SubjectsLinguistics / Cognitive linguistics
Book series
ISSN 1879-8047
Human Cognitive Processing
Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use
Edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther and Linda L. Thornburg
ISSN 1387-6724
Journals
Metaphor and the Social World
Edited by Susan Nacey, Dennis Tay and Sarah Turner
ISSN 2210-4070 | E‑ISSN 2210‑4097
Review of Cognitive Linguistics
Published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association
Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
ISSN 1877-9751 | E‑ISSN 1877‑976X
Yearbook
Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics
Published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association
Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
ISSN 1572-0268 | E‑ISSN 1572‑0276
At the Crossroads of Historical and Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by Anna Rogos-Hebda and Heli Tissari
This volume explores the synergy between historical and cognitive linguistics, demonstrating how the two can jointly shed light on patterns of language change. Focusing on figurative language, particularly metaphor and metonymy, it features a range of case studies that zoom in on the emergence and… read more[Figurative Thought and Language, 21] 2026. vii, 288 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Contrasting English and Polish Emotion Clusters
Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Paul A. Wilson
Understanding how emotions are clustered and labelled across languages offers fascinating insights into cultural differences and universals. This book delves into this very topic, analysing similarities and contrasts between Polish and English grouping and categorising emotions.The book combines a… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 80] 2026. xx, 379 pp. + index
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Crises We Live By: A transdisciplinary study of crisis and its metaphors in their cultural context
Edited by Irene Leonardis
After an original foreword from Andreas Musolff setting the stage of the book, Crises We Live By offers a series of case studies that highlight different ways of conceptualizing and speaking about crisis, above all metaphorically. Its title echoes Lakoff and Johnson’s famous Metaphors We Live By… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 20] 2026. xi, 267 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Metonymic Thinking All the Way Down: From discourse to the lexicon, and beyond
Edited by Carmen Portero Muñoz, Antonio Barcelona and Almudena Soto Nieto
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 13:1 (2026) vi, 273 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
Thinking and Speaking About Time: A cognitive linguistic approach
Edited by Rita Brdar Szabó and Mario Brdar
The last two decades have seen a series of publications focused on time. So, why another book? It now appears that a kairos moment has arrived to reconsider from a more holistic point of view the manifold ways in which we think about time and talk about it. The book is divided into four major… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 81] 2026. viii, 477 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Aspects of Metaphor
Edited by Maria Theodoropoulou
Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 23:1 (2025) vi, 326 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language
Beyond Corpus Data — Complementary and Alternative Methods in Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by Anton Granvik, Veera Hatakka, Olli O. Silvennoinen, Riku Erkkilä and Eveliina Mäntylä
Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 23:2 (2025) vi, 357 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language
COVID-19: Metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures
Edited by Xu Wen, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon and Zoltán Kövecses
The COVID-19 pandemic set off a maelstrom of social, cultural, and political changes—as well as some surprising linguistic ones. This volume explores these dramatic changes through the lens of Cognitive Linguistics, analysing noteworthy examples of pandemic discourse to reveal correspondences and… read more[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 11] 2025. vi, 344 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Cultural Conceptualizations of the SELF in Hong Kong English
Denisa Latić
This monograph offers a cultural-cognitive approach to the study of identity construction at a cultural group level and how it patterns language, exemplified with Hong Kong English. For this, cultural values, political ideology, language models, and reported self- and other-perception as… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 19] 2025. xviii, 289 pp.
Cultural models of GENDER and HOMOSEXUALITY in Indian and Nigerian English
Anna Finzel
The study presented in this book explores the cultural models of GENDER and HOMOSEXUALITY in Indian and Nigerian English, drawing on the research fields of Cultural Linguistics, Cognitive Sociolinguistics and World Englishes. With the help of different methodologies and empirical data in the form… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 17] 2025. xxi, 229 pp.
Embodied, Social, and Creative Dimensions of Metonymy
Edited by Marlene Johansson Falck and Thomas Wiben Jensen
Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 15:2 (2025) vi, 151 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies
What makes a Figure: Rethinking figurativity
Edited by Herbert L. Colston
This volume presents works seeking to re-think the very nature and scope of figurativity, calling into attention some of the received tenets in accounts of figurativity, both as a holistic category and for individual types and families of figures, but also attempting to expand upon the current… read more[Figurative Thought and Language, 19] 2025. vi, 322 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Theoretical linguistics
Bringing Figurative Language into Real L2 Classrooms: The challenges of empirical testing
Edited by Ana M. Piquer-Píriz and Reyes Llopis-García
Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 22:2 (2024) vi, 316 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language
Cognitive Approaches to Mind, Language, and Society: Theory and description
Edited by Mario Serrano-Losada and Daniela Pettersson-Traba
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 11:1 (2024) vi, 249 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
Cognitive Semantics: A cultural-historical perspective
Vladimir Glebkin
The book presents two fundamental theories that characterize the cultural-historical perspective in cognitive semantics: the Four-Level Theory of Cognitive Development (FLTCD) and the Sociocultural Theory of Lexical Complexes (STLC) as well as their application to the analysis of specific material.… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 15] 2024. v, 242 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Proverbs within Cognitive Linguistics: State of the art
Edited by Sadia Belkhir
The volume presents an innovative set of researches featuring theoretical and practical discussions of the proverb in cognition and culture. To date, there seems to be a need for state-of-the-art research into this subject matter. This volume aims at responding to this need. The chapters… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 16] 2024. xvi, 351 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Space, Time, World
Michael Fortescue
Although major cognitively based studies of SPACE and TIME in language have appeared in terms of “Frames of Reference”, these do not extend to a wide selection of the world’s languages, nor do they combine SPACE and TIME in the overarching concept of WORLD, which has its own corresponding frames of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 77] 2024. viii, 223 pp
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Cognition and language | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Applying Embodied Cognition and Cognitive Linguistics to language teaching
Edited by Paolo Della Putta and Ferran Suñer
Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 21:1 (2023) vi, 330 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language
Current challenges in metaphor research
Edited by Nina Julich-Warpakowski and Paula Pérez-Sobrino
Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 13:1 (2023) vi, 143 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies
Perception, Culture and Language
Edited by Judit Baranyiné Kóczy and Rita Brdar Szabó
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 10:2 (2023) vi, 239 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
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… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 73] 2022. xi, 442 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Theoretical linguistics
Cantonese GIVE and Double-Object Construction: Grammaticalization and word order change
Andy Chi-on Chin
GIVE is a versatile morpheme in many languages. While there have been extensive studies on the interplay between the syntax and semantics of GIVE in many languages, not much has been done in a similar manner on Cantonese, a member of the Yue dialect group of the Chinese language family. This… read more[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 15] 2022. xiv, 266 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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.… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 74] 2022. xiii, 242 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Collocations as a Language Resource: A functional and cognitive study in English phraseology
Sonja Poulsen
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 defective, deviations from an assumed norm of full compositionality.… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 71] 2022. xvi, 348 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | English linguistics | Functional linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Lexicography | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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… read more[Figurative Thought and Language, 14] 2022. ix, 296 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
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… read more[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 4] 2022. xxiii, 283 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
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… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 25] 2022. x, 347 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Japanese linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Living Metaphors and Metonymies
Edited by Mario Brdar and Rita Brdar Szabó
Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 20:1 (2022) vi, 304 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language
Motion Metaphors in Music Criticism: An empirical investigation of their conceptual motivation and their metaphoricity
Nina Julich-Warpakowski
The book explores (1) the motivation of motion expressions in Western classical music criticism in terms of conceptual metaphors (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980, 1999) in two corpus studies, and (2) their perceived degree of metaphoricity among musicians and non-musicians in a rating study. The results… read more[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 10] 2022. xiii, 247 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Corpus linguistics
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… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 72] 2022. vii, 279 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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… read more[Figurative Thought and Language, 15] 2022. xvii, 190 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Theoretical literature & literary studies
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… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 75] 2022. viii, 245 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
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,… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 124] 2022. vi, 284 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Cognitive Aphasiology – A Usage-Based Approach to Language in Aphasia
Rachel Hatchard
Aphasia is the most common acquired language disorder in adults, resulting from brain damage, usually stroke. This book firstly explains how aphasia research and clinical practice remain heavily influenced by rule-based, generative theory, and summarizes key shortcomings with this approach.… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 31] 2021. xx, 311 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Language disorders & speech pathology | Psycholinguistics
Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication
Edited by Wei-lun Lu, Naděžda Kudrnáčová and Laura A. Janda
The studies in the present volume illustrate the current state-of-the-art in the corpus-based approach in cognitive linguistics, which seeks to motivate linguistic phenomena through the combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis. By focusing on language use in different contexts from a… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 119] 2021. v, 157 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Corpus linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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,… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 14] 2021. vii, 279 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Cognition and language
Developments in Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies
Edited by Kairong Xiao and Sandra L. Halverson
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 8:2 (2021) vi, 278 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
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… read more[Figurative Thought and Language, 11] 2021. xii, 442 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Metaphor in Education: A multilingual perspective
Edited by Katrin Ahlgren, Anne Golden and Ulrika Magnusson
Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 11:2 (2021) vi, 191 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies
Cognitive Linguistic Aspects of Information Structure and Flow
Edited by Wei-lun Lu and Jirí Lukl
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 7:2 (2020) v, 165 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
Grammar and Cognition: Dualistic models of language structure and language processing
Edited by Alexander Haselow and Gunther Kaltenböck
This volume brings together linguistic, psychological and neurological research in a discussion of the Cognitive Dualism Hypothesis, whose central idea is that human cognitive activity in general and linguistic cognition in particular cannot reasonably be reduced to a single, monolithic system of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 70] 2020. vii, 358 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Psycholinguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Historical Linguistics: A cognitive grammar introduction
Margaret E. Winters
This textbook serves a dual purpose. It is, first, a comprehensive introduction to historical linguistics, intended for both undergraduate and graduate students who have taken, at the least, an introductory course in linguistics. Secondly, unlike many such textbooks, this one is based in the… read more[Not in series, 227] 2020. xvii, 241 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Historical linguistics
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… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 87] 2020. viii, 309 pp.
Other subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Metaphor in Mental Healthcare
Edited by Dennis Tay
Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 10:2 (2020) vi, 166 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies
Visual Metaphors
Edited by Réka Benczes and Veronika Szelid
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 7:1 (2020) vi, 274 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
Where Words Get their Meaning: Cognitive processing and distributional modelling of word meaning in first and second language
Marianna Bolognesi
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 argues that mechanisms based on associations, pattern detection, and… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 23] 2020. xi, 208 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Multilingualism | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Cognitive Linguistics and the Study of Chinese
Edited by Dingfang Shu, Hui Zhang and Lifei Zhang
Bringing together contributions from a group of prominent researchers, within a cognitive-linguistic framework, this volume sheds light on linguistic structures and usages characteristic of the Chinese language, including noun-verb inclusion, the conceptual spatialization of actions, existential… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 67] 2019. xv, 313 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Psycholinguistics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Theoretical linguistics
Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication
Edited by Wei-lun Lu, Naděžda Kudrnáčová and Laura A. Janda
Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 17:1 (2019) vi, 301 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language
The Internal Context of Bilingual Processing
John Truscott and Michael Sharwood Smith
This book offers a broad-based account of bilingual processing, drawing on research findings and current thinking from various domains across cognitive science. The theoretical approach adopted is the Modular Cognition Framework in which language processing is characterized as an interaction… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 8] 2019. xv, 327 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Consciousness research | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Metaphor and Metonymy in the Digital Age: Theory and methods for building repositories of figurative language
Edited by Marianna Bolognesi, Mario Brdar and Kristina Š. Despot
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 metaphors and metonymies are harvested and classified. The second part… read more[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 8] 2019. x, 263 pp.
Metaphor and National Identity: Alternative conceptualization of the Treaty of Trianon
Orsolya Putz
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 role in Hungarian national identity construction, by studying the… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 11] 2019. xvii, 276 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Pragmatics | Semantics
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… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 19] 2019. vii, 382 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Psycholinguistics | Psychology | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Perspectives on Abstract Concepts: Cognition, language and communication
Edited by Marianna Bolognesi and Gerard J. Steen
Human language is the most powerful communication system that evolution has produced. Within this system, we can talk about things we can physically see, such as cats and tables, but also about more abstract entities, such as theories and feelings. But how are these abstract concepts grounded in… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 65] 2019. xii, 315 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Psycholinguistics
Reference Point and Case: A Cognitive Grammar exploration of Korean
Chongwon Park
This monograph answers the rarely discussed questions of why complicated grammatical case phenomena exist in Korean and what the connection is between the case forms and their functions. The author argues that the case forms in Korean reflect patterns of the human cognitive process. While this… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 68] 2019. xx, 264 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 21] 2019. xii, 234 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Psycholinguistics | Semantics | Semiotics
The Semantics of Dynamic Space in French: Descriptive, experimental and formal studies on motion expression
Edited by Michel Aurnague and Dejan Stosic
Research on the semantics of spatial markers in French is known mainly through Vandeloise’s (1986, 1991) work on static prepositions. However, interest in the expression of space in French goes back to the mid-1970s and focused first on verbs denoting changes in space, whose syntactic properties… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 66] 2019. ix, 396 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Romance linguistics | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
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… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 20] 2019. xiv, 289 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics
“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… read moreOther subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sino-Tibetan languages
Applying Cognitive Linguistics: Figurative language in use, constructions and typology
Edited by Ana M. Piquer-Píriz and Rafael Alejo-González
In recent years, Cognitive Linguistics (CL) has established itself not only as a solid theoretical approach but also as an important source from which different applications to other fields have emerged. In this volume we identify some of the current, most relevant topics in applied CL-oriented… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 99] 2018. vi, 230 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Theoretical linguistics
Evidence for Evidentiality
Edited by Ad Foolen, Helen de Hoop and Gijs Mulder
Statements are always under the threat of the potential counter-question How do you know? To pre-empt this question, language users often indicate what kind of access they had to the communicated content: Their own perception, inference from other information, ‘hearsay’, etc. Such expressions,… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 61] 2018. vii, 313 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Issues in Humour Cognition
Edited by Marta Dynel
Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 16:1 (2018) vi, 315 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language
Language Learning, Discourse and Cognition: Studies in the tradition of Andrea Tyler
Edited by Lucy Pickering and Vyvyan Evans
Language Learning, Discourse and Cognition: Studies in the tradition of Andrea Tyler comprises a collection of original empirically and theoretically motivated studies at the nexus of discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics and second language learning. The thematic relationships between these… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 64] 2018. ix, 317 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language teaching | Pragmatics
Mental Models across Languages: The visual representation of baldness terms in German, English, and Japanese
Pawel Sickinger
This book presents a study that triangulates the meanings of expressions across English, German and Japanese via their perception-based conceptual representations. In an online experiment, native speakers of the three languages were asked to design visual representations of expressions referring to… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 63] 2018. xv, 328 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
The Poetics of Time – Metaphors and Blends in Language and Literature
Anna Piata
How does the concept of time, elusive and inconceivable as it may be, lend itself to verbal creativity? Is it possible to trace something like a “poetics of time”? This book embarks on this endeavor initiated by the assumption that verbal creativity can shed some new light on our understanding of… read more[Figurative Thought and Language, 3] 2018. xviii, 206 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Transcategoriality: A crosslinguistic perspective
Edited by Sylvie Hancil, Danh Thành Do-Hurinville and Huy Linh Dao
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 5:1 (2018) v, 187 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
Cognitive Grammar in Contemporary Fiction
Chloe Harrison
This book proposes an extension of Cognitive Grammar (Langacker 1987, 1991, 2008) towards a cognitive discourse grammar, through the unique environment that literary stylistic application offers. Drawing upon contemporary research in cognitive stylistics (Text World Theory, deixis and… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 26] 2017. ix, 164 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical literature & literary studies
Evidentiality Revisited: Cognitive grammar, functional and discourse-pragmatic perspectives
Edited by Juana I. Marín-Arrese, Gerda Haßler and Marta Carretero
Evidentiality Revisited focuses on semantic-pragmatic based frameworks for the study of evidentials and evidential strategies in European languages (Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish). The book also presents discourse-pragmatic studies, with… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 271] 2017. vi, 320 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Expressing and Describing Surprise
Edited by Agnès Celle and Laure Lansari
Among emotions, surprise has been extensively studied in psychology. In linguistics, surprise, like other emotions, has mainly been studied through the syntactic patterns involving surprise lexemes. However, little has been done so far to correlate the reaction of surprise investigated in… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 92] 2017. v, 246 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Communication Studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Irony in Language Use and Communication
Edited by Angeliki Athanasiadou and Herbert L. Colston
The volume provides original research and analyses of the multi-faceted conceptual and verbal process(es) of irony. Key topics explored include interdisciplinary perspectives and approaches to the study of irony. Collectively, the papers examine irony from psychology, embodiment studies,… read more[Figurative Thought and Language, 1] 2017. x, 282 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Communication Studies | Humor studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics | Psycholinguistics
The Linguistic Expression of Mirativity
Edited by Agnès Celle and Anastasios Tsangalidis
Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 15:2 (2017) v, 271 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language
Metaphor Variation in Englishes around the World
Edited by Marcus Callies and Alexander Onysko
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 4:1 (2017) v, 169 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
Metaphor in Religion and Spirituality
Edited by Stephen Pihlaja
Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 7:1 (2017) v, 157 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies
Multimodal Metaphor and Metonymy in Advertising
Paula Pérez-Sobrino
Metaphor and metonymy appeal to us because they evoke mental images in unique but still recognisable ways. The potential for figurative thought exists in everyone, and it pervades our everyday social interactions. In particular, advertising offers countless opportunities to explore the way in which… read more[Figurative Thought and Language, 2] 2017. vii, 232 pp.
Other subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Applying Cognitive Linguistics: Figurative language in use, constructions and typology
Edited by Ana M. Piquer-Píriz and Rafael Alejo-González
Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 14:1 (2016) vi, 245 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language
Cognition, Language and Aging
Edited by Heather Harris Wright
Age-related changes in cognitive and language functions have been extensively researched over the past half-century. The older adult represents a unique population for studying cognition and language because of the many challenges that are presented with investigating this population, including… read moreOther subjects Cognition and language | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics
A Cognitive Grammar of Japanese Clause Structure
Toshiyuki Kumashiro
This volume represents the first comprehensive work on Japanese clause structure conducted within the framework of Cognitive Grammar. The author proposes schematic conceptual structures for the major constructions in the language and defines Japanese case marking and grammatical relations in purely… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 53] 2016. xxiii, 373 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Japanese linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Conceptualizations of Time
Edited by Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
As time cannot be observed directly, it must be analyzed in terms of mental categories, which manifest themselves on various linguistic levels. In this interdisciplinary volume, novel approaches to time are proposed that consider temporality without time, on the one hand, and the coding of time in… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 52] 2016. xxi, 325 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Embodiment in Latin Semantics
Edited by William Michael Short
Embodiment in Latin Semantics introduces theories of embodied meaning developed in the cognitive sciences to the study of Latin semantics. Bringing together contributions from an international group of scholars, the volume demonstrates the pervasive role that embodied cognitive structures and… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 174] 2016. v, 271 pp.
