Cognitive Linguistics in the Year 2017

ISBN-13: 9783631778630 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 248 str.

Marcin Grygiel;Robert Kieltyka

Opis

This book is a collection of chapters pertaining to some of the current problems of language description couched in terms of recent advances of the theory of Cognitive Linguistics. The analyses conducted by the authors revolve around issues belonging to the scope of, among others, discourse analysis, figurative language use, metaphorisation and metonymisation processes, as well as various approaches to grammatical constructions.

Spis treści

Psychological, cultural and social dimensions of cognitive linguistics - Complex concept of duma ('pride') in Polish - Figurative language employing components of the frame DEATH - Standard business metaphors - Domestic animals and feudal order as source domains of deliberate metaphors in Polish public discourse - The juxtaposition of Chaucer's and PDE epistemic scenes of discourse organization - A cognitive model of verbal aggression - Possession in Classic Mayan - Indexical-metonymic motivation in the languages of the deaf - For vs. During: Similar schemas, dissimilar senses? - Comparing and contrasting Polish with Hungarian co-verbial constructions - An implicit experiencer in the perceptual constructions in English and Japanese - A narrator's role in direct speech in English

O autorze

Marcin Grygiel is associate professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Rzeszów (Poland). His main research interests include comparative linguistics, translation, specialist languages, cognitive linguistics.

Robert Kieltyka is associate professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Rzeszów (Poland). His main research interests include diachronic semantics, cognitive linguistics and morphology-semantics interface.