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Title Handbook of cognitive linguistics / edited by Ewa Dąbrowska, Dagmar Divjak
Published Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 716 pages) : illustrations
Series Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science (HSK) ; v. 39
Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft ; Bd. 39.
Contents Introduction -- I. The cognitive foundations of language -- 1. Embodiment / Benjamin Bergen -- 2. Attention and salience / Russell S. Tomlin and Andriy Myachykov -- 3. Frequency and entrenchment / Dagmar Divjak and Catherine L. Caldwell-Harris -- 4. Categorization (without categories) / Michael Ramscar and Robert Port -- 5. Abstraction, storage and naive discriminative learning / R. Harald Baayen and Michael Ramscar -- 6. Construal / Ronald W. Langacker -- 7. Metonymy / Antonio Barcelona -- 8. Metaphor / Raymond W. Gibbs -- 9. Representing Meaning / Laura J. Speed, David P. Vinson and Gabriella Vigliocco -- 10. Blending in language and communication / Mark Turner -- 11. Grammar and cooperative communication / Arie Verhagen -- II. Overviews -- 12. Phonology / Geoffrey S. Nathan -- 13. Lexical semantics / Dirk Geeraerts -- 14. Usage-based construction grammar / Holger Diessel -- 15. Discourse / Christopher Hart -- 16. Historical linguistics / Martin Hilpert -- 17. Variationist linguistics / Dirk Geeraerts, Gitte Kristiansen -- 18. First language acquisition / Danielle Matthews, Grzegorz Krajewski -- 19. Second language acquisition / Nick C. Ellis, Stefanie Wulff-- 20. Poetics / Peter Stockwell -- III. Central topics -- 21. Semantic typology / Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm -- 22. Polysemy / Stefan Th. Gries -- 23. Space / Kenny R. Coventry -- 24. Time Vyvyan Evans -- 25. Motion / Luna Filipovic and Iraide Ibarretxe-Antunano-- 26. Fictive motion / Teenie Matlock, Till Bergmann -- 27. Prototype effects in grammar / John R. Taylor -- 28. Argument structure constructions / Devin M. Casenhiser and Giulia M.L. Bencini -- 29. Default nonliteral interpretations The case of negation as a low-salience marker / Rachel Giora -- 30. Tense, aspect and mood / Laura A. Janda -- 31. Grammaticalization / Johan van der Auwera, Daniel Van Olmen and Denies Du Mon -- 32. Individual differences in grammatical knowledge / Ewa Dabrowska -- 33. Signed languages / Sherman Wilcox -- 34. Emergentism / Brain MacWhinney
Summary This handbook provides state-of-the-art overviews of the numerous subfields of cognitive linguistics written by leading international experts which will be useful for established researchers and novices alike. It is an interdisciplinary project with contributions from linguists, psycholinguists, and computer scientists which emphasizes the most recent developments in the field, in particular, the shift towards more empirically-based research
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Cognitive grammar -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Psycholinguistics -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Cognitive grammar
Psycholinguistics
Genre/Form handbooks.
Handbooks and manuals
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
Form Electronic book
Author Dąbrowska, Ewa.
Divjak, Dagmar.
ISBN 9783110393804
3110393808
9783110292039
3110292033