edited by Jeannette Littlemore and John R. Taylor.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xi, 371 pages :
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illustrations ;
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25 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Bloomsbury Companions
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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1. Introduction/ John R. Taylor and Jeannette Littlemore -- 2. Major figures in Cognitive Linguistics -- 2.1 Langacker's Cognitive Grammar / Phil Bennett -- 2.2 Lakoff and the Theory of Conceptual Metaphor / Dennis Tay -- 2.3 Goldberg's Construction Grammar / Kris Ramonda -- 2.4 Fauconnier's theory of mental spaces and conceptual blending / Brian J. Birdsell -- 2.5 Tomasello's theory of first language acquisition / Sarah Turner -- 2.6 Bybee's usage based models of language / Daniel Sanford -- 3. Topics in Cognitive Linguistics research -- 3.1 The Cognitive-Linguistic revolution in metaphor studies / Gerard Steen -- 3.2 On the nature and scope of metonymy in linguistic description and explanation: towards settling some controversies / Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez -- 3.3 Embodied metaphor / Ray W. Gibbs Jr -- 3.4 Idioms and phraseology / Frank Boers -- 3.5 Cognitive Linguistics and language variation / Dirk Geeraerts and Gitte Kristiansen -- 3.6 Cognitive poetics / Chloe Harrison and Peter Stockwell -- 3.7 Cognitive Linguistics and ideology / Veronika Koller -- 3.8 Phonology / Jose A. Mompean -- 4. New directions and applications -- 4.1 Corpus and quantitative methods / Stefan Th. Gries -- 4.2 Non-linguistic applications of Cognitive Linguistics: On the usefulness of image-schematic metaphors in user interface design / Jörn Hurtienne -- 4.3 Language acquisition and language pedagogy / Jörg Matthias Roche -- 4.4 Metaphor theory for counselling professionals / Dennis Tay.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"The Bloomsbury Companion to Cognitive Linguistics is a comprehensive and accessible reference resource to research in contemporary cognitive linguistics. Written by leading figures in the field, the volume provides readers with an authoritative overview of methods and current research topics and future directions. The volume covers all the most important issues, concepts, movements and approaches in the field. It devotes space to looking specifically at the major figures and their contributions. It is a complete resource for postgraduate students and researchers working within cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics and those interested more generally in language and cognition"--
PARALLEL TITLE PROPER
Parallel Title
Cognitive linguistics
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Cognitive grammar.
Linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics.