Cognitive Linguistics in Action : : From Theory to Application and Back /

Cognitive Linguistics in Action : : From Theory to Application and Back / / ed. by Michal Choinski, Lukasz Wiraszka, Elzbieta Tabakowska.

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In view of the considerable number of recent publications devoted to various applications of Cognitive Linguistics, the book focusses on fields that have not been extensively dealt with within the CL framework. The book gathers presentations that deal with fields of application as defined in the int...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
HerausgeberIn:
Choinski, Michal,
Tabakowska, Elzbieta,
Wiraszka, Lukasz,
MitwirkendeR:
Choiński, Michał,
Dirven, René,
Filipović, Luna,
Geeraerts, Dirk,
Gomola, Aleksander,
Janda, Laura,
Langacker, Ronald W.,
Leino, Jaakko,
Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José Ruiz,
Nesset, Tore,
Pasicka, Małgorzata,
Penttilä, Esa,
Ponterotto, Diane,
Sanders, José,
Sivonen, Jari,
Spooren, Wilbert,
Tabakowska, Elżbieta,
Vis, Kirsten,
Willemse, Peter,
Wiraszka, Łukasz,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] , 14
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Physical Description:1 online resource (411 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Theory informing applications, applications informing theory
  • Part I. From loop to cycle
  • Looking back at 30 years of Cognitive Linguistics
  • Recontextualizing Grammar: Underlying trends in thirty years of Cognitive Linguistics
  • How theory informs teaching and how teaching informs theory
  • Part II. The context for prototypes
  • Why not? Prototypes and blocking of language change in Russian verbs
  • A prototype-based taxonomy of idiomatic expressions
  • Part III. Contexts for Cognitive Grammar
  • Control and the mind/body duality: Knowing vs. e¤ecting
  • A discourse perspective to nominal reference-point constructions
  • Lexicalizing indirect path: Focus on Finnish motion verbs
  • A cognitive approach to parenthetical speech
  • Part IV. The pragmatic context
  • Using RST to analyze subjectivity in text and talk
  • Typology meets witness narratives and memory: Theory and practice entwined in Cognitive Linguistics
  • Part V. The social and cultural contexts for CMT and CI
  • Cross-cultural variation in idiomatic expression: Insights from Conceptual Metaphor Theory and implications for Translation Studies
  • Mundane Transcendence? Conceptualisations of faith in prosperity theology
  • From GOD IS A FATHER to GOD IS A FRIEND. Conceptual integration in metaphors for God in Christian discourse
  • Backmatter

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