Change of Paradigms – New Paradoxes : : Recontextualizing Language and Linguistics / / ed. by Eline Zenner, Jocelyne Daems, Kris Heylen, Dirk Speelman, Hubert Cuyckens.

In Paradigm and Paradox, Dirk Geeraerts formulated many of the basic tenets that were to form what Cognitive Linguistics is today. Change of Paradigms –New Paradoxes links back to this seminal work, exploring which of the original theories and ideas still stand strong, which new questions have arise...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] , 31
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Physical Description:1 online resource (387 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction. Change of paradigms – New paradoxes. Recontextualizing language and linguistics
  • Part One: Language in the context of cognition
  • Instru-mentality
  • The dynamics of a usage-based approach
  • Part Two: Usage-based lexical semantics and semantic change
  • Semasiology and onomasiology
  • Education in the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary
  • Bueno, a window opener
  • How does context produce metaphors?
  • Blending effects in bahuvrihi compounds
  • Metonymic relationships among actuality, modality, evaluation, and emotion
  • Part Three: Recontextualizing grammar
  • On the origins of cognitive grammar
  • The linguistic representations of agency in causal chains
  • Much in all as: The anatomy of a strange expression
  • Descriptive and discursive organization in cognitive grammar
  • Part Four: The importance of socio-cultural context
  • Language in the mind and in the community
  • Cognitive sociolinguistics, language systems and the fall of empires
  • Cultural cognitive models of language variation
  • Googling Toubon
  • Part Five: Methodological challenges of contextual parameters
  • Four challenges for usage-based linguistics
  • The role of quantitative methods in cognitive linguistics
  • Does gender-related variation still have an effect, even when topic and (almost) everything else is controlled?
  • Recontextualizing language complexity
  • A quantitative analysis of qualitative free response data
  • Index