New Book: DIRVEN

[Christopher Bell]

John Benjamins Publishing Company is pleased to announce the publication of 
the following new book:

Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics
Second revised edition

Edited by René Dirven and Marjolijn H. Verspoor
University of Duisberg-Essen / University of Groningen

In collaboration with Johan De Caluwé, Dirk Geeraerts, Cliff Goddard, Stef 
Grondelaers, Ralf Pörings, Günter Radden, Willy Serniclaes, Marcello 
Soffritti, Wilbert Spooren, John R. Taylor, Ignacio Vazquez, Anna 
Wierzbicka, Margaret E. Winters

Cognitive Linguistics in Practice 1
2004. xii, 277 pp.

U.S. and Canada: Cloth: 1 58811 485 6 / USD 108.00
Everywhere else: Cloth: 90 272 1905 2 / EUR 90.00

U.S. and Canada: Paper: 1 58811 486 4 / USD 39.95
Everywhere else: Paper: 90 272 1906 0 / EUR 33.00

Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics is designed as a 
comprehensive introductory text for first and second-year university 
students of language and linguistics. It provides a chapter on each of the 
more established areas in linguistics such as lexicology, morphology, 
syntax, phonetics and phonology, historical linguistics, and language 
typology and on some of the newer areas such as cross-cultural semantics, 
pragmatics, text linguistics and contrastive linguistics.

In each of these areas language is explored as part of a cognitive system 
comprising perception, emotion, categorisation, abstraction processes, and 
reasoning. All these cognitive abilities may interact with language and be 
influenced by language. Thus the study of language in a sense becomes the 
study of the way we express and exchange ideas and thoughts.

This Second Revised Edition is corrected, updated and expanded.

Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics is clearly presented and 
organized after having been tested in several courses in various countries.

Includes exercises (solutions to be found on the Internet).


Table of contents

Preface
ix–xii
1. The cognitive basis of language: Language and thought
1–23
2. What’s in a word? Lexicology
25–48
3. Meaningful building blocks: Morphology
49–74
4. Putting concepts together: Syntax
75–100
5. The sounds of language: Phonetics and Phonology
101–126
6. Language, culture and meaning: Cross-cultural semantics
127–148
7. Doing things with words: Pragmatics
149–177
8. Structuring texts: Text linguistics
179–201
9. Language across time: Historical linguistics
203–230
10. Comparing languages: Language: classification, typology, and 
contrastive linguistics
231–258
References
259–268
Subject index
269–277




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