| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 388 pages) : illustrations |
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Studies in functional and structural linguistics, 0165-7712 ; v. 51 |
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Studies in functional and structural linguistics ; v. 51.
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| Contents |
Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Contents; List of contributors; Introduction; I. Cognitive Grammar; 1. Form, meaning, and behavior; 2. Cataphoric pronouns as mental space designators; II. Theoretical issues in classical sign-based linguistics; 3. Monosemy, homonymy and polysemy; 4. On the relationship between form and grammatical meaning in the linguistic sign; 5. Revisiting the gap between meaning and message; III. Analyses on the level of the classic linguistic sign; 6. The givenness of background |
| Summary |
This volume is the product of a Columbia School Linguistics Conference held at Rutgers University in October 1999, where the plenary speaker was Ronald W. Langacker, a founder of Cognitive Linguistics. The goal of the book is to promote two kinds of dialogue. First, dialogue between Cognitive Grammar and the particular sign-based approach to language known as the Columbia School. While they share certain basic assumptions, the "maximalist" CG and the "minimalist" CS differ both theoretically and methodologically. Given that philosophers from Mill to Kuhn to Feyerabend have stressed the importa |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) -- Congresses
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Cognitive grammar -- Congresses
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Semantics -- Congresses
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Semiotics -- Congresses
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Historical & Comparative.
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Cognitive grammar
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Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)
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Semantics
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Semiotics
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Cognitieve linguïstiek.
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Semantiek.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Contini-Morava, Ellen, 1948-
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Kirsner, Robert S., 1941-
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Rodriguez-Bachiller, Betsy.
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| ISBN |
9789027294869 |
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9027294860 |
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