Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] – serie
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77 produkter
Re-Viewing Space
Figurative Language in Architects´ Assessment of Built Space
Inbunden, 2006
2306 kr
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This book describes and explores the linguistic metaphors used by architects to assess design solutions in building reviews, and the conceptual mappings that motivate them. The genre perspective adopted throughout the work offers a view of figurative language that considers its use in the …
Cognitive Poetic Readings in Elizabeth Bishop
Portrait of a Mind Thinking
Inbunden, 2010
2934 kr
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This first full-length cognitive poetic study of a single author and her composition process combines cognitive linguistics with genetic and literary criticism. It portrays two minds: the poet creating her poetics and poetry as well as the reader creating her interpretations of this poetry. It …
Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality in Spanish (Semi-)Auxiliaries
A Cognitive-Functional Approach
Inbunden, 2007
2390 kr
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This volume presents a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the Spanish evidential semi-auxiliaries parecer and resultar, the modal constructions with amenazar and prometer, and the modal auxiliaries poder, deber and tener que. These verbs have never been considered together in a global …
Ethnopragmatics
Understanding Discourse in Cultural Context
Inbunden, 2006
1693 kr
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The studies in this volume show how speech practices can be understood from a culture-internal perspective, in terms of values, norms and beliefs of the speech communities concerned. Focusing on examples from many different cultural locations, the contributing authors ask not only: 'What is …
Cognitive Linguistics
Current Applications and Future Perspectives
Av Gitte Kristiansen, Michel Achard m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
2100 kr
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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 …
Cognitive Approaches to Pedagogical Grammar
A Volume in Honour of René Dirven
Av Sabine De Knop, Teun De Rycker
Inbunden, 2008
2759 kr
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In the last 25 years foreign language teaching has been able to increase its efficiency through an orientation towards authentic language materials, pragmatic language functions and interactive learning methods. However, so far foreign language teaching has lacked a sufficiently strong theoretical …
Culture, Body, and Language
Conceptualizations of Internal Body Organs across Cultures and Languages
Av Farzad Sharifian, René Dirven m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
2321 kr
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One of the central themes in cognitive linguistics is the uniquely human development of some higher potential called the "mind" and, more particularly, the intertwining of body and mind, which has come to be known as embodiment. Several books and volumes have explored this theme in length. However, …
Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Teaching Vocabulary and Phraseology
Av Frank Boers, Seth Lindstromberg
Inbunden, 2008
2555 kr
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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. …
World Englishes
A Cognitive Sociolinguistic Approach
Av Hans-Georg Wolf, Frank Polzenhagen
Inbunden, 2009
2390 kr
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The book is the first of its kind to establish Cognitive Linguistics as a research paradigm within the field of world Englishes.The authors survey the main tenets of both areas of linguistic enquiry and suggest that the theoretical and methodological apparatus developed both within Cognitive …
Multimodal Metaphor
Av Charles J. Forceville, Eduardo Urios-Aparisi
Inbunden, 2009
2390 kr
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"Metaphor studies" has over the past 30 years become a discipline in its own right, mainly because of the cognitive linguistic claim that metaphors characterize thought, not just language. But most metaphor scholars hitherto focus exclusively on its purely verbal expressions. Since both persuasive …
Chinese HEART in a Cognitive Perspective
Culture, Body, and Language
Av Ning Yu
Inbunden, 2009
2338 kr
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This book is a cognitive semantic study of the Chinese conceptualization of the heart, traditionally seen as the central faculty of cognition. The Chinese word xin, which primarily denotes the heart organ, covers the meanings of both "heart" and "mind" as understood in English, which upholds a …
Cognitive Foundations of Linguistic Usage Patterns
Empirical Studies
Av Hans-Jörg Schmid, Susanne Handl
Inbunden, 2010
2759 kr
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The volume presents an up-to-date collection of methodologically sensitive contributions providing mainly enthusiastic, at times also critical support for the cognitive-linguistic enterprise. The book is important for the advancement of cognitive linguistics because the contributions demonstrate …
Cognitive Poetics
Goals, Gains and Gaps
Av Geert Brône, Jeroen Vandaele
Inbunden, 2009
2390 kr
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For more than two decades now, cognitive science has been making overtures to literature and literary studies. Only recently, however, cognitive linguistics and poetics seem to be moving towards a more serious and reciprocal type of interdisciplinarity. In coupling cognitive linguistics and …
Cognitive Linguistics in Action
From Theory to Application and Back
Av Elzbieta Tabakowska, Michal Choinski m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
2307 kr
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In view of the considerable number of recent publications devoted to various applications of Cognitive Linguistics, the book focusses on fields that have not been extensively dealt with within the CL framework. The book gathers presentations that deal with fields of application as defined in the …
Complex Emotions and Grammatical Mismatches
A Contrastive Corpus-Based Study
