Historical Cognitive Linguistics /

Historical Cognitive Linguistics / / ed. by Kathryn Allan, Heli Tissari, Margaret E. Winters.

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The volume explores the ways in which language change is studied within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics, a semantics-based theory of language production and perception. The eleven chapters explore two kinds of changes: firstly, those which involve mental prototypes or 'best instances...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Allan, Kathryn,
Cuyckens, Hubert,
Fabiszak, Małgorzata,
Frank, Roslyn M.,
Geeraerts, Dirk,
Gontier, Nathalie,
Hebda, Anna,
Heyvaert, Liesbet,
Luraghi, Silvia,
Musolff, Andreas,
Sylvester, Louise,
Tissari, Heli,
Trim, Richard,
Winters, Margaret E.,
HerausgeberIn:
Allan, Kathryn,
Tissari, Heli,
Winters, Margaret E.,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]
©2011
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] , 47
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • Preface
  • 1. History and Development
  • Introduction: On the emergence of diachronic cognitive linguistics
  • 2. The Evolution of Language
  • On constructing a research model for historical cognitive linguistics (HCL): Some theoretical considerations
  • Metaphor in discourse history
  • 3. Cognitive Approaches to Syntactic Change
  • Where do beneficiaries come from and how do they come about? Sources for beneficiary expressions in Classical Greek and the typology of beneficiary
  • Finite and gerundive complementation in Modern and Present-day English: Semantics, variation and change
  • 4. Cognitive Approaches to Meaning
  • Tracing metonymic polysemy through time: material for object mappings in the OED
  • The roles of reader construal and lexicographic authority in the interpretation of Middle English texts
  • 5. The Expression of Emotions over Time
  • Conceptual networking theory in metaphor evolution: Diachronic variation in models of love
  • Cognitive historical approaches to emotions: Pride
  • English words for emotions and their metaphors
  • 6. Afterword
  • Prospects for the past: Perspectives for cognitive diachronic semantics
  • Index

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