Cognitive LInguistics, edited by Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez and M. Sandra Peña Cervel (2005)

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COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS

Internal Dynamics and Interdisciplinary Interaction

 

Edited by Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez and M. Sandra Peña Cervel

 

2005. x, 432 pages. Cloth. Euro 98.00 / sFr 157.00 / for USA, Canada, Mexico US$ 132.30

ISBN 3-11-018617-9

(Cognitive Linguistics Research 32)

 

Date of publication: 12/2005

 

http://www.degruyter.de/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-3110186179-1&l=E

 

 

 

The book testifies of the great tolerance of Cognitive Linguists towards internal variety within itself and towards external interaction with major linguistic subdisciplines. Internally, it opens up the broad variety of CL strands and the cognitive unity between convergent linguistic disciplines. Externally, it provides a wide overview of the connections between cognition and social, psychological, pragmatic, and discourse-oriented dimensions of language, which will make this book attractive to scholars from different persuasions. The book is thus expected to raise productive debate inside and outside the CL community. Furthermore, the book examines interdisciplinary connections from the point of view of the internal dynamics of CL research itself. CL is rapidly developing into different compatible frameworks with extensions into levels of linguistics description like discourse, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics among others that have only recently been taken into account in this orientation. 

 

The book covers two general topics: (i) the relationship between the embodied nature of language, cultural models, and social action; (ii) the role of metaphor and metonymy in inferential activity and as generators of discourse ties. More specific topics are the nature and scope of constructional meaning, language variation and cultural models; discourse acts; the relationship between communication and cognition, the argumentative role of metaphor in discourse, the role of mental spaces in linguistic processing, and the role of empirical work in CL research. These features endow the book with internal unity and consistency while preserving the identity of each of the contributions therein. 

 

 

EDITORS: 

 

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. 

 

 

FROM THE CONTENTS: 

 

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 

 

 

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