Cognitive Linguistics: Internal Dynamics And Interdisciplinary Interaction - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3110186179 ISBN 13 : 9783110186178

Editeur : De Gruyter Mouton, 2005

Synopsis

The book testifies of the great tolerance of Cognitive Linguists towards internal variety within itself and towards external interaction with major linguistic subdisciplines. Internally, it opens up the broad variety of CL strands and the cognitive unity between convergent linguistic disciplines. Externally, it provides a wide overview of the connections between cognition and social, psychological, pragmatic, and discourse-oriented dimensions of language, which will make this book attractive to scholars from different persuasions. The book is thus expected to raise productive debate inside and outside the CL community. Furthermore, the book examines interdisciplinary connections from the point of view of the internal dynamics of CL research itself. CL is rapidly developing into different compatible frameworks with extensions into levels of linguistics description like discourse, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics among others that have only recently been taken into account in this orientation.

The book covers two general topics: (i) the relationship between the embodied nature of language, cultural models, and social action; (ii) the role of metaphor and metonymy in inferential activity and as generators of discourse ties. More specific topics are the nature and scope of constructional meaning, language variation and cultural models; discourse acts; the relationship between communication and cognition, the argumentative role of metaphor in discourse, the role of mental spaces in linguistic processing, and the role of empirical work in CL research. These features endow the book with internal unity and consistency while preserving the identity of each of the contributions therein.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez is Professor at the University of La Rioja, Spain.

M. Sandra Peña Cervel is Lecturer at the National University of Distance Education, Madrid, Spain.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: De Gruyter Mouton
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3110186179
• ISBN 13: 9783110186178
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 440
• Éditeur: Peña Cervel M. Sandra, Ruiz De Mendoza Ibáñez Francisco J.
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