Contrastive Rhetoric has been growing since 1966 and nobody had taken care of setting down its theoretical foundations and its reserch methodology until Ulla Connor has done it. The most influential specialist on CR together with Robert B. Kaplan has reviewed its past, clearly described its present and definitely exposed its future. An essential book if you want to learn about Writing across Cultures. Perfect. Fernando Trujillo (ftsaez@platon.ugr.es) Ceuta, Spain
Cognitive Linguistics: Basic Readings (Cognitive Linguistics Research 34)
By Dirk Geeraerts
* Publisher:Walter de Gruyter
* Number Of Pages:485
* Publication Date:2006-09
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:3110190842
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9783110190847
* Binding:Hardcover
Product Description:
Over the past decade, Cognitive Linguistics has grown to be one of the most broadly appealing and dynamic frameworks for the study of natural language. Essentially, this new school of linguistics focuses on the meaning side of language: linguistic form is analysed as an expression of meaning. And meaning itself is not something that exists in isolation, but it is integrated with the full spectrum of human experience: the fact that we are embodied beings just as much as the fact that we are cultural beings.
Cognitive Linguistics: Basic Readings brings together twelve foundational articles, each of which introduces one of the basic concepts of Cognitive Linguistics, like conceptual metaphor, image schemas, mental spaces, construction grammar, prototypicality and radial sets. The collection features the founding fathers of Cognitive Linguistics: George Lakoff, Ron Langacker, Len Talmy, Gilles Fauconnier, and Charles Fillmore, together with some of the most influential younger scholars. By its choice of seminal papers and leading authors, Basic Readings is specifically suited for an introductory course in Cognitive Linguistics. This is further supported by a general introduction to the theory and, specifically, the practice of Cognitive Linguistics and by trajectories for further reading that start out from the individual chapters.
Abstract Phonology in a Concrete Model: Cognitive Linguistics and the Morphology-Phonology Interface (Cognitive Linguistics Research)
By Nesset, Tore
* Publisher:Walter de Gruyter
* Number Of Pages:270
* Publication Date:2008-07-15
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:3110203618
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9783110203615
* Binding:Hardcover
Product Description:
This book is relevant for phonologists, morphologists, Slavists and cognitive linguists, and addresses two questions: How can the morphology-phonology interface be accommodated in cognitive linguistics? Do morphophonological alternations have a meaning? These questions are explored via a comprehensive analysis of stem alternations in Russian verbs. The analysis is couched in R.W. Langacker's Cognitive Grammar framework, and the book offers comparisons to other varieties of cognitive linguistics, such as Construction Grammar and Conceptual Integration. The proposed analysis is furthermore compared to rule-based and constraint-based approaches to phonology in generative grammar. Without resorting to underlying representations or procedural rules, the Cognitive Linguistics framework facilitates an insightful approach to abstract phonology, offering the important advantage of restrictiveness. Cognitive Grammar provides an analysis of an entire morphophonological system in terms of a parsimonious set of theoretical constructs that all have cognitive motivation. No ad hoc machinery is invoked, and the analysis yields strong empirical predictions. Another advantage is that Cognitive Grammar can identify the meaning of morphophonological alternations. For example, it is argued that stem alternations in Russian verbs conspire to signal non-past meaning. This book is accessible to a broad readership and offers a welcome contribution to phonology and morphology, which have been understudied in cognitive linguistics.
Cognitive Approaches to Pedagogical Grammar: A Volume in Honour of Ren
Cognitive Linguistics: Current Applications and Future Perspectives (Mouton Reader)
By Gitte Kristiansen, Michel Achard, Rene Dirven, Francisco J. Ruiz
* Publisher:Mouton de Gruyter
* Number Of Pages:499
* Publication Date:2006-10
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:3110189518
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9783110189513
* Binding:Paperback
Book Description:
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.
Corpora in Cognitive Linguistics: Corpus-based Approaches to Syntax And Lexis (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs) (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs)
By Anatol Stefanowitsch (Editor) Stefan Th. Gries (Editor)
* Publisher:Mouton de Gruyter
* Number Of Pages:352
* Publication Date:2006-05-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:3110186055
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9783110186055
* Binding:Hardcover
Product Description:
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 key characteristic of this volume is that all papers adopt the methodological perspective of Corpus Linguistics, the rapidly evolving branch of linguistics based on the computerized analysis of language used in authentic settings. Thus, the contributions do not only all provide various new insights in their respective fields, they also introduce new data as well as new corpus-based and quantitative methods of analysis. On the basis of their findings, the authors discuss both theoretical implications going well beyond the singular topics of the studies and show how the discipline of Cognitive Linguistics can benefit from the rigorous analysis of naturally-occurring language. The languages which are investigated are English, German, Dutch, and Russian, and the data come from a variety of different corpora. As such, the present volume will be of interest to a wide range of scholars with many different foci and interests and should pave the way for further integration of usage-based techniques of analysis within this exciting paradigm.
From Perception to Meaning: Image Schemas in Cognitive Linguistics (Cognitive Linguistics Research, 29) (Cognitive Linguistic Research)
By Beate Hampe, Joseph E. Grady
* Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
* Number Of Pages: 485
* Publication Date: 2005-12
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 3110183110
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9783110183115
* Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
The 1987 landmark publications by G. Lakoff and M. Johnson made image schema one of the cornerstone concepts of the emerging experientialist paradigm of Cognitive Linguistics, a framework founded upon the rejection of the mind-body dichotomy and stressing the fundamentally embodied nature of meaning, imagination and reason - hence language. Conceived of as the pre-linguistic, dynamic and highly schematic gestalts arising directly from motor movement, object manipulation, and perceptual interaction, image schemas served to anchor abstract reasoning and imagination to sensori-motor patterns in the conceptual theory of metaphor.
Being itself informed by preceding crosslinguistic work on semantic primitives in the linguistic representations of spatial relations (carried out by L. Talmy, R. Langacker, and others), the notion has inspired a large amount of subsequent research and debate on diverse issues ranging from the meaning, structure and acquisition of natural languages to the embodied mind itself.
From Perception to Meaning is the first survey of current image-schema theory and offers a collection of original and innovative essays by leading scholars, many of whom have shaped the theory from the very beginning. The edition unites essays on major issues in recent research on image-schemas - from aspects of their definition and linguistic formalization, their psychological status and neural grounding to their role as semantic universals and primitives in language acquisition. The book will thus not only be welcomed by linguists of a cognitive orientation, but will prove relevant to philosophers, psychologists, and anthropologists interested in language, and indeed to anyone studying the embodied mind.
Cognitive Linguistics: Internal Dynamics and Interdisciplinary Interaction (Cognitive Linguistics Research, 32)
By M. Sandra Pena Cervel, M. Sandra Pena Cervel, Francisco Jose Ruiz De Mendoza Ibanez
* Publisher:Mouton De Gruyter
* Number Of Pages:432
* Publication Date:2005-12
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:3110186179
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9783110186178
* Binding:Hardcover
Book Description:
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.
The Semantics of Polysemy: Reading Meaning in English and Warlpiri (Cognitive Linguistics Research) (Cognitive Linguistic Research)
By Nick Riemer
* Publisher:Mouton de Gruyter
* Number Of Pages:487
* Publication Date:2005-07-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:3110183978
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9783110183979
* Binding:Hardcover
Product Description:
This book, addressed primarily to students and researchers in semantics, cognitive linguistics, English, and Australian languages, is a comparative study of the polysemy patterns displayed by percussion/impact ('hitting') verbs in English and Warlpiri (Pama-Nyungan, Central Australia). The opening chapters develop a novel theoretical orientation for the study of polysemy via a close examination of two theoretical traditions under the broader cognitivist umbrella: Langackerian and Lakovian Cognitive Semantics and Wierzbickian Natural Semantic Metalanguage. Arguments are offered which problematize attempts in these traditions to ground the analysis of meaning either in cognitive or neurological reality, or in the existence of universal synonymy relations within the lexicon. Instead, an interpretative rather than a scientific construal of linguistic theorizing is sketched, in the context of a close examination of certain key issues in the contemporary study of polysemy such as sense individuation, the role of reference in linguistic categorization, and the demarcation between metaphor and metonymy. The later chapters present a detailed typology of the polysemous senses of English and Warlpiri percussion/impact (or P/I) verbs based on a diachronically deep corpus of dictionary citations from Middle to contemporary English, and on a large corpus of Warlpiri citations. Limited to the operations of metaphor and of three categories of metonymy, this typology posits just four types of basic relation between extended and core meanings. As a result, the phenomenon of polysemy and semantic extension emerges as amenable to strikingly concise description.
Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Language Variation, Cultural Models, Social Systems (Cognitive Linguistics Research)
By Kristiansen, Gitte
* Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
* Number Of Pages: 545
* Publication Date: 2008-11-15
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 3110196255
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9783110196252
* Binding: Hardcover
Product Description:
A union of Cognitive Linguistics and Sociolinguistics was bound to happen. Both proclaim a usage-based approach to language and aim to analyse actual language use in objective ways. Whereas Sociolinguistics is by nature on the outlook for language in its variety, CL can no longer afford to ignore social variation in language as it manifests itself in the usage data. Nor can it fail to adopt an empirical methodology that reflects variation as it actually occurs, beyond the limited knowledge of the individual observer. Conversely, while CL can only benefit from a heightened sensitivity to social aspects, the rich, bottom-up theoretical framework it has developed is likely to contribute to a much better understanding of the meaning of variationist phenomena. The volume brings together fifteen chapters written by prominent scholars testifying of rich empirical and theoretizing research into the social aspects of language variation. Taking a broad view on Cognitive Sociolinguistics, the volume covers three main areas: corpus-based research on language variation, cognitive cultural models, and the ideologies of sociopolitical and socio-economic systems.
Creativity and Artificial Intelligence: A Conceptual Blending Approach (Applications of Cognitive Linguistics)
By C芒mara Pereira, Francisco
* Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
* Number Of Pages: 253
* Publication Date: 2007-12-19
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 3110186098
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9783110186093
* Binding: Hardcover
Product Description:
With CD-ROM. Creativity and Artificial Intelligence: A Conceptual Blending Approach takes readers into a computationally plausible model of creativity. Inspired by a thorough analysis of work on creativity from the areas of philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, cognitive linguistics and artificial intelligence, the author deals with the various processes, principles and representations that lie underneath the act of creativity. Focusing on Arthur Koestler's Bisociations, which eventually lead to Turner and Fauconnier's conceptual blending framework, the book proposes a theoretical model that considers blends and their emergent structure as a fundamental cognitive mechanism. The author thus discusses the computational implementation of several aspects of conceptual blending theory, namely composition, completion, elaboration, frames and optimality constraints. Informal descriptions and examples are supplied to provide non-computer scientists as well as non-cognitive linguists with clear insights into these ideas. Several experiments are made, and their results are discussed, with particular emphasis on the validation of the creativity and conceptual blending aspects. Written by a researcher with a background in artificial intelligence, the book is the result of several years of exploration and discussion from different theoretical perspectives. As a result, the book echoes some of the criticism made on conceptual blending and creativity in artificial intelligence, and thus proposes improvements in both areas, with the aim of being a constructive contribution to these very intriguing, yet appealing, research orientations.
Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Teaching Vocabulary and Phraseology (Applications of Cognitive Linguistics)
By Boers, Frank
* Publisher:Walter de Gruyter
* Number Of Pages:390
* Publication Date:2008-03-18
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:3110196301
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9783110196306
* Binding:Hardcover
Product Description:
Mastering the vocabulary of a foreign language is one of the most daunting tasks that language learners face. The immensity of the task is underscored by the realisation that it is not only single words but also numerous standardised phrases (idioms, collocations, etc.) that need to be acquired. There is thus a clear need for instructional methods that help learners tackle this task, and yet few proposals for vocabulary instruction have so far gone beyond techniques for rote-learning and familiar means of promoting of noticing. The reason for this is that vocabulary and phraseology have long been assumed arbitrary. The volume
Cognitive English Grammar (Cognitive Linguistics in Practice)
By Gunter Radden, Rene Dirven
* Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co
* Number Of Pages: 374
* Publication Date: 2007-07-05
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 9027219036
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9789027219039
* Binding: Hardcover
The New Psychology of Language: Cognitive and Functional Approaches To Language Structure, Volume I
By Michael Tomasello
* Publisher:Lawrence Erlbaum
* Number Of Pages:320
* Publication Date:1998-07-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0805825762
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780805825763
Product Description:
This book, which gathers in one place the theories of 10 leading cognitive and functional linguists, represents a new approach that may define the next era in the history of psychology: It promises to give psychologists a new appreciation of what this variety of linguistics can offer their study of language and communication. In addition, it provides cognitive-functional linguists new models for presenting their work to audiences outside the boundaries of traditional linguistics. Thus, it serves as an excellent text for courses in psycholinguistics, and appeal to students and researchers in cognitive science and functional linguistics.
Summary: Clear functionalism
Rating: 5
This book is a welcome and clear-headed exposition of functional approaches to linguistics, from a lot of perspectives.
Here's the contents:
M. Tomasello -- Introduction to the Volume: Some Surprises for Psychologists.
L. Talmy -- Concept Structuring Systems in Language.
J. DuBois -- Discourse and Grammar.
S. Kemmer -- Human Cognition and the Elaboration of Events: Some Universal Conceptual Categories.
C. Ford, B. Fox, S. Thompson -- Social Interaction and Grammar.
J. Bybee -- Cognitive Processes in Grammaticalization.
K. van Hoek -- Pronouns and Point of View: Cognitive Principles of Coreference.
B. Comrie -- On Explaining Language Universals.
M. Haspelmath -- The Geometry of Grammatical Meaning: Semantic Maps and Crosslinguistic Comparison.
C. Fillmore, P. Kay, M.C. O'Connor -- Regularity and Idiomaticity in Grammatical Constructions: The Case of "Let Alone"
Amazon doesn't have editorial desdescription on this book, so I'll quote the publisher's blurb:
"From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of modern linguistics is too formal and mathematical to be of much use. The newly emerging approaches to language termed "Functional and Cognitive Linguistics," however, are much less formally oriented. Instead, functional and cognitive approaches to language structure are typically couched in terms already familiar to cognitive scientists: perception, attention, conceptualization, meaning, symbols, categories, schemas, perspectives, discourse context, social interaction, and communicative goals.
The account of human linguistic competence emerging from this new paradigm should be extremely useful to scientists studying how human beings (not formal devices) comprehend, produce, and acquire natural languages. The current volume brings together 10 of the most important linguists in cognitive and functional linguistics whose work is often not easily available to those outside the field. In original contributions, each of these scholars focus on an important aspect of human linguistic competence, with a special eye to readers who are not professional linguists. Of special importance to all of the contributions are the cognitive and social interactional processes that constitute human linguistic communication. The book should be of special interest to psychologists, cognitive scientists, psycholinguists, and developmental psycholinguists, in addition to linguists taking a more psychological approach to language."
Corpus-based Approaches to Metaphor And Metonymy (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs) (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs)
By Anatol Stefanowitsch, Stefan Th. Gries
* Publisher:Mouton De Gruyter
* Number Of Pages:319
* Publication Date:2006-03-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:3110186047
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9783110186048
* Binding:Hardcover
Product Description:
The papers in this volume deal with the issue of how corpus data relate to the questions that cognitive linguists have typically investigated with respect to conceptual mappings. The authors in this volume investigate a wide range of issues - the coherence and function of particular metaphorical models, the interaction of form and meaning, the identification of source domains of metaphorical expressions, the relationship between metaphor and discourse, the priming of metaphors, and the historical development of metaphors. The studies deal with a variety of metaphorical and metonymic source and target domains, including the source domains SPACE, ANIMALS, BODY PARTS, ORGANIZATIONS and WAR, and the target domains VERBAL ACTIVITY, ECONOMY, EMOTIONS and POLITICS. In their studies, the authors present a variety of corpus-linguistic methods for the investigation of conceptual mappings, for example, corpora annotated for semantic categories, concordances of individual source-domain items and patterns, and concordances of target-domain items. In sum, the papers in this volume show how a wide range of corpus-linguistic methods can be used to investigate a variety of issues in cognitive linguistics; the combination of corpus methods with a cognitive-linguistic view of metaphor and metonymy yields new answers to old questions (and to new questions) about the relationship between language as a conceptual phenomenon and language as a textual phenomenon.
