Studies in Linguistic Motivation, edited by Günter Radden and Klaus-Uwe Panther (Mouton de Gruyter, 2004)

[Julia Ulrich]

NEW PUBLICATION FROM MOUTON DE GRUYTER


STUDIES IN LINGUISTIC MOTIVATION
Edited by Günter Radden and Klaus-Uwe Panther

2004. ix, 395 pages. Cloth. EUR 118.00 [D] / sFr 189.00 / approx. US$ 142.00
ISBN 3-11-018245-9
(Cognitive Linguistics Research 28)

Language of publication: English
Date of publication: 11/2004

http://www.degruyter.de/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-3110182459-1&l=E



How much of language is motivated? Recently, cognitive and functional linguists have proposed new solutions to this intriguing question. The thirteen articles collected in this volume cover various aspects of motivation in grammar and in the lexicon. 

The phenomena discussed in the contributions can be grouped into four types of motivation, which, along with other types, are explicated in the introductory chapter: ecological motivation, i.e. motivation of a linguistic unit due to its place, or "ecological niche," within a system; genetic motivation, i.e. motivation of present-day linguistic behavior or structure due to historical factors; experiential motivation, i.e. motivation that is based on embodied experience; and cognitive motivation, i.e. motivation that is based on human knowledge and cognitive operations such as metonymy and metaphor. The languages studied in some detail include Afrikaans, Croatian, Dutch, English, French, German, Hausa, and Hungarian. 

This volume makes a strong case for the pervasiveness of motivation in natural language. It will be of interest to teachers, researchers and students of linguistics, especially of functional and cognitive linguistics. 

Günter Radden and Klaus-Uwe Panther are Professors of English Linguistics at the University of Hamburg, Germany. 


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