Causal Categories in Discourse and Cognition /

Causal Categories in Discourse and Cognition / / ed. by Ted Sanders, Eve Sweetser.

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All languages of the world provide their speakers with linguistic means to express causal relations in discourse. Causal connectives and causative auxiliaries are among the salient markers of causal construals. Cognitive scientists and linguists are interested in how much of this causal modeling is...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Dancygier, Barbara,
Geeraerts, Dirk,
Sanders, José,
Sanders, Ted,
Speelman, Dirk,
Spooren, Wilbert,
Stukker, Ninke,
Sweetser, Eve,
Verhagen, Arie,
HerausgeberIn:
Sanders, Ted,
Sweetser, Eve,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] , 44
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Physical Description:1 online resource (249 p.) :; num. fig. and tabl.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction: Causality in language and cognition – what causal connectives and causal verbs reveal about the way we think
  • Causality, cognition and communication: A mental space analysis of subjectivity in causal connectives
  • Causal Connectives in Dutch Biblical Translations A cognitive linguistic approach
  • Causes and consequences: Evidence from Polish, English, and Dutch
  • Categories of subjectivity in Dutch causal connectives: a usage-based analysis
  • Causes for causatives: the case of Dutch doen and laten
  • Causal categories in discourse – Converging evidence from language use
  • Backmatter

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