Cognitive Linguistics: Current Applications and Future Perspectives (Mouton Reader)

✍ Scribed by Gitte Kristiansen, Michel Achard, Rene Dirven, Francisco J. Ruiz

• Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 512
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"Cognitive Linguistics: Current Applications and Future Perspectives" is an up-to-date survey of recent research in Cognitive Linguistics 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. The key features include: an excellent source for the study of Applied Cognitive Linguistics, one of the most popular and fastest growing areas in linguistics; and 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

Acknowledgements......Page 5
Table of contents......Page 7
List of contributors......Page 9
Introduction Cognitive Linguistics: Current applications and future perspectives......Page 13
Part one: The cognitive base......Page 31
Methodology in Cognitive Linguistics......Page 33
Polysemy and the lexicon......Page 63
Cognitive approaches to grammar......Page 92
Part two: The conceptual leap......Page 129
Three dogmas of embodiment: Cognitive linguistics as a cognitive science......Page 131
Metonymy as a usage event......Page 159
Conceptual blending in thought, rhetoric, and ideology......Page 199
Part three: The psychological basis......Page 221
The contested impact of cognitive linguistic research on the psycholinguistics of metaphor understanding......Page 223
X IS LIKE Y: The emergence of similarity mappings in children’s early speech and gesture......Page 241
Part four: Go, tell it on the mountain......Page 273
Energy through fusion at last: Synergies in cognitive anthropology and cognitive linguistics......Page 275
Cognitive linguistic applications in second or foreign language instruction: rationale, proposals, and evaluation......Page 317
Part five: Verbal and beyond: Vision and imagination......Page 369
Visual communication: Signed language and cognition......Page 371
Non-verbal and multimodal metaphor in a cognitivist framework: Agendas for research......Page 391
The fall of the wall between literary studies and linguistics: Cognitive poetics......Page 414
Part six: Virtual reality as a new experience......Page 441
Artificial intelligence, figurative language and cognitive linguistics......Page 442
Computability as a test on linguistics theories......Page 473
Author index......Page 497
Subject index......Page 507