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Language Acquisition and Use in Multilingual Contexts
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
333 kr
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This volume brings together current linguistic research in a range of pre-dominantly multilingual contexts. The authors draw on data from different languages and speech communities around the world, and together the chapters offer a broad picture of language acquisition, development and use – among both children and adults. While this is a valuable undertaking in its own right, the main reason for this collection is to pay tribute to Gisela Håkansson on her 65th birthday. Throughout her career Gisela Håkansson has made, and continues to make, a very significant contribution to the field of linguistics, in particular through her research in first and second language acquisition, multilingualism and language impairment. The authors and editors of this volume have all collaborated with Gisela in one way or other: as partners in international and national research projects, or as colleagues, particularly in the Centre for Languages and Literature at Lund University, where she is professor of linguistics.
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Motion in Language and Experience
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
379 kr
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Motion has attracted much attention in the field of semantics. In cognitive semantics, it is seen as a basic and universal domain for language and cognition. In semantic typology, languages have been suggested to follow a binary typology of “motion events”. However, the validity of these claims has been disputed in relation to cross-linguistic diversity. By bringing together insights from Husserlian phenomenology and Cognitive Linguistics, Motion in Language and Experience develops a framework for addressing important questions in contemporary semantics. In order to account for both universality and variation across languages, this framework proposes that linguistic meaning is motivated from experience, but strongly adaptable to language-specific conventions. Semantic and typological issues are addressed in two cross-linguistic studies carried out with speakers of Swedish, French and Thai. The first study investigates the expression of actual motion, where an object changes its position against a background. The second study focuses on the expression of non-actual motion, where motion expressions are used to describe situations without any apparent positional change, such as The road runs through the forest.