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Overview"Cognitive Linguistics, the branch of linguistics that tries to ""make one's account of human language accord with what is generally known about the mind and the brain,"" has become one of the most flourishing fields of contemporary linguistics. The chapters address many classic topics of Cognitive Linguistics. These topics include studies on the semantics of specific words (including polysemy and synonymy) as well as semantic characteristics of particular syntactic patterns / constructions (including constructional synonymy and the schematicity of constructions), the analysis of causatives, transitivity, and image-schematic aspects of posture verbs. The key characteristic of this volume is that all papers adopt the methodological perspective of Corpus Linguistics, the rapidly evolving branch of linguistics based on the computerized analysis of language used in authentic settings. Thus, the contributions do not only all provide various new insights in their respective fields, they also introduce new data as well as new corpus-based and quantitative methods of analysis. On the basis of their findings, the authors discuss both theoretical implications going well beyond the singular topics of the studies and show how the discipline of Cognitive Linguistics can benefit from the rigorous analysis of naturally-occurring language. The languages which are investigated are English, German, Dutch, and Russian, and the data come from a variety of different corpora. As such, the present volume will be of interest to a wide range of scholars with many different foci and interests and should pave the way for further integration of usage-based techniques of analysis within this exciting paradigm." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Stefan Th. Gries , Anatol StefanowitschPublisher: De Gruyter Imprint: De Gruyter Mouton Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 0.533kg ISBN: 9783110198263ISBN 10: 3110198266 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 30 July 2007 Recommended Age: College Graduate Student Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsOn the whole, the volume makes for a highly stimulating and interesting read and shows numerous ways in which corpus-linguistic methods may help to complement cognitive approaches to linguistics. Rolf Kreyer in: Linguist List 18.243, 2007 On the whole, the volume makes for a highly stimulating and interesting read and shows numerous ways in which corpus-linguistic methods may help to complement cognitive approaches to linguistics. Rolf Kreyer in: Linguist List 18.243, 2007 Author InformationStefan Th. Gries, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA; Anatol Stefanowitsch, University of Bremen, Germany. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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