Cognitive Linguistics: Current Applications and Future Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Gitte Kristiansen (editor); Michel Achard (editor); René Dirven (editor); Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 511
• Series: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL]; 1
• Edition: Reprint 2017
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Cognitive Linguistics: Current Applications and Future Perspectives is an up-to-date survey of recent research in Cognitive Linguistics and its applications by prominent researchers. The volume brings together generally accessible syntheses and special studies of Cognitive Linguistics strands in a sizable format and is thus an asset not only to the Cognitive Linguistics community, but also to neighbouring disciplines and linguists in general. The volume covers a wide range of fields and combines wide accessibility with a highly specific information value.

Key features:

• An excellent source for the study of Applied Cognitive Linguistics, one of the most popular and fastest growing areas in Linguistics.
• Authoritative and detailed survey articles by leading scholars in the field.
• Accessible to a general audience, yet also characterized by a highly specific information value.

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Table of contents
Introduction Cognitive Linguistics: Current applications and future perspectives
Methodology in Cognitive Linguistics
Polysemy and the lexicon
Cognitive approaches to grammar
Three dogmas of embodiment: Cognitive linguistics as a cognitive science
Metonymy as a usage event
Conceptual blending in thought, rhetoric, and ideology
The contested impact of cognitive linguistic research on the psycholinguistics of metaphor understanding
X IS LIKE Y: The emergence of similarity mappings in children’s early speech and gesture
Energy through fusion at last: Synergies in cognitive anthropology and cognitive linguistics
Cognitive linguistic applications in second or foreign language instruction: rationale, proposals, and evaluation
Visual communication: Signed language and cognition
Non-verbal and multimodal metaphor in a cognitivist framework: Agendas for research
The fall of the wall between literary studies and linguistics: Cognitive poetics
Artificial intelligence, figurative language and cognitive linguistics
Computability as a test on linguistics theories
Backmatter