Other subjects Classical linguistics | Cognition and language | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Exploring Discourse Strategies in Social and Cognitive Interaction: Multimodal and cross-linguistic perspectives
Edited by Manuela Romano and M. Dolores Porto
This volume offers readers interested in Discourse Analysis and/or Socio-Cognitive models of language a closer view of the relationship between discourse, cognition and society by disclosing how the cognitive mechanisms of discourse processing depend on shared knowledge and situated cognition. An… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 262] 2016. vi, 299 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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… read more[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 6] 2016. xiv, 269 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Theoretical linguistics
Studies in Lexicogrammar: Theory and applications
Edited by Grzegorz Drożdż
The leitmotif, but not exclusive theme, of the present volume is Ronald Langacker’s (1987) thesis that “lexicon, morphology, and syntax form a continuum of symbolic units serving to structure conceptual content for expressive purposes”. The concept of the lexicogrammar continuum contrasts… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 54] 2016. vii, 284 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Morphology | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Cognitive Linguistics and Lexical Change: Motion Verbs from Latin to Romance
Natalya I. Stolova
This monograph offers the first in-depth lexical and semantic analysis of motion verbs in their development from Latin to nine Romance languages — Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, Occitan, Sardinian, and Raeto-Romance — demonstrating that the patterns of innovation and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 331] 2015. viii, 261 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Creating Social Orientation Through Language: A socio-cognitive theory of situated social meaning
Andreas Langlotz
This monograph develops a new socio-cognitive theory of sense-making for analyzing the creative management of situated social meaning. Drawing on cognitive-linguistic and social-interactional heuristics in an innovative way, the book both theorizes and demonstrates how embodied cognizers create… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 17] 2015. xix, 366 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Communication Studies | Pragmatics | Sociology
Demonstratives and Possessives with Attitude: An intersubjectively-oriented empirical study
Magdalena Rybarczyk
Linking grammatical analyses with ideas about a shareable reality, this book investigates some fascinating ways in which nominal reference is exploited to meet interpersonal and rhetorical goals. It focuses on the use of demonstrative and possessive determiners in Polish discourse and proposes that… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 51] 2015. xxii, 226 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Cognition and language | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Emotion in Language: Theory – research – application
Edited by Ulrike M. Lüdtke
The miracle of children's language development and the joy of expressive language on the one hand and the vulnerability of language and the sorrow and grief caused by its distortion or even loss in people with aphasia or dementia on the other hand show us the inseparability of emotion and language… read more[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 10] 2015. xi, 458 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Expressing and Describing Surprise
Edited by Agnès Celle and Laure Lansari
Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 13:2 (2015) vi, 250 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language
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… read more[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 4] 2015. xii, 319 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Dictionaries | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Multimodality and Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by María Jesús Pinar Sanz
The aim of this volume is to advance our theoretical and empirical understanding of the relationship between Multimodality and Cognitive Linguistics. The innovative nature of the volume in relation to those existing in the field lies in the fact that it brings together contributions from three of… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 78] 2015. x, 212 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Semiotics | Theoretical linguistics
Traveling Conceptualizations: A cognitive and anthropological linguistic study of Jamaican
Andrea Hollington
Traveling Conceptualizations is a monograph which is concerned with African cultural conceptualizations in Jamaican. It contributes to the study of Transatlantic relations between Africa and Jamaica, and in particular to the understanding of African influences in Jamaican linguistic practices. The… read more[Culture and Language Use, 14] 2015. xxiv, 242 pp.
The political impact of metaphors
Edited by Julien Perrez and Min Reuchamps
Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 5:2 (2015) v, 130 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies
Cognitive Grammar in Literature
Edited by Chloe Harrison, Louise Nuttall, Peter Stockwell and Wenjuan Yuan
This is the first book to present an account of literary meaning and effects drawing on our best understanding of mind and language in the form of a Cognitive Grammar. The contributors provide exemplary analyses of a range of literature from science fiction, dystopia, absurdism and graphic novels… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 17] 2014. xiv, 255 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Cognitive Modeling: A linguistic perspective
Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez and Alicia Galera Masegosa
This monograph studies cognitive operations on cognitive models across levels and domains of meaning construction. It explores in what way the same set of cognitive operations, either in isolation or in combination, account for meaning representation whether obtained on the basis of inferential… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 45] 2014. ix, 250 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Social and cultural variation in cognition and language use
Edited by Martin Pütz, Justyna A. Robinson and Monika Reif
This volume is intended to be a contribution to the rapidly growing field of research into Cognitive Sociolinguistics which draws on the convergence of methods and theoretical frameworks typically associated with Cognitive Linguistics and Sociolinguistics. The papers in this volume, written by… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 59] 2014. v, 214 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Corpus Methods for Semantics: Quantitative studies in polysemy and synonymy
Edited by Dylan Glynn and Justyna A. Robinson
This volume seeks to advance and popularise the use of corpus-driven quantitative methods in the study of semantics. The first part presents state-of-the-art research in polysemy and synonymy from a Cognitive Linguistic perspective. The second part presents and explains in a didactic manner each of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 43] 2014. viii, 545 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Semantics | Syntax
Frames of Understanding in Text and Discourse: Theoretical foundations and descriptive applications
Alexander Ziem
How do words mean? What is the nature of meaning? How can we grasp a word’s meaning? The frame-semantic approach developed in this book offers some well-founded answers to such long-standing, but still controversial issues. Following Charles Fillmore’s definition of frames as both organizers of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 48] 2014. xii, 428 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
The Language of Emotions: The case of Dalabon (Australia)
Maïa Ponsonnet
The Language of Emotions: The case of Dalabon (Australia) is the first extensive study of the linguistic encoding of emotions in an Australian language, and further, in an endangered, non-European language. Based on first-hand data collected using innovative methods, the monograph describes and… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 4] 2014. xxvii, 466 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Cognition and language | Syntax
Literary Conceptualizations of Growth: Metaphors and cognition in adolescent literature
Roberta Trites
Literary Conceptualizations of Growth explores those processes through which maturation is represented in adolescent literature by examining how concepts of growth manifest themselves in adolescent literature and by interrogating how the concept of growth structures scholars’ ability to think about… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 2] 2014. viii, 164 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Theoretical literature & literary studies
The Spatial Language of Time: Metaphor, metonymy, and frames of reference
Kevin Ezra Moore
The Spatial Language of Time presents a crosslinguistically valid state-of-the-art analysis of space-to-time metaphors, using data mostly from English and Wolof (Africa) but additionally from Japanese and other languages. Metaphors are analyzed in terms of their most direct motivation by basic… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 42] 2014. xxv, 340 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Cognition and language | Theoretical linguistics
Theory and Data in Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by Nikolas Gisborne and Willem B. Hollmann
Cognitive linguistics has an honourable tradition of paying respect to naturally occurring language data and there have been fruitful interactions between corpus data and aspects of linguistic structure and meaning. More recently, dialect data and sociolinguistic data collection methods/theoretical… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 67] 2014. v, 262 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Theory and Practice in Functional-Cognitive Space
Edited by María de los Ángeles Gómez González, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez and Francisco Gonzálvez-García
The differences among functionalist, cognitivist and/or constructionist models are generally taken to be not absolute, but rather a matter of emphasis and degree, with an increasing permeability between paradigms arising from cross-fertilizing influences. This book further explores this burgeoning… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 68] 2014. vi, 327 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Generative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Fictions of Adolescent Carnality: Sexy sinners and delinquent deviants
