Word Power: Phrasal Verbs and Compounds: A Cognitive Approach

✍ Scribed by Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 224
• Series: Planet Communication
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Word Power: Phrasal Verbs and Compounds is a textbook for guided self-learning intended for post-intermediate and advanced learners of English. It contains some 1,100 phrasal compounds used with 17 particles/prepositions which combine with some 500 different verbs, nouns and adjectives. Numerous glosses allow the teacher to use it in very heterogeneous classes. Thanks to cognitive linguistics the material is organized around each particle giving the students an astonishing insight into the networks of metaphorical meanings of each particle. Furthermore, the book implements the most important findings and techniques in the field of learning a foreign language. This textbook will be a valuable companion for teachers and students.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface......Page 5
How this textbook could be used......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Table of contents......Page 11
Introduction: Words and the World......Page 17
1 OUT is leaving a container......Page 30
2 IN is entering or being inside a container......Page 64
3 INTO is entering a container......Page 84
4 UP is positive verticality......Page 90
5 DOWN is negative verticality......Page 119
6 OFF is breaking contact......Page 136
7 AWAY is disappearing......Page 155
8 ON is contact......Page 165
9 OVER is higher than and close to......Page 176
10 BACK is returning......Page 189
11 ABOUT is dispersion......Page 196
12 (A)ROUND is vicinity or circular motion......Page 199
13 ABOUT/(A)ROUND is dispersion vs. circular motion......Page 203
14 ACROSS is motion to opposite side......Page 209
15 THROUGH is crossing a container......Page 210
16 BY is vicinity or path......Page 216
17 ALONG is parallel path or entity......Page 219