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"This volume explores the contribution which cognitive linguistics can make to the identification and analysis of overt and hidden ideologies. As a theory of language which sees language as the accumulation of the conventionalized conceptualizations of a given linguistic and cultural community within it, cognitive linguistics is called upon to make its own inroads in the study of ideology. This volume offers theoretical approaches. It is confronted with a severe Marxist critique but the potential convergence between the two ""philosophies"" is highlighted as well. Further, the question is raised to what extent the central nervous system and the grammatical system of a language impose sexually biased and hence ideological representations on cognition."

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Author:   René Dirven, † (University of Duisburg) ,  Bruce Hawkins (Illinois State University) ,  Esra Sandikcioglu (University of Duisburg)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   204
Weight:   0.700kg
ISBN:  

9789027237118

ISBN 10:   9027237115
Pages:   301
Publication Date:   27 February 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Incorporating Tensions: On the Treatment of Ideology in Cognitive Linguistics (by Hawkins, Bruce); 2. Language and Ideology: An interview with George Lakoff (by Pires De Oliveira, Roberta); 3. Pragmatism, Ideology and Embodiment: William James and the Philosophical Foundations of Cognitive Linguistics (by Rohrer, Tim); 4. Does Cognitive Linguistics Live up to its Name? (by Peeters, Bert); 5. Ideological Ground and Relevant Interpretation in a Cognitive Semantics (by Grundy, Peter); 6. Linguistic Dilemmas of Afrocentricity: The Diaspora Experience (by Mazrui, Ali A.); 7. Age/Gender Morphemes Inherit the Biases of their Underlying Dimensions (by Howard, Harry); 8. How Pervasive are Sexist Ideologies in Grammar? (by Nesset, Tore); 9. Cognitive Linguistics and the Marxist Approach to Ideology (by Jones, Peter E.); 10. Linguistics and Ideology in 19th and 20th Century Studies of Language (by Koerner, E.F.K.); 11. Cultural and Conceptual Relativism, Universalism and the Politics of Linguistics: Dilemmas of a would-be progressive Linguistics (by Hutton, Christopher); 12. Index

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This volume opens a cross-disciplinary, critical and fundamental discourse on the different types of relationships between language, the status of cognitive linguistics, and ideology. -- Paul Sambre in Pragmatics, Vol. 12:3 (Sept. 2002)

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