Cognitive Linguistics: Current Applications and Future Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9783110189513 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 512 str.

Gitte Kristiansen; Michel Achard; Rene Dirven

Opis

Cognitive Linguistics: Current Applications and Future Perspectives is an up-to-date survey of recent research in Cognitive Linguistics by prominent researchers. The volume brings together generally accessible syntheses and special studies of Cognitive Linguistics strands in a sizable format and is thus an asset not only to the cognitive linguistics community, but also to neighbouring disciplines and linguists in general. The volume covers a wide range of fields and combines wide accessibility with a highly specific information value. Key features:

• An excellent source for the study of Applied Cognitive Linguistics, one of the most popular and fastest growing areas in linguistics
• Authoritative and detailed survey articles by leading scholars in the field
• Accessible to a general audience, yet also characterized by a highly specific information value