Cognitive Linguistics: Internal Dynamics and Interdisciplinary Interaction

ISBN-13: 9783110186178 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 440 str.

Francisco J. Ruiz De Mendoza Ibaqez; M. Sandra Peqa Cervel; Francisco Jose Ruiz De Mendoza Ibaanez

Opis

The contributions to this book explore recent internal developments within Cognitive Linguistics from the point of view of its interdisciplinary nature. The book makes relevant connections between CL and other approaches to language, especially, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, pragmatics, and discourse studies. The contributors investigate areas of convergence between these approaches and the cognitive paradigm, and place emphasis on the nature of possible developments, if such connections are taken into account. The book addresses such issues as the relationship between the embodied nature of language, cultural models, and social action and the role of cognitive models in inferential activity and in discourse.

Recenzje

"In essence, this is a very well-articulated, coherent volume which undoubtedly constitutesa very solid contribution to the field of CL. Moreover, one of its most attractive features is its pursuit of interdisciplinary connections providing a profound and illuminating overview of the whole framework of CL and its connections with neighboring disciplines and subdisciplines. [...] the present volume must be considered exemplary."Ricardo Mairal in: Intercultural Pragmatics 1/2007 "All in all, this is an impressive, ''must read'' volume that would be appealing to anyone interested in the exploration of fields as varied as theoretical linguistics, cognition, discourse studies, psychology, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, which makes the volume particularly attractive to those scholars from different persuasions who are interested in the relevant connection between CL and other theoretical frameworks. It represents a successful effort at multi-disciplinarity and offers, in a complementary fashion, a rich overview of the many threads of discussion on core issues of the current debate in Linguistics. This book is an excellent contribution in terms of the multiple explanatory ways and eclectic variety of perspectives it takes to shed light upon the panoramic state-of-the-art account of research in Cognitive Linguistics, which, to put it with the editors, is ''as strong as its foundations, as wide as its scope''. This book is a goldmine."Annalisa Baicchi in: Linguist List 18.241, 2007

Spis treści

Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza and M. Sandra Peña
Introduction: As strong as its foundations, as wide as its scope

Section 1. Variety in Unity: Cognitive-Functional Linguistics and Different Routes within CL
Jan Nuyts Brothers in arms? On the relations between Cognitive and Functional Linguistics
René Dirven Major strands in Cognitive Linguistics
Ronald W. Langacker Construction Grammars: cognitive, radical, and less so

Section 2. A Usage-Based Cognitive Linguistics
Dirk Geeraerts Lectal variation and empirical data in Cognitive Linguistics
Enrique Bernárdez Social cognition: variation, language, and culture in a cognitive linguistic typology

Section 3. A Mental-Process-Oriented Cognitive Linguistics
Raymond W. Gibbs Embodied action in thought and language
Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza and M. Sandra Peña Cognitive operations and projection spaces

Section 4. A Discourse-Oriented Cognitive Linguistics
Gerard Steen Basic Discourse Acts. Towards a psychological theory of discourse segmentation
Antonio Barcelona Metonymic chains: metonymy in discourse
Klaus-Uwe Panther The role of conceptual metonymy in meaning construction
Brigitte Nerlich Tracking the fate of the metaphor silent spring in British environmental discourse

O autorze

Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez is Professor at the University of La Rioja, Spain.

M. Sandra Peña Cervel is Lecturer at the National University of Distance Education, Madrid, Spain.