Lydia Kokkola
Fictions of Adolescent Carnality considers one of the most controversial topics related to adolescents: their experience of desire. In fiction for adolescents, carnal desire is variously presented as a source of angst, an overwhelming experience over which one has no control, bestial, disgusting… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 1] 2013. x, 236 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Metaphor across Time and Conceptual Space: The interplay of embodiment and cultural models
James J. Mischler, III
Contemporary linguistic forms are partially the product of their historical antecedents, and the same is true for cognitive conceptualization. The book presents the results of several diachronic corpus studies of conceptual metaphor in a longitudinal and empirical “mixed methods” design, employing… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 3] 2013. xv, 237 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Corpus linguistics | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Metaphor and Metonymy revisited beyond the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: Recent developments and applications
Edited by Francisco Gonzálvez-García, María Sandra Peña-Cervel and Lorena Pérez-Hernández
The contributions in this volume go beyond the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor complementing it in a number of relevant ways. Some of the papers argue for a more dynamic, interdisciplinary approach to metaphor looking into it from semiotic, psychological and socio-cultural perspectives. Other… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 56] 2013. vi, 318 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics
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… read more[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 1] 2013. vii, 211 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Metaphorical creativity across modes
Edited by Laura Hidalgo-Downing and Blanca Kraljevic Mujic
Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 3:2 (2013) v, 137 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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… read more[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 2] 2013. xi, 279 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | English linguistics | Multilingualism | Syntax
Multimodality and Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by María Jesús Pinar Sanz
Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 11:2 (2013) vi, 206 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language
Variation and Change in the Encoding of Motion Events
Edited by Juliana Goschler and Anatol Stefanowitsch
The linguistic typology of motion event encoding is one of the central topics in Cognitive Linguistics. A vast body of typological, contrastive, and psycholinguistic research has shown the potential, but also the limitations of the original distinction between verb-framed and satellite-framed… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 41] 2013. x, 251 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Historical linguistics | Semantics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Social and cultural variation in cognition and language use
Edited by Martin Pütz, Justyna A. Robinson and Monika Reif
Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 10:2 (2012) v, 213 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language
Constructions in French
Edited by Myriam Bouveret and Dominique Legallois
The book Constructions in French is the first collected volume to focus on French syntax from a constructionist perspective. It has been written with two kinds of readers in mind: for readers interested in the relationship between the French linguistic tradition and cognitive linguistics, and for… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 13] 2012. vi, 287 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
From Space to Time: A cognitive analysis of the Cora locative system and its temporal extensions
Eugene H. Casad
Eugene Casad’s posthumous monograph is an in-depth study of the TIME IS SPACE metaphor in Cora – an Uto-Aztecan language spoken in the state of Nayarit, Mexico – within the framework of Ronald Langacker’s Cognitive Grammar. The author provides an introduction to Cora speakers and their history, and… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 39] 2012. xxvii, 263 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Languages of North America | Theoretical linguistics
Textual Choices in Discourse: A view from cognitive linguistics
Edited by Barbara Dancygier, José Sanders and Lieven Vandelanotte
In recent years, research in cognitive linguistics has expanded its interests to cover a variety of texts – spoken, written, or multimodal. Analytical tools such as conceptual metaphor, frame semantics, mental spaces and grammatical constructions have been productively applied in various discourse… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 40] 2012. v, 198 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Bi-Directionality in the Cognitive Sciences: Avenues, challenges, and limitations
Edited by Marcus Callies, Wolfram R. Keller and Astrid Lohöfer
Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of the human mind. As far as the exact relationship between the cognitive sciences and other fields is concerned, however, it appears that interdisciplinary exchange often remains unrealized, possibly because of the uni-directional application of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 30] 2011. viii, 313 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology
Cognitive Approaches to Tense, Aspect, and Epistemic Modality
Edited by Adeline Patard and Frank Brisard
This volume addresses problems of semantics regarding the analysis of tense and aspect (TA) markers in a variety of languages, including Arabic, Croatian, English, French, German, Russian, Thai, and Turkish. Its main interest goes out to epistemic uses of such markers, whereby epistemic modality is… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 29] 2011. ix, 319 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Cognitive Linguistics: Convergence and Expansion
Edited by Mario Brdar, Stefan Th. Gries and Milena Žic Fuchs
Cognitive Linguistics is not a unified theory of language but rather a set of flexible and mutually compatible theoretical frameworks. Whether these frameworks can or should stabilize into a unified theory is open to debate. One set of contributions to the volume focuses on evidence that… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 32] 2011. vii, 362 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Theoretical linguistics
Defining Metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics: Towards a consensus view
Edited by Réka Benczes, Antonio Barcelona and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
While cognitive linguists are essentially in agreement on both the conceptual nature and the fundamental importance of metonymy, there remain disagreements on a number of specific but, nevertheless, crucial issues. Research questions include: Is metonymy a relationship between “entities” or… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 28] 2011. viii, 284 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language
Embodiment via Body Parts: Studies from various languages and cultures
Edited by Zouhair Maalej and Ning Yu
Research on the “embodiment hypothesis” within cognitive linguistics and beyond is growing steadily aiming to bridge language, culture, and cognition. This volume seeks to address the question regarding what specific roles individual body parts play in the embodied conceptualization of emotions,… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 31] 2011. ix, 258 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Typology
Metaphor and metonymy revisited beyond the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: Recent developments and applications
Edited by Francisco Gonzálvez-García, María Sandra Peña-Cervel and Lorena Pérez-Hernández
Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 9:1 (2011) iv, 339 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language
Motivation in Grammar and the Lexicon
Edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther and Günter Radden
Language structure and use are largely shaped by cognitive processes such as categorizing, framing, inferencing, associative (metonymic), and analogical (metaphorical) thinking, and – mediated through cognition – by bodily experience, emotion, perception, action, social/communicative interaction,… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 27] 2011. vii, 306 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Syntax
Cognitive Processing in Second Language Acquisition: Inside the learner's mind
Edited by Martin Pütz and Laura Sicola
This edited volume represents state of the field research linking cognition and second language acquisition, reflecting the experience of the learner when engaged in noticing, input/output processing, retrieval, and even attrition of target forms. Contributions are both theoretical and practical,… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 13] 2010. vii, 373 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics
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… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 14] 2010. xi, 238 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 7
Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
The Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics (published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association) aims to establish itself as an international forum for the publication of high-quality original research on all areas of linguistic enquiry from a cognitive perspective.… read more[Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 7] 2009. iv, 356 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language
Emotions, Ethics, and Authenticity
Edited by Mikko Salmela and Verena Mayer
The relationship of emotions, ethics, and authenticity constitutes a nexus of philosophical and psychological problems with wide interdisciplinary relevance. What is the proper role of emotions in moral behavior and theory; are emotions reliable guides to our authentic personal values; and finally;… read more[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 5] 2009. vi, 237 pp.