Language in the Context of Use: Discourse and Cognitive Approaches to Language (Cognitive Linguistic Research)
By Kim, Yiyoung
* Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
* Number Of Pages: 360
* Publication Date: 2008-06-17
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 3110196190
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9783110196191
* Binding: Hardcover
Product Description:
The volume explores key convergences between cognitive and discourse approaches to language and language learning, both first and second. The emphasis is on the role of language as it is used in everyday interaction and as it reflects everyday cognition. The contributors share a usage-based perspective on language - whether they are examining grammar or metaphor or interactional dynamics - which situates language as part of a broader range of systems which underlie the organization of social life and human thought. While sharing fundamental assumptions about language, the particulars of the areas of inquiry and emphases of those engaged in discourse analysis versus cognitive linguistics are diverse enough that, historically, many have tended to remain unaware of the interrelations among these approaches. Thus, researchers have also largely overlooked the possibilities of how work from each perspective can challenge, inform, and enrich the other. The papers in the volume make a unique contribution by more consciously searching for connections between the two broad approaches. The results are a set of dynamic, thought-provoking analyses that add considerably to our understanding of language and language learning. The papers represent a rich range of frameworks within a usage-based approach to language. Cognitive Grammar, Mental Space and Blending Theory, Construction Grammar, ethnomethodology, and interactional sociolinguistics are just some of the frameworks used by the researchers in this volume. The particular subjects of inquiry are also quite varied and include first and second language learning, signed language, syntactic phenomena, interactional regulation and dynamics, discourse markers, metaphor theory, polysemy, language processing and humor. The volume is of interests to researchers in cognitive linguistics, discourse and conversational
Brain, Mind and the Signifying Body (Open Linguistics)
By Paul Thibault
* Publisher: Continuum
* Number Of Pages: 364
* Publication Date: 2004-04-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0826469655
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780826469656
* Binding: Hardcover
Product Description:
Brain, Mind and the Signifying Body is an exploration of a multimodal theory of cognitive science. Using linguistic theories first developed by Saussure and more latterly by M. A. K. Halliday, Paul Thibault analyses how social and biological systems interact to produce meaning. This fascinating study will be of interest to undergraduates and academics researching cognitive linguistics and advanced semiotics. The book engages with the current dialogue between the human and life sciences to ask questions about the relationship between the physical, biological aspects of a human being, and the sociocultural framework in which a human being exists. Paul J. Thibault argues that we need to understand both the semiotic, discursive nature of meaning making, and the physical context in which this activity takes place. The two are inseparable, and hence the only way we can understand our subjective experience of our environment and our perceptions of our inner states of mind is by giving equal weight to both frameworks. This 'ecosocial semiotic' theory engages with linguistics, semiotics, activity theory, biology and psychology. In so doing, the book produces a new way of looking at how a human being makes sense of his or her environment, but also how this environment shapes such meanings.
Word Power: Phrasal Verbs and Compounds : A Cognitive Approach (Planet Communication)
By Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn
* Publisher:Walter de Gruyter
* Number Of Pages:206
* Publication Date:2003-06
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:311017703X
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9783110177039
* Binding:Hardcover
Product Description:
This is a textbook for guided self-learning, intended for post-intermediate and advanced learners of English. It contains some 1100 phrasal compounds used with 17 particles/prepositions which combine with some 500 different verbs, nouns and adjectives. Numerous glosses allow the teacher to use it in very heterogeneous classes. Thanks to cognitive linguistics, the material is organized around each particle, giving the students an insight into the networks of metaphorical meanings of each particle. Furthermore, the book implements the most important findings and techniques in the field of learning a foreign language.