Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics / / ed. by Ewa Dabrowska, Dagmar Divjak.

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• MitwirkendeR: Auwera, Johan van der,; Baayen, R. Harald,; Barcelona, Antonio,; Bencini, Giulia M. L.,; Bergen, Benjamin,; Bergmann, Till,; Caldwell-Harris, Catherine L.,; Casenhiser, Devin M.,; Coventry, Kenny R.,; Diessel, Holger,; Divjak, Dagmar,; Du Mon, Denies,; Dąbrowska, Ewa,; Ellis, Nick C.,; Evans, Vyvyan,; Filipović, Luna,; Geeraerts, Dirk,; Gibbs, Raymond W.,; Giora, Rachel,; Gries, Stefan Th.,; Hart, Christopher,; Hilpert, Martin,; Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Iraide,; Janda, Laura A.,; Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria,; Krajewski, Grzegorz,; Kristiansen, Gitte,; Langacker, Ronald W.,; MacWhinney, Brian,; Matlock, Teenie,; Matthews, Danielle,; Myachykov, Andriy,; Nathan, Geoffrey S.,; Port, Robert,; Ramscar, Michael,; Speed, Laura J.,; Stockwell, Peter,; Taylor, John R.,; Tomlin, Russell S.,; Turner, Mark,; Van Olmen, Daniël,; Verhagen, Arie,; Vigliocco, Gabriella,; Vinson, David P.,; Wilcox, Sherman,; Wulff, Stefanie,
• HerausgeberIn: Dabrowska, Ewa,; Divjak, Dagmar,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science [HSK] , 39
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (640 p.)

Cognitive Linguistics is an approach to language study based on the assumptions that our linguistic abilities are firmly rooted in our cognitive abilities, that meaning is essentially conceptualization, and that grammar is shaped by usage. The Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics provides state-of-the-...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• I. The Cognitive foundations of language
• 1. Embodiment
• 2. Attention and salience
• 3. Frequency and entrenchment
• 4. Categorization (without categories)
• 5. Abstraction, storage and naive discriminative learning
• 6. Construal
• 7. Metonymy
• 8. Metaphor
• 9. Representing Meaning
• 10. Blending in language and communication
• 11. Grammar and cooperative communication
• II. Overviews
• 12. Phonology
• 13. Lexical semantics
• 14. Usage-based construction grammar
• 15. Discourse
• 16. Historical linguistics
• 17. Variationist linguistics
• 18. First language acquisition
• 19. Second language acquisition
• 20. Poetics
• III. Central topics
• 21. Semantic typology
• 22. Polysemy
• 23. Space
• 24. Time
• 25. Motion
• 26. Fictive motion
• 27. Prototype effects in grammar
• 28. Argument structure constructions
• 29. Default nonliteral interpretations The case of negation as a low-salience marker
• 30. Tense, aspect and mood
• 31. Grammaticalization
• 32. Individual differences in grammatical knowledge
• 33. Signed languages
• 34. Emergentism
• Indexes
• Authors index
• Subject index