Other subjects Consciousness research | Philosophy
From Body to Meaning in Culture: Papers on cognitive semantic studies of Chinese
Ning Yu
From the perspective of Cognitive Semantics and Conceptual Metaphor Theory, this collection of papers looks at the relationship between language, body, culture, and cognition. In particular, it looks into the embodied nature of human language and cognition as arising from and situated in the… read more[Not in series, 149] 2009. xvi, 310 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Theoretical linguistics
Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar
Edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther, Linda L. Thornburg and Antonio Barcelona
Figurative language has been regarded traditionally as situated outside the realm of grammar. However, with the advent of Cognitive Linguistics, metonymy and metaphor are now recognized as being not only ornamental rhetorical tropes but fundamental figures of thought that shape, to a considerable… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 25] 2009. xiii, 423 pp.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by Vyvyan Evans and Stéphanie Pourcel
Nearly three decades since the publication of the seminal Metaphors We Live By, Cognitive Linguistics is now a mature theoretical and empirical enterprise, with a voluminous associated literature. It is arguably the most rapidly expanding ‘school’ in modern linguistics, and one of the most exciting… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 24] 2009. xi, 519 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Theoretical linguistics
Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 6
Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
The Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics (published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association) aims to establish itself as an international forum for the publication of high-quality original research on all areas of linguistic enquiry from a cognitive perspective.… read more[Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 6] 2008. 366 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language
Constructional Reorganization
Edited by Jaakko Leino
The present volume consists of several novel and different applications of the Construction Grammar framework to areas such as language change, variation, and the internal organization of grammar. The book is a collection of articles which bring together the framework of Construction Grammar and… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 5] 2008. vi, 155 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Germanic Future Constructions: A usage-based approach to language change
Martin Hilpert
This study offers a Construction Grammar approach to the historical development and modern usage of future constructions in English, German, Dutch, Danish, and Swedish. On the basis of corpus data, constructions such as English be going to or German werden are analyzed as symbolic units that convey… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 7] 2008. ix, 205 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Locative Alternation: A lexical-constructional approach
Seizi Iwata
The aim of the present volume is two-fold: to give a coherent account of the locative alternation in English, and to develop a constructional theory that overcomes a number of problems in earlier constructional accounts. The lexical-constructional account proposed here is characterized by two main… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 6] 2008. xiv, 239 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Mental Spaces in Discourse and Interaction
Edited by Todd Oakley and Anders Hougaard
The cognitive theory of mental spaces and conceptual integration (MSCI) is a twenty-year-old, cross-disciplinary enterprise that presently unfolds in academic circles on many levels of reflection and research. One important area of inquiry where MSCI can be of immediate use is in the pragmatics of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 170] 2008. vi, 262 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Phonology: A cognitive grammar introduction
Geoffrey S. Nathan
This textbook introduces the reader to the field of phonology, from allophones to faithfulness and exemplars. It assumes no prior knowledge of the field, and includes a brief review chapter on phonetics. It is written within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics, but covers a wide range of… read more[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 3] 2008. x, 171 pp.
Other subjects Phonology | Theoretical linguistics
Productivity: Evidence from Case and Argument Structure in Icelandic
Jóhanna Barðdal
Productivity of argument structure constructions is a new emerging field within cognitive-functional linguistics. The term productivity as used in linguistic research contains at least three subconcepts: ‘extensibility’, ‘regularity’, and ‘generality’. The focus in this study of case and argument… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 8] 2008. xiii, 209 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 12] 2008. xiii, 391 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Consciousness research | Evolution of language | Psycholinguistics
Anaphors in Text: Cognitive, formal and applied approaches to anaphoric reference
Edited by Monika Schwarz-Friesel, Manfred Consten and Mareile Knees
This volume contains a careful selection of papers concerned with actual research questions on anaphoric reference, a subject of current interest with various linguistic subdisciplines. This is reflected in this book as it methodically covers broadly invested approaches from cognitive,… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 86] 2007. xvi, 282 pp.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 5
Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
The Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics (published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association) aims to establish itself as an international forum for the publication of high-quality original research on all areas of linguistic enquiry from a cognitive perspective.… read more[Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 5] 2007. iv, 334 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language
Aspects of Meaning Construction
Edited by Günter Radden, Klaus-Michael Köpcke, Thomas Berg and Peter Siemund
Meaning does not reside in linguistic units but is constructed in the minds of the language users. Meaning construction is an on-line mental activity whereby speech participants create meanings on the basis of underspecified linguistic units. The construction of meaning is guided by cognitive… read more[Not in series, 136] 2007. x, 289 pp.
