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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782513903321

Titolo

Cognitive linguistics [[electronic resource] ] : current applications and future perspectives / / edited by Gitte Kristiansen ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2006

ISBN

1-282-19412-7

9786612194122

3-11-019776-6

Edizione

[Reprint 2017]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (512 p.)

Collana

Applications of cognitive linguistics ; ; 1

Classificazione

ER 925

Altri autori (Persone)

KristiansenGitte <1966->

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Cognitive grammar

Cognitive grammar - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction Cognitive Linguistics: Current applications and future perspectives -- Part one: The cognitive base -- Methodology in Cognitive Linguistics -- Polysemy and the lexicon -- Cognitive approaches to grammar -- Part two: The conceptual leap -- Three dogmas of embodiment: Cognitive linguistics as a cognitive science -- Metonymy as a usage event -- Conceptual blending in thought, rhetoric, and ideology -- Part three: The psychological basis -- The contested impact of cognitive linguistic research on the psycholinguistics of metaphor understanding -- X IS LIKE Y: The emergence of similarity mappings in children s early speech and gesture -- Part four: Go, tell it on the mountain -- Energy through fusion at last: Synergies in cognitive anthropology and cognitive linguistics -- Cognitive linguistic applications in second or foreign language instruction: rationale, proposals, and evaluation -- Part five: Verbal and beyond: Vision and imagination -- Visual communication: Signed language and cognition -- Non-verbal and multimodal metaphor in a cognitivist framework: Agendas for research -- The fall of the wall between literary studies and linguistics: Cognitive poetics -- Part six: Virtual reality as a new experience -- Artificial intelligence, figurative language and cognitive linguistics -- Computability as a test on linguistics theories -- Backmatter



Sommario/riassunto

Cognitive Linguistics: Current Applications and Future Perspectives is an up-to-date survey of recent research in Cognitive Linguistics and its applications by prominent researchers. The volume brings together generally accessible syntheses and special st