NEW BOOK: Baicchi, Broccias, Sans ò (2005)

[Cristiano Broccias]

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the publication of the following book:


Baicchi, A., C. Broccias, and A. Sansò (eds.). 2005. Modelling thought and 
constructing meaning. Cognitive models in interaction. Milan: FrancoAngeli.


***Book description***

Cognitive Linguistics (CL) is a robust linguistic paradigm which analyses 
language in relation to other cognitive domains and faculties such as bodily 
and mental experiences, image schemas, perception, attention, memory, viewing 
frames, categorisation, abstract thought, emotion, reasoning, inferencing, 
etc. This volume opens with René Dirven's overview of five major strands in 
CL, which broadly correspond to the five sections into which this collection 
of 15 papers is divided. Addressing a number of issues (such as, among others, 
metaphor and metonymy, constructions, blending, embodiment, semantic maps, and 
point of view), the contributions in this volume show that CL has become 
a "burgeoning linguistic paradigm" (R. Dirven), and exemplify what it may 
contribute to paradigms that are conceptually compatible with it (as e.g. 
functional and typological linguistics).



***Table of Contents***

Annalisa Baicchi, Foreword

Annalisa Baicchi, Cristiano Broccias, Andrea Sansò, Introduction

RENE' DIRVEN, Major strands in Cognitive Linguistics



Part I. The Gestalt psychology-based strand

JAN NUYTS, Cognitive linguistics, functional linguistics, and TAM marking

ANNALISA BAICCHI, Metaphictive motion events

CRISTIANO BROCCIAS, Non-causal change constructions

ANDREA SANSO', Semantic maps in action. A discourse-based approach to passive 
and impersonal constructions



Part II. The phenomenology-based strand

ANTONIO BARCELONA, The fundamental role of metonymy in cognition, meaning, 
communication and form

ROSSELLA PANNAIN, Metonymy and metaphor in nominal classification: Tentative 
analyses of classifier data from languages of Southeast Asia



Part III. The cognitive discourse strand

PAUL SAMBRE, Equivalence relations in natural definition: From scanning to 
conceptual integration. A Dutch-French perspective

ANNAMARIA CAIMI, Conditional conjunctions in the treaties of the European 
Union: A cognitive perspective

DIANE PONTEROTTO, Text, context and cognitive metaphor

FRANCISCO J. RUIZ DE MENDOZA IBANEZ, OLGA ISABEL DIEZ VELASCO, Cognitive 
Linguistics and the use of corpora: A brief survey



Part IV. The cognitive poetics strand

MICHELE PRANDI, From conceptual conflict towards analogy

ELZBIETA TABAKOWSKA, Point of view in languages, texts and translations



Part V. The psycholinguistic strand

CRISTINA CACCIARI, PAOLA CORRADINI, ROBERTO PADOVANI, Comprehending idiomatic 
expressions: The role of individual speed of processing

PAOLA PALLADINO, Learning a secondlanguage: The role of verbal memory from an 
experimental psychological perspective


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Best regards,

Annalisa Baicchi (University of Pavia, Italy) - annalisa.baicchi at unipv.it  
Cristiano Broccias (University of Genoa, Italy) - c.broccias at unige.it 
Andrea Sansò (University of Pavia, Italy) - sanso at humnet.unipi.it