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… read more[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 2] 2007. xiv, 374 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Cognitive Technologies and the Pragmatics of Cognition
Edited by Itiel E. Dror
Technology has long been a helpful aid in human cognitive activities. With its growing sophistication and usage, technology is now taking a more intrinsic and active role in human cognition. The shift from an external aid to being an internal component of cognitive processing reflects a revolution… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 12] 2007. xii, 186 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Finding Metaphor in Grammar and Usage: A methodological analysis of theory and research
Gerard J. Steen
Cognitive linguists have proposed that metaphor is not just a matter of language but of thought, and that metaphorical thought displays a high degree of conventionalization. In order to produce converging evidence for this theory of metaphor, a wide range of data is currently being studied with a… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 10] 2007. xvi, 430 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language
The Language of Memory in a Crosslinguistic Perspective
Edited by Mengistu Amberber
This book offers, for the first time, a detailed comparative study of how speakers of different languages express memory concepts. While there is a robust body of psycholinguistic research that bears on how memory and language are related, there is no comparative study of how speakers themselves… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 21] 2007. xii, 284 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics
The Language of Pain: Expression or description?
Chryssoula Lascaratou
How is the universal, yet private and subjective, experience of pain talked about by different people in everyday encounters? What does the analysis of pain-related lexico-phraseological choices, grammatical structures, and linguistic metaphors reveal as to how pain is perceived and experienced?… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 9] 2007. xii, 238 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Methods in Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Irene Mittelberg †, Seana Coulson and Michael J. Spivey
Methods in Cognitive Linguistics is an introduction to empirical methodology for language researchers. Intended as a handbook to exploring the empirical dimension of the theoretical questions raised by Cognitive Linguistics, the volume presents guidelines for employing methods from a variety of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 18] 2007. xxviii, 452 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Theoretical linguistics
Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 4
Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
The Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics (published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association) aims to establish itself as an international forum for the publication of high-quality original research on all areas of linguistic enquiry from a cognitive perspective.… read more[Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 4] 2006. iv, 288 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language
Cognitive Linguistics Investigations: Across languages, fields and philosophical boundaries
Edited by June Luchjenbroers
The total body of papers presented in this volume captures research across a variety of languages and language groups, to show how particular elements of linguistic description draw on otherwise separate aspects (or fields) of linguistic investigation. As such, this volume captures a diversity of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 15] 2006. xiii, 334 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Philosophy | Theoretical linguistics
Creative Compounding in English: The Semantics of Metaphorical and Metonymical Noun-Noun Combinations
Réka Benczes
Metaphorical and metonymical compounds – novel and lexicalised ones alike – are remarkably abundant in language. Yet how can we be sure that when using an expression such as land fishing in order to speak about metal detecting, the referent will be immediately understood even if the hearer had not… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 19] 2006. xvi, 206 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Semantics
Idiomatic Creativity: A cognitive-linguistic model of idiom-representation and idiom-variation in English
Andreas Langlotz
This book revisits the theoretical and psycholinguistic controversies centred around the intriguing nature of idioms and proposes a more systematic cognitive-linguistic model of their grammatical status and use. Whenever speakers vary idioms in actual discourse, they open a linguistic window into… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 17] 2006. xi, 325 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Lexicography | Semantics
Three-Participant Constructions in English: A functional-cognitive approach to caused relations
An Laffut
This study aims to give a systematic and comprehensive description of the constructions involved in three important types of alternation: the locative alternation, which is by far the most researched of the three, the image impression alternation and the material/product alternation. The author… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 79] 2006. ix, 268 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Functional linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Visual Thought: The depictive space of perception
Edited by Liliana Albertazzi
This volume starts from an interdisciplinary expertise of the contributors, and chooses to work on the very origins of conscious qualitative states in perception. The leading research paradigm can be synthesized in ‘phenomenology to neurons to stimuli, and backwards’, since as a starting point it… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 67] 2006. xii, 380 pp.
Other subjects Consciousness research
Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 3
Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
The Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics (published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association) aims to establish itself as an international forum for the publication of high-quality original research on all areas of linguistic enquiry from a cognitive perspective.… read more[Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 3] 2005. 360 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language
Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy
Edited by Antonio Barcelona and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
The Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy (METBIB) is an online bibliography which brings together references to publications on metaphor, metonymy, and other figurative language, starting from 1990. It covers monographs, journal articles, book series, dissertations, theses, proceedings, working… read more[Online Resources Collection, MetBib] 2005. ca. 10.000 records
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics
Construction Grammars: Cognitive grounding and theoretical extensions
Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Mirjam Fried
The notion ‘construction’ has become indispensable in present-day linguistics and in language studies in general. This volume extends the traditional domain of Construction Grammar (CxG) in several directions, all with a cognitive basis. Addressing a number of issues (such as coercion, discourse… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 3] 2005. viii, 325 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 2
Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
The Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics (published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association) aims to establish itself as an international forum for the publication of high-quality original research on all areas of linguistic enquiry from a cognitive perspective.… read more[Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 2] 2004. iv, 355 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language
The Building Blocks of Meaning: Ideas for a philosophical grammar
Michele Prandi
The shaping of complex meanings depends on punctual and relational coding and inferencing. Coding is viewed as a vector which can run either from expression to content or from concepts to (linguistic) forms to mark independent conceptual relations. While coding relies on systematic resources… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 13] 2004. xviii, 520 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Philosophy | Semantics | Semiotics
Cognition and Technology: Co-existence, convergence and co-evolution
Edited by Barbara Gorayska and Jacob L. Mey
This new collection of contributions to the field of Cognitive Technology (CT) provides the (to date) widest spectrum of the state of the art in the discipline — a disciple dedicated to humane factors in tool design. The reader will find here a summary of past research as well as an overview of new… read more[Not in series, 127] 2004. vi, 369 pp.
Other subjects Anthropology | Cognitive psychology | Neurolinguistics | Philosophy | Pragmatics | Sociology
Cognitive Semantics and Scientific Knowledge: Case studies in the cognitive science of science
András Kertész
The book focuses on the question of how and to what extent cognitive semantic approaches can contribute to the new field of the cognitive science of science. The argumentation is based on a series of instructive case studies which are intended to test the prospects and limits of the metascientific… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 4] 2004. viii, 259 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Philosophy | Pragmatics | Semantics
Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective
Edited by Mirjam Fried and Jan-Ola Östman
This volume gives an easily accessible, yet comprehensive, sophisticated, and example-rich introduction to Construction Grammar as it has been developed from the early 1980’s by Charles J. Fillmore and his associates. It also provides a succinct account of the historical and intellectual background… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 2] 2004. vi, 209 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Evolution of Human Language: Scenarios, principles, and cultural dynamics
Wolfgang Wildgen
Wolfgang Wildgen presents three perspectives on the evolution of language as a key element in the evolution of mankind in terms of the development of human symbol use. (1) He approaches this question by constructing possible scenarios in which mechanisms necessary for symbolic behavior could have… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 57] 2004. xii, 240 pp.
