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Explores key convergences between cognitive and discourse approaches to language and language learning, both first and second. This volume places emphasis on the role of language as it is used in everyday interaction and as it reflects everyday cognition.
Cognitive Paths into the Slavic Domain presents an overview of recent cognitive linguistic research on Slavic languages. The analyses are couched in a variety of cognitive linguistic frameworks, making the volume a worthwhile read for Slavic and cognitive linguists alike.
The volume makes a significant contribution to the understanding of the intricate relationship between culture, body and language by focusing on conceptualizations of internal body organs in several languages.
Taking a broad view on Cognitive Sociolinguistics, the volume covers three main areas: corpus-based research on language variation, cognitive cultural models, and the ideologies of sociopolitical and socio-economic systems.
Presents a series of fresh perspectives on patterns and developments in English grammar from a constructional perspective. This book provides a critical assessment of the role of constructions in key areas of grammatical theory, from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives.
Focusses on eighteenth-century English grammarians and their work. This book deals with their qualifications, their motivations,... Læs mere
Contains 30 chapters dealing with a specific language contact situation. This book includes an introduction, which describes the setup of the questionnaire and the methodology of the approach, along with a survey of the difficulties of sampling in contact linguistics.
Deals with the interpretation of adverbially quantified sentences containing definite DPs and Free... Læs mere
In this volume, there is an introductory chapter (Chapter 1) that will provide the reader with elementary terminology and theoretical tools to understand the variety of accentual systems that will be discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book.
Presents an analysis of the form and function of the passive construction in English. This book examines the structural ingredients of the passive and emphasizes the notion of an implicit argument, which sets the passive apart from other constructions with non-agentive subjects.
Presents Cognitive Linguistics as a framework for the study of cultural variation in world Englishes and within languages in general by offering a... Læs mere
Covers the phonology, morphology and syntax of varieties of English in the British Isles. This work includes exercises and study questions that can be used for classroom assignments as... Læs mere