Constructions in Cognitive Contexts : : Why Individuals Matter in Linguistic Relativity Research /

Constructions in Cognitive Contexts : : Why Individuals Matter in Linguistic Relativity Research / / Franziska Günther.

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In what ways are language, cognition and perception interrelated? Do they influence each other? This book casts a fresh light on these questions by putting individual speakers’ cognitive contexts, i.e. their usage-preferences and entrenched patterns of linguistic knowledge, into the focus of investi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
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Günther, Franziska,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2016]
©2017
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 299
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XX, 494 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Constructions in cognitive contexts
  • 2. Setting the theoretical scene
  • 3. Construing spatial scenes in German and English
  • 4. Attention, ‘ception’ and language: Basic considerations
  • 5. Constructions as [form-construal meaning]- associations
  • 6. Spatial language, cognition and perception: Methods and hypotheses
  • 7. Experiment 1 – linguistic interaction with spatial scenes: Patterns of language- and speaker-specific variation
  • 8. Experiment 2 – linguistic and non-linguistic interaction with spatial scenes: The role of cognitive contexts
  • 9. Conclusion: Constructions, cognition, cognitive contexts and beyond
  • References
  • Appendix
  • Author index
  • Topic index

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