Other subjects Consciousness research | Philosophy
Functional Constraints in Grammar: On the unergative–unaccusative distinction
Susumu Kuno and Ken-ichi Takami
This book examines in detail the acceptability status of sentences in the following five English constructions, and elucidates the syntactic, semantic, and functional requirements that the constructions must satisfy in order to be appropriately used: There-Construction, (One’s) Way Construction,… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 1] 2004. ix, 242 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Functional linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
A Neurolinguistic Theory of Bilingualism
Michel Paradis
This volume is the outcome of 25 years of research into the neurolinguistic aspects of bilingualism. In addition to reviewing the world literature and providing a state-of-the-art account, including a critical assessment of the bilingual neuroimaging studies, it proposes a set of hypotheses about… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 18] 2004. viii, 299 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
Spatial Demonstratives in English and Chinese: Text and Cognition
Yi’an Wu
As a subject of universal appeal, spatial demonstratives have been studied extensively from a variety of disciplines. What marks the present study as distinct is that it is an English-Chinese comparative study set in a cognitive-linguistic framework and that the methodology features a parallel… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 126] 2004. xviii, 234 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Semantics | Sino-Tibetan languages
Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 1
Edited by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
The Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics (published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association) aims to establish itself as an international forum for the publication of high-quality original research on all areas of linguistic enquiry from a cognitive perspective.… read more[Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 1] 2003. iv, 289 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language
From Sign to Signing
Wolfgang G. Müller and Olga Fischer
This volume, a sequel to Form Miming Meaning (1999) and The Motivated Sign (2001), offers a selection of papers given at the Third International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (Jena 2001). The studies collected here present a number of new departures. Special consideration is… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 3] 2003. xiv, 441 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferencing
Edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther and Linda L. Thornburg
In recent years, conceptual metonymy has been recognized as a cognitive phenomenon that is as fundamental as metaphor for reasoning and the construction of meaning. The thoroughly revised chapters in the present volume originated as presentations in a workshop organized by the editors for the 7th… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 113] 2003. xi, 280 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
Motivation in Language: Studies in honor of Günter Radden
Edited by Hubert Cuyckens, Thomas Berg, René Dirven † and Klaus-Uwe Panther
This volume contributes to the now one-century old question, ‘Is the link between forms and meanings in language essentially arbitrary, as Saussure put it, or is it on the contrary also considerably motivated?’ The greater part of the papers (Sections 1–3) analyze linguistic phenomena in which not… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 243] 2003. xxvi, 403 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language
The Body in Description of Emotion: Cross-linguistic studies
Edited by N.J. Enfield and Anna Wierzbicka
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 10:1/2 (2002) vi, 369 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Semantics
Cognitive Stylistics: Language and cognition in text analysis
Edited by Elena Semino and Jonathan Culpeper
This book represents the state of the art in cognitive stylistics a rapidly expanding field at the interface between linguistics, literary studies and cognitive science. The twelve chapters combine linguistic analysis with insights from cognitive psychology and cognitive linguistics in order to… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 1] 2002. xvi, 333 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Perspective and Perspectivation in Discourse
Edited by Carl Friedrich Graumann and Werner Kallmeyer
‘Perspective’ and ‘viewpoint’ are widely used in everyday talk as well as in the specialist languages of the social, cognitive, and literary sciences. Taken from the field of visual perception and representation, these concepts have acquired a general meaning and significance, as characteristics of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 9] 2002. vi, 400 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Rethinking Sequentiality: Linguistics meets conversational interaction
Edited by Anita Fetzer and Christiane Meierkord
This book addresses current approaches to sequentiality in pragmatics and discourse analysis. It reflects the current moves in ethnomethodological conversation analysis and speech act theory to cross methodological borders to arrive at a conception of a sequence, which extends the local notion of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 103] 2002. vi, 300 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Tone of Voice and Mind: The connections between intonation, emotion, cognition and consciousness
Norman D. Cook
Tone of Voice and Mind is a synthesis of findings from neurophysiology (how neurons produce subjective feeling), neuropsychology (how the human cerebral hemispheres undertake complementary information-processing), intonation studies (how the emotions are encoded in the tone of voice), and music… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 47] 2002. x, 293 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Consciousness research | Phonetics
Self-Reference and Self-Awareness
Edited by Andrew Brook and Richard C. DeVidi
Rich in precursors (Kant and Frege) and stimulated by Castañeda’s study in the logic of self-consciousness and Shoemaker’s seminal paper ‘Self-reference and self-awareness’, the work of the past thirty-five years on self-reference and self-awareness has generated a wealth of deep, sophisticated… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 30] 2001. viii, 277 pp.
Other subjects Consciousness research | Philosophy
Linguistics and Psychoanalysis: Freud, Saussure, Hjelmslev, Lacan and others
Michel Arrivé
If you read or reread Freud, it is difficult not to find on a single page references to language: from speech to text, from slip of the tongue to word play, from letter to meaning-passing inevitably through the strange notion of literal meaning, that fascinated Freud. In short, the unconscious is… read more[Semiotic Crossroads, 4] 1992. xvi, 178 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Semiotics | Semiotics
The Linguistics of Literacy
Edited by Pamela A. Downing, Susan D. Lima and Michael Noonan
This volume grew out of the Seventeenth Annual University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium, which was held in Milwaukee on April 8-10, 1988. The theme of the conference was the relationship between linguistics and literacy. In this volume, a selection of papers are presented which… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 21] 1992. xx, 334 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Writing and literacy
Point Counterpoint: Universal Grammar in the second language
Edited by Lynn Eubank
Point Counterpoint offers a series of papers and replies originally presented at a special session of the Second Language Research Forum, UCLA, March 1989. The focus of the papers is primarily the role of Universal Grammar in second language acquisition, though the agenda also includes discussion… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 3] 1991. x, 439 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Theoretical linguistics
Language and Schizophrenia
Janusz Wrobel
This book investigates the functioning of linguistic phenomena, especially in the area of semantics and pragmatics of the language of schizophrenics. By making semantics and pragmatics the primary objects of this work, the author departs from the traditional approach of those psycholinguistic and… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 33] 1989. viii, 132 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Language disorders & speech pathology | Psycholinguistics