Av Katarzyna Dziwirek, Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
Inbunden, 2010
2759 kr
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Nominated for the Best contribution to Slavic Linguistics/AATSEEL book award 2011The concept of complex emotions is obviously polysemous. On the one hand, we can interpret it as a non-basic, non-prototypical, or culture-specific notion, on the other - and this is the interpretation we propose in …
Fostering Language Teaching Efficiency through Cognitive Linguistics
Av Sabine De Knop, Frank Boers m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
2750 kr
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In contexts of instructed second language acquisition there is a need for teaching methods that are optimally efficient, i.e. teaching interventions that generate a maximal return on learners' and teachers' investment of time and effort. In the past couple of decades, many researchers have argued …
Spatial Dimensions of Social Thought
Av Thomas W. Schubert, Anne Maass
Inbunden, 2011
2679 kr
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Space provides the stage for our social lives - social thought evolved and developed in a constant interaction with space. The volume demonstrates how this has led to an astonishing intertwining of spatial and social thought. For the first time, research on language comprehension, metaphors, …
Metaphor and Mills
Figurative Language in Business and Economics
Av Honesto Herrera-Soler, Michael White
Inbunden, 2012
2390 kr
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While the role of metaphor in economics and business has produced multiple research articles, no comprehensive book-length study has yet appeared. The present book is a timely attempt to fill this gap, giving a global coverage of the role of metaphor in business and economics. It spans time (from …
Cognitive Linguistics View of Terminology and Specialized Language
Av Pamela Faber
Inbunden, 2012
2390 kr
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This book explores the importance of Cognitive Linguistics for specialized language within the context of Frame-based Terminology (FBT). FBT uses aspects of Frame Semantics, coupled with premises from Cognitive Linguistics to structure specialized domains and create non-language-specific knowledge …
Creativity and the Agile Mind
A Multi-Disciplinary Study of a Multi-Faceted Phenomenon
Av Tony Veale, Kurt Feyaerts m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
1844 kr
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Creativity is a highly-prized quality in any modern endeavor, whether artistic, scientific or professional. Though a much-studied subject, and the topic of a great many case-studies, the field of creativity research is still very much an open one. Creativity remains a field where absolute …
Sensuous Cognition
Explorations into Human Sentience: Imagination, (E)motion and Perception
Av Rosario Caballero, Javier E. Díaz Vera
Inbunden, 2013
1844 kr
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This book provides an interdisciplinary, unified view of sensual cognition and its cultural manifestations. The contributors favour an ecological perspective and revisit and problematize some of the core assumptions in Cognitive Linguistics. One of the original tenets of CL states that human …
Cognitive Linguistics and Translation
Advances in Some Theoretical Models and Applications
Av Ana Rojo, Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano
Inbunden, 2013
1844 kr
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Pluricentricity
Language Variation and Sociocognitive Dimensions
Inbunden, 2013
1844 kr
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The "one-nation-one-language" assumption is as unrealistic as the well-known Chomskyan ideal of a homogeneous speech community. Linguistic pluricentricity is a common and widespread phenomenon; it can be understood as either differing national standards or differing local norms. The nine studies …
Linguistic Relativity
Evidence Across Languages and Cognitive Domains
Inbunden, 2013
1844 kr
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Cognitive Linguistics and Humor Research
Av Geert Brône, Kurt Feyaerts m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1844 kr
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Spatial Semiotics and Spatial Mental Models
Figure-Ground Asymmetries in Language
Inbunden, 2014
1844 kr
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This book presents novel data from endangered languages and cultures that are ever so often still not focused on. It combines different disciplines to capture the intricacies of spatial orientation and navigation. Also, the interplay between culture through language and practices presents new …
Locative Expressions in English and French
A Multimodal Approach
Av Mark Tutton
Inbunden, 2016
1844 kr
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Usage-Based Perspectives on Second Language Learning
Av Teresa Cadierno, Søren Wind Eskildsen
Inbunden, 2015
1844 kr
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This edited volume brings together perspectives that find mutual kinship in a view of language as an embodied, semiotic, symbolic tool used for communicative and interactional purposes and an understanding of language use as the preeminent condition for language learning – perspectives that we …
Frequency Effects In Instructed Second Language Acquisition
Inbunden, 2015
1844 kr
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Based on a state-of-the-art review of prior research in all related domains, this book makes precise predictions about the expected effects of specific type and token frequency distributions in input floods and tests these in the second language classroom context.
Change of Paradigms – New Paradoxes
Recontextualizing Language and Linguistics
Av Jocelyne Daems, Eline Zenner m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1844 kr
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In Paradigm and Paradox, Dirk Geeraerts formulated many of the basic tenets that were to form what Cognitive Linguistics is today. Change of Paradigms –New Paradoxes links back to this seminal work, exploring which of the original theories and ideas still stand strong, which new questions have …
